February 17, 2012
Heartland Institute: The ‘Gate’ Scandal That Never Was
-By Warner Todd Huston
Global warmists finally have an email “gate” of their own that they can turn against “deniers” and they are taking full advantage of it. The Warmists are excited that the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based state policy group, has been “outed” for attempting to undermine the religiously held tenets of global warming. Emails to that effect are claimed to have been leaked from this group and the warmists as well as their handmaidens in the Old Media are touting this scandal as proof of… well, it’s a bit hard to discern what it is proof of. In fact, it isn’t “proof” of much of anything, really.
For one thing the documents are fakes, but even if they weren’t… so what?
For quite some time, for instance, Chicago’s Heartland Institute has been holding events, debates, and seminars on the hoax of global warming. The Heartland Institute has an entire section of its website dedicated to debunking global warming and it has produced books and pamphlets attacking the false “consensus” of man-made global warming. Without question, global warming (a quasi religious belief I personally call globabloney) has been a major focus at Heartland for a long time, to be sure.
That being understood — not only understood but glaringly obvious — leaked emails that purport to show that Heartland has a plan to influence lawmakers, scientists, members of the media, and even schools against global warming is a bit of a “well, duh!” Any ten seconds of time spent on the Institute’s website would tend to make it clear that they are against claims of man-made global warming. At some point, even if the documents were real it should not come as any sort of shocking revelation.
So, why would these so-called leaked emails be such a big story? Well, really for only one reason: to give a helping hand to the high priests of global warming who were a few years ago stung by climategate, a scandal that did, indeed, reveal through leaked emails that warmists were lying about their flawed research and attempting to cajole others to support their lies.
We need but turn to Politico to see how the media is trying to turn these Heartland emails into the equivalent of climategate in order to somehow prove that anti-warmists are just as bad as the climategate scientists. Note the headline in a piece by Politico’s Darren Samuelson entitled, “Heartland Burned by ‘DenialGate’ Memos..” You can almost hear the glee in that headline, can’t you?
Politico isn’t the only outlet coming to the aide of the globalwarming religionists. The New York Times posted a piece similarly headlined as Politico’s. For the Times on February 15 Justin Gillis and Leslie Kaufman gave us “Leak Offers Glimpse of Campaign Against Climate Science.”
But as I alluded to, there is a major problem with these supposed emails from Heartland. It appears they have been faked. This is quite unlike the climategate emails that were all too real.
Even The Atlantic, no right-wing rag there, reports that some of the documents are fakes. The Times notes that Heartland says the documents are fakes but decides that Heartland is lying, the Times essentially claiming that the documents are too good not to be true.
According to the Heartland Institute, the documents are simply false. Some, though, appear to have been altered from actual Heartland documents that were stolen from them.
As Heartland explains it:
The stolen documents were obtained by an unknown person who fraudulently assumed the identity of a Heartland board member and persuaded a staff member here to “re-send†board materials to a new email address. Identity theft and computer fraud are criminal offenses subject to imprisonment. We intend to find this person and see him or her put in prison for these crimes.
Again, this is all quite unlike climategate because the lies and schemes of the warmists were all completely true.
Truth, though, is not on the menu for the left-wing journalists that are so happy to see an email gate that they can use against those that know that global warming is neither man-made and that there isn’t anything we mere humans can do about the weather.
Look for this story to perhaps grow with more left-wingers attempting to use it as a weapon in the global warmist’s arsenal of falsities.
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CBS Radio News: Still Attacking Sarah Palin in ‘News’ Reports
-By Warner Todd Huston
In a report on the recent FCC rules tightening requirements for telemarketers, CBS Radio couldn’t resist looseing a shot at Sarah Palin even though she has been out of office for several years already and has taken no part in political robocalls for some time. (Listen to audio
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There is one area of media bias that many of us overlook and that is radio. All the big News outfits have radio shows, newsbreaks, radio offerings of all sorts, but we rarely talk about them for one reason… it’s hard to link to a just finished radio broadcast! Radio newsbreaks come and go in a nearly ephemeral manner and rarely can you catch it again, not to mention that rarely do you have something on hand to record it. Once you hear them they are gone so it’s hard to report on the bias constantly revealed in radio broadcasts. But the bias is there nonetheless.
Another reason radio is often ignored is that few of the networks put their newsbreaks up on the Internet so that you can review them. And those that do put them on the Internet, well they don’t make finding specific bits easy to track down. Then again, network radio news is not now a big focus of media with print and TV taking precedence.
Anyway, these reasons tend to cause we media watchdogs to sort of pass right over radio news. Me, I listen to radio a lot and almost daily hear examples of bias in radio news. I remember, for instance, during the 2000 election listening to a newsbreak being reported live from a George W. Bush appearance followed by one reported from an Al Gore campaign stop. Where the radio network’s bias was obvious was that in the background of the Gore rally you could hear happy supporters cheering their candidate, but the reporter at the Bush rally chose angry protesters to stand in front of and do his report and the angry chants were clearly heard by the listener. Gore = happy, Bush = angry. Not too biased, eh?
Anyway, the new one in question was also obvious for its message of bias. In the newsbreak played in the early evening of February 15, CBS Radio correspondent Viki Barker couldn’t help delivering an underhanded slap to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
The report was about new FCC regulations requiring telemarketers to get written permission from consumers to call their landline phones. Barker began her report by casting robocalls in a negative light and presenting the FCC’s new rules as a positive development. The “actuality” — what some radio folks call sound bytes — behind Barker’s report was that of a robocall from the phone book company Yellowbook. At the end of the report Barker made sure to note that political calls are excluded from the new restrictions. So, what actuality did Barker use to denote an unwanted political robocall? You guessed it, a Sarah Palin call.
