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"We must
hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang
separately."
This was never about the environment. It was just about the money, and nobody even bothered to check one of the most important things at the root of the whole debate.
My Father in Law just loved his garden. In the 6 years before he passed away, we would visit every Saturday afternoon in the six months around Summer and every second Saturday for the cooler months. I would do the edges, mow the lawns and do what he asked in the garden, and I loved doing it. My good lady wife and her mother would go shopping. After I finished in the gardens, we would talk, sometimes for some hours, something I always looked forward to doing, as he had such wonderful life experience. We would stay for dinner, watch some TV and then go home around 10.30 or so. One night while we were watching TV, one of the persons on the screen made the statement, ‘Money is the root of all evil’, you know the statement, we’ve all heard it so many times. Father immediately corrected that statement. The correct statement is, ‘The LOVE of money is the root of all evil.’ I’ve never forgotten how he picked that up, because those first couple of words provide the correct context, and they have mysteriously disappeared over the years.
Therein lies what is right at the very heart of this whole Climate Change/ Global Warming debate.
The LOVE of money.
We may never really know the single point where this whole debate started from. Many have speculated, but because so many are on board now, it has become an absolute avalanche. Sometime in the 1970’s the argument was actually about Global Cooling. In the 80’s the Warming argument gained strength which continued into the 90’s gaining more strength. After the turn of the Century, it started gaining widespread debate, and in the last two years has become monumentally huge. Along the way, everyone has climbed aboard, and for differing reasons, but most of them centre around the hunger for money.
This story continues to provide more and further damning evidence that the Global Warming/Climate Change Science was skewed to highlight only the parts of the argument that supported the agenda they were all running with. Again, this is a long post, and even though centred around the Australian viewpoint, it is still relevant in the wider Worldwide community.
Even alarmist Tim Flannery, confronted on Lateline with the emails of the global warming conspiracy, concedes holes in the “science is settled” argument and admits to what he didn’t before:
We’re dealing with an incomplete understanding of the way the earth system works… When we come to the last few years when we haven’t seen a continuation of that (warming) trend we don’t understand all of the factors that create earth’s climate…We just don’t understand the way the whole system works… See, these people work with models, computer modelling. So when the computer modelling and the real world data disagree you’ve got a very interesting problem… Sure for the last 10 years we’ve gone through a slight cooling trend.
And on these now-admitted uncertainties we must scrap all coal-fired generators, impose massive new taxes, shut entire industries, hand billions to the UN and change the way we live?
“All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.” –James Madison
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“Here’s a new maxim: Nothing good ever happens when the Congress is in session on a Saturday night. As you know, Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-Nev) cajoled, coerced, and co-opted Senators Mary Landrieu (D-La) and Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark) into adding the 59th and 60th necessary votes to prevent a GOP filibuster of Reid’s health reform bill. Reid and Obama Administration officials relied on the time honored method (used by Republicans and Democrats) of getting recalcitrant Members to vote a certain way: Bribery which, in the real world, is a felony but in Washington it is called ‘hardball.’ In Sen. Landrieu’s case the bribe was $300 million in Medicaid benefits to Louisiana. It’s not even a close call. According to the website ‘Total Criminal Defense,’ ‘Bribery is an attempt to influence another person’s actions, usually a government or public official employee, by offering a benefit in exchange for the desired decision.’ Three hundred million in return for a vote to proceed. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck… Landrieu is a better bribee than she is an accountant. She said in her floor speech that there was $100 million in the bill specifically to pay for Medicaid in Louisiana and only Louisiana. Talking to reporters afterward, she said, ‘I will correct something. It’s not $100 million, it’s $300 million, and I’m proud of it and will keep fighting for it.’ No reports, yet, on how angry White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel was when he found out she had been satisfied with the $100 million and he overpaid by a factor of three.” –political analyst Rich Galen —- Read the rest of this entry »
President Obama has appointed more Czars Than the Romanov Empire ever had.
