Yes, they threw out the data to save space. Isn’t that wonderful? They want us to spend trillions of dollars to combat global warming, and it’s all based on unverifiable data. Oh, they have the massaged data, but not the real, raw, as-collected data.
Isn’t that convenient?
Thanksgiving
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food,
For love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
While some view this as news, many here will very likely view this as exactly the level of expectation Obama would rise (or sink) to.
Rasmussen reports that only 27% of voters currently give Obama a strong approval rating. On the flip side, 42% indicate strong disapproval of the job Obama is doing as President. Among independents, 16% strongly approve and 51% strongly disapprove. Overall disapproval is at 54%, and overall approval at 45%.
Read more at Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll
It is a very good bet this is one reason his job approval is tanking :
Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents
President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents — spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history.
In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion — $2.8 trillion in 2000 dollars, which sets a benchmark for comparison. That fiscal year covered the last three-and-a-half months of George W. Bush’s term and the first eight-and-a-half months of Obama’s.
That price tag came with a $1.4 trillion deficit, nearly $1 trillion more than last year. The overall budget was about a half-trillion more than Bush’s for 2008, his final full fiscal year in office.
Shocking! The Anthropomorphic Global Warming nuts have been manipulating the climate data! This issue is akin to the infamous Hockey Stick graph from a few years ago. Now it appears that the bright boys in climate research have been hiding some other inconvenient truths:
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.
The article provided snippets where the local Global Warming conspirators tried to manipulate data, suppressed evidence, voiced thier own doubts in AGW while dreaming of attacking those brave enough to make evident their skepticism in the AGW hoax. This is a glimpse into a workings of a cult. A religion of tree, animal and planet worship. Gaea save me!! The green part of the left is willing to sacrifice humanity on this alter. The hoi polloi need to be plowed under in order to make room for a brave new world. One free from NASCAR.
This is hilarious. The high priest of Anthropomorphic Global Warming, his most bloatedness Al Gore, is more than likely having a stroke. Someone cut the microphone hook up PLEEEeeease!!! AGW is little more than a means of the environmental-whack-jobs of pushing their brand of 21st century Druidism upon the rest of us. Faith clothed in science.
The carbon credits are getting really ripe right about now. They are little more than a scam masquerading as a crusade to save “The Planet”. This is the point where the old snake oil salesman would be sitting on a railroad tie above the crowd with a generous slathering of hot tar over his scaly hide. The white feathers giving him that ‘loser chic’ he so richly deserves. I can picture ol’ Al looking like a farm raised turkey, right before Thanksgiving, with that look on his face — right before he finally gets the ax.
There’s no limit to what global warming can do. It could destroy the earth… you must go to the robot Gore, you must say these words, “Klaatu barada nikto”, please repeat that.
Never mind, it appears someone already did :
The Day Global Warming Stood Still
Climate Change: As scientists confirm the earth has not warmed at all in the past decade, others wonder how this could be and what it means for Copenhagen. Maybe Al Gore can Photoshop something before December.
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To add to the warm-mongers’ woes, patron saint Al Gore, the man who claimed to have invented the Internet, might also have claimed the discovery of Photoshop. Dr. Roy Spencer, of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, formerly with NASA, has taken a look at the pictures used to illustrate Gore’s new book, “Our Choice: A Plan To Solve the Climate Crisis.”Gore Photoshopped NASA imagery of the earth for the fold-out cover photo, adding four hurricanes at once, including one spinning in the wrong direction next to Florida and, in a physical impossibility, one on the equator next to Peru. Somewhere in the process, the island of Cuba was deleted.
A recent episode of Glenn Beck featured as his guests conservative Americans of African heritage. One of Beck’s guests, a young woman made a very interesting statement about civil rights and liberal politics, stating that “If we had been liberals during the Civil Rights Era, there would have been no Civil Rights Era”.
We have all heard Dr. Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream Speech. I was recently reminded of this defining moment in history by Jesse Jackson’s recent remarks when criticizing Rep. Artur Davis’ vote against the House health care bill, “We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill from Alabama, You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”
Upon hearing that, I could not help but wonder how Jackson, a self-described civil rights leader, justifies his remarks with those of Dr. King, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
I interpret this to mean that the ideal of the civil rights movement was for a man of color not to be seen as a man of color, but as a man, to be judged on the merits of his deeds. Enter Jesse Jackson, liberal, Democrat, telling us that Dr. King’s dream was wrong, that a man of color should be seen as a man of color, first, last, and always.
Now I completely understand the remark of the woman on the Glenn Beck show. Liberal politics, of any era, are predicated upon the existence of people within our society that liberals may classify as victims. Progressivism requires an uninterrupted stream of victims, victims of racism, victims of global warming, victims of oil and insurance companies. Without victims for political cover, liberal agendas are exposed as the power grabs and special interest subsidies that they are. Jesse Jackson is a liberal, and also requires victims to exploit. Because of this, he tells us that Dr. King’s dream never happened.
We just heard from a group of candidates, most of them Republican, for several congressional seats next year. A few were pretty impressive, but that is a story that won’t be typed via blackberry.