Why did CBS use Sarah Palin’s voice in its report slamming robocalls? Palin hasn’t been making political robocalls for several years, now, since she left office in 2009.
Ah, but we do know why, don’t we? It’s because CBS couldn’t imagine a more unwanted call than one by that eeevil Sarah Palin, right? Palin represented the worst of the worst to CBS, so they reached back several years to find a Palin robocall to serve as its negative example of a political robocall.
Nope. Not much bias there.
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You didn’t ask for them, you may have tried to stop them, but you’re still getting that autodialed, telephonic spam.
(Sound of robocall in back ground from Yellowbook: “This is Yellowbook calling to…”)
Well, the FCC is approving tougher rules requiring telemarketers to get written consent before calling your landline.
Not covered…
(Sound of a Sarah Palin robocall in background)
Robocalls from political campaigns, schools and other non-profits. They’re considered informational.
Vicki Barker, CBS News.
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“Climate Change” is Like Being Mauled By a Crazed Mama Bear
Hat tip to Tom Nelson for providing this bit of madness
(Field and Stream) The Conservation Hawks is a new group dedicated to harnessing the power of sportsmen to address climate change. Stop. Before you give in to anger, or to the “conservation fatigue†that can fall upon us like a giant wet carpet whenever climate change is mentioned, consider this: If you can convince Conservation Hawks chairman Todd Tanner that he’s wasting his time, that he does not have to worry about climate change, he will present to you his most prized possession: A Beretta Silver Pigeon 12 gauge over/under that was a gift from his wife, and has been a faithful companion on many a Montana bird hunt. I know the gun, and I’ve hunted and fished with Todd for years. He’s not kidding. You convince him, he’ll give you the gun.
He is serious about the gun, and, the money quote
HH: Why the Conservation Hawks?
TT: Let’s say you are walking down a trail in the wilderness with your wife and kids, and you come upon a grizzly sow, standing on a carcass. She charges, flat out. You’re in front of your family. What do you do? Just give up? Pretend it’s not happening? Let her maul you and everything your care about? Of course you don’t. You take action. That is how I see climate change. It’s real, it’s threatening everything we love. Not taking action is not an option.
Uh huh. The climate, which is always changing, is like an angry momma bear. And what action is Conservation Hawks taking? Unshockingly, nothing that actually Does Something. They want you to “educate yourself”, “write Congress”, and “write letters.” No mentions of actions within their own lives, such as giving up the use of fossil fueled vehicles.
As I wrote in the comments on the Conservation Hawks’ blog, nothing I could say would convince them they are wrong. I can provide all the science that’s out there. I can show them the history. I can show them what nature itself does. I can throw out links. I’d recommend starting with The Great Global Warming Swindle. But, Warmists have to do their own research, and see for themselves. Not believing in AGW will not invalidate their belief in the environment. It doesn’t for me. They want to believe Mankind is making it warmer, yet, they rarely walk the talk.
I could give a ton of links to sites that refute AGW, but, to what point? Warmists will just respond with something about them being disinformation sites funded by Big Oil and Big Coal. Instead, I recommend they start by looking at the data which supports their side, and ask themselves a few questions, such as
There are plenty more questions available, however, one thing to consider, it’s not up to Climate Realists to disprove the assertions of the Warmists, it’s up to the Warmists to prove their assertions using the scientific method.
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Liberal Tactics: Just Lie, No One Will Check!
-By Warner Todd Huston
I have to say, at this point I am convinced that no one on the left really hates racism. In fact, they love it as it is their most important tool with which to control gullible voters. Cry racism and their mind-numbed acolytes dutifully echo the charge whether it is true or not — and it’s usually not. Well, they’ve done it again, cast the race card at conservatives. But this time they fell into a trap laid for them purposefully, set in order to prove their hatemongering, stupidity, cynicism, and lies.
At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last weekend a humorous video debuted during the TheTeaParty.net blogger awards hosted by John Hawkins of RightWingNews.com. It was a rap video created by comedian Steven Crowder and his pal Chris Loesch. They called themselves the “Powdered Zombies” and the song was meant to highlight the wrong turn this country has made and how we’ve drifted away from the founder’s ideas.
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One line of the song was an obvious satire on the left’s constant cries of racism. Remembering that these rap singers were evoking the founders, the line in question goes: “But I’m back from the dead now bringing back all my knickers.” The next line confirms what the reference meant: “I’m just talking about my short pants.”
Knickers, of course, were the short pants that ended at the knee, pants that everyone knows were the stereotypical male fashion statement of the founder’s era.
Naturally the geniuses on the extreme left were unable to understand the difference between the word “knickers” and, well, the “N” word. Two of the left’s leading (low) lights on the Internet, Gawker.com and Wonkette both made the quip somehow into a clear example of conservatives being raaacist.
Wankette claimed that a black man in the room was so disgusted by the racism that he “walked out” and Gawker claimed that “they use the N word” in the video. Neither is true. How do I know? I was there! You can see the top of my gray fedora (A Stetson Whippet from the 1940s, by the way) at about 1:40 into the video. I was sitting behind the guy in the green shirt holding up the cell phone who appears often at the left lower corner of the screen and right in front of the person making the video.
The fact is there was no racism in this song. Zip, zero, nada.
