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Sen. Ben Nelson -- the lonely 60th vote
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“[Barack] Obama paid off Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb) the way he and Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev) had paid off Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La) last month. Put enough money on the table and just about any Democratic U.S. Senator will think, gulp, blink, and drag the pot with the rationalization that ‘this is all for the greater good.’ Pelican Pellets. This is no different than putting a horse’s head into Jack Woltz’ bed to force him into giving Johnny Fontaine a part in his movie in The Godfather. It was a deal Nelson couldn’t refuse. There is no Socialized Option in the bill. Abortions will not be covered. It is unclear who will have to pay how much or when for what coverage. All in all it is health care reform that has nothing to do with health care and contains little, if any, reform. Other than this: If Democrats continue to control all the levers of power at the Federal level, this will change and change and change over the next two or three Congresses until health care in America is pronounced equal for everyone and mediocre for all.” –political analyst Rich GalenRead the rest of this entry »
This is more on this story of how the Global Warming/Climate Change debate was manipulated.
Climate alarmists have put enormous pressure on the western media to suppress knowledge of facts inconvenient to their scientific arguments using a variety of methods to supress dissenting opinion.
Besides threatening journalists, promoting the use of Nazi-esque insults like the word “deniers,” and bullying scientists who publish research papers critical of their near-religious beliefs, alarmists have taken to the web with aplomb, most famously exposed in the ongoing “ClimateGate” scandal.
Engaging in politicized science via email isn’t the only cyber activity that left-enviro activists engage in however. Wikipedia is also a favorite target, particularly for a British global warming activist named William Connolley who seems to have made it his life’s mission to censor climate realists in the online encyclopedia.
Connolley claims he is employed currently as a software developer and has not disclosed that he is paid to engage in wiki enviro-activism. Considering that most of his wiki contributions seem to happen outside of business hours GMT, it seems likely that Connolley is interacting with Wikipedia on his personal time.
Uncle Obama has gotten a hold of your credit card. And he’s amassing charges on it that – you – not he – are liable for. You can call the fraud line, you can call the police, you can call any politician or government agency, and they will all tell you the same thing. Shut up and pay up.
Since misery loves company, you might feel better knowing that you’re not the only one being extorted. Uncle Obama and his buddies have the credit and debit cards of every man woman and child in America. And they’re charging up a bundle. So far, each of us has a $38,000 tab that we are personally liable for. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, which by the way, isn’t melting.
Yesterday, Uncle Obama actually got the limit on your credit card increased. Yup. The House of Representatives voted to increase the overall debt limit, meaning the amount of money they can charge in your name has expanded. This, despite the fact that our national debt now exceeds the statutory debt limit that the Democrats approved last February as part of the cutely entitled Recovery Act. Which, by the way, didn’t work. But the intentions were good.
For the 7 million Americans without jobs, this is not good news. Not to worry. The media assures us folks that Uncle Obama is going to take care of everything. Read the rest of this entry »
It was a fitting symbol of the pack of lies that constitute “global warming.”
The President of the United States, along with the Speaker of the House, had to flee Copenhagen’s Climate Change Conference because of a snow storm of epic proportions for that Danish city and to return swiftly to Washington, D.C. because of a record-setting blizzard that hit the northeast.
In Copenhagen, the President continued to betray the will of the American people by blathering about “global warming” and the need to act swiftly to stop it by imposing limits on how much energy Americans could use. He also managed to anger the major environmental organizations by failing in this mission.
The Sierra Club sent a message to its members celebrating 2009 as a year in which they were instrumental in “stopping over 100 dirty coal plants” in a nation that depends on such plants for fifty percent of the electricity we use every day. They also took credit for “the protection of two million acres of natural spaces” that will never be used for timber, for mining, for any of the resources, minerals, oil, or natural gas the nation requires and which will likely be off limits for any form of recreation use as well.
Also returning from Copenhagen was California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who, as the Orange Country Register noted on December 17, “made the astonishing claim that the Golden State is evidence we need not choose between a clean environment and economic growth.” The editorial credited Schwarzenegger in part for the state’s “economic mess, largely thanks to taxes and government regulations. The governor’s pet environmental projects are chief culprits.” Read the rest of this entry »
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has set the stage for a major vote Monday morning at 1:00 AM – one that would require the support of 60 Senators. That would, if all goes according to Senator Reid’s plan, set up a late-night Christmas Eve vote on final passage. Senator Reid also used a rare procedure to block any further amendments from being offered, debated or voted upon.
