Silence is Green? Shame on the Media and Obama

Opinion 1.0

Fourteen days and counting... It is travesty for the media of the United States of America to avoid reporting anything on the explosive science story of the century, ClimateGate. Then, there's a bigger travesty, the Obama White House refusing to investigate ClimateGate. I guess it doesn't fit his narrative. How else will he pass "Crap & Tax." I don't know how NBC, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS and the BBC has the gall to call themselves "worthy news agencies."  I just checked the forementioned news companies and not a word on ClimateGate. As sad as it sounds, this is where we are in this day and age. Selective news reporting to satisfy a political narrative. They have been supporting this ideology for years. I heard Al Gore, Jr. is at a retreat wondering how the AGW conspiracy unravelled. This ClimateGate story is going uber huge.  It is unbelievably popular in the Blogesphere. Fox news and the net has brought this story into the forefront of news before the summit in Nopenhagen. ClimateDepot, Professor Patrick Daniels, Christopher Monckton and other scientists and skeptics have been chomping at the bit for years opposing Anthropogenic Global Warming.  I'm sure the skeptics feel vindicated. They have been outcast for years and often have not been able to get research published because of the AGW advocates strong-arming the science magazine's editors not to print their material forgoing the "peer review process." Will the state run media incorporate any of the ClimateGate fraud during the Denmark debacle? Will they just keep running the same stories of " we are killing the planet and we must do something now." I'm taking bets! Gore has cancelled his speech in Copenhagen without reason. Fishy? On a different note, do you think Obama feels his empire or perceived empire is falling apart? Healthcare is still not agreeable, cap & trade is DOA now, politicians will run from this, conservatives are getting ready to put up a good fight against Immigration reform. "Nope & Chains"  New Zealand has just defeated a climate change bill and many other countries are voicing skepticism concerning the scientific data supplied to the IPCC at the United Nations. This information was deemed the most accurate and a lot of countries and organizations utilized it for their causes. Now, everything has bee turned upside down with ClimateGate. In my humble opinion, I think Copenhagen should be postponed or cancelled until all investigations are completed.  I don't think much will be accomplished now.

Phil Jones being reprimanded at St. Anglia University:


 Copenhagen climate change talks must fail, says top scientist Exclusive: World's leading climate change expert says summit talks so flawed that deal would be a disaster.

The scientist who convinced the world to take notice of the looming danger of global warming says it would be better for the planet and for future generations if next week's Copenhagen climate change summit ended in collapse.

James Hansen talks to Suzanne Goldenberg Link to this audio In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world's pre-eminent climate scientist, said any agreement likely to emerge from the negotiations would be so deeply flawed that it would be better to start again from scratch.

"I would rather it not happen if people accept that as being the right track because it's a disaster track," said Hansen, who heads the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.

"The whole approach is so fundamentally wrong that it is better to reassess the situation. If it is going to be the Kyoto-type thing then [people] will spend years trying to determine exactly what that means." He was speaking as progress towards a deal in Copenhagen received a boost today, with India revealing a target to curb its carbon emissions. All four of the major emitters – the US, China, EU and India – have now tabled offers on emissions, although the equally vexed issue of funding for developing nations to deal with global warming remains deadlocked.

Hansen, in repeated appearances before Congress beginning in 1989, has done more than any other scientist to educate politicians about the causes of global warming and to prod them into action to avoid its most catastrophic consequences. But he is vehemently opposed to the carbon market schemes – in which permits to pollute are bought and sold – which are seen by the EU and other governments as the most efficient way to cut emissions and move to a new clean energy economy.

Hansen is also fiercely critical of Barack Obama – and even Al Gore, who won a Nobel peace prize for his efforts to get the world to act on climate change – saying politicians have failed to meet what he regards as the moral challenge of our age.

In Hansen's view, dealing with climate change allows no room for the compromises that rule the world of elected politics. "This is analagous to the issue of slavery faced by Abraham Lincoln or the issue of Nazism faced by Winston Churchill," he said. "On those kind of issues you cannot compromise. You can't say let's reduce slavery, let's find a compromise and reduce it 50% or reduce it 40%."

He added: "We don't have a leader who is able to grasp it and say what is really needed. Instead we are trying to continue business as usual."

The understated Iowan's journey from climate scientist to activist accelerated in the last years of the Bush administration. Hansen, a reluctant public speaker, says he was forced into the public realm by the increasingly clear looming spectre of droughts, floods, famines and drowned cities indicated by the science.

That enormous body of scientific evidence has been put under a microscope by climate sceptics after last month's release online of hacked emails sent by respected researchers at the climate research unit of the University of East Anglia. Hansen admitted the controversy could shake public's trust, and called for an investigation. "All that stuff they are arguing about the data doesn't really change the analysis at all, but it does leave a very bad impression," he said.

The row reached Congress today, with Republicans accusing the researchers of engaging in "scientific fascism" and pressing the Obama administration's top science adviser, John Holdren, to condemn the email. Holdren, a climate scientist who wrote one of the emails in the UEA trove, said he was prepared to denounce any misuse of data by the scientists – if one is proved.

Hansen has emerged as a leading campaigner against the coal industry, which produces more greenhouse gas emissions than any other fuel source.

He has become a fixture at campus demonstrations and last summer was arrested at a protest against mountaintop mining in West Virginia, where he called the Obama government's policies "half-assed".