But Crowder, comedian that he is, knew exactly what he was doing. In a piece defending his song posted at HuffingtonPost.com, Crowder informs us why he put the quip in the song.
The verse was used to point out the hyper-PC, disingenuous liberals who today seek for a reason to be offended under every rock.
Crowder knew ahead of time that the left would lose its tiny collective little mind at their hoped for example of “racism” at the conservative gathering. He knew that once they felt they saw raaacism they’d leap at it without bothering to check to see if it really was what they thought it was. Too good to check, if you will. And they did. Crowder got them, but good.
The left gave Crowder his soapbox. “Listen, I’m not somebody who really cares about polarization, political correctness or even what context can be fit into proper 40-character formatting,” he says in his HuffPo piece. “People can hold any opinion that they want on any subject that they choose. Just don’t proactively lie to people. It’s a simple request really, and one that we don’t hear nearly enough.”
Yep. He got ‘em good on their knee-jerk reactions built entirely on lies. Crowder proved that leftists don’t see truth. They see what they want to see in order to “prove†their preconceived notions. The world really is flat in their experience. After all, they fall off the edge nearly every day!
Oh, and one other thing. That curly-headed woman waving her arms over her head that both Gawker and Wankette use as proof of the raaacism and hate for minorities evinced by those evil conservatives? Yeah. Her name is Cynthia Yockey. She calls her blog A Newly Conservative Lesbian, Cynthia Yockey. Right. Next I’m sure Wankette and Gawker will decide that this lesbian is not a real lesbian, eh?
Ooops.
Full Lyrics:
Yeah, lookin’ at the country, It’s not what I intended
Gotta start to make a change, Before you’re a Neverending
Story of a failed nation run straight out of luck
Like a million Tyler Perry Movies
Uh, you suck
All you little haves lots you’re still selfish and want more
Votin’ in your own self- interests now instead of the core
Principles that made this country both honest and true
Free to speak, worship, pursuit of your happiness too
With all this money afly you gon’ be needin’ a big freeze
I hate the size of the fed like Jesus hated the fig tree
As the spending goes up, you gotta borrow some more
Borrowin’ from the chinese, Oh My lord
Instead you just tax more, increasin’ the size
Of the federal government yeah to George’s surprise
You’ll be done like Detroit man, no You ain’t comin’ back
Forget it, I’m out, I’m muzzle loading my gat
Mr. America, look what you’ve done
You’ve traded your liberty and sovereignty for lies and promises
Mr. America, don’t you run away
Pick the pieces up and face the problems, you’ll be great again
Mr. America
I got tired of rolling over in my grave everyday
Makin a monarchy of my beloved US of A
You little glitches need remindin of what we were before
And the sitch that lead us up to revolutionary war
High taxes to the throne without a voice of our own
Ruled top down from the crown we wanted left alone
All y’all so soft you takin it year after year
We were fighting red coats while we were brewing our beer
Now I’m spittin cyphers through a grill made of wood
That’s how it all went down in G Dubs neighborhood
Packin cap n balls black powder hammers were cocked locked
Click clack, the lobster backs lost the attack ’cause I rocked!
So chicken littles who don’t know me listen don’t let it twist
We kicked the “Aaa’s” of the “Bees” for much less than this!
So don’t deny the historical, I’m climbing out of the mud
Follow me, believe this creed, plant the seed and be free!
Mr. America, look what you’ve done
You’ve traded your liberty and sovereignty for lies and promises
Mr. America, don’t you run away
Pick the pieces up and face the problems, you’ll be great again
Mr. America
Unemployment’s at eight five, when it’s really at twelve
Hear me class is in session you Can’t be saved by the bell
What happens when you, keep printing mo dough
Both party’s have gone green like their name was Al Gore
Yeah but right now you’re high, ain’t you big hitter
But I’m back from the dead now bringing back all my knickers
Man you think I’d say that, what’s wrong with you
I’m just talking about my short pants that I rock with my shoes
But let’s get back to the first point I was trying to make
The degradation of our freedoms and our country at stake
The government’s getting grand, while private sector grows smaller
Pour one out for your homies, cuz here comes the cold water
Unemployment’s still rising, our debt’s growing still
The only change you’re gonna get, is being left with the bill
Mr. America, look what you’ve done
You’ve traded your liberty and sovereignty for lies and promises
Mr. America, don’t you run away
Pick the pieces up and face the problems, you’ll be great again
Mr. America
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Study: 24 Million Invalid Voter Registrations, 1.8 Million Dead Voters Still Registered on Rolls
-By Warner Todd Huston
A new Pew Center on the States study has revealed that approximately 24 million active voter registrations across the United States are either invalid or contain significant inaccuracies. Worse, some 1.8 millions deceased citizens are still legally registered to vote casting into doubt the legitimacy of America’s voter registration rolls and leaving the door wide open for massive voter fraud.
Pew reports that 1 in 8 registrations is either invalid or has major inaccuracies. The study also finds that the United States spends more money on voter registration but gets less accurate results than other countries such as neighboring Canada. Costs in the US are 12 times higher than costs in Canada, Pew found.
Oregon spent $8.8 million on voter registration in 2008, the cost amounting to $4.11 per voter. Yet in Canada, which adopted a digital registration system, spends only 35 cents per voter nationwide.
“Voter registration is the gateway to participating in our democracy, but these antiquated, paper-based systems are plagued with errors and inefficiencies,” said David Becker, Pew’s director of election initiatives. “These problems waste taxpayer dollars, undermine voter confidence and fuel partisan disputes over the integrity of our elections”
Some of the highlights of the report includes:
Pew Center on the States has been working with several states to help create proposals for upgrading voter registration systems using advanced technology.
