February 8, 2010
Democrat's 'jobs bill' could contain union's job-killing Card-Check bill
As Ed Morrissey notes over at Hot Air, at first glance this report from the Las Vegas Sun sounds as though conservatives have mostly won the fight against Big Labor to keep the Obama administration from stripping the secret ballot from organizing elections, especially since the unions have now slipped in standing with the American electorate to their lowest level of support ever recorded. However, looking deeper into the report lies a new strategy by the unions to use the Obama/Democrat jobs bill to get the union's job-killing card check legislation out of Congress.
Could Mr. Obama and the far-left Democrats in Congress be so deeply in the tank for the unions as to either completely miss the point from Massachusetts or simply chose to ignore it that they are willing to attempt to force the passing of a bill that would lead to the loss of 600,000 jobs in the first year alone while it decreased US job creation?
You bet they are.
Related video: Warren Buffett Calls Anti-Worker "Card Check" a "Mistake"
Other related:
Card Check could kill my company and yours
Labor's Card-Check Ruse
Posted by Abdul at 5:11 PM| Comments
What the GOP needs to know about that Obama/House GOP Health Care Conference
Obama says he wants to sit down with Republicans at his guest house in front of TV cameras and discuss the proposals the GOP has had all along that he pretends he knew nothing about, but as Kavon Nikrad points out, all one needs to know about Obama's invitation can be
learned from Return of the Jedi (video).
As Erick Erickson notes (H/t -Kavon):
If Barack Obama cannot be genuine and interested in Republican ideas when the cameras are turned off, there is absolutely no way he can be genuine and sincere with the cameras turned on.Erick is offering the GOP sound advice, and it appears that either the GOP is listening to him or that they just might not be so stupid, after all.The GOP is often referred to as the stupid party. Let's pray they aren't stupid enough to sit down with a President who has for six months dismissed them as having no ideas. Barack Obama says he wants a bipartisan approach to health care now. Well, there is bipartisan support for scrapping the current proposals and starting over.
Unless Barack Obama says they should scrap the present plans and start over, the GOP should not entertain his invitation to use a gaggle of Republicans to rehabilitate our socialist President.(emphasis mine)
Posted by Abdul at 4:39 PM| Comments
Rasmussen poll shows Obama approval tanking again
Although Dear Leader did get a brief post-SOTUS bounce, Rasmussen's latest Presidential Tracking Poll shows him already hovering between -15 and -17, with today's poll being at -15. Overall, forty-six percent (46%) of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance, with fifty-four percent (54%) now disapprove.
Someone recently commented in another post here that Hyscience was a hate site that wanted Barack Obama to fail. What the commenter obviously chose to ignore is that, as Rasmussen's poll makes clear, a majority of Americans clearly disagree with Mr. Obama's policies and agenda. It is Mr. Obama's policies and agenda that they object to, and yes, they want his policies and agenda to fail - for good reason. They sincerely believe his policies and agenda are socialist, anti-free market, deficit-expanding, and bad for America - as do the posters at this site.
And while we're at it, let's make another thing clear. The disapproval of the president by 54% of voters that has absolutely nothing to do with race. It has to do with his handling of the deficit, the poor economy and jobs, his attempts at over-reaching health care expansion, his pro-socialist expansion of government over the body of private enterprise, and even his foreign policy which has not put us closer than ever to Iran having a nuclear weapon to pass around to its Islamic terrorist friends.
Posted by Abdul at 3:57 PM| Comments
John Murtha is dead
Breitbart has it that Rep. John "Marines killed Iraqis in cold blood" Murtha (D - Penn) has died at 77.While anyone's passing is sad, especially for his family and friends, I'm not going to pretend I ever liked the guy and I admit to looking forward to his seat being filled by a Republican.