He has irked some environmentalists by espousing a direct carbon tax on fuel use. Some see that as a distraction from rallying support in Congress for cap-and-trade legislation that is on the table.

He is scathing of that approach. "This is analagous to the indulgences that the Catholic church sold in the middle ages. The bishops collected lots of money and the sinners got redemption. Both parties liked that arrangement despite its absurdity. That is exactly what's happening," he said. "We've got the developed countries who want to continue more or less business as usual and then these developing countries who want money and that is what they can get through offsets [sold through the carbon markets]."

For all Hansen's pessimism, he insists there is still hope. "It may be that we have already committed to a future sea level rise of a metre or even more but that doesn't mean that you give up.

"Because if you give up you could be talking about tens of metres. So I find it screwy that people say you passed a tipping point so it's too late. In that case what are you thinking: that we are going to abandon the planet? You want to minimise the damage."

• James Hansen's book Storms of My Grandchildren is published by Bloomsbury

Daft Statement of the day:
"Unlike some people, I never pardon anyone."
Mitt Romney

Kill Bill Vol. III:


Opposition to Senate Healthcare Bill: Call your Senators!

"We the people" must stop the Obamacare Proposals: I am formally asking (pleading) with you to muster up the initiative and enthusiasm to fight the healthcare bill that will emerge in the end of the year. First, there are 2 bills (proposals) that will somehow be merged into one bill. Liberals are adamant about some form of "Public Option." (Government Run Option) I think the democrats believe they can push this bill through while we are sleeping. The democrats have blocked many bills that would allow the final bill to be posted on the internet 72 hours prior to a vote. Why? you know why. We must oppose this more than we did over the summer. Let them know, we are not against healthcare reform, just not a total makeover. Call and email your representatives. I have emailed and called mine so many times, they are referring to me by my first name. Write an old fashioned letter, it has a lot of importance. Attend your local tea parties and townhalls to voice your opinions and make a overwhelming presence. Below, is a little list how you can get involved. It is our civic duty. "It is our Country."

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Polls you can live by:

28% Strongly approve of President Obama's job performance.
40% Strongly disapprove.
Presidential Approval Rating Index: -12
46% Somewhat approve of President's job performance.
54% Somewhat disapprove
*Nineteen straight days in negative double digits.

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"Nothing endures but change."

Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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Job Summit or Abyss?

Opinion 1.0

Job creation, it's so easy even a caveman could do it! Not the Obama administration. The administration continues down the Keynesian Economics path of no return. This publicity stunt of a so called job summit will accomplish nothing but a photo op. After listening to the President speech at the summit, I am horrified because he doesn't have a clue on fixing the econonmy. Is this summit an admission of failure? He invites a bunch of  leftist eletists, Ivy league buddies, union members, teachers, a couple of Wall Street supporters and no small business owners. Where were the National Chamber of Commerce members, NFIB (National Federation of Independent Business, members of Congress, SBA, small business owners or maybe, a regular Joe Smoe. Anyone who is anyone in finance, has recommended that we adopt supply side economics, cut taxes and remove the Government from the private sector. The President blamed the business owners of hoarding profits and maintaining slimmer workforces to capitalize their profits. That is why they are not hiring. Get a clue! Also, uncuff businesseses with the highest corporate taxes and regulation in the industrialized world. Small business owners are not hiring because they see more taxes and expenses on the horizon. The small business owners are waiting on the sidelines, not hiring employees, not expanding their businesses, in some cases, laying off employees anticipating higher cost of doing business. One other issue is the banks are not lending money. This makes it diificult to expand your business. I've seen it in my business. Customers being extremely cautious spending capital, delaying expenditures, credit lines being reduced without warning. It isn't all gloom and doom. Small business and American ingenuity will prosper. Plain and simple. Obama will realize at some point, maybe when unemployment hits 13%, will be forced to make many conservative based adjustments to help the economy recover. The other major stumbling block is the out-of-control spending from the President and Congress. Presidents Kennedy and Reagan cut taxes and their economies soared. This will seriously damage Obama's socialistic psyche and he probably would destroy the economy before he does this. I know this is beating a dead dog, however, we need a straight 17% income tax without deductions. The 49% of Americans that do not pay any income tax need to pony up. What do they care how much the Government spends when they don't pay anything now? Obama can only tax the rich so much before the rich stops working or moving out of the country. If we cut cut the estate, capital gains and income taxes, the Government coffers would be overflowing with revenue and the unemployment would drop drastically. Mr. Obama, please be a student of history. I know this is a pipedream, but, I wish we would explore becoming more energy independent. Oil, oil shale, natural gas, clean coal and nuclear would create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Save our economy.

Start Varney sums up Job Summit:
 


ClimateGate:
This couldn't have come at a more convenient time. Christopher Monckton (3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley) has done a brilliant job on ClimateGate.  Monckton lays out the fraudulent science on Climate Change. This is a must read.

 http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/Monckton-Caught%20Green-Handed%20Climategate%20Scandal.pdf


Obama Family lights (wastes energy) the White House Christmas  Holiday  Pine Tree.


Word of the week:
Transgression: The action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit.

Coming to the Capitol Theatre:
$300 billion  in Jobs Porkulus. Starring the liberal democrats. That's right, it's OK, we can print some more money. Your grandkids will pay for it. In November 2010, let's send half of the house and one third of the senate home without their jobs.