Now, it should also be remembered that this is all already against the law. Section 8 of the Motor Voter law (a federal law) already states that every state must make an effort to true their voter rolls. But to date no state has followed this law. During the Bush administration the Dept. of Justice made some moves toward forcing the states to follow the law but since the Obama administration began no effort at all has been made to force states to follow the law. That is, of course, because Democrats want to foster vote fraud, not stop it.
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How Will Doctors Be Able to Classify an Orca Bite Without New Disease Codes?
National Government Radio is very upset by this state of affairs
(NPR) Poking fun at a complex new system for classification of diseases is surprisingly easy and enjoyable.
Yes, there are codes your doctor will be able to use someday to submit bills for treatment of a dolphin bite (W5601XA), being struck by a dolphin (W5602XA) or “other contact” with a dolphin (W5603XA). And that’s just the start.
Thousands of detailed codes form the backbone of a billing system that the federal government has been seeking to modernize for a while. The U.S., unlike other countries, is still using old codes.
Yes, it is fun. Click that link in the excerpt. It includes fun things like
How can my doctor properly treat me after being struck by an orca, which caused my burning water skis to burn me?
HHS wanted to update the classification, because it’s old, and doesn’t include pigs and orcas, and, those evil ducks
But it’s going to take a while longer before things change. The Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday it’s delaying implementation of the ICD-10, short for International Classification of Disease, 10th Revision.
Many doctors had raised a ruckus about the inconvenience and expense of switching to ICD-10 when so many other things are changing in health care.
Shockingly, doctors had a problem with this, because it was going to cost them an orca-load of money to implement the new classification system.
Even so, the American Medical Association, among others, has argued the regulatory burden imposed on doctors by ICD-10 is heavy and is inconsistent with President Obama’s executive order telling federal agencies to look for ways to reduce bureaucratic headaches.
Don’t worry, Kathy Sebelius will get around to dealing with you AMA folks in due time, once she gets around to mandating that insurance companies include coverage for orca bites for people who live in Montana.
And, yes, ICD-10 was mandated within Obamacare.
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GOP Slaps Obama Around on Gas Prices
And The Politico is not particularly happy about it, but has a rather difficult time defending Obama
Gasoline prices are on the rise, and Republicans are licking their chops.
It’s a familiar refrain: Once again, GOP lawmakers and conservative commentators are on the attack, blaming President Barack Obama for higher prices at the pump. And they’re promoting a “drill, baby drill†agenda as the answer.
It’s a familiar refrain because Obama seems hell bent on seeing gasoline prices skyrocket, as he stated during the 2008 election cycle. What has he done to even attempt to bring prices down? He nixed Keystone XL. He put a stop to deepwater drilling in the Gulf after the BP spill, and has never truly allowed them to restart. He’s stopped most new offshore drilling. He did give billions to Brazil for deepwater drilling, and now Brazil is going to give the oil to China. The only new oil projects started sine 2009 are those in which Obama had no choice and/or no way to stop them.
The Washington Examiner columnist Paul Bedard used gas prices to attack Obama’s push to extend the payroll tax cut.
“Forget all the happy talk about how Americans, flush with their $1,000 payroll tax cut set to be extended by Congress, will be hitting the mall to spend, spend, spend. That cool grand won’t even cover the surge in gas prices under President Obama and will have to be nearly doubled if summer predictions of $5 regular come true,†Bedard wrote.
The average price of regular unleaded gasoline was $1.89 a gallon the week Barack Obama took office in January 2009, according to the Energy Information Administration. That was in the middle of the recession.
On Monday, it was $3.52, according to EIA.
Imagine $5 a gallon gasoline during the summer months. It could easily happen
Tuesday saw stories from ABC, the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, a Drudge Report link and more projecting prices could increase to $4 and $5 gasoline. And it’s only February.
And with a rise in gas prices comes a rise in consumer prices, from groceries to clothes to….well, everything. That $80 a month from Obama’s payroll tax reduction sure will come in handy, eh?
Gas prices hit a record national average of $4.11 a gallon the summer of 2008, leading to the famous “drill, baby, drill†chants at the Republican National Convention and at the end of presidential and congressional offshore drilling moratoriums. But the prices plummeted later that year when the economy tanked.
Is the Politico suggesting that seeing the economy tank further would be good thing? Of course, if the economy tanks further, that would have it’s own problems for Obama.
The Politico then gives a few talking points from Democrats, saying this is all propaganda from the Republicans, that Republicans should all get in lockstep like Democrat sheeple, before offering any sort of policies.
Thursday, the House passed its latest energy plan. It would authorize oil drilling offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, approve the Keystone XL pipeline and promote development of U.S. oil sands in the Rocky Mountains.
Meanwhile, Obama plans to give higher rebates to rich buyers of Chevy Fuegos, er, Volts, and, well, that’s it. He does want a ton of money for more “shovel ready” jobs to patch roads that people won’t be able to use because they can’t afford the high cost of gas.
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February 16, 2012
CNN’s Jack Cafferty Now Dissing Obama on The Economy and Debt
It only took him over three years to realize that Obama is a perpetual liar whose promises have a quick expiration date
(CNN) President Obama has broken a promise to the American people to cut the deficit in half.
His latest budget forecasts a $901 billion budget deficit for 2013.
If you add in the $1 trillion-plus deficits he has run for his first three years in office, along with an estimated $200 billion in economic stimulus, that’s about $5 trillion in the red in his first term.
