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FREE HILLARY CLINTON BUMPER STICKER OFFER FROM HILLARY PAC Posted: 05 Jan 2014 05:41 PM PST It appears that Hillary Clinton’s PAC is ramping up for 2016 by asking the party faithful to display their loyalty …
Perhaps a better bumper sticker might be … Bottom line … Do we want to continue destroying America under the progressive socialist democrats who have nationalized one-sixth of our economy and turned our healthcare system into shambles. To allow another “dear leader” like Barack Obama to prosecute foreign policy such as the one Obama AND HILLARY CLINTON prosecuted in Benghazi? The one where Obama, Clinton, and their progressive socialist democrat minions lied to America while Americans were killed? Do you want a radical democrat like former General Wesley Clark as a Vice President or the next Secretary of State? CAN AMERICA AFFORD ANOTHER CLINTON IN THE WHITE HOUSE? I think not. The democrats are campaigning 24/7/365, so where is the GOP support for their party? Or are they going to leave the democrats alone until six months before the campaign to start their on-the-ground effort? Another example of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? -- steve  | |
GLOBAL WARMING IS DEAD ... LONG LIVE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE Posted: 04 Jan 2014 06:44 PM PST Another historic series of events in the historic Obama presidency … It is hard to sell the idea of sacrificing your standard of living, accepting an increase in the size and scope of government, rising taxes, rising prices, and a reduction in your personal freedoms and choice based on nothing more substantial than deeply-flawed computer models that not only show ever-increasing terrestrial temperatures, but fail to account for the last seventeen years of global cooling. In a year when the President of the United States and other high-ranking officials were caught lying to the American people in order to advance a radical progressive socialist democrat agenda and many of the public policies linked to so-called “global warming” were based more on political ideology and cronyism, it is hard to be enthusiastic about dire predictions made by politicians and science activists that have proven wrong over the past decades. We can accept, as a fact, that global climate is a natural and chaotic system, composed of cycles that center around a mean value … But, there is no “theory of global climate change” that is observable and verifiable. All of the current literature is based on a speculative hypothesis that there might be a tipping point, and it is better to allow politicians to implement public policies – no matter how harsh, disruptive, or costly – than take a chance with an improbable planetary catastrophe. I say improbable because all of those people claiming past die-offs and other events cannot realistically offer a cause that withstands scientific scrutiny. With many believing that natural events, asteroid strikes, volcanic activity, and viral mutations may be responsible for mass casualties in both the animal and human domain. We have seen that there is great error in terrestrial temperature records – with increasing urbanization in many areas leading to a rise of measured temperatures due to asphalt and other development structures. At this point in time, we find the researchers applying statistical methods to compensate for urban heat islands, missing data, and other factors that introduce significant errors into the data. In fact, some suggest that the raw temperature data is no longer pristine and available due to archival errors and computational mistakes on original data. We have seen that it is possible to present a false picture of our global climate records – one by choosing artificially small time periods that are ludicrous given the hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of years to observe climate cycles. How many individuals do not realize that those NASA maps do not map actual temperatures themselves, but map “temperature anomalies” – the difference between the observed temperatures and a computed average over an arbitrary 30-year timescale. Meaningless in terms of planetary activities on a global scale.
While this graph appears to most individuals to show a dramatic, and possibly dangerous, temperature rise, the data is constrained within approximately 2-degrees Celsius. And, that the resolution of data to a tenth of a degree is somewhat questionable as a computational artifact as the true measure of data error and the inherent natural variability of the global temperature does not support this degree of precision. And, we have seen, through the revelations of the allegedly stolen Climategate e-mails, that a small number of prominent climate researchers have attempted to subvert contrarian information from IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports and peer-reviewed journals. In fact, most researchers do not speak out because they are not only uncomfortable in the public spotlight, but speaking out against the establishment orthodoxy can have severe reputational and career ramifications, including, but not limited to, loss of position and project funding. The inherent bias of global warming research … Follow the money. Consider the natural bias introduced into the system by researchers and their institutions when they propose scientific studies that are congruent with the beliefs of their patrons. Activists are fond of reporting that the scientific research coming from the tobacco industry or the energy industry, especially big coal, is deeply flawed – without mentioning that scientific research funded by governments and non-governmental organizations (e.g. foundations) may be similarly flawed. It is an observable fact that scientists will create projects that are more likely to be funded, than create projects that confirm existing, but questionable, work, or contrarian projects that seem to nullify and negate previous work. Where we see scientists debating among themselves in journals and in conferences, we expect to see science rather than political concerns impinging upon conclusions. Unfortunately, most conferences today are hosted by one side or the other and appear to be disinclined to invite those with contrarian viewpoints. So why the continuing deception? For the government, climate change is a way to use science to justify public policies that promote a progressive ideology and make draconian public policies, such as increasing the size and scope of government intervention in our lives, more palatable. After all, the politicians are trying to avert a “planetary catastrophe.” For the special interests that lobby politicians and require public funding to continue their activities, it is about supporting the concept of global warming to continue the flow of public funding and ensuring continued political influence. For the climate scientists and associated fields, it is the only game in town where massive funding for institutions, personnel, and projects is readily available without forced competition against their peers in the arena of ideas. Where else can historians, geologists, economists, find funding without linking their work to the meme of global warming? A sad truth about global warming research … If you spend any time reading the scientific literature of global climate change, you will find that the conclusions are couched in generalities and weasel-words, mostly acknowledging the fact that little is really known about the physical process of climate change. And, that most of the information we have to-date comes from computerized physical models whose output appears to replicate the underlying physical phenomena. Considering that a cellular automata programming technique can produce graphic squiggles shaped like leafs and shells. But, the computer neither describes the actual underlying biological process nor is representative of the physical phenomena. Much of the mathematics used in global warming research doesn’t actually describe the underlying phenomena, but merely gives the impression of describing the natural system. Unsurprising because the signal of man’s influence in nature is quite easily obscured by the noise of natural climate variability. As mentioned above, stating results is tenths of a degree is mostly false and misleading, an artifact of the computational process rather than a precision measurement result. Truth-be-told, the goal of most climate-related research is to attract additional funding and provide for professional career advancement. Bottom line … The science of global climate change is very much a product of fraud and political manipulation. Not that individual researchers or institutions are totally corrupt, but in no other area of science does there appear to be this degree of deceit and political interference with the process. What other area of science could produce an Al Gore – a man whose presentation to the world is scientifically flawed, yet he is regarded as an “expert” on the subject of global warming. A man who refuses to be debated and controls media access as if he were still running for office. A man with a significant financial conflict of interest when it comes to promoting global warming and his investment schemes. Folks, global climate change is here, has always been here, and will continue to be here until the end of the planet – whether by an asteroid strike, a mutant virus, a cataclysmic volcano eruption, or the death process of our Sun. To think that man – or any government – can alter the course of our global climate is ludicrous and nonsensical. To allow the politicians to enlarge the size and scope of government, artificially raise taxes and prices for wealth redistribution and the purchase of political power, and to curtail your freedoms is criminal. The planet has been hotter, colder and all before man’s influence starting with the industrial revolution. Something to remember in the upcoming 2014 congressional election cycle where we can remove the lying, cheating, progressive socialist democrats and their republican toadies from office. Let up concentrate on our national defense, our economy, our healthcare, and our live before we allow any politician to continue to divide and dilute our America for their self-serving and corrupt political ideology. -- steve |
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