When it comes time for Senators to cast their vote at 1:00AM Monday morning, shortly after Sunday Night Football ends and most Americans are in bed, they will have had less than 38 hours to understand a 383-page amendment that introduces several new concepts into the health care debate, including:
A scheme that gives the Office of Personal Management immense power in administering what amounts to a multi-state public plan;
How much a state “opt-out” of abortion coverage in the legislation erodes the long-standing Hyde-amendment;
The budgetary impact of ELIMINATING the physician reimbursement fix; and,
Multiple new taxes, federal regulations and sweet-heart deals aimed toward certain states like Nebraska.
It is important for Americans to understand the process being used by the Senate. Barring any procedural snags (of which there are many in the Senate’s complex rules and precedents), the debate is likely to play out as follows:
Monday, 1:00 AM – Vote to invoke cloture (i.e. end debate) on the manager’s amendment. 60 votes are necessary.
Tuesday, 7:00 AM – Vote to approve the manager’s amendment. A majority vote is necessary.
Tuesday, 8:00 AM – Vote to invoke cloture on the original Reid substitute amendment (the 2,000-page bill). 60 votes are necessary.
Wednesday, 2:00 PM – Vote to approve the Reid substitute amendment. A majority vote is necessary.
Wednesday, 3:00 PM – Vote to invoke cloture on the underlying bill. 60 votes are necessary.
Thursday, 9:00 PM – Vote to approve the underlying bill (i.e. the Senate’s version of Obamacare). A majority vote is necessary.
A reporter queried the President’s departure before the draft was finalised. ‘’Does it require signing, is it that kind of agreement?’’ The President replied vaguely: ‘’You know, it raises an interesting question as to whether technically there’s actually a signature – since, as I said, it’s not a legally binding agreement, I don’t know what the protocols are.’’
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And how brazen was the shakedown? Hear it from the generous “concession” made by Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Africa’s negotiator at Copenhagen:
Zenawi said he would accept $30 billion a year in the short term, rising to $100 billion a year by 2020, for poor countries worldwide. This was seen as a key concession by developing countries, who previously spurned that figure—originally proposed by European countries—as too low.
Harry Nilsson used only his surname for his recordings, and is one of those singers with a voice that just stays with you. He was another of those singers who already had an extensive career before becoming that ‘overnight success’. His early career saw him writing songs that were recorded by The Shangri – Las, The Yardbirds, and Glen Campbell. One of his songs was a minor hit for the Monkees, ‘Cuddly Toy’, and another, ‘One’ was recorded by Three Dog Night, and also ‘covered’ in Australia by John Farnham, who had a big hit with that song.
His work was being noticed by those already popular musicians, and when the Beatles first toured America, both John Lennon and Paul McCartney quoted Nilsson as their favourite American act.
I’m posting this second post from Andrew today, because this is going to be important and is just starting to break. In the wake of the Climategate fiasco, it now seems that as this Climate Change Global Warming fudging, misrepresentation, and cover up of things that have not supported the argument of those pushing the agenda starts to deepen, it seems that just like those icebergs these people have been telling us that are starting to melt, their own iceberg is beginning to melt, and just like with an iceberg, it seems to be that there is more than just the tip that we have seen to this point.
As we now know from the Climategate Emails, this band [of Climategate scientists] saw the Medieval Warm Period as an enormous obstacle in their mission of spreading the word about global warming. If temperatures were warmer 1,000 years ago than today, the Climategate Emails explain in detail, their message that we now live in the warmest of all possible times would be undermined…
With the help of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the highest climate change authority of all, they published what became the icon of their movement — the hockey stick graph. This icon showed temperatures in the last 1,000 years to have been stable — no Medieval Warm Period, not even the Little Ice Age of a few centuries ago.
Copenhagen has been a disaster for the free world and hardly anyone seems to have noticed.
We have been distracted by the sweet schadenfreude as the event was overshadowed by the Climategate scandal at the beginning, and the Russian bombshell at the end.
And by our delight in seeing the many business interests of the IPCC ’s jet-setting chairman Dr Rajendra Pachauri cruelly exposed.
And by the told-you-so satisfaction of seeing it proved beyond all reasonable doubt that the “scientific” process informing the IPCC’s increasingly hysterical reports is corrupt, fraudulent and politically motivated.
And by the irony of the snow beginning to fall on a conference whose ostensible purpose was to prevent global warming.
And by the sheer messy incompetence of the whole affair, with its riots, shambolic organization and brutality whose victims included Lord Monckton.
But if we think the events of the last fortnight marked a triumph for commonsense over hair shirt green lunacy, we are sadly deluding ourselves. Copenhagen was never about winning or losing a scientific argument. And it wasn’t, as even green campaigners have begun belatedly to realize, about “saving” the environment either. Read the rest of this entry »
When I listen to politicians arguing the merits of some piece of legislation, I am usually 99% sure they have no idea how demography-—population—-will effect the outcome of their grand schemes.