There is, however, a complication with that being accomplished because, as Ace points out, in order to win the seat a Republican will probably have to express a greater interest in earmarks than we'd generally be comfortable with. Indeed, Murtha's "little fiefdom basically ran on tax money siphoned off from the rest of the country."Posted by Abdul at 3:26 PM| Comments
Audi's 'Green Police' Super Bowl ad - satire or just plain creepy
Many who saw Audi's "Green Police" ad that ran during the Super Bowl last night were left wondering if it was enviro-satire or simply a creepy commercial by a corporation whose management has sucked down way too much green Kool-Aid.
For those who missed it, here it is:
So, what do you think?
My take is the latter.
Michelle Malkin is also in the "creeped out" camp, and has the context you need to judge which side Audi is on.
Ed Morrissey has a somewhat technical explanation for Audi doing the ad but still finds the ad to work for him far better as a warning of an overreaching government dictating choices -- like incandescent lightbulbs, paper vs plastic in the grocery store, and choice of cars.
Which leaves us with the ad being "a warning of an overreaching government dictating choices -- like incandescent lightbulbs, paper vs plastic in the grocery store, and choice of cars," by a "a corporation whose management has sucked down way too much green Kool-Aid."
So, would I ever by an Audi?
My answer is not just a no, but a raving "hell no"!
Posted by Abdul at 2:55 PM| Comments
February 5, 2010
Open Thread Friday to Monday
This is an open thread while we're on a very brief vacation - the first blogging break since October 2004. There will be little to no posts going up from Friday morning at 0800 to Monday afternoon. Posting will begin again late Monday afternoon.
Thanks for giving us this long-awaited vacation.
Posted by Abdul at 8:39 AM| Comments
Obama and the war card (will Obama 'Wag the dog'?)
Pat Buchanan brings up a good point today at Townhall:
"Republicans already counting the seats they will pick up this fall should keep in mind Obama has a big card yet to play. .More at the link.Should the president declare he has gone the last mile for a negotiated end to Iran's nuclear program and impose the "crippling" sanctions he promised in 2008, America would be on an escalator to confrontation that could lead straight to war. ...
And should war come, that would be the end of GOP dreams of adding three-dozen seats in the House and half a dozen in the Senate."
Harry Reid is surely aware a U.S. clash with Iran, with him at the president's side, could assure his re-election. Last week, Reid whistled through the Senate, by voice vote, a bill to put us on that escalator.
Looks like I'm not the only one that wouldn't put it past Barack Obama and the Dems to "Wag the dog" in order to Barack and his motly crew of corrupticrats re-elected. Which is, of course, not to say that I don't think Iran needs to be addressed in harsh-enough terms so as to insure that they don't end up with nuclear weapons. In my mind, the issue is one of timing and intent - and in Obama and the Dems' case, both the timing and the intent could likely be for a political purpose rather than one of national security.
Posted by Abdul at 7:58 AM| Comments
BBC News: Bombs and beatings - Life among the Taliban
From Pakistan correspondent Orla Guerin comes this must-read account of life with the Taliban as told by a 13-year-old girl called Meena, who says her own family tried to turn her into a suicide bomber. Although there is no independent confirmation of her account but police say they believe she is telling the truth, and her information could be valuable.
Here's an excerpt:
My brother used to tell me that the place for a woman is either at home or in the grave. I was always restricted to home.Take the time to read it all ...He said: "If you leave the house I'll cut off your head and put it on your chest."
My brother had been to the local school and beaten the girls and the teachers.
He said anyone who wanted to study was a friend of America.I wanted to be a doctor. I wanted it so much that once I dreamt I was sitting in a hospital, working as a doctor. I wanted to help the poor, those who cannot afford medical fees.
Taliban commanders used to come to our house. There was an underground bunker beside the house, with electricity.It was concrete and very strong. Cars would drive on top but no-one would realise what was underneath. In that hideout they used to train suicide bombers.
Most were children of my age or younger than me. They were used for these activities because they were too young to know any better.Going to 'paradise'
I used to see these children getting on a vehicle to go for their missions. They used loud Islamic CDs to motivate them.