Bigot Czar, Mad Scientist Czar, Animal Rights Czar, Communist Czar, along with a host of others.
One appointment that flew under the radar was the picking of an “Or Else” Czar, as in you will do what you are told, or otherwise be prepared to suffer the consequences.
The first name that probably comes to mind is Rahm Emanuel, but you may be surprised to learn that it’s not him.
In addition to his other duties, President Obama has decided that Vice-President Joe Biden should be the administration’s chief legbreaker.
With a line that could have come straight out of an episode of the Sopranos, Biden made it clear that members of Congress pledging loyalty to the President have nothing to fear, while for those opposing him there will be hell to pay.
After last weeks Senate vote on health care reform, here is what Biden had to say:
“Those who voted for reform will be rewarded and those who voted against it will be held accountable.”
To me, that sounds more like the ravings of a ticked-off Mafia godfather than a rational statement from a Vice-President of the United States.
For those of us “skeptics” and “deniers” who have been jumping up and down, pointing at the Sun, and saying, “See, it’s the Sun that determines how warm or cool the Earth is. See it? Up there in the sky?” The truth about some of the scientists behind the global warming hoax has finally arrived.
The hoax has its roots in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an instrument of the United Nations Environmental Program, for whom global warming was the open sesame to achieving a one-world-government by scaring nations into signing a treaty that would control their use of energy, the means of producing it, and require vast billions to be sent to less developed nations in exchange for “emitting” greenhouse gases.
Energy is called “the master resource” because, if you have lots of it, you can call your own shots. If you don’t, you are condemned to live in the dark and keeping people in the dark about the global warming hoax was essential.
For years the IPCC has been controlled by a handful of the worst liars in the world, utterly devoted to taking actual climate data and twisting it to confirm the assertion that the Earth was not only warming dramatically, but that humanity was in peril of rising oceans, melting glaciers and polar ice caps, more hurricanes, the die-off of countless animal species, and every other calamity that could possibly be attributed to “global warming”, including acne. Read the rest of this entry »
That thumping sound you hear is the Los Angeles Times moving the goal posts in the global warming debate.
On November 22, while responding to the growing scandal about alleged proof that global warming is a hoax, the Times brushed it off with a puzzling claim that science should have no bearing on climate legislation.
What a difference a few leaked e-mail messages could make: just over a month ago, the exact same paper had insisted science was behind the push for regulation. Now with the validity of that science in doubt, the Times was quick to find a different angle.
In an article titled “A Climate Change Dust-up,” writers Jim Tankersley and Henry Chu began with reassurance that the scandal was nothing to fear because the hacked e-mail messages would not make a difference either way:
Is it a “Warmist Conspiracy,” or a case of an email being “taken completely out of context”?
Regardless, the latest dust-up over the science of climate change appears unlikely to affect the dynamics of either a pending debate in the Senate or international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month.
The whole point of the meeting in Copenhagen has been to limit pollution that supposedly destroys the planet based on evidence gathered and purported by researchers specifically involved in the email scandal. If the very premise of global warming has possibly been exposed as a fraud, why would that not be of interest to those who want to legislate global warming?
The world’s largest reverse osmosis desalination plant (and a target of Gazan missiles) is in the Ashkelon area. The desalination plant provides fresh water to Israel and supplies Gaza with its drinking water. The Israeli government plans to build four more plants which will make the country water independent.
The Ashkelon plant has been targeted by Gazan missiles. A Gazan missile hit would hurt Israel but would also stop all the fresh water flow to Gaza. Which, of course, gave me the idea for today’s cartoon.
The story of Israel’s technological advances in converting sea water to fresh drinking water probably didn’t make it to your local newspaper (or the International Media for that matter) but here’s a recent piece from Popular Mechanics:
“The Ashkelon Desalination Plant, which opened in 2005, converts more than 26 billion gallons of Mediterranean Sea water into fresh water for the State of Israel each year—5 to 6 percent of total demand. Ashkelon is not only the largest reverse-osmosis desalination plant in the world, it’s also one of the few public plants to recover waste heat to improve efficiency and reduce costs.”