George W. Bush set the previous record of $3.4 trillion of deficits in eight years. President Obama is on track to add $5 trillion in deficits in just four years. This is part of the reason why our national debt is now a whopping $15 trillion.
What’s amazing is that anyone actually bought into the notion that Obama would actually cut the deficit in half. The man had no executive experience, and typically voted “present” when any tough vote came up. He authored a single piece of legislation during his short time in the US Senate, which went nowhere. He constantly talked about all the things he was going to do which would cost lots of money. Why would anyone think he was serious about deficit reduction?
Here’s my question to you: Where is the U.S. headed if Pres. Obama is adding an estimated $5 trillion to the national debt in his first term?
Cafferty even mentions Greece as the future of America. Well, leave it to a Canadian to hit the nail on the head
Don Desaulniers (Belleville, Canada) President Obama is heading for financial Heaven as a rich man in America with the bonus of a solid pension to anticipate. The average US citizen, shockingly, is heading for a bleak future complete with a ravaged social safety net and a rapidly declining standard of living. By the end of Obama’s second term, America wiill look in the mirror and see today’s Greece. Unsustainable debt today creates chaos and hardship tomorrow. Welcome to reality where fiscal prudence does matter.
Many other commenters mention “Greece” and use terms like “poor farm”. Some accuse Jack of “sounding like a right winger” for daring to question Obama. Of course, questioning government was the point in mentioning “the press” in the first amendment.
Others have their ObamaZombie talking points down pat
Mike Danahy Simple solution. Stay out of wars that begin with lies. Change the tax code for the rich and coroporations and get rid of the Bush tax cuts. In other words, re-elect President Obama. It’s taken him one term to reverse course of the disastrous Bush/Cheney mess and in the next term he’ll begin the huge challenge of our defecit.
Mike’s right, we should stay out of wars based on lies, like, say, Libya. I’m sure Mike will send extra money to the IRS right away. And there is this one
Janice Why does it seem like everyone has amnesia. Yes the debt is going up with President OBama. No past President has ever had a country in ruins like this nor experienced all that this President has had to endure. The President had to take drastic measures with no help from the Republicans. The Republicans are bitter sad babies and is stalling the economy because they want the Power back instead of helping the people. Get real. Give the President 100% cooperation so he can get his job done. Stop with the insults and obstruction. If you refused to give your boss respect and refuse to work you would get fired! I wish the President could fire them all so that he can really get this economy moving.
Whew! Do Liberals even pay attention in Civics class anymore? The President is not the boss of Congress. We have a Congress to represent specific areas in each state. Of course, what she really wants is a dictator, ala Hugo Chavez.
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Reid to Push Cybersecurity Bill Straight to Senate Floor
Many realize the need for cybersecurity, but are also wondering if this is legislation in need of a problem. One has to wonder why Harry Reid would do this
(The Hill) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to bring a cybersecurity bill straight to the Senate floor in the coming weeks, skipping any committee markups, according to Democratic aides.
The move ignores the pleas from seven GOP senators to slow down the process and allow for multiple committees to hold hearings and markups of the legislation.
The bill would give the Homeland Security Department regulatory authority over companies with computer systems crucial to the nation’s economic and physical security. It would require that the companies take adequate precautions to safeguard their systems and would increase information-sharing about cyber threats between the private sector and the government.
So, more burdensome regulation and interference in private sector business, who probably take cybersecurity a whole heck of a lot more serious than the Central Government does. Make no mistake, this bill is not SOPA or PIPA
The Senators stressed that the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 in no way resembles the Stop Online Piracy Act or the Protect Intellectual Property Act, which involved the piracy of copyrighted information on the internet. The Cybersecurity Act involves the security of systems that control the essential services that keep our nation running—for instance, power, water, and transportation.
How about Central and other government agencies? Perhaps Reid and Lieberman (who introduced the bill) should worry more about them. We’ve seen since last June: the CIA hit with a DDOS attack, Oakland, Salt Lake City, and Boston PD hacked, FBI hacked multiple times, DoJ hacked, NATO hacked, Florida election board hacked.We also have the massive theft of government documents by Bradley Manning, along with other US government documents released by WikiLeaks.
Oh, and let’s not forget, the US Senate was hacked at least twice over the last twelve months. Perhaps they should tighten up their own security before hitting up the private sector.
Why is Reid doing this? Perhaps because Republican leaders in the Senate have asked him to slow down. Perhaps he wants to see it come to the floor for a vote and have Republicans vote against the bill, so he can then Blame Republicans for being anti-security. The GOP is writing their own bill, so, Reid might want to trump that. Holding a vote on such an important, along with burdensome and intrusive, bill without committee hearings and/or vetting is against American process. But, perhaps we have to pass it to find out what’s in it, and how much power it gives the Central Government over private industry.
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February 15, 2012
Obama Programming Media Matters, or is it the Other Way Around?
-By Warner Todd Huston
There has been a lot of chatter about the blockbuster report at DailyCaller.com revealing the extent to which the self-proclaimed “media watchdog” outfit Media Matters for America is joined at the hip with the White House. Many are shocked at just how much Obama is seemingly programming the media with the supposedly independent Media Matters acting as its pipeline to the Old Media.
Shockingly, DailyCaller notes that MMFA is even holding teleconference briefings with members of Obama’s administration and the subsequent salting of the results of those meetings among the Old Media’s coverage seems to be a weekly occurrence. If true this is in contravention to MMFA’s tax-exempt status, too.