And I would think, "My God, more Muslims are going to be buried". Then the news would come that more Muslims were wiped out.As for how she now feels about the Taliban: "The Taliban slaughter other people's children. They turn women into widows. They should be made to suffer too. I want these Taliban to be burned alive."
And let's not forget that most of the people the Taliban kill are Muslims. If the Taliban don't give a damn about the lives of other Muslims that disagree with them or just happen to be innocent bystanders - as most are, then what does that say about the Taliban and why they must be stopped!
Posted by Abdul at 7:25 AM| Comments
February 4, 2010
Newly sworn-in Senator Scott Brown: 'Stimulus didn't create one new job'
Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown came out swinging immediately after being sworn in as a senator, claiming that the stimulus hasn't created one new job.
The Obama apologists at the AP say at the link that Brown's claim is disputed by "most economists," but the real fact is that it's not only that not "every" economist has said such a thing, but in fact, as Peter Wehner notes, it might be closer to say that no serious economist has said any such thing:
The "saved or created" meme has rightly evoked belly laughs from all sorts of quarters. Even the president's own Office of Management and Budget has given up on using it. And for good reason: It is an utterly meaningless and indefensible claim. The numbers were grabbed out of thin air, made up, pure fiction. The Obama administration has proven unable to document anything like what it claims.To cut to the quick, Scott Brown is right and the AP is dead ass wrong.Posted by Abdul at 8:08 PM| Comments
Patrol Base Jaker (Movie pitch about Marines in Afghanistan)
If you haven't seen this yet, it's worth taking the time to watch it. The video pitches a documentary film about the US Marines and the practice of counter-insurgency in Afghanistan.
You can help fund the film here.
Posted by Richard at 2:56 PM| Comments
$1.9 trillion
$1.9 trillion is the amount that the House of Representatives just voted to raise the debt limit by. $1.9 trillion. The vote raises the debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion, a new high for the amount of debt the U.S. has ever carried.
That's "your" Congress working hard to put you and I, and every other American, deeper and deeper in debt.
Not exactly the kind of "change" you "hoped" for if you were dumb enough to vote Democrat.
Posted by Richard at 2:44 PM| Comments
About Obama's BS claim about those 'saved or created' jobs
Quite the contrary to what Barack Obama said at an event in New Hampshire on Tuesday:
"Now, if you hear some of the critics, they'll say, well, the Recovery Act, I don't know if that's really worked, because we still have high unemployment," the president said. "But what they fail to understand is that every economist, from the Left and the Right, has said, because of the Recovery Act, what we've started to see is at least a couple of million jobs that have either been created or would have been lost. The problem is, seven million jobs were lost during the course of this recession.It's not only that not "every" economist has said such a thing, but in fact, it might be closer to say that no serious economist has said any such thing.It might not be so bad if Obama just said this at one
campaign stoppress confernce, but he continuously spouts the same line of BS at practically every possible opportunity to open his BS-ing mouth. The man is simply incapable of getting out of campaign mode and telling the real truth based on real facts.Posted by Richard at 2:17 PM| Comments
'Mother of all Bailouts' headed our way
Get ready folks, the entire social security program has gone into the red - and it is likely to stay there.
As Ed Morrissey points out at the link, this means that the federal government not only can't rely on SocSec surpluses, which have been used to paper over budget deficits, it will have to increase the federal deficit to make benefit payments from now on.
George Bush and the GOP saw this coming, while Democrats like Orszag insisted that we had nothing to worry about. Even if we had a federal government living within its means, this would be a crisis -- but with the debt that Obama is accumulating, it's a fiscal tsunami waiting to crest.And it's not very encouraging to know that already, since Obama took office, he has increased the national debt by $1,734,066,940,432 - and still counting.Posted by Richard at 2:03 PM| Comments
Muslim girl in Turkey buried alive for 'talking to boys'
More disgusting news of yet another Muslim honor killing, this time in Turkey where it's a common occurrence (there have been six "honor killings" in the U.S. in the past two years). And one can't help but notice that there's not a single word of protest from the Organization of Islamic Conference and their "quisling organization," Alliance of Civilizations, or the feminists in the West. Nor is there any outrage expressed against the Islamic culture. (H/t - Atlas Shrugs)
Via the Hurriet Daily News: Girl buried alive in honor killing in Turkey
(emphasis mine):A 16-year-old girl was buried alive by relatives in southeastern Turkey in a gruesome honor killing carried out because she reportedly befriended boys, the Anatolia news agency reported Thursday.Much more at the link, where you'll learn that the decision to kill the girl was made at a "family council."Acting on a tip, police discovered the body of the girl, identified only as M.M., in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a 2-meter-deep hole dug under a chicken pen outside her house in Kahta, a town in the southeastern province of Adıyaman, the news agency reported.