Kill Bill Vol. III:


Opposition to Senate Healthcare Bill: Call your Senators!

"We the people" must stop the Obamacare Proposals: I am formally asking (pleading) with you to muster up the initiative and enthusiasm to fight the healthcare bill that will emerge in the end of the year. First, there are 2 bills (proposals) that will somehow be merged into one bill. Liberals are adamant about some form of "Public Option." (Government Run Option) I think the democrats believe they can push this bill through while we are sleeping. The democrats have blocked many bills that would allow the final bill to be posted on the internet 72 hours prior to a vote. Why? you know why. We must oppose this more than we did over the summer. Let them know, we are not against healthcare reform, just not a total makeover. Call and email your representatives. I have emailed and called mine so many times, they are referring to me by my first name. Write an old fashioned letter, it has a lot of importance. Attend your local tea parties and townhalls to voice your opinions and make a overwhelming presence. Below, is a little list how you can get involved. It is our civic duty. "It is our Country."

http://www.congress.org/
http://www.joinpatientsfirst.com/
http://www.freedomworks.org/
http://www.resistnet.com/
http://www.teapartypatriots.com/
http://www.teaparty.org/
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http://www.taxpayer.net/
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Daft Statement of the week:  
"Climategate should be called email-theft gate."
Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Ca.

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Albert Einstein
 
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Here comes the Cavalry, but they can't stay for coffee!

My Opinion:
My head is spinning more than the Obama administration is spinning the Afghanistan war. We are sending more boots on the ground, but we are pulling out 7-11? Does this Pacifist in Chief have a clue about war and foreign policy? I think not. One thing I noticed last night is that Obama has lost his magic. He didn't appear to believe what he was saying as much as the Cadets didn't believe him. The speech was lackluster, borish, sketchy and lacked direction. There were many mixed messages, including the big one, we he is sending 30,000 more Soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan and we are initiating the pull out around July of 2011. If I were Taliban, I would start a propaganda campaign threatening the Afghan civilians, telling them that the Americans will leave in a year, so, who will they align with. Also, if you were a young Afghan, would you join the Afghan military after the President's speech last night? Doubtful. I pray to God that this strategy doesn't cause more American casualties. By the way, if you are wondering who the picture is, it is Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense, 1961-68, was branded the face of the Viet Nam war. That war was ran and lost by politicians, not Generals and Commanders. Hopefully, we won't say the same about Afghanistan. Generals David Patraeus and Stanley McChrystal are completely competent and they are the men for this task. They are not political, they are military men.  It only took Obama 93 days to make a decision to send McChrystal's request. I praise the President for making this decision, going against his extreme left base. I do believe his speech and decision has been very political. He is already taking heat for this from the anti-war liberals. I am amazed at how this administration thinks they are more qualified to run multiple industries, the American people and the Military. The Obama White House mostly consists of Ivy league eletists and socialists. Only about 10% are from the private sector. Huh, people who have never ran a small business, been responsible for a pay roll or lay off an employee because of lack of funds. No, these are people who have lived off of other people's money. And my Marine son will head off to Afghanistan with these idiots  people in charge. And you wonder why I write this five nights a week.  Getting back to last night's speech, the cadets seemed to be bored out of their minds and I saw a piece of raw footage from West Point's Commandant urging the cadets to be respectful and to applaud the President. I guarantee you that President Bush didn't need to be prompted. The military knew he was in their camp. In Obama's defense, the cadets had to be in their seats at 4:00 pm. The speech started at 8:00 pm. The cadets get up at 5:30 am and attend classes, that makes for a long day.  We support our fighting men and women with intense fortitude. Average patriotic Americans hold the military in the highest esteem. Not the state run media. Chris Matthews, host of "Slimeball," was commentating last night after the President's speech. He mentioned that the President was in the enemies' camp. That the cadets were not fans of the President. Chris is a smart guy?  MSNBC are a bunch of Commies. And MSNBC wonders why Fox cleans their clock? In my opinion, the military are the true heroes of this country, not the Tom Bradys, Tiger Woods or Rihanna.  It is Obama's war now. He can't keep blaming Bush anymore. "Support our Military"

Robert (Peter Griffin) Gibbs on Afghan Strategy:
 


Senator John McCain,R-AZ, hammering Secretary of Defense Robert Gates:

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Chris Matthews: West Point is Enemies camp?:



Intelligent Quote of the day:
"how he can set a deadline ... This is not a football game where there's a clock where the time runs out."
Bob Schieffer, CBS, December 2, 2009


Climategate:
Google reported 10 million hits on "climategate" search! WOW!

Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?


By James Delingpole Politics Last updated: November 20th, 2009

If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”. These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest:

Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.

One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:

“In an odd way this is cheering news.”

But perhaps the most damaging revelations – the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal – are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.

Here are a few tasters.

Manipulation of evidence:

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.

Private doubts about whether the world really is heating up:

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.

Suppression of evidence:

Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?

Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.

Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address.

We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.

Fantasies of violence against prominent Climate Sceptic scientists:

Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat

the crap out of him. Very tempted.

Attempts to disguise the inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP):

……Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K back–I think that trying to adopt a timeframe of 2K, rather than the usual 1K, addresses a good earlier point that Peck made w/ regard to the memo, that it would be nice to try to “contain” the putative “MWP”, even if we don’t yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back….

And, perhaps most reprehensibly, a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, in other words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone who disagrees with AGW can be written off as a crank, whose views do not have a scrap of authority.