The report points out that at least up until last fall, an Obama administration official participated in weekly strategy sessions to plan out what the Old Media should know about the Obama agenda. DailyCaller notes that Obama’s recently resigned com director Jen Psaki was “a frequent participant” on those strategy calls.
Media Matters also began a weekly strategy call with the White House, which continues, joined by the liberal Center for American Progress think tank. Jen Psaki, Obama’s deputy communications director, was a frequent participant before she left for the private sector in October 2011.
Every Tuesday evening, meanwhile, a representative from Media Matters attends the Common Purpose Project meeting at the Capitol Hilton on 16th Street in Washington, where dozens of progressive organizations formulate strategy, often with a representative from the Obama White House.
Some may remember back in July of last year when several White House interoffice memos written by Psaki and other White House officials were discovered by Watchdog group Judicial Watch. The memos were filled with attacks on Fox News in general and Brett Baier in particular.
That month, Fox News contributor Brett Baier had written a story pointing out that the White House had specifically excluded them from being able to interview Treasury pay czar Ken Feinberg.
Emails released by Judicial Watch, obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request, show Deputy White House Communications Director Jennifer Psaki writing in reference to the dustup, “brett baier just did a stupid piece on it—but he is a lunatic.” Another email from Psaki reads in part, “I am putting some dead fish in the fox cubby–just cause.”
Other memos seemed to confirm that Obama’s White House was going out of its way to exclude Fox News despite public claims to the contrary.
With the revelations about Psaki’s participation on MMFA strategy sessions, it makes clear the campaign against Fox News waged by the White House as well as Obama’s attempt to control the news media’s coverage.
Of course, this pipeline can go both ways, too. Is Media Matters pushing its own George Soros-funded, far left ideas on the Administration in these weekly strategy sessions? And how independent is MMFA if it is being included in strategy sessions led by the White House? This all too cozy relationship certainly eviscerates any expectation that MMFA’s reports can be trusted. And with claims that MSNBC is fully programmed by the White House and MMFA, and that the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and the L.A. Times are also spoon-fed the Obama line on a daily basis, well, it calls into doubt everything in the Old Media’s coverage of Barack Obama’s White House.
But don’t expect the Old Media to take this lying down. Already the media is attacking DailyCaller’s exposé. Just today, for instance, in an attempt to undermine the DC series, Politico’s Dylan Byers complained that many of the DailyCaller’s quotes are from unnamed sources and saying that DC editor Tucker Carlson’s piece does “not cite specific examples” to back up the allegations.
But, is this the same Politico that published over 100 stories based on unnamed sources and unfounded allegations — most of which still haven’t been proven — against Herman Cain, stories that contributed to his ultimate withdrawal from the race for the GOP nomination for president? You know it is.
In any case, as more of the DC’s report emerges, what we see is a disturbing case of influence peddling among the media that calls into question everything we read about Barack Obama.
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A Crony Military? Jerry Brown’s Man Fires California’s First Female Army General
-By Warner Todd Huston
In August of 2011, Brigadier General Charlotte L. Miller, California’s first Army female general, was “involuntarily separated” from the California National Guard for what she feels are invalid reasons. In fact, when the order originally came down there weren’t much by way of reasons even given. At last Miller is speaking out and making some pretty serious charges against Major General David Baldwin, the man that fired her, by testifying before the California State Senate Rules Committee against his nomination to head the Calif. National Guard.
Last June, Miller was informed by The Adjutant General’s office (TAG) that she was being removed from her position and cast out of the California National Guard after over 30 years service and a near spotless record. What made matters worse was that, according to Miller, the TAG cited no authority or statute that authorized her removal nor was any proof of the specific charges made offered.
Miller further notes that her own due process was violated by the sudden dismissal and she says several military statutes were violated in the separation. Miller also reports that she has never been allowed access to copies of any investigations or findings that the TAG claims it based her dismissal upon.
A story in the Sacramento Bee from Feb 14makes all sorts of accusations against General Miller and states that Gen. Baldwin fired her because he “lost confidence” in her. But it seems that many of the accusations contained in the Bee article are incorrect, misleading or flat out untrue.
For instance, the Bee article says that Miller failed to detect crimes while commander of the Recruiting and Retention Command and left the impression that she was the officer that created and implemented a policy called “RIP-O” (Recruiting Incentive Program-Officers) saying that malfeasance was “echoed in her own policy.” The RIP program was not one upon which she had oversight as it was a federally mandated incentive program. She left command for another assignment within six months of the mandate.
Miller also claims she never had any notice that any investigations and findings of fault were made against her during the 2006 program in question.
Baldwin himself has a chequered career. He was allegedly involved in a cover up of the loss of several automatic weapons that ended up being recovered by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, members of his office were discovered altering their timecards in order to hide any “double-dipping” they might have engaged in, and it appears that he’s used state military funds to create new positions for his close associates creating an atmosphere of a crony military.
Gen. Miller says that Gen. Baldwin has violated due process on removals and subsequent promotions and that he’s created an air of favoritism that could paralyze the Calif. National Guard’s command structure. The act of favoritism, Miller says, “is one of the quickest methods to erode confidence in leadership by subordinates.” Cronyism of this type “compromises the strength and integrity of the Guard leadership.”
Miller will appear before the committee this Wednesday.
Todays Events, California Senate
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Climate variability and the sun
The “harder” the data, the stronger is the demonstrated connection between variations in the two
The article excerpted below is a useful summary of the discussion about solar influences on climate. Climate skeptics will know the first part of it well. It is the second part — putting the Warmist case — that seems of some interest. So that is the section I excerpt below and discuss here.
