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More “Hide The Decline” From NASA GISS

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:58:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The pattern emerging is one of alarmists having to ‘adjust’ the data because it shows there is no man-made warming, per their own highly vaunted climate models. The same models that have produced all the dire predictions of pending doom.

One thing you NEVER do in science is ‘adjust’ the data to meet your desired outcome. And one thing you also NEVER do is trust those whose careers and credibility rest on producing a desired outcome to do the verification and validation of their own theories.

TIP: View chart at site: http://bit.ly/107Xwz

Clip Source: strata-sphere.com

This is why real scientists share their data, algorithms and code for peer review, to ensure there is no crazy fudging of data. More and more people are out looking at the raw temperature record and comparing it to the man-made global warming (AGW) alarmists’ ‘adjusted’ data and discovering the same pattern. This time it comes from Brisbane Australia:

Previous posts on the real source of man-made warming

You Too Can Help Save Humanity From AGW

More Studies Disproving Man-Made Global Warming

Another Set Of Cooked AGW Data, Results In More Proof AGW Does Not Exist

Pre “Adjusted” CRU Data & IPCC AGW Models Prove AGW Theory Is WRONG!

NASA GISS Did Hide 1940’s Blip

More Evidence CRU Has Raw Temp Data & It Shows No AGW

CRU Raw Temp Data Shows No Significant Warming Over Most Of The World

Update: A preeminent climate scientists calls Climategate a conspiracy. There is no consensus, just a bunch of zealot scientists trying to make reality conform to their political views.

Tags: cru climategate, global warming

Norwegians Incensed Over Barack Obama's Snubs

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:45:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: He should respect the monarchy," she told VG.

Although Obama will not lunch with King Harald, he will see him on a visit to the royal palace

White House officials said that Obama, who was planning to work on the final draft of his speech on his flight from Washington to Oslo, would directly address the issue of the irony of being awarded the peace prize while escalating the war.

The Nobel peace committee has been criticised for awarding Obama the prize before he has any major accomplishments in international relations.

A White House official said that it was not necessarily an award that Obama would have given himself.

Also: Obama's Nobel snub angers Norwegians http://bit.ly/8WnG1N

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Barack Obama's trip to Oslo to pick up his Nobel peace award is in danger of being overshadowed by a row over the cancellation of a series of events normally attended by the prizewinner.

Norwegians are incensed over what they view as his shabby response to the prize by cutting short his visit.

Obama's Nobel snub angers Norwegians

The White House has cancelled many of the events peace prize laureates traditionally submit to, including a dinner with the Norwegian Nobel committee, a press conference, a television interview, appearances at a children's event promoting peace and a music concert, as well as a visit to an exhibition in his honour at the Nobel peace centre.

He has also turned down a lunch invitation from the King of Norway.

"Of all the things he is cancelling, I think the worst is cancelling the lunch with the king," said Siv Jensen, the leader of the largest party in opposition, the populist Progress party. "This is a central part of our government system.

Tags: nobel peace prize, 0bama, oslo norway

Food For Thought

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:27:41 GMT

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Clip Source: blog.foreignpolicy.com

Mon, 12/07/2009

Percentage of Americans who believe in angels: 55

Percentage of Americans who believe in evolution: 39

Percentage of Americans who believe in anthropogenic global warming: 36

Percentage of Americans who believe in ghosts: 34

Percentage of Americans who believe in UFOs: 34

Tags: believe in evolution: 39, believe in ghosts: 34, believe in global warming: 36, believe in ufos: 34, percentage of americans who believe in angels: 55

Prisons Taking Work From Private Sector: Current Employees Laid Off

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:00:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: at an Otisville, N.Y. prison are continuing their jobs: producing solar panels

The insanity continues: “green jobs” are turning into “orange jumpsuit” jobs.

Unfortunately, most Americans remain unaware of the Federal Prison Industries’ (FPI) exploits. FPI employs cheap prison labor " compensating inmates at wages of between 23 cents and $1.15 an hour " to assemble products purchased by federal agencies under a mandatory source arrangement.