This is an extended post on this story that is just starting to break. The MSM has kept away from it, but it now seems that it is becoming so huge, they just cannot ignore it. The MSM’s first foray into reporting on this was along the lines of ‘those rotten hackers’ committing such a dastardly deed, hacking into a reputable establishment, and into emails especially. It seems odd that when hackers have found juicy content on other things before this , the MSM has jumped all over it, but now, this disagrees with the line they have been pursuing for so long, so they either ignore it, or play it down. The Blogs have been all over this, and as more comes out, and as it starts to look more and more reliable, they just have to pick up on it. This will prove to be a damning indictment aimed squarely at those who have for so long pushed this baseless argument, to the point that the huge snowball rolling down the hill has become an avalanche. It would seem that avalanche has reached the point where a huge heating device might just start to melt that avalanche.
I hope you’ll grant me this small indulgence of playing one of my absolute favoutite songs from my favourite band, Pink Floyd.
This highlights another example of how each generation thinks that they are the ones who invented music.
When I first heard the song, I was still in the Air Force. I was at the Royal Australian Air Force’s Trades Training School in Wagga Wagga, teaching the Electrical trade to new guys, and in this case, it was a class of 15 young Apprentices, all aged around 17 or 18.
One of the most common complaints about President Obama is that he spends more time apologizing for America than standing up for it. The man gives off the impression that America is no better, and in fact, somewhat worse than, the other countries of the world. The term “American exceptionalism” cannot be found in the president’s mental dictionary, because he believes in that about as much as he believes in unicorns, leprechauns, and tax-cutting Democrats. Besides, it is difficult to explain American exceptionalism when you are always face-to-waist with other world leaders, a position Barack Obama found himself in last weekend when he bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito:
Obama on Monday was in China, having wrapped up the Japan leg of his Asia trip two days earlier. But Washington’s punditocracy was still weighing whether or not the US president had disgraced his country two days earlier by having taken a deep bow at the waist while meeting Japan’s Emperor Akihito.
Calling the calisthenics that President Obama performed, a “deep bow,” is like calling Jessica Simpson “a little dim.” The term just doesn’t even begin to cover it. Most casual observers figured the president was either going to clean Emperor Akihito’s shoes or pick up the shiny penny that must have been on the sidewalk. Of course, considering the vanity of Chairman Bow, he is probably just enjoying his own reflection in the newly-waxed floor. Nevertheless, the event has given comedians weeks of material, and has pundits on both sides of the aisle breaking out the face palm. Read the rest of this entry »
I never cease to marvel at the environmental alarmists who create one “crisis” after another using wretchedly bad “science” to support their scams. On Tuesday, November 24, the Global Footprint Network is going to “release new data on the Ecological Footprint of 100 nations and humanity as a whole, and the current ledgers are sobering.”
Well, of course, they’re sobering. Everything the Greens announce is sobering because, as you well know, the oceans are rising, the glaciers and polar caps are melting, we’re running out of oil, every animal on Earth is endangered, incandescent light bulbs and global warming will destroy all life on Earth, yada, yada, yada.
“The figures provide a data-driven look at some of the most pressing issues facing humanity, from climate change to equitable distribution of resources.”
Is the “equitable distribution of resources” the same as Barack Obama’s “redistribution of wealth”? Is this shorthand of every liberal’s wet dream, communism? Oh, yeah. Been there, seen it, don’t want any part of it. After giving communism a try for over seventy years, the Soviet Union imploded because it doesn’t work, never has, and never will. Read the rest of this entry »
The Senate voted 60-39 along party lines Saturday night to take up sweeping healthcare overhaul legislation, a victory that belies the tough haul ahead to assuage lingering Democratic concerns that threaten final passage.
