Martin Bashir MSNBC Resident Hate Monger and Obama Koolaide Drinker...

DTN DIRECTORY                 GROUPS                 ISSUES                 FUNDERS                 INDIVIDUALS                 MEDIA                 ACADEMIA                 POLITICS                 ARTS & CULTURE  BOOKS                       INDIVIDUALS       VIEW LIST OF ALL INDIVIDUALS MARTIN BASHIR Printer Friendly Page   Born in South London, England on January 19, 1963, Martin Bashir worked as a broadcaster for the BBC from 1986-99, and first came to wide prominence in 1995 when he interviewed Diana, Princess of Wales, about her failed marriage to Prince Charles. Bashir was then employed for a number of years by ABC Television, where he co-anchored the current-affairs show Nightlinefrom 2005-10. In August 2010 he left ABC for MSNBC, where he served as a political commentator with his own daily program. Bashir's worldview is informed by the premise that Republicans and conservatives are, at heart, racists, sexists, and elitists. In July 2011, for example, Bashir grossly mischaracterized a pro-traditional-marriage pledge that Republican presidential hopefuls Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum had signed. Drafted by The Family Leader, a conservative social group in Iowa, the pledge noted, among other things, that “a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President.” According to Bashir, this “sounded like to me something of a Freudian slip that this organization does believe that African-American children were better off if their parents were slaves.” “Did two Republican [presidential] hopefuls really sign a pledge suggesting a return to the days of slavery?” he asked. In October 2011, Bashir depicted pro-life conservatives as “misogynists” and called it “hardly surprising” that the proposed Protect Life Act, designed to bar federal funding for health-insurance plans that cover abortion services, “has earned the moniker the 'Let Women Die Act.'” This legislation, said Bashir, was “yet another bill that takes dead aim at a woman's right to choose.” On January 6, 2012, Bashir denounced Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich for characterizing President Barack Obama, under whose watch the nation's food-stamp rolls had reached a record-high 46 million, as “the most effective food-stamp president in American history.” The broadcaster was also angered by Republican Rick Santorum for saying, “I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money, I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.” “There's nothing subtle about Newt Gingrich or Mr. Santorum,” said Bashir. “Their comments are clearly targeted at the President, who's black, and at other members of society, who haven't made millions of dollars from lobbying.”[1]  In February 2012, Bashir depicted Santorum as a “theocrat” with a “totalitarian” mindset who had “asserted that the right to privacy does not exist” and had “equated same-sex relationships with bestiality.” “If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III,” said Bashir. Portraying Congressional Republicans as insensitive to the needs of the poor, Bashir in October 2012 warned that if Repubican Paul Ryan's “vicious and callous budget” were ever to pass, “then Meals on Wheels would be killed, transportation services to the disabled would be destroyed, food stamps would be eviscerated, [and] many Americans would end up in soup kitchens.”  When Florida's Republican Governor Rick Scott advocated budget cuts to some programs that served disabled residents in early 2013, Bashir compared Scott to Nicolae Ceauºescu, the late Romanian dictator who killed thousands of people through deprivations created by his austerity programs. “I was reminded of Nicolae Ceauºescu in Romania,” said Bashir, “whose treatment of disabled children there, which started in the 1970s, where they were hidden and housed in the most appalling conditions.... But is this [Scott's] preference for disabled children in America in 2013?” On January 14, 2013, Bashir condemned America's “gun lobby” for “unashamedly invok[ing] the name of Adolf Hitler” when making the point that “history proves tyrannical leaders begin by robbing law-abiding citizens of their firearms.” “Of course,” said Bashir, “for a nation hell-bent on genocide, Hitler did not allow the Jews to possess firearms, but virtually everyone else was free to do so. Which I guess turns this story on its head. Because if anyone deserves to be equated with Hitler on the issue of firearms, then it’s not the President, it’s the NRA.” In June 2013 Bashir addressed recent revelations that from April 2010 to April 2012, the Internal Revenue Service had delayed the processing of tax-exempt-status applications that it had received from hundreds of conservative Tea Party organizations. “Despite the complete lack of any evidence linking the president to the targeting of Tea Party groups,” said Bashir, “Republicans are using it as their latest weapon in the war against the black man in the White House.” Bashir has long held former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in deep contempt, claiming that she “represents the very worst form of American opportunism: Vacuous, crass, and according to almost every biographer, vindictive too.” His denunciations reached new heights in November 2013, however, after Palin warned that America's growing national debt would force future generations to live in a form of economic “slavery.” Taking umbrage at Palin's analogy, Bashir derided her as “America’s resident dunce” and “a world class idiot” with a “long-deceased mind.” He then proceeded to state that “she would be the outstanding candidate” for a series of punishments described by a brutal slave overseer in the 1750s, who had written of one slave who was “well flogged and pickled,” another who was made to put “s-h-i-t in his mouth,” and yet another who was subjected to “piss in his eyes and mouth.” After 19 days of considerable controversy over his remarks, Bashir, professing to “deeply regret what was said,” resigned from from his MSNBC program on December 4, so as to allow his colleagues “at this special network … to focus on the issues that matter without the distraction of myself or my ill-judged comments.” NOTE [1] A few days later, Bashir asserted that about 500,000 “more people were collecting food stamps under George W. Bush than are under President Obama.” But in fact, U.S. Department of Agriculture showed that over 46 million Americans were on food stamps at the end of 2011, 40% more than the highest number of recipients ever recorded during the Bush years.