“This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the “peer-reviewed literature”. Obviously, they found a solution to that–take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering “Climate Research” as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…What do others think?”

“I will be emailing the journal to tell them I’m having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor.”“It results from this journal having a number of editors. The responsible one for this is a well-known skeptic in NZ. He has let a few papers through by Michaels and Gray in the past. I’ve had words with Hans von Storch about this, but got nowhere. Another thing to discuss in Nice !”

Hadley CRU has form in this regard. In September – I wrote the story up here as “How the global warming industry is based on a massive lie” - CRU’s researchers were exposed as having “cherry-picked” data in order to support their untrue claim that global temperatures had risen higher at the end of the 20th century than at any time in the last millenium. CRU was also the organisation which – in contravention of all acceptable behaviour in the international scientific community – spent years withholding data from researchers it deemed unhelpful to its cause. This matters because CRU, established in 1990 by the Met Office, is a government-funded body which is supposed to be a model of rectitude. Its HadCrut record is one of the four official sources of global temperature data used by the IPCC.

I asked in my title whether this will be the final nail in the coffin of Anthropenic Global Warming. This was wishful thinking, of course. In the run up to Copenhagen, we will see more and more hysterical (and grotesquely exaggerated) stories such as this in the Mainstream Media. And we will see ever-more-virulent campaigns conducted by eco-fascist activists, such as this risible new advertising campaign by Plane Stupid showing CGI polar bears falling from the sky and exploding because kind of, like, man, that’s sort of what happens whenever you take another trip on an aeroplane.

The world is currently cooling; electorates are increasingly reluctant to support eco-policies leading to more oppressive regulation, higher taxes and higher utility bills; the tide is turning against Al Gore’s Anthropogenic Global Warming theory. The so-called “sceptical” view – which is some of us have been expressing for quite some time: see, for example, the chapter entitled ‘Barbecue the Polar Bears’ in WELCOME TO OBAMALAND: I’VE SEEN YOUR FUTURE AND IT DOESN’T WORK – is now also, thank heaven, the majority view.

Unfortunately, we’ve a long, long way to go before the public mood (and scientific truth) is reflected by our policy makers. There are too many vested interests in AGW, with far too much to lose either in terms of reputation or money, for this to end without a bitter fight.

But to judge by the way – despite the best efforts of the MSM not to report on it – the CRU scandal is spreading like wildfire across the internet, this shabby story represents a blow to the AGW lobby’s credibility from which it is never likely to recover.

UPDATE: I write about this subject a lot and the threads below my posts often contain an impressive range of informed opinion from readers with solid scientific backgrounds (plus lots of cheap swipes from Libtards – but, hey, their discomfort and rage are my joy).

Here are a few links:

Interview in the Spectator with Australian geology Professor Ian Plimer re his book Heaven And Earth. Plimer makes the point that CO2 is not a pollutant – CO2 is plant food, and that climate change is an ongoing natural process.
An earlier scandal at the Climate Research Unit, this time involving “cherry-picked” data samples.
A contretemps with a Climate Bully who wonders whether I have a science degree. (No I don’t. I just happen to be a believer in empiricism and not spending taxpayers’ money on a problem that may well not exist)
59 per cent of UK population does not believe in AGW. The Times decides they are “village idiots”
Comparing “Climate Change” to the 9/11 and the Holocaust is despicable and dumb
Copenhagen: a step closer to one-world government?
UK Government blows £6 million on eco-propaganda ad which makes children cry
and a very funny piece by Damian Thompson comparing the liberal media’s coverage of Watergate with its almost non-existent coverage of Climategate.

Kill Bill Vol. III:

Opposition to Senate Healthcare Bill: Call your Senators!

"We the people" must stop the Obamacare Proposals: I am formally asking (pleading) with you to muster up the initiative and enthusiasm to fight the healthcare bill that will emerge in the end of the year. First, there are 2 bills (proposals) that will somehow be merged into one bill. Liberals are adamant about some form of "Public Option." (Government Run Option) I think the democrats believe they can push this bill through while we are sleeping. The democrats have blocked many bills that would allow the final bill to be posted on the internet 72 hours prior to a vote. Why? you know why. We must oppose this more than we did over the summer. Let them know, we are not against healthcare reform, just not a total makeover. Call and email your representatives. I have emailed and called mine so many times, they are referring to me by my first name. Write an old fashioned letter, it has a lot of importance. Attend your local tea parties and townhalls to voice your opinions and make a overwhelming presence. Below, is a little list how you can get involved. It is our civic duty. "It is our Country."

http://www.congress.org/
http://www.joinpatientsfirst.com/
http://www.freedomworks.org/
http://www.resistnet.com/
http://www.teapartypatriots.com/
http://www.teaparty.org/
http://www.taxpayer.org/
http://www.taxpayer.net/
info@cmpi.org
http://www.fairtax.org/
http://www.conservativeamericansunited.org/

CALL YOUR SENATORS! EMAIL YOUR SENATORS! CALL YOUR SENATORS! EMAIL YOUR SENATORS!

Polls you can live by:

27% Strongly approve of President Obama's job performance.
39% Strongly disapprove.
Presidential Approval Rating Index: -12
47% Somewhat approve of President's job performance.
52% Somewhat disapprove
*Eighteen straight days in negative double digits.
41% Favor Healthcare Reform.
53% Oppose Healthcare Reform
-12% Difference.