Four moderate Democrats – Sens. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut – have made clear they will help Republicans thwart final passage if Majority Leader Reid does not change the opt-out public plan in his $848 billion bill. Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, did not vote.
“I’ve already alerted the leader, and I’m promising my colleagues, that I’m prepared to vote against moving to the next stage of consideration as long as a government-run public option is included,” Lincoln said Saturday afternoon.
Lincoln, preceded by Landrieu by about two hours, was the last Democratic holdout to reveal she would vote for cloture on the motion to proceed, giving Reid the 60th vote he needed to move forward on the bill.
Senators will now scatter to their home states for Thanksgiving break and return Monday, Nov. 30, to begin debate on amendments. President Obama wants the Senate to pass the bill before Christmas. Saturday night’s cloture vote, which doubled as a motion to proceed to the bill, allowed Reid to bring up his proposal as a substitute amendment.
Immediately after the vote, Reid suggested the version of a public option in his bill could be altered.
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The wasteful spending ways of Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress must be put to an end. Americans are angry and I share your frustration with our current leadership in Washington.
In less than one year, Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress have increased our nation’s spending by more than 80%.
Senate Finance ranking member Charles Grassley took a swipe today (Fri) at the White House and congressional Democrats for not taking nominees’ tax troubles seriously enough.
“The bar has definitely been lowered with this administration’s nominees, in regard to tax compliance,” Grassley said at the outset of a hearing on Treasury Department nominees.
The panel heard testimony from three Treasury nominees at the sparsely attended hearing, including that of Lael Brainard, President Obama’s pick for undersecretary of international affairs. Brainard’s nomination has been held up for months by the committee’s vetting of tax records, which revealed that she and her husband had been late making several payments to the tune of about $1,300.
There were also questions about documents verifying the immigration status of household employees and an in-home office deduction Brainard claimed.
Grassley did not say the issues would hold up Brainard’s nomination. But he did express frustration with the pattern he has seen from the Obama administration, including with Treasury Secretary Geithner and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., who withdrew from consideration as HHS Secretary-designate after it was disclosed he owed over $100,000 in back taxes.
“Prior to this administration, we had never seen nominees with more than $100,000 tax problems, or the inability to accurately respond to committee questionnaires multiple times, or the lack of straight answers from nominees,” Grassley said. —-Read the rest of this entry »
The Boy Scouts’ motto is: Be prepared. Who knew it meant preparing to defend themselves against purple-shirted union thuggery over community service? Kids, pay attention. This is a teachable moment for all of you on power, politics and Big Labor’s culture of corruption.
Last week at a city council meeting in Allentown, Pa., a top official of the local Service Employees International Union chapter ranted about 17-year-old Scout Kevin Anderson’s park cleanup work. Anderson devoted some 200 hours to the job in order to earn an Eagle Scout badge. He picked up trash and helped clear a 1,000-foot walking path with fellow members of Boy Scouts Troop 301 of Center Valley.
But SEIU’s Nick Balzano gave them hell instead of thanks.
Balzano disparaged altruistic efforts in city parks and asserted that “there is (sic) to be no volunteers” since his union members were laid off. He then issued a witch hunt threat: “We’ll also be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails. We may file another grievance on that.” Citing union rules, he gave the Allentown city council, the Boy Scouts and all potential volunteers an iron-fisted ultimatum: “None of them can pick up a hoe. They can’t pick up a shovel. They can’t plant a flower. They can’t clear a bicycle path. They can’t do anything. Our people do that.”
That’s right. Balzano was ready to bludgeon the Boy Scout because his gung-ho volunteerism posed a threat to the SEIU labor monopoly. The outrageous display of Boss Balzano’s union protectionism provoked a national furor. SEIU headquarters in Washington immediately blamed “the disreputable Fox News and other right-wing outlets like Michelle Malkin’s accuracy challenged blog” for the backlash. While decrying their critics’ “fiction,” SEIU distanced itself from Balzano, denying that he was a top union leader and dismissing his remarks as “unauthorized.”