On The Coldest Day In America In 20 Years, Here Are Al Gore’s Stupidest Global Warming Quotes...

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On The Coldest Day In America In 20 Years, Here Are Al Gore’s Stupidest Global Warming Quotes Posted: 05 Jan 2014 05:04 PM PST America could actually use some global warming right about now.  It is being projected that low temperatures across the Midwest could be 30 to 50 degrees below average on Monday morning.  On Sunday, fans that attempted to tailgate before the playoff game between the 49ers and the Packers at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin were discovering that their beers were actually turning to icebefore they could drink them.  That is cold.  But things are going to get really chilly when nightfall arrives.  In fact, it is being projected that much of the nation will experience wind chill temperatures of more than 40 degrees below zero, and wind chill temperatures of more than 50 degrees below zero are expected in parts of North Dakota and Minnesota.  The weather is expected to be so cold that the governor of Minnesota has actually decided to close public schools statewide on Monday.  The last time that happened was back in 1997.  The reason why the governor of Minnesota did this is because when temperatures get this low they can literally be life threatening.  When wind chill temperatures get down to about 50 below zero, if your skin is exposed you can literally develop frostbite in about five minutes.  This is being called the coldest day in America in 20 years, and these cold temperatures have many Americans wondering what ever happened to all of that “global warming” that Al Gore and other “climate scientists” have been warning us about for so many years. If the planet really is getting significantly warmer, our winters should not be like this.  Back in the year 2000, one prominent “climate scientist” boldly declared that future generations of children “just aren’t going to know what snow is.” Oh really? The truth is that you don’t have to be a “climate scientist” to understand what is happening to the weather.  All you need is a little common sense. Back in September, I warned that this was going to be “an extremely bitterly cold winter“.  I wrote another article that warned about how cold this winter would be in early December. Right now we are witnessing cold temperatures that we have not seen in decades.  The following is the way that one meteorologist put it… “If you’re under 40 (years old), you’ve not seen this stuff before.” Another meteorologist wanted people to understand just how dangerous this kind of cold weather can be… “A person not properly dressed could die easily in those conditions.” To get an idea of just how cold it is up in Minnesota today, just check out the following anecdote that was reported by the BBC… Firemen tackling a blaze in Minneapolis, where temperatures have been below -20C, saw the spray from their hoses turn to ice as it hit the building. And it is even colder up in Canada.  Things are so cold up in Ontario that “frost quakes” have become very common… While America collectively freaks out over their impending ‘polar vortex’, Canada is changing the game when it comes to cold weather phenomenon as reports of ‘frost quakes’ emerge from around Toronto and Ontario. Indeed, as temperatures drop overnight to around -4f around the city hundreds of people are being startled by hearing large booms – causing them to think their homes are being broken into or gunshots are being fired. In fact, they are merely hearing the after-effects of the frost quakes – or cryoseism – which are more commonly found on a glacier in the polar regions. So are we really experiencing “global warming”? Of course not. If anything, things are actually getting colder. What the United States and Canada are experiencing right now is making global warming alarmists such as Al Gore look quite foolish.  The following are 10 of Al Gore’s stupidest global warming quotes… #1 In 2008, Al Gore boldly declared to a German audience that “the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.” (Needless to say, that did not happen.  In fact, the ice cap in the Arctic actually got larger this year.) #2 “CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally. … Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.” (Actually, without carbon dioxide life on earth would not exist.) #3 “The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don’t say, ‘Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it’s not a problem.’ If the crib’s on fire, you don’t speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action.” (It sounds like what Al Gore really needs is more cowbell.) #4 During a speech at NYU Law School in 2006, Al Gore made the following statement: “Manyscientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several “tipping points” that could — within as little as 10 years — make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet’s habitability for human civilization.” #5 “Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.” #6 “The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees.” (It actually peaks out at about 11,000 degrees.) #7 “There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.” #8 “It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.” #9 “The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.” #10 “We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.” As time goes by, the scientific evidence continues to mount.  It is becoming painfully evident that the theory of man-made global warming simply is not true.  The following is from a recentNew American article… Well, 2013 is almost over, and contrary to the alarmist “predictions” by Gore and what critics refer to as his “doomsday cult,” the latest satellite data show that Arctic ice cover has actually expanded 50 percent over 2012 levels. In fact, during October, sea-ice levelsgrew at the fastest pace since records began in 1979. Experts predict the expansion to continue in the years to come, leaving global-warming alarmists scrambling fiendishly for explanations to save face — and to revive the rapidly melting climate hysteria. In September, meanwhile, data also showed that sea ice levels in Antarctica had expanded to record levels for the second year in a row. Of course, by now, virtually everyone who has been following news about “global warming” — now more often referred to as “climate change” owing to public-relations concerns — also knows that global temperatures have not risen for some 17 years. The spectacular lack of warming demolished all 73 of the “climate models” used by the United Nations to push its controversial theories. Sadly, most of the governments of the planet still consider “man-made global warming” to be one of the greatest threats facing us, and the U.S. government is leading the charge.  In fact, the U.S. government has been giving other nations billions of dollars to help them cope with “climate change”… American taxpayers spent $7.45 billion to help developing countries cope with climate change in fiscal years 2010 through 2012, according to a federal government report submitted to the United Nations on a subject that Secretary of State John Kerry described as “a truly life-and-death challenge.” And it appears that Barack Obama plans to make the fight against global warming a major point of emphasis for the rest of his time in office… When President Obama leaves office three years from now, the major policy story of his second term — barring some kind of unforeseen invasion — is likely to be climate change. I made this argument at feature length last year, and the evidence continues to mount.Coral Davenport reports today about Secretary of State John Kerry’s “systematic, top-down push to create an agencywide focus on global warming.” Considering the host of other major problems that this country is facing, it truly is ironic that the federal government is spending so much time and energy fighting a problem that doesn’t even exist. Speaking of ironic, a team of “climate change scientists” that had recently gone down to the Antarctic to study “global warming” had to be rescued by helicopter when their ship got stranded in the ice… A group of climate change scientists were rescued by helicopter Jan. 2, after being stranded in the ice since Christmas morning. But the majority of the broadcast networks’ reports about the ice-locked climate researchers never mentioned climate change. The Russian ship, Akademic Shokalskiy, was stranded in the ice while on a climate change research expedition, yet nearly 98 percent of network news reports about the stranded researchers failed to mention their mission at all. Forty out of 41 stories (97.5 percent) on the network morning and evening news shows since Dec. 25 failed to mention climate change had anything to do with the expedition. In fact, rather than point out the mission was to find evidence of climate change, the networks often referred to the stranded people as “passengers,” “trackers” and even “tourists,” without a word about climate change or global warming. Yes, the climate of the earth is changing. Throughout history it has always been changing. Most of that change is due to fluctuations in the gigantic ball of fire that our planet is revolving around. But the idea that carbon dioxide is going to “destroy the planet” is ludicrous.  Without carbon dioxide we would all die. And the notion that “man-made global warming” is the “greatest threat” that humanity is facing is absolutely laughable. Sadly, nothing seems to dissuade the true believers.  Not even days like today.