This is particularly true of advocates of fixed and often flawed ideas about the environment. Most “save the Earth” true believers want to see huge reductions in the population of the planet. They don’t much care for human beings.
Demography is the study of population; focusing on things like fertility rates, aging, ethnic identity, and immigration. Knowing the accurate demographics of a nation is central to its governance and this is particularly true for a democracy. It is no accident that both words have the same root, demos as in people.
Knowing the size and distribution of the U.S. population was a serious concern for the Founders and it is part of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution which states that “[An] Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.” Congress first met in 1789, and the first national census was held in 1790.
For the world in general, fertility rates have been falling as more women receive education and become part of the workplace. Higher standards of living and education reduce birth rates. It makes it easier for women to be part of the workforce and households have more money for savings as well as the consumption of goods. As nations like India and China improve their economic status, their populations will stabilize and population growth will slow. The odious one-child policy in China will, in time, pass into history. Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (SR) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is vowing to “deliver the goods” in passing the Senate health care reform legislation on Christmas Eve.
“This Christmas I’m Santa Claus, and me and my elves are bringing every person in America the biggest, most expensive present they’ve ever received,” said Reid in an interview yesterday. “It’s so huge it may not even fit down the chimney, hahaha.”
Senate leaders have been working round the clock to finalize their 10-year, trillion dollar bill in time for the final vote on Christmas Eve, despite the fact that the majority of Americans adamantly do not want it.
One unnamed Republican senator bristled at Reid’s comparing himself to Santa, saying, “Since when did Santa turn into a Godless, dried-up, bony old baby-killing socialist? The Antichrist maybe, but he’s definitely not Santa.”
“You can put a pretty bow on a pile of sh*t, but that doesn’t make it a present anyone would want,” said another Senate member. “I’ll tell you one thing, when that little gift from Hell flies down the chimney and hits the fire, the stench will be so bad voters will still be smelling it next election.”
Obama’s Accord was the final, watered-down version of a document that had been worked on for more than a week by leaders and officials from 25 countries selected by the Danish Government. To win over the Chinese it included a softened section on international scrutiny of emissions that instead would allow emerging economies to monitor their own efforts, with only occasional outside checks.
It did not include emissions goals, but recognised scientific advice that global warming should be kept to within two degrees. It did not specify a year by which emissions should peak.
And while it asked countries to put their emission reduction targets into a register by February 1, the accord did not spell out penalties for any country that failed to meet its promise.
Most contentiously, the proposal was not legally binding.
What’s more, this is the deal they couldn’t even seal:
It was blocked by six countries – Sudan, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba and Tuvalu – who accused the US of trying to dictate to the developing world and who dismissed the plan as too weak to prevent serious climate change… After countless hours of highly emotion negotiations, it was finally decided that the UN would ‘’take note’’ of the accord but not adopt it – effectively just acknowledging its existence.
You’ve got to laugh. This is the deal they couldn’t even seal with bribes:
Defeat of the proposal could deprive the poorest developing countries access to a proposed $US30 billion ($A33 billion) green fund over the next three years to help them adapt to lower emission targets.
Seems like only yesterday the Washington establishment had proclaimed the death of the GOP. Pundits churned out public autopsy reports faster than the L.A. County Medical Examiner. Liberals gloated over the supposedly irreparable fissures between right-wing populists and Beltway Republican elites. Conservatism, we were told, was suffering brain death and heart failure. My, how quickly things – ahem – change.
Social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, the GOP leadership, Sarah Palin’s heartland supporters, conservative think-tank intellectuals, D.C. and Manhattan conservatives, Big Business and small-business conservatives, Joe the Plumber conservatives, and every stripe and flavor of conservative in between are all united against the Democrats’ proposed government takeover of health care. All.
It’s the left, not the right, cracking up. It’s the party donkey, not the elephant, now in a rabies-crazed frenzy. Funny, though, how internecine rancor on the right always puts conservatism in its last, final, permanent death throes (again and again), but internecine warfare on the left is merely a matter of healthy, principled disagreement.
Former Democrat National Committee Chairman Howard Dean went on the “YEARRGGH!”-path again – dressed in Tea Party-esque drag – and exhorted the majority to “Kill the Bill” and start over with a public option. White House senior advisor David Axelrod – echoing criticism of Dean more commonly heard on the right – promptly pronounced the Vermont liberal’s rantings “insane.” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs dismissed Dean as irrational. And this was just the left-wing Punch and Judy show preview. Read the rest of this entry »
Copenhagen isn’t only place having climate problems… Scotland was in the grip of a big freeze last night that disrupted travel plans and threatened the weekend’s sports fixtures… But heavy snow showers forecast for the weekend have raised hopes of a bumper start to the week for Scotland’s ski centres.