The body was found in December, around 40 days after M.M. went missing. She is being identified by her initials because she was under the age of 18. Her father and grandfather are suspected in the murder.
A subsequent postmortem examination revealed that M.M. had a significant amount of soil in her lungs and stomach, indicating that she was buried alive and conscious, forensic experts told the news agency. "The autopsy result is blood-curdling. According to our findings, the girl - who had no bruises on her body and no sign of narcotics or poison in her blood - was alive and fully conscious when she was buried," one anonymous expert said.
The girl's father and grandfather have been formally arrested and jailed pending trial over her killing, according to the agency. The father is reported to have said in his testimony that the family was unhappy that M.M. had male friends.
BTW, I'm still waiting to hear about one of those Islamic fatwa's to be put out against honor killings - but I'm not holding my breath in expectation. The Muslim community and Muslim scholars like to talk a good game about peace, love, and family, but there way short on performance.
Related update: Daughter Slaughter in Islam (H/t - commenter Trencherbone)
Posted by Richard at 1:22 PM| Comments
Scott Brown on his way to Washington
Sen.-elect Scott Brown is expected to be sworn in as the "41st vote" on health care today at 5PM, then he's off to D.C. where he's already giving Reid fits.
And that's a very good thing for Americans who believe in decreasing the debt, treating terrorists as enemy combatants, tax cuts and spending cuts - across-the-board, and reforming health care the right way - transparently with no backroom deals.
Related: Enough With The Idol-Worship Sopfest Already
Posted by Richard at 12:23 PM| Comments
$2.5 million
$2.5 million is the amount of taxpayer's money the Obama administration is spending for a single 30-second spot. And that's not all; it also plans to spend over $130 million in the next four months to make people aware of the official US survey.
Posted by Richard at 12:07 PM| Comments
Obama Politicizes National Prayer Breakfast
Our Alinsky-ite, Narcissist-in-Chief just can't help himself (emphasis mine):
President Barack Obama used an unlikely setting -- the annual National Prayer Breakfast -- to advance his appeal to Republicans and to the American people to begin cooperating with him, even venturing into the fringes of "birtherism" to acknowledge the polarization that is swamping his agenda.More at the link."You can question my policies without questioning my faith," he said, adding a sly aside, "or, for that matter, my citizenship."
It was a rare nod to conservative foes who continue to question whether he is Muslim or even was born in the U.S. and is entitled to the presidency.
Since last week's State of the Union address, Obama has not missed an opportunity to paint Washington as a cesspit of vicious partisanship and disfunction, challenging his own party at times, but usually placing responsibility on Republicans, whose lockstep opposition has made even a 59-seat majority in the Senate appear to be an insurmountable obstacle.
Clearly, Obama never misses an opportunityt to make a political statement, be it the Food Network, the Christmas Day bomber, the DOJ, the White House counsel's office, the Census, military spouses - whatever, you name it. For Barack it's all about his far-left, Alinsky-ite, socialist, political agenda
Posted by Richard at 10:58 AM| Comments
Via Politico: Democrats protect backroom deals
As John Maccormac points out at TWS, the Democrats just can't help themselves (and they've learned nothing from Massachusetts):
[...] The health care bill is in trouble, but a series of narrow deals -- each designed to win over a wavering senator or key interest group -- is alive and well, despite voter anger over the parochial horse-trading that marked the rush toward passage before Christmas.[...] The flurry of last-minute deals helped sour Americans on the entire process, and the Massachusetts Senate election altered the trajectory of reform.