Quote du jour:
"Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
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"V" is for Victory - The Audacity of Dithering

To date, I don't remember President Obama ever saying the actual "V" word. For that matter, I've never heard him talk about "American Exceptalism." America has it's bravest men and women overseas defending and fighting for our security and the freedoms and liberties of other nations. The democrats can blame Bush and spin it like they always do, however, we know what is at stake, does our President? Mr. Obama will speak on the hallowed grounds of West Point. Unfortunately, it will not be of use, since the whole speech is being leaked by his administration ahead of time. I understand Obama's view of America is not the same as ours. He feels that America is responsible for many of the world's problems. Conservative Americans do not feel this way. We feel that America is the greatest nation on earth. In our little more than 200 years in existence, we have accomplished more than any other nation. Our innovation and exceptionalism is unprecedented. So, why is it so hard for  Community Organizer in Chief to express these views. Is it his socialistic ideology? Or is it  destain fothe very fabric of America. He talks that he is behind the military, supporting their every move, but it seems he does everything contrary to winning the war. Treating terrorists like U.S. citizens and giving them our rights, bringing the 911 terrorists to New York is a major slap in the face of families of victims and New York itself. Obama hand picked General Stanley McChrystal, knowing he is the most qualified to lead our forces to win in Afghanistan. General McChrystal has been waiting for troops for 3.5 months.  It's been leaked that the President would like to end our involvement in Afghanistan by July, 2011. Excuse me one minute, "Hey Taliban and Al Queda, that's July 2011." What the heck is he doing? I am so tired of these rookie mistakes. Over the weekend, the political pundits were running cover for Obama's speech tonight. John Kerry is proclaiming that the Bush administration had the opportunity to take Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban in Tora Bora in 2001. John " I served in Viet Nam" Kerry said Donald Rumsfeld , then Secretary of Defense, did not send in a surge of troops to take out the terrorists. However, didn't we bomb the daylights out of that region to about 2000 degrees. Of course, Kerry, along with other democrats attempt to rewrite history and forget that they voted against the surge. That doesn't fit the Obama narrative of today. Obama has his work cut out for him. There is already a mass exodus of independents and some moderate democrats, now, with him sending 30,000 to 34,000 troops, his extreme liberal base is up in arms (no pun intended). Even Michael Moore is speaking out against Obama, saying that the young people who voted him into office are confused and  disillusioned. A President of the United States does not want to have to declare that the war has been lost on his watch. Even though half of his party has already done that in the past. (Reid, Durbin,  Pelosi & Murtha). The speech tonight will be a Bush bash fest blaming the "previous administration" for everything they don't want to be blamed for. I pray that this is not just lip service, but a speech to inspire our fighting men and women. If it becomes solely a photo opportunity, it will blow up in the President's face. He has enough issues in his administration. I'm just glad Adminejad or Chavez didn't crash the State dinner.
"Save our Sovereign Country."

Afghanistan win:
   

Obama on Afghanistan:
 

Points of Interest:

• CRU's Phil Jones steps down temporarily in the wake of Climategate.
• Obama and Congress poll numbers drop even more.
• Maurice Clemmons killed by Seattle Police this morning.
• Cato Institute estimates Healthcare Reform Bill at $6 trillion.
• Fritz Henderson resigns at Government Motors.

Protect American Healthcare Ad:

Kill Bill Vol. III:

Opposition to Senate Healthcare Bill: Call your Senators!

 "We the people" must stop the Obamacare Proposals: I am formally asking (pleading) with you to muster up the initiative and enthusiasm to fight the healthcare bill that will emerge in the end of the year. First, there are 2 bills (proposals) that will somehow be merged into one bill. Liberals are adamant about some form of "Public Option." (Government Run Option) I think the democrats believe they can push this bill through while we are sleeping. The democrats have blocked many bills that would allow the final bill to be posted on the internet 72 hours prior to a vote. Why? you know why. We must oppose this more than we did over the summer. Let them know, we are not against healthcare reform, just not a total makeover. Call and email your representatives. I have emailed and called mine so many times, they are referring to me by my first name. Write an old fashioned letter, it has a lot of importance. Attend your local tea parties and townhalls to voice your opinions and make a overwhelming presence. Below, is a little list how you can get involved. It is our civic duty. "It is our Country."

 http://www.congress.org/

http://www.joinpatientsfirst.com/
http://www.freedomworks.org/
http://www.resistnet.com/
http://www.teapartypatriots.com/
http://www.teaparty.org/
http://www.taxpayer.org/
http://www.taxpayer.net/
info@cmpi.org
http://www.fairtax.org/
http://www.conservativeamericansunited.org/

CALL YOUR SENATORS! EMAIL YOUR SENATORS! CALL YOUR SENATORS! EMAIL YOUR SENATORS!

 Polls you can live by:

27% Strongly approve of President Obama's job performance.
40% Strongly disapprove.
Presidential Approval Rating Index: -13
47% Somewhat approve of President's job performance.
52% Somewhat disapprove
*Seventeen straight days in negative double digits.
41% Favor Healthcare Reform.
53% Oppose Healthcare Reform
-12% Difference.