Mandatory source status means if a federal agency needs to purchase a product offered by FPI, the agency must buy it from FPI, even if the price is higher, the quality lower or the delivery longer than that of commercial products

FPI has used its competitive advantage for years to expand its business into such industries as furniture, vehicular components and textiles. Just recently we learned Traverse Bay Manufacturing Inc. a family-owned textile products business in northern Michigan, also is losing business to federal prisoners

Clip Source: www.mlive.com

By U.S. Reps. Pete Hoekstra
and Dave Camp
Special to The Press

The president recently held a “Jobs Summit” at the White House. Topping the agenda was the creation of “green jobs.” With the unemployment rate in Michigan hovering above 15 percent and the nation at 10 percent, a great deal of hope is being thrust upon the renewable energy industry and the promise of “green jobs.”

It appears, however, the administration is content with having those jobs performed by prisoners as opposed to law-abiding citizens.

President Barack Obama has started down the same road of the Clinton and Bush administrations by prioritizing the incarcerated population over the unemployed, and empowering the Department of Justice’s Federal Bureau of Prisons over free market job creators.

On the heels of news that United Solar Ovonic, a Rochester Hills-headquartered company and leader in production of solar panels, laid off approximately 80 of its workers at the company’s Greenville facility, we learned 160 prisoners

Tags: 0bama, current employees laid off, given to prisons, green jobs, u.s. reps. pete hoekstra and dave camp

New HealthCare Quagmire: Dingy Just Rolled The Dice

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:13:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 1. By breeching the historic dividing line between private and public plans now at 65, it opens the door for an expansion of Medicare to become just the single payer we are trying to stop.

2. How can you expand Medicare, potentially to tens of millions more people while cutting it by $500 billion?

3. The cuts in doctor and hospital reimbursement rates written into this bill will force hundreds of thousands of medical providers to refuse to treat Medicare patients. By applying these low reimbursements to patients 55-64, now, you are driving doctors out of the profession and discouraging others from entering it. A permanent scarcity of doctors will be the inevitable result.

4. The expansion of Medicaid to 150% of the poverty level imposes huge new financial burdens on states. It will cost Texas $3 billion, Pennsylvania $2 billion, California $2 billion, and Florida $1.3 billion. It will cost Arkansas and Louisiana $500 million each.

Clip Source: www.dickmorris.com

Faced with a massive center-right uprising, the Obama liberals have been forced to abandon a public option. But in doing so, they are throwing the Medicare program under the bus.

Already, we have been asking how you can treat a growing number of elderly with a Medicare program that this bill cuts by $500 billion dollars. Now, by adding tens of millions of people 55-64 to the program, it makes it even more financially untenable.

But the current proposal Reid is loudly trumpeting is horribly flawed as well.

It has all of the old flaws (minus the public option) in that the government, through the Secretary of Health, will decide who gets what treatment at what cost and will force rationing through an artificial scarcity on all people, particularly the elderly. And it still has such high premiums for young uninsured people that it will compete with student loans for the honor of being their number one headache.

But the compromise itself is flawed. Here’s why:

Tags: add 10s of millions to medicare, while cutting it by $500 billion, unfunded mandate, dingy care, that should fix it

The New Yard Signs Are Here! The New Yard Signs Are Here!

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:50:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In this way, you can show your sincere appreciation for their act of voting us into a depression. For voting in favor of an economic catastrophe.

After the election, I recall a bitter taste in my mouth. Scrutinizing my neighbors. Questioning them, mentally, as to their motives.

More than a year later, the Obama bumper stickers and signs have all but disappeared. The economic disaster, endemic to any Socialist strategy -- and especially that of Alinsky's acolyte -- is apparent to all but the most obtuse observer.

Doug Ross http://bit.ly/78k5Rq

Clip Source: directorblue.blogspot.com

At the height of the 2008 Presidential campaign, I recall passing neighbors' houses adorned with Obama signs.

I remember my anger and confusion. Thinking to myself, "how could any rational, educated person support a man who has no executive experience? Who worked with the Democrat Socialists of America? Who represented ACORN as an attorney? ACORN! The antithesis of all things American, undermining the integrity of our very voting system!

Therefore, I have prepared the following yard signs for insertion into those very same neighbors' lawns. Perhaps at 04:00 hours, when human consciousness is at its nadir.

Just insert the signs, below, into their front yards to express your gratitude for their votes.