But Washington being Washington, none of that has cooled the appetite of senators and House members to tailor the bill to their specific needs -- even though some Democrats worry that it could help destroy any chances of resurrecting reform, if lawmakers seem oblivious to voters' concerns.
Nelson sacrificed his agreement with Reid to have the federal government forever pick up Nebraska's share of a proposed Medicaid expansion, bowing to critics that included some in the Senate Democratic Caucus. Even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has singled it out, saying her members will not consider the bill unless the Nebraska deal is removed.
But there is no visible movement to erase a Medicaid deal with Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) that she has said is worth $300 million, three times the amount of Nelson's agreement.
Or to strike a line item that exempts Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan from a 40 percent tax on insurers that provide expensive health plans. Or to remove a provision that sends an extra $500 million in Medicaid funding to Massachusetts and $600 million to Vermont for being leaders in providing health insurance to their residents.
"It is very clear from the process that took place in the final days of the bill that Americans are disturbed about the process," said Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.). "I believe it would be important for us to take out the egregious items."
Does that mean he might forfeit the money for Massachusetts?
Not at all. Kerry argued the funding was completely legitimate because Massachusetts has already used significant state resources to extend benefits beyond what the current federal Medicaid rules require.
"I don't think adjusting for Medicaid costs for states that have already done some things is inappropriate," Kerry said. "I'm not for a single-state fix. I'm for every state in the country that has taken action, to have that reflected somehow, and that should be part of the fix."
Kerry's remark highlights an axiom of Washington: Every deal is egregious except your own.
Read it all ...
Posted by Richard at 10:37 AM| Comments
American Spectator: Obama's defense budget points to administration's true objective: Manage American decline
John R. Guardiano, writing at the American Spectator calls attention to the fact that this week's release of the Obama administration budget reveals, not surprisingly, that defense and national security are being shortchanged (again) so that the White House can focus on its real priority -- which is not to assert American leadership abroad, but rather to manage American decline and to address domestic concerns:
Of course, you wouldn't know this from reading or listening to the lapdog legacy media, which uncritically parrots Obama administration talking points. Reuters, for instance, reports that "Obama seeks record $708 billion in defense budget."Looking back to October 09, Peter Ferrara also called attention to the issue of Barack Obama bringing about American decline, and wrote of what Charles Krauthammer had to say about Obama and American decline, a decline that went beyond just that of the military:MSNBC agrees: "Obama wants $33 billion more for wars," it intones -- and this "comes on top of [a] record $708-billion request for next year." Is "Obama a hawk?" asks Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman.
The answer is no, not at all. In fact, as James Jay Carafano points out, Obama "is cutting the defense budget, both in real dollar terms and as a percent of the economy... The average Pentagon budget for the period covering fiscal years 2011 through 2028 will be $50 billion less in real dollars than its current estimate for this fiscal year," Carafano notes.
Posted by Richard at 7:47 AM| Comments
February 3, 2010
Fox News: Ohio High School Accused of Promoting Political Agenda in Classroom
Looks like Fox News is finally covering the story that we posted on back a few days ago (with school contact info) that was, at the time, an Atlas Shrugs exclusive.
Via Fox News (emphasis mine):
An Ohio high school teacher's giving students job applications for a Democratic organization that included suggested radical reading material has raising concerns of indoctrination in the classroom.Read it all ...The government teacher at Perry High School in Massillon, Ohio, handed out forms recruiting students to intern for Organizing for America, a grassroots organization with direct ties to the Democratic National Committee and the successor organization for Obama for America.
Included on the forms was a suggested reading list that included Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" and Organizing for America's mission to build on the "movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda of change."
No Republican equivalent was offered to the students, according to Perry schools' Superintendent John Richard.
In an interview with FoxNews.com on Wednesday, Richard acknowledged that distribution of the forms violated school policy and said they were never submitted to school administrators for approval, but the teacher remains on the job.