The article is unsigned but is written by a “moderate” skeptic (possibly Pat Michaels) who accepts that CO2 can have SOME influence on climate — rather than CO2 levels being a RESULT of climate. The author may adopt that stance for political reasons, given the poor empirical evidence for it. How come, for instance, that CO2 levels have risen greatly over the past 15 years, while temperature has flatlined or maybe even cooled?
A notable difference between the skeptical and Warmist cases is that the skeptical case — as articulated by Svensmark — is a theory that has been confirmed by direct experimental observations, while the Warmist case relies on a very dubious temperature record. The “hiding the decline” (in proxies) episode was a vivid demonstration of how unreliable temperature proxies are and the thermometer record has been blatantly corrupted by Jim Hansen and others with their various “adjustments”. What the thermometers originally showed in aggregate is unknown. The data has been hopelessly compromised in an attempt to show temperature rises where no rise was previously shown.
So it is no wonder that Warmist scientists find no correlation with solar fluctuations and the temperature record. The temperature record is a false representation of reality.
But some facts from the past do not rely on a hokey temperature record. Events like the Little Ice Age or the Medieval Warm Period are well known from history. So we do have SOME information about past temperatures that we can rely on. And that data is very clearly correlated with solar activity. When both sides of the correlation are firmly established, we find that the correlation is strong. The “harder” the data the more we see a solar influence
The idea that solar variability exerts little-to-no influence on the global average surface temperature is based upon several lines of reasoning.
The first is that the difference in the amount of total incoming radiation from the peak of the well-known 11-yr solar sunspot cycle to the trough of the cycle is very low, only about one-quarter of Watt per square meter at the earth’s surface. Depending on the climate sensitivity to incoming radiation that you prefer, this works out to a change in the global average temperature of maybe a tenth of a degree Celsius, give or take a few hundredths of a degree. Detecting such a small “signal” amidst other forms of climate “noise” (such as El Nino, volcanoes, and a myriad of circulation patterns) becomes rather challenging.
The second, is that over a period spanning several solar cycles (several decades), the direct correlation between the solar variability and global temperature variability (after accounting for volcanoes and El Nino/La Nina cycles) is basically zero ( it even switches signs from time to time). This means that knowing what the sun is doing gives you little information as to what the global temperatures are doing. But notice the use of the word “direct”. In Case #1 the mechanism is “indirect” with the sun modulating cloud formation via cosmic rays and not timed precisely with the more common measures of solar output (e.g. sunspot counts).
However, if your analysis is confined to last two of solar cycles, then it appears as if a decline/rise in solar output over the course of the 11-yr cycle is tied to a decline/rise in global temperatures. Such a correlation leads to the conclusion that declining solar output over the past decade has been, in part, responsible for the contemporaneous slowdown in the rate of global warming-accounting for maybe 0.05 to 0.1 degree of cooling over the course of past 10 years or so. This explanation is currently en vogue with respect to the obvious lack of strong warming in almost fifteen years. It is interesting to note that a solar explanation was largely absent (and in fact was pretty much pooh-pooed) by this same group of people during earlier periods when the warming rate was more to their liking.
A string of papers in the scientific literature have reported that even over the time period of the past several centuries that the influence of solar variability on the earth’s average temperature has been slight. For example, Judith Lean and David Rind found that, although they could identify a persistent solar signal in the temperature record during the past century, the signal was small and little-changed over the course of the past 100 years. In other words, solar variability could not explain the observed warming trend. And another just-published paper by Gifford Miller and colleagues even makes the case that the cold period known as the Little Ice Age, long thought to have been the result of an extended period of low solar output, was primarily caused by a concurrence of large volcanic eruptions and feedback processes resulting therefrom. Currently, that paper is an outlier in the field and time will tell whether or not it is correct.
So in very general terms, what buoys the little-to-no solar variability influence reasoning is that straightforward empirical analyses trying to relate solar changes (both directly observed and inferred from proxies such as sunspots) to changes in the global temperature (both directly observed and inferred from proxies) fail to find a large direct influence on the latter from the former.
Even within the “little-influence” community, though, the science is not settled.
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Obama may be the most destructive tax increaser in history
The punitive double taxation of company profits (once in the hands of the company and then again in the hands of the dividend recipient) has a hugely distorting effect on any economy. So much so that a LEFTIST government in Australia abolished it long ago.
A major effect of it in the USA is to divert investment away from companies and into risky small businesses. As a way of avoiding the tax, many small businesses operate as sole traders instead of as companies. But small businesses go broke at an enormous rate, thus destroying lots of capital and lots of jobs.
The only bright side of the U.S. system is that dividends are taxed at a low rate — 15% — so many people are prepared to wear that as a penalty for putting their money into companies. But Obama now wants to take that away and hike the dividend tax rate to 43%. That will kill a lot of company investment and hence a lot of job creation. Americans must not let this moronic idea pass
“President Obama released his FY 2013 budget this morning. By his own numbers, his budget raises net taxes over the next decade by $1.56 trillion (Table S-9, page 225). As a percentage of the economy, tax revenues would rise all the way to 20.1% of GDP in 2022, far higher than the historical tax revenue average of 18.3% of GDP (Table S-1, page 205).â€
One and a half TRILLION dollar increase in tax years.