In this way, you can show your sincere appreciation for their act of voting us into a depression. For voting in favor of an economic catastrophe.

They'll thank you later. Perhaps when you're working, side-by-side, in the rice fields.

Related: The New Yard Signs Are Here (Part I).

Tags: 0bama, yard signs

GLSEN Gay Bar Guides for Teens: Update: Who’s Funding GLSEN? Pt. 2:

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:42:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Update: Ask these companies whether they support GLSEN handing out gay bar guides to teens:

Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft has a link-filled round-up. @http://bit.ly/8og6AV

Corporate phone/e-mail contact list;
http://bit.ly/92RPtE

Clip Source: michellemalkin.com

Eastman Kodak stands by GLSEN

By Michelle Malkin • December 8, 2009 11:32 AM

Yesterday, I printed a list of sponsor companies and foundations that fund GLSEN, the radical gay rights group founded by Obama safe schools czar Kevin Jennings.

The full list is here.

Question: Where do “Fisting Kits” and dental dams for children fit into the Kodak Values system?

Source: MassNews.com

Marjorie King’s 2003 City Journal expose’ of GLSEN: Queering the Schools.

Clip Source: michellemalkin.com

Who’s funding GLSEN? Pt. 2: Corporate phone/e-mail contact list; Update: GLSEN gay bar guides for teens

A reader forwarded the response he received from Eastman Kodak, which is standing by the radical, not-safe-for-schools porn distributors of the group founded by Obama safe schools czar Kevin Jennings.

Here’s a contact list for eight of GLSEN’s major corporate sponsors.

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Citi Foundation

DaimlerChrysler Corporation

Ernst & Young

IBM Corporation

KPMG LLP

PepsiCo

Time Warner

Posted in: Education, Kevin Jennings

Tags: education, kevin jennings

Breitbart Tears Media Matters a New.... well, you know.......

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:14:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Andrew Breitbart -- creator of BigGovernment -- unleashed a devastating Twitter attack best captured in the following string of tweets.

John Podesta, as puppetmaster of left, will you get your hands around FistGate & get to bottom of it: http://tinyurl.com/ycotzex @mmfa

EARACHE (Eric) BOEHLERT? You don’t find something stinky about this Obama Safe Sex Czar ‘Fisting for Teens’ story? http://tinyurl.com/ycotzex @mmfa

Perils of Not Vetting Prez, MCLVII: Creates SafeSchoolCzar & Appoints Fella Fixed on Teaching Fisting to Minors: http://tinyurl.com/ycotzex

MEDIAMUTTERS & EARACHE BOEHLERT are just brown with envy that we keep getting scoop after scoop! http://tinyurl.com/y8t8yvk @mmfa

MEDIAMUTTERS: Lets co-join our exploratory bodies & get 2 bottom of 'Fist4Teens' so we can get behind this mess. http://tinyurl.com/ycotzex

I added:

@andrewbreitbart The onus is on @mmfa to perform a deep-dive into this enema of the state.

Clip Source: directorblue.blogspot.com

'Fistgate' is the term being bandied about for the truly disgusting revelations around Barack Obama's Safe Schools Czar.

In recent weeks, Kevin Jennings has been repeatedly linked to supporters of NAMBLA as well as a wide variety of shockingly explicit educational material aimed at schoolkids.

As usual, the "criminal front group known as Media Matters" (in the words of attorney Mark Levin and which I believe is the phrase they prefer), stepped up to the plate to defend Jennings against the well-deserved attacks.

Andrew Breitbart -- creator of BigGovernment -- unleashed a devastating Twitter attack best captured in the following string of tweets.

Tags: 0bamas safe schools czar, crime, democrats, msm, obama

What is White House Covering Up in “GateCrashers” Scandal? -

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:38:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "While their current whereabouts are not confirmed, what is known about the Salahis is that their past includes a bankrupt winery; a long string of civil suits, some of which involve Loudoun businesses; cars and at least one boat repossessed; a residence in foreclosure; and his elderly parents evicted from their home."

In addition, according to the article, Charles Muldoon says he was asked by Tareq Salahi to help him organize the inaugural America's Cup polo match help raise money for lymphoma cancer research through Journey for the Cure, Salahi's "personal charity."