[...] Reaction to the forms, first posted on the conservative blog site, Atlas Shrugs, has sparked national outrage, particularly in the blogosphere. Some bloggers called it a "sick intrusion" and said it was nothing more than an attempt to indoctrinate students, while another, Elliott Cook, wrote: "This is all voluntary!!! No one is forcing anyone to do anything they don't want to do."
Details on the radical reading material the Fox News article mentions can be found here.
Posted by Richard at 8:54 PM| Comments
The Feds Want Your Pension Funds
The Obama administration wants to seize the $3 to $4 trillion in assets currently invested in our retirement plans. And if the administration has its way, the government would own all the assets, having taken them out of the private sector.
That would be in return for a promise that the government would make timed payouts -- monthly or whatever -- to the pensioners over the coming years. The government has already betrayed the public trust by spending the assets in the social security trust fund, leaving worthless IOU's as placeholders. Now they want to do this with our employee retirement plans and our personal retirement investments.As CFP notes, given the arrogance of these Statists, they actually believe they can do this and are salivating to do so.It seems perfectly clear that Barack Obama thinks this is Venezuela and that he is Hugo Chavez.
Posted by Richard at 8:29 PM| Comments
Muslim Chaplain Arrested for Smuggling Box Cutters into Prison
Prisons continue to be breeding grounds for jihadi recruitment, just like the mosque and the madrassas. With Muslim chaplains like this, little wonder 36 Americans that converted to Islam in prison are now waging jihad in Yemen.
And what in the hell was he, or the prisoners he was going to give them to, planning to do with the box cutters? Surely, they were up to some "peaceful" purpose!
Related:
The Roots of Radical Islam in Prison
Prison Jihad? How radical Islamic charities exploit their access to the prison system.
Time for DoD to Overhaul its Muslim Chaplain ProgramPosted by Richard at 3:30 PM| Comments
How Barack botched the Christmas Day Jihadist Incident
In looking at this Stephen Hayes report at The Weekly Standard:
[...] One of the greatest concerns about the handling of Abdulmutallab is that FBI interrogators -- in their initial 50 minute interview -- questioned him without the benefit of the information the U.S. intelligence community had collected on him in the six months prior to his attack. Mueller confirmed this, saying, "we did not have much information at 3:30," when Abdulmutallab was initially questioned. Mueller testified that they had gathered more information on Abdulmutallab to use in his second interrogation. But when the "clean team" met with Abdulmutallab some five hours later to read him his rights, he stopped talking. So despite the fact that the intelligence community had compiled a dossier on Abdulmutallab -- which included information from his father and from intercepts -- none of that information was used to question him for five weeks after he was detained.And taking into account this point made by Senator Kit Bond made in a recent conference call, it is indeed abundantly clear, as Dan Riehl points out, what most definitely should have been an intelligence operation became a law enforcement issue, weakening the effort in terms of national security. And no amount of spin, whatsoever, can change that fact.Meanwhile, the AP reports that senior U.S. intelligence officials have told Congress that Al-Qaeda can be expected to attempt an attack on the United States in the next three to six months. I don't know about you, but given Barack Obama's record of handling terrorists and preventing terrorist attacks, I'm not feeling very safe and I'm likely to feel less safe as each day goes by.
Posted by Richard at 2:20 PM| Comments
Obama administration moving to cede control of Internet from the U.S. to foreign powers
In his continuing effort to show the world how inclusive, sharing, cooperative, and international America can be, the Obama administration has set off on a plan to surrender control and key management of the Internet, which wouldn't exist as we know it today without the ingenuity of America's brightest minds and the investment of U.S. taxpayer dollars - by having the U.S. Department of Commerce and its agents hand over the control and key management of the Internet to the hostile (to the U.S.) United Nations.
And to think that I actually thought the guy worked for US.