Quote du jour:

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
George Orwell (1903 - 1950), Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
 
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http://www.thehill.com/
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/
http://www.rasmussen.com/
http://www.quotationspage.com/
http://www.drudgereports.com/
http://www.snopes.com/
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Court Martial for the Navy Seals, Federal Civilian Court for our Enemies

As I sit here in awe of the Ironic and Despicable truth of the title I have chosen for this piece, I grow greatly concerned with the course of our Country that our current President and his administration have set. The inconsistencies of raw Constitutional convictions, and even more so; the lack of Constitutional Fundamentals being exercised by this administration is simply unprecedented and will set this country on a course of weakness, feeblemindedness, poverty, and destruction. I have never served in battle. I have never seen my comrade and friend shot and killed by our enemy. I have never run out into a bullet-riddled field to take hold of my fallen soldier for the mere purpose of never leaving a soldier behind. I have never seen a defeat on a battlefield and then see the strength of my men and fellow soldiers respond with a courage and fearless determination to take hold of victory for the sake of our Country and the freedoms She extends to Her citizens. Therefore, I feel inept to speculate what must be going through the minds and hearts of our men and women that consistently and voluntarily put themselves between their fellow citizens and the tyrannical, radical, Islamic terroristic enemies that have set out to destroy the Freedom of America and all like Freedoms of this world. However, the most recent events and most recent decisions of this administration have compelled me to do just that.



My first attempt is to set the scene as it simply is. The first and foremost responsibility of this piece is to remove the politics that have mired the attacks of September 11, 2001. Regardless of whom you are, what party affiliate, what core beliefs you have, the undeniable truth is that we were attacked without provocation. Our sin? Individual Freedom and Individual Liberties. The politics that have mired the attacks of 9/11 have been as far fetched to say our President knew and enable the attack, or our President created such hatred with the radicals that America left our enemy no choice but to attack. All this and other such political rhetoric must be put aside to understand purely and plainly…AN ACT OF WAR WAS INITIATED BY OUR ENEMY AGAINST INNOCENT AMERICAN CIVILIANS which RESULTED IN THE MASS MURDERS OF OVER 2800 LIVES! That, my friend, is the purest and simplest fact of all!



We responded, as any self-governed sovereign nation should. We declared war against our enemy and set out to destroy them with the power of our mighty Military. We sent our Fighters, our Heroes, our Defenders to battle the enemy with a battle cry of solidarity and resolve. We asked them to go out and, yet again, defend the Liberties and Freedoms of this Great Nation. We asked them to go out and die for us. We asked them to go out and lose parts of their bodies for our freedoms and THEY BRAVELY WENT! They went with the understanding that they were DEFENDING THE FREEDOMS OF AMERICAN CITIIZENS…then something happened. Our government decided to extend those Rights to the VERY PEOPLE WHO HAVE SET OUT TO DESTROY THOSE RIGHTS! I simply cannot imagine…I simply lose my emotions. What betrayal! What indignity! What disgrace! I am not a Soldier; I am not an American Hero as the men and women of our military are, but I can only ask, how they cannot be asking themselves, “Whose rights are we fighting for?” If our enemies when captured receive the rights of an American Citizen, what then, is our purpose? What then, is our objective? Oh God, help us. I have a great and overpowering feeling that our Nation will soon ask God, “What have WE done?”



This betrayal and undoing of the successes of our Military is not enough. We have now placed our Military under an impossible microscope in an effort to discipline the successes and accomplishments of our military. We must find those that have captured our enemy and bring THEM to justice? No, not our enemies, our Heroes? On the heels of the egregious decision to extend our rights to the enemy, we are simultaneously seeking to discipline our Navy Seals for capturing the enemy. Yes, our enemy received a bloody lip during this capture and I am deeply saddened of this outrageous travesty (not in the slightest). While in the act of capturing this cold blooded coward, our Navy Seals somehow, someway bloodied the lip of the man who kidnapped, brutally murdered, and hung our innocent fellow citizens in public and our response to them is not “Thank you” or “Job well done!” but rather, “You bloodied his lip, you will pay!”. What have we come to in this country? Why have We the People allowed this to happen? HOPE AND CHANGE. Yes, this administration does not care about Victory. How often have we heard the words “Victory” or “Triumph” from this administration in the past ten months? The answer, Rarely. On the other hand, the current events suggest that this administration is actively pursuing to undermine the objective with the consistent demoralization of our military, and my friend, a demoralized military is a military on the brink of disaster. How can we continue to betray the heroes of our military and continue to expect them to carry out orders to defeat the enemy? When defeating the enemy, our heroes must face the consequences of Prosecution through Court Martial? A bloodied Lip? Really? God help us!

Gregory Oliver

Navy Seals court martialed:



Kill Bill Vol. III:
Opposition to Senate Healthcare Bill: Call your Senators!


"We the people" must stop the Obamacare Proposals:I am formally asking (pleading) with you to muster up the initiative and enthusiasm to fight the healthcare bill that will emerge in the next couple of weeks. First, there are 5 bills (proposals) that will somehow be merged into one bill. Liberals are adamant about some form of "Public Option." (Government Run Option) I think the democrats believe they can push this bill through while we are sleeping. The democrats have blocked many bills that would allow the final bill to be posted on the internet 72 hours prior to a vote. Why? you know why. We must oppose this more than we did over the summer. Let them know, we are not against healthcare reform, just not a total makeover. Call and email your representatives. I have emailed and called mine so many times, they are referring to me by my first name. Write an old fashioned letter, it has a lot of importance. Attend your local tea parties and townhalls to voice your opinions and make a overwhelming presence. Below, is a little list how you can get involved. It is our civic duty. "It is our Country."

http://www.congress.org/
http://www.joinpatientsfirst.com/
http://www.freedomworks.org/
http://www.resistnet.com/
http://www.teapartypatriots.com/
http://www.teaparty.org/
http://www.taxpayer.org/
http://www.taxpayer.net/
info@cmpi.org
http://www.fairtax.org/
http://www.conservativeamericansunited.org/

CALL YOUR SENATORS! EMAIL YOUR SENATORS! CALL YOUR SENATORS! EMAIL YOUR SENATORS!

