Global warming a total hoax

So-called scientists throw away temperature data so no one can check the accuracy of their calculations.

“SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years. “

The (UK) Timesonline has the details here. And Roger Simon has good commentary here.

Wonder why Obama seems so clueless about economic matters?

Help Wanted, No Private Sector Experience Required

By Nick Schulz

November 25, 2009, 8:19 am

A friend sends along the following chart from a J.P. Morgan research report. It examines the prior private sector experience of the cabinet officials since 1900 that one might expect a president to turn to in seeking advice about helping the economy. It includes secretaries of State, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Interior, Labor, Transportation, Energy, and Housing & Urban Development, and excludes Postmaster General, Navy, War, Health, Education & Welfare, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security—432 cabinet members in all.

When one considers that public sector employment has ranged since the 1950s at between 15 percent and 19 percent of the population, the makeup of the current cabinet—over 90 percent of its prior experience was in the public sector—is remarkable.

Thanks to the American Enterprise Institute for bringing this to light.

Thomas Sowell on terrorists, civilian trials and the ineffable stupidity of Obama.

  Thomas Sowell sums it all up beautifully:

“The mindset of the left behind such thinking was spelled out in an editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle, which said that "Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the professed mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, will be tried the right way-- the American way, in a federal courtroom where the world will see both his guilt and the nation's adherence to the rule of law."

This is not the rule of law but the application of laws to situations for which they were not designed.

How many Americans may pay with their lives for the intelligence secrets and methods that can forced to be disclosed to Al Qaeda was not mentioned. Nor was there mention of how many foreign nations and individuals whose cooperation with us in the war on terror have been involved in countering Al Qaeda-- nor how many foreign nations and individuals will have to think twice now, before cooperating with us again, when their role can be revealed in court to our enemies, who can exact revenge on them.

Behind this decision and others is the notion that we have to demonstrate our good faith to other nations, sometimes called "world opinion." Just who are these saintly nations whose favor we must curry, at the risk of American lives and the national security of the United States?”

Read it all here.

If Bush lied like this, the media would be screaming.

  More and more of the Obama lies are being uncovered. Good grief! Even the Los Angeles Times, heretofore a reliable a source of endless falsehoods about and cover-ups of Obama talks about the fibs Obama is making about how many jobs were created by the so-called stimulus program.

 

“Good news: Obama creates 30 new jobs in one congressional district. Bad news: No such district”

Read it all here.

Just imagine if it had been Bush . . . Obama flubs without his teleprompter

  Take away Obama’s teleprompter for even a moment:

“OBAMA: Please, everybody, have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the entire Department of the Interior staff for organizing just an extraordinary conference.

I want to thank my Cabinet members and senior administration officials who participated today. I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow (ph) was around, and so I want to give a shout out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It's good to see you.

Ah, the dangers of giving shout outs without a teleprompter.  Crow is not a Medal of Honor recipient.”

  Now just imagine if George W. Bush had done this. The mainstream press and blogosphere with would be crackling with insults and snark. But not when The One does it.

  Read it here.

Obama planning end-run around First Amendment?

“Bert Gall and Robert Frommer of the Institute for Justice have made a compelling case that the Obama administration's word choice is quite significant. They think that by branding Fox as something other than a "legitimate news organization," the White House is actually setting up a more brutal attack using campaign finance laws. News media organizations are exempt from campaign-finance laws' speech regulations. But if Fox is not a "legitimate news organization," then federal election authorities might be able to argue that its political speech can be regulated like that of any other non-news corporation.

The implications would be far-reaching. Messrs. Gall and Frommer write on PajamasMedia.com: "Of course, if the media's speech becomes illegitimate—and thus subject to restriction—when it turns critical, then the same is true for everyone else, including ordinary citizens." Imagine if the administration applied disclosure laws not just to Fox, but to groups like the tea-party protestors. Faced with this restrictive bureaucracy, such groups would probably be paralyzed.”

  Is Obama attempting an end-run around First Amendment? Gee, do you really think Obama would do something like that?

  Read about it here.