Other than the complete destruction of the U.S. economy, one sixth of which is generated by the healthcare profession, I cannot see any reason for the bill that Harry Reid is pushing for a Saturday evening vote in the Senate.
It has taken less than a year for the Democrats, led by Barack Obama, to saddle Americans with such enormous debt that your grandchildren will be paying it off. The so-called “bail-outs” have proven to be a bonanza for Wall Street firms on good terms with the Secretary of the Treasury, Tim Geithner, whose mantra is “It’s all Bush’s fault.” The “stimulus” bill has not stimulated anything except lies about “jobs created and saved.”
Rush Limbaugh calls Congress a “Kamakazi Congress” and the “Suicide Bomber Congress” because it is obvious that any Democrat Congressman or woman and any Senator who votes for this atrocious bill, probably without having read it, will be thrown out of office. And should be!
Ignoring all the town hall protests, the tea parties across the nation, and the massive September 12 rally in Washington, D.C. has to come with a penalty, but by then it will be too late for most Americans.
One of three Democrats who held out saying whether he will vote for cloture on the motion to proceed to healthcare overhaul legislation Saturday today said he will vote in favor of the motion, making it likely Democrats will have the 60 votes they need to begin debate.
Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., said he will vote for cloture but cautioned that does not mean he supports the bill.
“It is only to begin debate and an opportunity to make improvements,” Nelson said. “If you don’t like a bill, why block your own opportunity to amend it?”
He added he retained his prerogative to join an expected Republican filibuster to block a final vote on the bill if changes are not made.
For his part, Senate Majority Whip Durbin backed off a statement he made earlier today when asked whether Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., another moderate withholding her vote along with Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., had shared how she will vote. “She’s told Sen. Reid,” he responded.
Durbin said his remark was misinterpreted.
“Sen. Lincoln has had a number of conversations with Sen. Reid about the healthcare reform legislation,” he said. “But Sen. Lincoln has not yet signaled her intention as to how she will vote on tomorrow’s cloture motion.”
Lincoln’s office said she is reviewing the bill, and a spokeswoman said, “No other senator speaks for Sen. Lincoln.”
Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Union.
TonyfromOz prefaces …..
I’m beginning to find this theme a little odd in the lead up to this Copenhagen Conference. Have you noticed how it seems that some World leaders (and it always seems to be the European leaders) seem to be having roughly the same ’slip of the tongue’. Surely they can’t all be just making the same mistake. Do they know something that we are not being ‘drip fed’?
Sure, this talk of the warmists at Copenhagen planning a new “world government” is crazy. I just wish the warmists wouldn’t talk of it themselves. Take the new and first president of the European Union, Herman Van Rompuy:
On his radio show yesterday, former Sen. Fred Thompson upped his criticism of President Barack Obama’s handling of the war in Afghanistan, predicting:
It really doesn’t matter how President Obama divides the Afghan baby, how he splits the difference between McChrystal and Biden. Because the war has been lost. I say this because of one sad and simple fact. The president does not have the will and determination to do what’s necessary to win it. His heart’s not in it, and never has been. The Taliban knows it. Al Qaeda knows it. Our allies know it. And the American people know it.
Our enemies are now emboldened and our friends are discouraged. We cannot prevail if the American people are not willing to make the sacrifices necessary for an extended effort. The case has not been made to them to justify this effort. The case can only be made by the president. This president is unable or unwilling to make that case.
Thompson is half right. If the Obama administration chooses to deny its field commander’s request for the troops and resources necessary to fully implement a counterinsurgency strategy, the results would likely be disastrous. Half measures are guaranteed to fail.
But all hope is not lost. On the campaign trail President Obama showed he has the leadership and the rhetorical skills necessary to inspire Americans. As a candidate last year, and even as recently as this August, President Obama acknowledged the centrality of defeating the Taliban to American security. That President Obama could win this war.
Victory is still possible. It all depends on whether the President’s heart is in it.
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