Chewing Copenhagen/Emission Impossible:
What will transpire at the United Nations Copenhagen Climate Change Conference next week. Is the hacked emails and data that has populated the internet since two Thursdays ago going to hinder the "Climate Change" protocol? Why are they not postponing this forum until the investigations are completed? Prominent scientists have destroyed the whole "we are killing the earth" climate change findings along with their reputations. I think the hacker should receive the Nobel. Is Obama going to sell out America? Again? Whoops, I forgot, President Obama is receiving a Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo for something he will do in the future. This way, he can write off this trip on his taxes as a business expense. There are investigations started on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. I read over the weekend that Professor Phil Jones, Head of the CRU at St. Anglia University and Professor Michael Mann of Penn State University have retained the services of Attorneys. Probably a smart move when British and U.S. politicians are inquiring about criminal charges. After reading about this conference, it sounds like poor, third world countries are looking the subrogate as much money as possible from richer countries. China, India and Russia will not agree to these stringent demands simply because of their economies. They will not allow for their economic growth be deterred by what the United Nations dictates. Obama better not agree to anything while he is there. World leaders feel they have a new wussy in town and his name is Barack. I believe that the UNEP is jockeying a dominant leadership position in the climate change fearing world. They feel they should be in charge of the world and what I fear is Obama giving away America to these fools. China and India will not ever succumb to any agreement that will hurt their economies witha a billion mouths in China and 400 million in India to feed. Obama should be focusing on our economy and unemployment instead of healthcare, climate change and crap & trade. We are in dire straits and he is getting a manicure to receive his Nobel. Whatever happens at this climate change circus, I wish I was there to see the protesters angrily protesting climate change and contradicting their plight by littering and destroying personal property. Will Michael Mann and Phil Jones be speaking at the conference? "Save our Jobs!"

Robert Gibbs/ They don't mean anything, silly:


Dr. Tim Ball:


Climate Change fraud:



7 stories Obama doesn't want told


By: John F. Harris

November 30, 2009 05:45 AM EST

Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds.

No one understands this better than Barack Obama and his team, who won the 2008 election in part because they were better storytellers than the opposition. The pro-Obama narrative featured an almost mystically talented young idealist who stood for change in a disciplined and thoughtful way. This easily outpowered the anti-Obama narrative, featuring an opportunistic Chicago pol with dubious relationships who was more liberal than he was letting on.

A year into his presidency, however, Obama’s gift for controlling his image shows signs of faltering. As Washington returns to work from the Thanksgiving holiday, there are several anti-Obama storylines gaining momentum.

The Obama White House argues that all of these storylines are inaccurate or unfair. In some cases these anti-Obama narratives are fanned by Republicans, in some cases by reporters and commentators.

But they all are serious threats to Obama, if they gain enough currency to become the dominant frame through which people interpret the president’s actions and motives.

Here are seven storylines Obama needs to worry about:

He thinks he’s playing with Monopoly money

Economists and business leaders from across the ideological spectrum were urging the new president on last winter when he signed onto more than a trillion in stimulus spending and bank and auto bailouts during his first weeks in office. Many, though far from all, of these same people now agree that these actions helped avert an even worse financial catastrophe.

Along the way, however, it is clear Obama underestimated the political consequences that flow from the perception that he is a profligate spender. He also misjudged the anger in middle America about bailouts with weak and sporadic public explanations of why he believed they were necessary.

The flight of independents away from Democrats last summer — the trend that recently hammered Democrats in off-year elections in Virginia — coincided with what polls show was alarm among these voters about undisciplined big government and runaway spending. The likely passage of a health care reform package criticized as weak on cost-control will compound the problem.

Obama understands the political peril, and his team is signaling that he will use the 2010 State of the Union address to emphasize fiscal discipline. The political challenge, however, is an even bigger substantive challenge—since the most convincing way to project fiscal discipline would be actually to impose spending reductions that would cramp his own agenda and that of congressional Democrats.

Too much Leonard Nimoy

People used to make fun of Bill Clinton’s misty-eyed, raspy-voiced claims that, “I feel your pain.”

The reality, however, is that Clinton’s dozen years as governor before becoming president really did leave him with a vivid sense of the concrete human dimensions of policy. He did not view programs as abstractions — he viewed them in terms of actual people he knew by name.

Obama, a legislator and law professor, is fluent in describing the nuances of problems. But his intellectuality has contributed to a growing critique that decisions are detached from rock-bottom principles.

Both Maureen Dowd in The New York Times and Joel Achenbach of The Washington Post have likened him to Star Trek’s Mr. Spock.

The Spock imagery has been especially strong during the extended review Obama has undertaken of Afghanistan policy. He’ll announce the results on Tuesday. The speech’s success will be judged not only on the logic of the presentation but on whether Obama communicates in a more visceral way what progress looks like and why it is worth achieving. No soldier wants to take a bullet in the name of nuance.