When Rick Sincere gets the videos posted, I’ll link to some.
For now, this is GOP candidate for the 5th district Michael McFadden (left), his lovely wife (wish I did not have this terrible problem remembering names!!) and my good friend Craig Hudgins, who should be state senator right now. Ah well, for now it’s good to see some good people throwing their hats in the ring.
Key takeaway from the legal session:
If a commenter says something bad on your blog, you are not legally responsible for it. However if you receive a court order demanding the IP information about that commenter, you have to provide that info to the authorities.
Seems reasonable to me, so note to commenters: watch yo mouth.
Rep. Rob Wittman discussing a variety of Internet related issues.
Topics include:
- increasing access to broadband
-new USF fees proposed for voice over IP (Boucher telecom bill)
-Republican new media caucus – this is pretty cool, not so much in the “GOP is now cutting-edge” sense but at least they have a small bit of a clue. Wittman himself is extremely savvy for a congressman.
Below, Kenton Ngo is typing notes frantically throughout the congressman’s presentation, clearly trying to assimilate all of this new information.
Media panel, discussing opinion vs reporting, and “news judgments,” including what goes on their news outlets and what goes on their blogs.
Left to right: Ryan Nobles of NBC 12, Julian Walker of Virginian-Pilot, Anita Kumar of Washington Post, Kimball Payne of Daily Press and Shad Plank. (Vivian moderating)
How cool. Vivian Paige just showed me the way to posting to wordpress from my blackberry. Hope it works. If it does next step is a photo.
First discussion of the day is “blogging ethics” so needless to say I’m basically on recess time. But overall it seems like it will be an interesting day. I’m sitting with Blog Fu and the always hilarious Kenton Ngo.
If it works, this is Rick Sincere filming the conference, followed by Krystal from Crystal Clear Conservative. (Just realized our new design does not like multiple photo posts at all, so the only way to post is to have a paragraph identifying all the photos, and then having the photos in a straight line at the bottom – FYI fellow NVTH bloggers).
For some time, those from the Universal Church Of Global Warming, led by their prophet Al Gore, have been lecturing us on the imminent dangers from man-made global warming. It would appear that their house of cards is tumbling down yet again.
Hackers broke into the servers at a prominent British climate research center and leaked years worth of e-mail messages onto the Web, including one with a mysterious reference to a plan to “hide the decline” in data about temperatures.
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 Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)
Let’s see, Al Gore invents the Internet, then goes on to invent global warming. Gore’s Internet is then used to expose Gore’s global warming fraud.
Oh, the irony..
There will be a conference of Virginia bloggers this coming Saturday, November 21, at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. Befitting my literally insane travel schedule of late, I am planning to be there.
[For those of you unfamiliar with the term: "Blogger" is defined as, "a writer who works for free."]
Linda and I attended the Blogs United conference in 2007 and had a great time. It is a mix of liberals and conservatives, and non-bloggers are welcome. Basically, this is an outside-the-mainstream, citizen-journalist event, at which surprisingly plugged-in people get to spend time with each other. If you are a blogger or are a blog aficionado, you will probably have a really great experience at Blogs United.
More background on Blogs United available here.
Here is the draft agenda for the meeting this Saturday:
The conference goes from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the David Student Union, Washington Room, Christopher Newport University.
8 a.m. Doors open / Breakfast
9 a.m. Election-ethics review / Bloggers behaving badly (or well) / lessons-learned from 2009 – moderated by Dr. Quentin Kidd
10 a.m. Media roundtable (Anita Kumar, Ryan Nobles, Julian Walker, Kimball Payne)
11 a.m. Rep. Rob Wittman – federal issues relating to the internet/social media and how the GOP is using social media
12 p.m. Kevin Grierson – Legal and Lunch
1 p.m. Looking ahead – covering the General Assembly and the congressional campaigns in 2010
2 p.m. Technology (Podcasting, Apps, Widgets, Best Practices, etc.)
3 p.m. Blogs United Business Meeting
4 p.m. Adjourn
6 p.m. – Dutch-Treat Dinner at …. TBD
Basic information and registration form for the conference are here. You can register on site, but they want to get as good a count as possible so if you can pre-register that would be great.
Where to stay? The Marriott I think is the nicest and closest, although a host of choices are here.
It costs only 15 bucks, so if you can break away and head to Newport News on Saturday, you should definitely register now.
Click here for an idea of just how darn inclusive this group is. It’s always a cool experience, in my view, when people of disparate political views can get together and communicate for a time.
Our good friend Blog Fu will be there, our good friend Vivian Paige will be there – so that should give an idea of the spread, and believe me a BUNCH of Virginia bloggers from all sides of the aisle will show up.
God willing, I will be leaving Friday mid afternoon to drive down, and will head back up to NOVA Sunday morning. If anyone wants to ride along let me know in the comments. It is for bloggers and non-bloggers; just anyone with an interest in VA issues who would appreciate spending time with bloggers and journalists and public officials. I had a wonderful experience at the last one and am looking forward to the conference this Saturday.