The Foreign Connection

But other than Joseph Farah's work at WorldNetDaily, (http://bit.ly/8hMmnq) there has been virtually no attention paid to Tareq Salahi's links to Rashid Khalidi. According to the Internet publication, "Tareq Salahi served on the board of the American Task Force for Palestine, where Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi served as vice president...

Clip Source: www.aim.org

The evidence clearly shows that the congressional investigation of the White House Gatecrashers is being controlled and limited. Homeland Security Committee chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS), now the subject of an Ethics Committee investigation, has made it clear that he wants to limit the investigation. Is he trying to protect White House officials with something to hide?

As I alluded to in a previous column, the evidence indicates that the Salahis are publicity seekers and possibly con-artists. But the verdict is still out as to whether or not they actually "crashed" the state dinner or were waved on through by White House officials aware of their connections to a notorious Obama friend and associate, pro-Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi.

Questionable Past

An article from the Loudoun Times, which covers the area where the Salahis have resided in Virginia, has delved deeper into their activities and their reputation among their neighbors

Tags: columbia professor and 0bama, gatecrashers scandal, pro-palestinian activist rashid khalidi, tareq salahi friend, white house cover-up

Essential Questions On Health Reform Americans Should Be Asking Now

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:43:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: to start going bankrupt in 2017, it makes no fiscal sense to use the savings to pay for yet another new entitlement instead of shoring up the main program. These congressional prescriptions will only produce more deficit spending.

If health reform does generate a surplus, will this money be used to pay down the debt " or fund new government spending?

How will adding a new, government-run insurance program increase competition in private insurance markets?

Investors.com Read full article at http://bit.ly/4KyM9X

Clip Source: www.investors.com

Failure is still very much an option, particularly if the Senate doesn't address serious concerns about the 2,074-page bill designed to rewrite the rules governing one-sixth of the U.S. economy for decades to come.

With that in mind, here are five key questions that lawmakers should press in the coming days:

How will health reform legislation affect existing insurance coverage?

Key regulations in the legislation called community rating (limiting prices that can be charged to older and sicker applicants) and guaranteed issue (requiring insurers to offer policies to all applicants regardless of health status) have driven up health insurance premiums in state markets where they have been tried, as higher costs have pushed younger and healthier policyholders to drop coverage.

Both the House and Senate bills slash Medicare spending, but neither uses the savings to pay for Medicare's impending bankruptcy. Instead, the savings are used to set up a new entitlement

Given that regular Medicare is set

Tags: 0bamacare, consumers, health care providers, increased costs, insurance, rules and regulations

'Conspiracy Would Become Manifest' IF ALL Climate Research Emails Unveiled

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:18:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Gray warns that the likely agreements coming out of Copenhagen, the cap-and-trade bill before Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency's decision announced this week to treat carbon dioxide as a pollutant "represents a grave threat to the industrial world's continued economic development."

"We should not allow these proposals to restrict our economic growth," Gray said. "Any United Nations climate bill our country might sign would act as an infringement on our country's sovereignty."

He said he probably would have been concerned about the possibility people are causing serious global climate degradation "had I not devoted my entire career of over half-a-century to the study and forecasting of meteorological and climate events."

"There has been an unrelenting quarter century of one-sided indoctrination of the Western world by the media and by various scientists and governments concerning a coming carbon dioxide … induced global warming disaster," he said.

Clip Source: www.wnd.com

"The recent 'ClimateGate' revelations coming out of the UK University of East Anglia are but the tip of a giant iceberg of a well organized international climate warming conspiracy that has been gathering momentum for the last 25 years," said Colorado State University's William Gray.

Gray was referring to e-mails and other information obtained by a hacker and posted on a Russian web server that included interactions among the world's most influential climate-change scientists.

One e-mail said: "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 (sic) from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline."

Global Warming or Global Governance? What the media refuse to tell you about so-called climate change

His comments are posted at Climate Depot.com as world leaders are conferencing in Copenhagen to discuss taking drastic economic measures to curb "global warming."

Tags: 'climategate' revelations, copenhagen ', dr william gray, global governance, ipcc gangster cabal, neo-feudalism, surrender u.s. sovereignty

Five Americans Captured in Pakistan Probed for Terror Links

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:53:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: He did not identify them, but said three are of Pakistani descent, one is of Egyptian descent and the other has Yemeni heritage.