DID YOU REALLY THINK OBAMACARE WAS DESIGNED TO DEAL WITH THE INEQUITIES OF THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM? TO HELP THOSE 30 MILLION UNINSURED? SEND THIS TO YOUR DEMOCRATIC FRIENDS AND GET AN EXPLANATION FROM THEM !!! (if YOU HAVE ANY)

 

DID YOU REALLY THINK OBAMACARE WAS DESIGNED TO DEAL WITH THE INEQUITIES OF THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM?  TO HELP THOSE 30 MILLION UNINSURED?  SEND THIS TO YOUR DEMOCRATIC FRIENDS AND GET AN EXPLANATION FROM THEM !!! (if YOU HAVE ANY)

 

What ObamaCare is Really About

I'm a 54 year old consulting engineer and make between $60,000 and $125,000 per year, depending on how hard I work and whether or not there are work projects out there for me.  

My girlfriend is 61 and makes about $18,000 per year, working as a part-time mail clerk. 

For me, making $60,000 a year, under ObamaCare, the cheapest, lowest grade policy I can buy, which also happens to impose a $5,000 deductible, costs $482 per month.  

For my girlfriend, the same exact policy, same deductible, costs $1 per month. That's right, $1 per month.  I'm not making this up. 
 
Don't believe me?  Just go to http://www.coveredca.gov/ , the ObamaCare website for California and enter the parameters I've mentioned above and see for yourself.  By the way, my zip code is 93940.  You'll need to enter that. 

So OK, clearly ObamaCare is a scheme that involves putting the cost burden of healthcare onto the middle and upper-income wage earners.   But there's a lot more to it.  Stick with me.

And before I make my next points, I'd like you to think about something:

I live in Monterey County, in Central California.  We have a large land mass but just 426,000 residents - about the population of Colorado Springs or the city of Omaha. 

But we do have a large Hispanic population, including a large number of illegal aliens,  and to serve this group we have Natividad Medical Center, a massive, Federally subsidized county medical complex that takes up an area about one-third the size of the Chrysler Corporation automobile assembly plant in Belvedere, Illinois (see Google Earth View).  Natividad has state-of-the-art operating rooms, Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, fully equipped, 24 hour emergency room, and much more.  If you have no insurance, if you've been in a drive-by shooting or have overdosed on crack cocaine, this is where you go.  And it's essentially free, because almost everyone who ends up in the ER is uninsured.  

Last year, 2,735 babies were born at Natividad.  32% of these were born to out-of-wedlock teenage mothers, 93% of which were Hispanic. Less than 20% could demonstrate proof of citizenship, and 71% listed their native language as Spanish.   Of these 876 births, only 40 were covered under [any kind of] private health insurance. The taxpayers paid for the other 836.  And in case you were wondering about the entire population - all 2,735 births - less than 24% involved insured coverage or even partial payment on behalf of the patient to the hospital in exchange for services. Keep this in mind as we move forward.

Now consider this:

If I want to upgrade my policy to a low-deductible premium policy, such as what I had with my last employer, my cost is $886 per month.   But my girlfriend can upgrade her policy to the very same level, for just $4 per month. That's right, $4 per month.  $48 per year for a zero-deductible, premium healthcare policy - the kind of thing you get when you work at IBM (except of course, IBM employees pay an average of $170 per month out of pocket for their coverage). 

I mean, it's bad enough that I will be forced to subsidize the ObamaCare scheme in the first place.  But even if I agreed with the basic scheme, which of course I do not, I wouldnever agree to subsidize premium policies.  If I have to pay $482 a month for a budget policy, I sure as hell do not want the guy I'm subsidizing to get a better policy, for less that 1% of what I have to fork out each month for a low-end policy. 

 

Why must I pay $482 per month for something the other guy gets for a dollar?  And why should the other guy get to buy an $886 policy for $4 a month?  Think about this:  I have to pay $10,632 a year for the same thing that the other guy can get for $48.  $10,000 of net income is 60 days of full time work as an engineer.   $48 is something I could could pay for collecting aluminum cans and plastic bottles, one day a month.  