Blacks in Congress claim ethics inquiries are racially based

  The propensity of blacks (and many left-wing whites) to scream “racism” when any black is investigated is old-hat. But it not only isn’t stopping, the practice is increasing:

““Is there concern whether someone is trying to set up [Congressional Black Caucus] members? Yeah, there is,” a black House Democrat said. “It looks as if there is somebody out there who understands what the rules [are] and sends names to the ethics committee with the goal of going after the [CBC].”

African-American politicians have long complained that they’re treated unfairly when ethical issues arise. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are still fuming over Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to oust then-Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) from the House Ways and Means Committee in 2006, and some have argued that race plays a role in the ongoing efforts to remove Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) from his chairmanship of that committee.”

  Jefferson as you may recall was found with $90,000 in cold cash in the freezer compartment of his refrigerator and was later convicted on numerous criminal charges. Rangel’s involvement in various lawbreaking and tax avoidance schemes is literally public  record. Decent people caught red-handed in such illegal shenanigans would have been embarrassed  and resigned. Not Democrats. Not black Democrats.

  Instead they claim racism.

  Enough of this nonsense. If those blacks can convincingly prove that the ethics investigation mechanism created by their own Party is somehow flawed, let them prove it. But screaming racism whenever a black is investigated is not very convincing.

  Read it all here.

Mark Steyn on climate fascists

“At their Monday night poker game in hell, I’ll bet Stalin, Hitler and Mao are kicking themselves: “ ‘It’s about leaving a better planet to our children?’ Why didn’t I think of that?” This is Two-Ply Totalitarianism—no jackboots, no goose steps, just soft and gentle all the way. Nevertheless, occasionally the mask drops and the totalitarian underpinnings become explicit. Take Elizabeth May’s latest promotional poster: “Your parents f*cked up the planet. It’s time to do something about it. Live Green. Vote Green.” As Saskatchewan blogger Kate McMillan pointed out, the tactic of “convincing youth to reject their parents in favour of The Party” is a time-honoured tradition.

The problem, alas, is that, for the moment, there’s still more than one party. But why? Last year, David Suzuki suggested that denialist politicians should be thrown in jail. And only last month the New York Times’s Great Thinker Thomas Friedman channelled his inner Walter Duranty and decided that democracy has f*cked up the planet. Why, in Beijing, where they don’t have that disadvantage, they banned the environmentally destructive plastic bag! In one day! Just like that! “One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks,” wrote Friedman. “But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century.””

  Poor Mark Steyn. He is so on-target that you know it won’t be long before the powers that be trump up some charges to throw him in jail.

  Read it all here.

Left-wing churches want to curtail freedom of speech

Thank Michelle Malkin for this one:

“The war on conservative speech has moved from the White House to your neighborhood pews. Left-wing church leaders want the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on "hate speech" over cable TV and right-leaning talk-radio airwaves. President Obama's speech-stifling bureaucrats seem all too happy to oblige.

Over the past week, an outfit called "So We Might See" has conducted a nationwide fast to protest "media violence" - specifically, "anti-immigrant hate speech, which employs flawed arguments to appeal to fears rather than facts." Their ire is currently aimed at Fox News and conservative talk-show giants. But how long before they target ordinary citizens who call in to complain about the government's systemic refusal to enforce federal sanctions against employers of illegal immigrants or the bloody consequences of lax deportation policies?

The "interfaith coalition for media justice" is led by the United Church of Christ. Yes, that's the same church of Mr. Obama's race-baiting, Jew-bashing ex-pastor Jeremiah Wright. Other members include the Presbyterian News Service, the Evangelical Lutheran Church and the National Council of Churches. These religious liberals have partnered with the National Hispanic Media Coalition, which filed a petition in January demanding that the FCC collect data, seek public comment and "explore options" for combating "hate speech" from staunch critics of illegal immigration. “

These people truly hate America and its Constitution. Read it all here.

Victor Davis Hanson on Obama, Hillary and the general evil

  Victor Davis Hanson summarizes the pain so many of us feel with this administration, ponders how the media is able to maintain its silence – or worse yet, praise these destroyers and bumblers – and hopes for better days. Well worth reading here.