That’s the Chicago Way

This is a storyline that’s likely taken root more firmly in Washington than around the country. The rap is that his West Wing is dominated by brass-knuckled pols.

It does not help that many West Wing aides seem to relish an image of themselves as shrewd, brass-knuckled political types. In a Washington Post story this month, White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina, referring to most of Obama’s team, said, “We are all campaign hacks.”

The problem is that many voters took Obama seriously in 2008 when he talked about wanting to create a more reasoned, non-partisan style of governance in Washington. When Republicans showed scant interest in cooperating with Obama at the start, the Obama West Wing gladly reverted to campaign hack mode.

The examples of Chicago-style politics include their delight in public battles with Rush Limbaugh and Fox News and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. (There was also a semi-public campaign of leaks aimed at Greg Craig, the White House counsel who fell out of favor.) In private, the Obama team cut an early deal — to the distaste of many congressional Democrats — that gave favorable terms to the pharmaceutical lobby in exchange for their backing his health care plans.

The lesson that many Washington insiders have drawn is that Obama wants to buy off the people he can and bowl over those he can’t. If that perception spreads beyond Washington this will scuff Obama’s brand as a new style of political leader.

He’s a pushover

If you are going to be known as a fighter, you might as well reap the benefits. But some of the same insider circles that are starting to view Obama as a bully are also starting to whisper that he’s a patsy.

It seems a bit contradictory, to be sure. But it’s a perception that began when Obama several times laid down lines — then let people cross them with seeming impunity. Last summer he told Democrats they better not go home for recess until a critical health care vote but they blew him off. He told the Israeli government he wanted a freeze in settlements but no one took him seriously. Even Fox News — which his aides prominently said should not be treated like a real news organization — then got interview time for its White House correspondent.

In truth, most of these episodes do not amount to much. But this unflattering storyline would take a more serious turn if Obama is seen as unable to deliver on his stern warnings in the escalating conflict with Iran over its nuclear program.

He sees America as another pleasant country on the U.N. roll call, somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe

That line belonged to George H.W. Bush, excoriating Democrat Michael Dukakis in 1988. But it highlights a continuing reality: In presidential politics the safe ground has always been to be an American exceptionalist.

Politicians of both parties have embraced the idea that this country — because of its power and/or the hand of Providence — should be a singular force in the world. It would be hugely unwelcome for Obama if the perception took root that he is comfortable with a relative decline in U.S. influence or position in the world.

On this score, the reviews of Obama’s recent Asia trip were harsh.

His peculiar bow to the emperor of Japan was symbolic. But his lots-of-velvet, not-much-iron approach to China had substantive implications.

On the left, the budding storyline is that Obama has retreated from human rights in the name of cynical realism. On the right, it is that he is more interested in being President of the World than President of the United States, a critique that will be heard more in December as he stops in Oslo to pick up his Nobel Prize and then in Copenhagen for an international summit on curbing greenhouse gases.

President Pelosi

I figure in Barack Obama’s Washington, including Obama, has had more success in advancing his will than the speaker of the House, despite public approval ratings that hover in the range of Dick Cheney’s. With a mix of tough party discipline and shrewd vote-counting, she passed a version of the stimulus bill largely written by congressional Democrats, passed climate legislation, and passed her chamber’s version of health care reform. She and anti-war liberals in her caucus are clearly affecting the White House’s Afghanistan calculations.

The great hazard for Obama is if Republicans or journalists conclude — as some already have — that Pelosi’s achievements are more impressive than Obama’s or come at his expense.

This conclusion seems premature, especially with the final chapter of the health care drama yet to be written.

But it is clear that Obama has allowed the speaker to become more nearly an equal — and far from a subordinate — than many of his predecessors of both parties would have thought wise.

He’s in love with the man in the mirror

No one becomes president without a fair share of what the French call amour propre. Does Obama have more than his share of self-regard?

It’s a common theme of Washington buzz that Obama is over-exposed. He gives interviews on his sports obsessions to ESPN, cracks wise with Leno and Letterman, discusses his fitness with Men’s Health, discusses his marriage in a joint interview with first lady Michelle Obama for The New York Times. A photo the other day caught him leaving the White House clutching a copy of GQ featuring himself.

White House aides say making Obama widely available is the right strategy for communicating with Americans in an era of highly fragmented media.

But, as the novelty of a new president wears off, the Obama cult of personality risks coming off as mere vanity unless it is harnessed to tangible achievements.

That is why the next couple of months — with health care and Afghanistan jostling at center stage — will likely carry a long echo. Obama’s best hope of nipping bad storylines is to replace them with good ones rooted in public perceptions of his effectiveness.

Polls you can live by:

26% Strongly approve of President Obama's job performance.
40% Strongly disapprove.
Presidential Approval Rating Index: -14
47% Somewhat approve of President's job performance.
52% Somewhat disapprove
*Sixteen straight days in negative double digits.
41% Favor Healthcare Reform.
53% Oppose Healthcare Reform
-12% Difference.

Quote du jour:
"Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. "
Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
 
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http://www.thehill.com/
http://www.foxnews.com/
http://www.biggovernment.com/
http://www.youtube.com/
http://www.quotationspage.com/
Gregory Oliver
John F. Harris
http://www.snopes.com/