Posted by Richard at 1:51 PM| Comments
Ronald Reagan's Last Campaign (Tarkanian video ad to defeat Harry Reid)
The video below, entitled "Reagan's Last Campaign Lives On" tells a story of a single day, when, with control of the U.S. Senate at stake, Ronald Reagan spent his last day campaigning - in Las Vegas, Nevada to defeat Harry Reid. The date was November 3, 1986. The location was Las Vegas, Nevada in Scenic Airline's South Hangar:
It was in fact the last day... of Reagan's "last campaign."As the audio and video of his final campaign speech to Nevadans makes clear, Ronald Reagan always knew Harry Reid was no "Reagan Democrat." Ronald Reagan warned us all that as a Senator, Harry Reid was a "tax and spend liberal." He told us that he "opposed a balanced budget amendment." And that in Harry Reid's years as a Congressman, he had already voted against his policies even more often than Senator Kennedy that decade.
Harry Reid may have won that Senate election, but history tells us that Ronald Reagan was right to warn us about Harry Reid, and Reagan's final words that final campaign day still echo and inspire us all:
"There are really no last, final campaigns. Each generation must renew and win again for itself, the precious gift of liberty, and the sacred heritage of freedom."
Please watch, enjoy and share with your friends this special archival video and please redouble your efforts to help us defeat Harry Reid.
Ronald Reagan's last campaign lives on...Please join us.
Danny Tarkanian
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Posted by Richard at 1:24 PM| Comments
Ecologists Discover Forests Are Growing Faster
Golly gee, who would've guessed. More atmospheric CO2, higher temperatures, and longer growing seasons make trees go faster.
The ecologists call these factors - the "culprits."
Could've fooled me, I thought faster growing forests was a good thing - an indication of plants growing faster, ergo more food for us humans.
Interestingly, Science Daily reported in late December 09 that investigators have determined that most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.
In other words, the ecologists can't blame the increased CO2 on man, and the trees are lovin' it.
one of global warming alarmist James Hansen's top analysts. And yet, as AJStrata notes at the link, with no evidence whatsoever of AGW active in the US, Americans are supposed to cripple our economy and shell out billions in tax dollars?
Related:
AP Hypes Pseudo-Ocean Acidification Relationship With CO2 and Climate Change
Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming
GISS: 'No evidence of CO2 driven global warming in any of the US temperature data'
Global Warming and CO2 During the Past Century {No global warming has occurred above the 1998 level. In 1998, the PDO was in its warm mode. In 1999, the PDO flipped from its warm mode into its cool mode and satellite imagery confirms that the cool mode has become firmly entrenched since then and global cooling has deepened significantly in the past few years.)Posted by Richard at 9:23 AM| Comments
Glenn Beck 'Slaughters' Huffington's False Claim
Jeff Hedgpeth does an excellent job of clearing up the argument between Glenn Beck and Arianna Huffington. As Jeff points out (Beck video included) the Huffington Post is not exactly considered a bastion of journalistic integrity but it would be nice if they, and in particular Arianna Huffington, would at least make some effort to be accurate.
Given the facts, Arianna's claim is laughable.
Posted by Richard at 8:48 AM| Comments
(Video) 'Tango Mike Mike' - the call sign of Medal of Honor recipient Roy P. Menendez
Via Wizbang, this 6 minute must see video describes the heroic actions of Army Sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient Roy P. Benevidez. As RJ over at Paul Revere Riders aptly noted, if it doesn't bring pride to your heart and a tear to your eye, your a cold hearted SOB:
In the 'more info' section at YouTube (posted by Michael19591123), the following information that makes this story all the more incredible (H/t - Wizbang):
I did this as a way to honor all those who have struggled to come back from serving our country in times of war. The most interesting part for me was something I didn't find out until after I created this photoplay, was that this was Roy's second tour. He had been so gravely wounded, by stepping on a landmine, on his first tour that he was drummed out of the Army after returning. Roy built his body back up and returned to the service after proving himself fit and joined the elite Green Beret's and went back to Vietnam for a second tour for which he received the Medal of Honor.Hilltop Times has more narrative.