Are you with me on this?  Are you starting to get an idea what ObamaCare is really about?

ObamaCare is not about dealing with inequities in the healthcare system.  That's just the cover story.  The real story is that it is a massive, political power grab.  Do you think anyone who can insure himself with a premium policy for $4 a month will vote for anyone but the political party that provides him such a deal?   ObamaCare is about enabling, subsizdizing, and expanding the Left's political power base, at taxpayer expense.   Why would I vote for anyone but a Democrat if I can have babies for $4 a month?  For that matter, why would I go to college or strive for a better job or income if it means I have to pay real money for healthcare coverage?   Heck, why study engineering when I can be a schlub for $20K per year and buy a new F-150 with all the money I'm saving?

And think about those $4-a-month babies - think in terms of propagation models.  Think of just how many babies will be born to irresponsible, under-educated mothers.   Will we get a new crop of brain surgeons and particle physicists from the dollar baby club, or will we need more cops, criminal courts and prisons?   One thing you can be certain of:  At $4 a month, they'll multiply, and multiply, and multiply. And not one of them will vote Republican.

ObamaCare: It's all about political power. 

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?

One Citizen Speaking...

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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 …    From: General Wes Clark <redacted link> Date: January 5, 2014, 3:06:45 PM EST Subject: Free Hillary Clinton Bumper Sticker Reply-To <redacted link> Have you picked up your free Ready for Hillary bumper sticker yet? Please take a moment to read this special message from General Wes Clark. Ready For Hillary PAC is solely responsible for the content of this message. Grassroots movements happen when neighbors talk to neighbors and tell them to get involved. One of the best ways to spark these conversations about Hillary potentially running in 2016 is by showing your support right now. Have you picked up your free Ready for Hillary bumper sticker yet?  <redacted link> Hillary has what it takes to be the next President of the United States. But today, as she decides whether to run she needs to see our support. Now is the time to get our support for Hillary organized and ready for 2016. Claim your free sticker: Proudly put your support for Hillary on display and tell your friends to do the same. Thanks for joining with us, General Wes Clark  <Source: The Drudge Report>   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 Related articles Hillary Clinton: It's starting -- crony-socialism; revisionist history, politics of personal destruction -- complete with women bimbos? Hillary Clinton: Tool of International Socialism exploiting Woman's Rights for Political Gain... Ready for Hillary: Inside the Content Strategy of a Clinton PAC Egypt Says Hillary Conspired With The Muslim Brotherhood Expected 2016 Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton Faces Criminal Charges In Egypt Hillary Clinton Supporters Party Like It's 2016 Poll: Hillary Clinton, Obama most admired Hillary Clinton urges extending benefits for jobless Obamas, Bushes, Hillary Clinton fly to South Africa

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. Our traditional analysis using only meteorological station data is a line plot of global annual-mean surface air temperature change, with the base period 1951-1980, derived from the meteorological station network [This is an update of Figure 6(b) in Hansen et al. (2001).] Uncertainty bars (95% confidence limits) are shown for both the annual and five-year means, account only for incomplete spatial sampling of data. <Source> Note: James Hansen is the premier global warming activist who pushed the meme of global warming into Al Gore’s environment. 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

What To Expect In 2014: Obamacare, Immigration Reform, Budget Battles & More...

by Candice Lanier Obamacare, Medicaid & Medicare In 2014, an expansion of Medicaid, with an increased cost burden for taxpayers, is expected. This is according to the Kaiser Family Foundation which has also projected Obamacare adding another 20 millionnew Medicaid dependents. It is estimated this expansion will add an average of 13% in costs to state budgets in […] Read more of this post

First the WH, then NYC, now NYS...LIBTARD PATIENTS are now increasingly running the asslylum! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

New York State Is Set to Loosen Marijuana Laws - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/nyregion/new-york-state-is-set-to-loosen-marijuana-laws.html?smid=tw-bna

Forest needed to cover carbon footprint of icy rescue.....?

Forest needed to cover carbon footprint of icy rescue - National - NZ Herald News
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11181470