ABC News report; read full article http://bit.ly/6B7aFq

Clip Source: www.abcnews.go.com

Five young Americans captured in Pakistan are under investigation for possible links to terrorism after their families found a disturbing farewell video the missing men left behind showing scenes of war and casualties and saying Muslims must be defended.

Frantic relatives and worried FBI agents have been searching for the five men for more than a week, since their disappearance in late November. The missing men, ranging in age from 19 to 25, have family roots in the northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., area. One, Ramy Zamzam, is a dental student at Howard University.

"The video's about 11 minutes and it's like a farewell. And they did not specify what they would be doing. But just hearing and seeing videos similar on the Internet, it just made me uncomfortable," Awad said. The video has not been made public.

In Pakistan, police officer Tahir Gujjar said five Americans were picked up in a raid on a house in Sarghoda in the eastern province of Punjab.

Tags: five americans captured in pakistan, left farewell video, terror probe

Copenhagen Climate Treaty = Global Take Over Part 1 & 2

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:44:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mike Rivero is editor and publisher of the WRH news portal and GCN talk show host.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

[Video]

Alex talks with Mike Rivero about the Copenhagen Climate Treaty Bill which many countries are in the process of signing, the resulting impending economic collapse via a global carbon tax will enslave the people all around the globe, drain most people's money into the bankers and other mega-rich, such as Al Gore who is set to become first carbon billionaire. This may be THE step that launches global government into full swing.

Signing the Treaty is an act that hands over sovereignty of each and every nation who signs to the United Nations who then have total power over each nation and will become global rulers. Along with Agenda 21, this will result in a global government, a global banking system, a global one-world religion, and massive global depopulation.

AwakeningMinds

November 03, 2009

Tags: david blood-al gore, copenhagen climate treaty, depopulation, global banking empire, global poverty, one world government

Democrats Created or Saved 3 Jobs With That $6 Million in Stimulus Cash

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:14:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller.
That’s important.

Clip Source: gatewaypundit.firstthings.com

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Jim Hoft

It’s nice to be with the in crowd… when you’re blowing other people’s money.
Democratic pollster Mark Penn was gifted $6 million in Stimulus money from his buddies in Washington.
The Hill reported, via Jammie Wearing Fool:

Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn (photo above), Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008.

Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn.

Dems Stimulate Dem Pollster With Gift of $6 Million in Stimulus Cash

Burson-Marsteller won the contract to work on a public-relations campaign to advertise the national switch from analog to digital television. Nearly $2.8 million of the contract was issued to Penn’s polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, according to federal records.

Tags: $5.97 million from the $787 billion, democrat pollster mark penn, washington buddies

‘Black Book’ For Kids With Tips on Fisting and Pi$$ing on Your Partner

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:59:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And in case any of the teens got bored, GLSEN was also kind enough to include a list of the local gay bars in the booklet distributed to high school students.

Because of his excellent work with children Kevin Jennings was promoted by Barack Obama to be his Safe Schools Czar. Today he’s running the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools in the US Department of Education.
Do you feel safe now?

There’s more to come.

Fistgate IV: Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Passed Out Gay Bar Guides to Teens at GLSEN Events
Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 4:23 PM

http://bit.ly/4e290S

Clip Source: biggovernment.com

During the 2000 conference, workshop leaders led a “youth only, ages 14-21″ session that offered lessons in “fisting” a dangerous sexual practice. During the same workshop an activist asked 14 year-old students, “Spit or swallow?… Is it rude?”

The unbelievable audio clip is posted here. Barack Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings is the founder of GLSEN. He was paid $273,573.96 as its executive director in 2007.

High school students at the conference learned about fisting and watersports from the GLSEN activists. Jennings is seen here holding the conference program. (Via Mass Resistance)

Unfortunately for GLSEN, undercover journalists with Mass Resistance recorded these outrageous sessions at Tufts University. The audio was later leaked to a local radio station. This created such an uproar that GLSEN leaders were forced to apologize for their disgusting behavior.

“Little Black Book – Queer in the 21st Century”.

Rimming – Fisting – Water Sports (Pi$$ Play) – Toys

Tags: 0bamas safe schools czar, kevin jennings, office of safe and drug free schools, u.s. department of education