That is $1.5 Trillion taken from your family and businesses and given to government. You can then add another TRILLION for the increases costs of businesses, for their taxes, which will be passed on to the consumer
“The dividends rate will raise from 15% today to 43.4% next year. The Obama budget proposes taxing dividends for investors making more than $250,000 per year at ordinary income tax rates, which will rise to a top rate of 39.6% under the budget. In addition, the Obamacare surtax on investors will combine to nearly triple the tax rate on dividends in just one year.â€
This is a killer for investments and buying power. This budget is a job and economy killer. Obama may get his wish, he will transform this nation–from a prosperous one to a Third World County.
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Rep. Issa Close To Finding Holder In Contempt Of Congress
Now, that would be a hell of a thing, the top “law enforcement” agent in the country slapped with a contempt charge
(Daily Caller) On Tuesday Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House committee on Oversight and Government Reform, took a major step toward holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for his failure to provide subpoenaed documents and other information about Operation Fast and Furious.
In a Jan. 31 letter, Issa had threatened Holder with such a move if he failed to provide all the subpoenaed documents relating to the Fast and Furious gunwalking scandal by Feb. 9. That deadline has come and gone, and Holder’s Department of Justice still hasn’t provided most of those documents. Issa’s subpoena dates back to Oct. 12, 2011.
On Tuesday in a seven-page letter, Issa revealed that Deputy Attorney General James Cole begged Congress to extend the Feb. 9 deadline. Issa wrote that the request was “ironic†and “ignores the reality that the Department has unreasonably delayed producing these documents to the Committee.â€
“On its face, the requested extension demonstrates a lack of good faith,†Issa wrote to Holder. “With one exception, the Department has only produced documents responsive to the subpoena on the eve of congressional hearings in which senior Department officials testified. The Department appears to be more concerned with protecting its image through spin control than actually cooperating with Congress.â€
That last paragraph is the way the letter starts. In the letter, Issa has multiple questions for Holder, including
Issa also demands early in the letter, because “we cannot wait any longer for the Department’s cooperation” that Holder “specify a date by which you expect the Department to produce all documents responsive to the subpoena.” The bold and underline was not mine, but Issa’s.
The letter ends thusly
It is impossible to end our investigation with the current level of cooperation we are receiving from the Department. Rather, the Committee requires the full cooperation of the Department Of Justice. This is not an “election year political ‘gotcha’ game,†but rather a bipartisan sentiment. As Ranking Member [Elijah] Cummings (D-MD) promised the family of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, “we will not rest until every single person responsible for all of this, no matter where they are, are brought to justice.†I applaud his revolve, and I want to make it clear that Congress will not give up until this accountability has been achieved. (note: bold is Issa’s)
It’s time to hold Holder in contempt, and get to the truth of what would be a major scandal had this operation occurred under Bush or a Republican president.
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Congress Reaches Tentative Deal On “Temporary” Payroll Tax Extension
Of course, many in the media and the Democrat Party (but, I repeat myself) are portraying this as Republicans caving. Pretty much because this is about the only thing that Obama has done that is actually popular, to a degree. Why removing money from the Social Security fund is popular, I’m not sure
(Washington Post) Congressional negotiators reached a tentative deal Tuesday to extend a payroll tax holiday, unemployment benefits and Medicare payment rates for doctors, while finding more than $50 billion in cuts to reduce the effect on the federal deficit.
While President Obama and congressional leaders publicly jousted over the negotiations, senior Democrats and Republicans worked behind the scenes toward a compromise that would extend the tax and unemployment benefits through the year. A deal also would mean that doctors would not see a drop in rates paid by Medicare, according to senior aides in both parties.
Aha! Republicans are helping the Medicare system from the Democrats past legislation that reduced doctor reimbursements, which saw doctors refusing to take on more Medicare patients
Obama was alluding to a payroll tax debate in December, when Senate leaders forged a bipartisan agreement on a two-month extension only to have House GOP leaders balk at the plan. His aides have said this package probably is the last major piece of legislation that the West Wing would focus on until the November elections.
If I’m reading this correctly, the White House is saying that they just dumped their own budget on Congress, and aren’t going to bother with it for the rest of the year. Way to abdicate leadership and Constitutional responsibility, guys and gals!
The tax holiday, which is set to expire at the end of this month, saves the average worker more than $80 a month. Budget officials estimated that an additional 10-month extension would cost the Treasury about $100 billion.
In Washington, $100 billion is chump change, and means $100 billion will have to be financed through China to pay out Social Security benefits. I can understand why a bare majority of 54% favor the cut: most of them are unlikely to actually see benefits when they retire, as the system is pretty close to being insolvent. However, if Obama thinks he can pander to young folks, he can think again: only 48% support, 45% against, in the 18-34 age group. They typically have lower salaries, and see less benefit from this tax.
But, Obama cautioned, “you can’t take anything for granted here in Washington until my signature is actually on it,†and he encouraged Americans to lobby their representatives in Congress to approve the measure “without drama, without delay.â€
“Let’s keep making sure the American people’s voices are breaking through until it’s finally, absolutely done,†he said.
He wasn’t too keen on listening to the American people’s voices when it came to (no)Stimulus and ObamaCare. And, interestingly, as the Hill delves into the CNN poll cited above
Democrats are evenly split on the issue, with 48 percent favoring a tax cut and 49 percent opposing. Nearly six in 10 Republicans support reducing the payroll tax, while 38 percent do not believe in doing so.
Wait, most Dems do not want the tax cut? Someone tell Obama. Someone should also tell him that support for the cut has dropped from a high of 65% in September. Probably because people understand what this cut actually does.
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