Or you can tell the Alaskan one:
All the experts says the effects of climate change will be felt most in Alaska, home of the ex-governor who contends climate change is no big deal. Good thing she wasn’t in Valdez this week when the citizenry got buried under a record snowfall…
We’re not talking about your ordinary little dump here. That was in Copenhagen, where world leaders were meeting to discuss what to do about global warming and the Bloomberg news service was warning that Barack Obama and the rest would “face freezing weather as a blizzard dumped 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow on the Danish capital overnight.’’
Four inches overnight? Valdez got more than four inches per hour…
Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.
“The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” –James Madison
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Senate Health Care Bill in Time for Christmas?
Senate Democrats are pitching last-minute holiday deals in an effort to reach a vote on the massive ObamaCare plan before their new Christmas Eve voting deadline. With Congress remaining in session so late, concerned citizens surely must be worried that congressmen won’t be able to finish their shopping in time.
Even the public option is on clearance as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) signaled her willingness to see the Senate pass a bill without it. “It isn’t just about health care. It’s about a healthier America,” Pelosi cooed. However, she is well aware that anything goes once the bill is in conference committee, so don’t get your hopes up about defeating this monstrosity that easily.
CHINA AND THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE INDEED BEING THROWN ‘UNDER THE BUS’.
In early September, I ran a three part series on why these talks would fail, and China played a large part in those three posts, and I explained why China was always going to be the problem on anything concrete coming from this Conference. This is not out of bad will on the part of China towards the environment, but is because of something that no one even understands, and because of the inconvenience, no one has bothered to even begin to explain. If the truth of the matter is known, then this whole Greenhouse emissions thing gets exposed as a callous attempt to forever keep China, and by extrapolation, India, and the rest of the Developing Countries forever in the most abject of poverty, and without access to what we take utterly for granted as a staple of life.
There’s an awful lot of things that we in the Western World don’t like about the way things are done in China, and a lot of that is a hangover from earlier times when China was one of those powers that we needed to be afraid of. A lot about the way that China is even now being run is still reason to give us cause for concern, but they are at least moving towards becoming more progressive than they once were. To that end, it’s really easy to still paint China as one of the supposed ‘bad guys’.
That is what is happening at Copenhagen right now. This UNFCCC COP15 Conference was doomed to failure right from the start. To that end, no matter what is being said by all sources about finger pointing and blame shifting not being conducive to consensus, the UN, and those major World leaders will be looking for a reason to do just that, and find someone to blame as to why this Conference is failing, and in this case, all those major players are pointing directly at China as the main reason this will indeed fail.
When President Obama shows up in Copenhagen to take part in the greatest fraud perpetrated worldwide in the modern era, there is only one thing you need to know. It is all a lie.
It was a lie from the first moment a scientist like James Hansen told Congress on June 23, 1988 that the planet was going to be roasted by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and it was a lie when Al Gore wrote “Earth in the Balance” and there were still more lies in his Oscar-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
A British court banned the documentary from being shown in their schools unless a long list of disclaimers was read to the students before his lies were inflicted on them. American students were not so fortunate. Indeed, as I have said many times before, global warming has been a form of child abuse, causing needless anxiety and fear for countless children on whom it was inflicted.
But how could such a lie be perpetrated on such a vast stage and for so long? My answer to you is “the Soviet Union.” From its inception in 1917 when the czarist monarchy was overthrown and Marxist theory, Communism, was imposed on Russia, whole generations were forced to suffer under this huge lie that the state would provide everything for everybody.
It is such a popular lie that it has been resurrected in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. It returned the Sandinistas to power in Nicaragua. In the last century, millions died under the Communist banner, but that lie never seems to die. Read the rest of this entry »
With the Copenhagen climate summit wrapping up Friday, there are a number of battles developing from the political elite to the grassroots activists. But none is bigger than the one between developed and developing nations that has stalled progress for a binding treaty.
Rich vs. Poor
Developing nations want more money to combat climate change, steeper emissions cuts from developed nations and exemption from any binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Developing nations are pushing for $100 billion annually, emissions cuts of 25-40% by 2020 for developed countries and an extension of the Kyoto Protocol that would excuse developing nations from cutting CO2.
Developed nations want just the opposite. Their offer to developing nations is $10 billion a year but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it could be increased to $100 billion if major developing countries, most notably China, commit to emissions reductions. The Washington Post reports, “The United States pledged Thursday to help secure $100 billion in annual financing by 2020 to help poor countries cope with climate change but said its commitment depends on whether the nations gathered here forge a substantive environmental pact that includes “transparency” on tracking emissions cuts.”
In light of Climategate and given the fact Chinese statistics are often altered or censored, it’s obvious transparency has been absent in this entire climate change debate and there’s no reason to think it will improve now or in the future.
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