I have noticed that the major media STILL don’t want to talk about it.

I guess the Liberals have another reason to hate FOX, as they are the only ones covering the story.

Yet, despite the seriousness of this issue, as well as a prominent Senator calling for hearings to investigate it, America’s television news organizations appear to be actively boycotting this growing controversy. (NewsBusters)

But, of course, that senator is a Republican. So they can ignore him. He’s just a rightwing nutjob, after all.

There is “virtually no possibility” of a few scientists biasing the advice given to governments by the UN’s top global warming body, its chair said today.

Rajendra Pachauri defended the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the wake of apparent suggestions in emails between climate scientists at the University of East Anglia that they had prevented work they did not agree with from being included in the panel’s fourth assessment report, which was published in 2007.

“The processes in the IPCC are so robust, so inclusive, that even if an author or two has a particular bias it is completely unlikely that bias will find its way into the IPCC report,” he said.

This reminds me of the Fake letter about George W Bush’s war deferment where the defenders to this day say, “The letter was fake but what was written was factual”.

So what happens if it was not just a “few” scientists???

Whoops, maybe that’s an Inconvenient Orwellian Possibility.

Phil Jones (CRU),”keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!“

Nah…The Religion rolls on.

I was amused by Ed Begley Jr on Cavuto (you can find the meltdown on You Tube). Mr super green ranted and raved about only believing peer-reviewed science.

I guess he missed the email where they talk about changing the rules for peer-reviewed science and talk of boycotting publications that tow their party line.

Phil Jones (CRU),”keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!“

Though, for people like Mr Begley who are deep in the religion of Global Warming,  reason is no longer an option because that questions their faith. So much so that he was ranting about the quality of the air in LA during the interview as an example of something no one wanted to do but was forced to do anyhow.

But it doesn’t have anything to do with Global Cooling…Global Warming…Global Climate Change…Climate Change.

But it does have everything to do with force.

And the Orwellian way, apparently, that the all-hail the vaunted “peer review” process has been corrupted by one side of the argument is not an issue.

That’s not science.

That’s politics.

Canada.com: The immensely respected former British chancellor of the exchequer, Nigel Lawson, had great difficulty finding a publisher for his expose of these matters, An Appeal To Reason, A Cool Look at Global Warming, such is the pressure the eco-lobby can assert. He believes Green is the new Red, the anti-capitalists taking over the relatively inoffensive tandem bicycle of naturalists, and turning it into a nihilistic juggernaut, the treads having been blown off their great Red Marxist tank that careened through the world for most of the last century. The ecoextremists allow the conservationists and butterfly collectors and Sierra Clubs to front their activities, just as the pacifist naifs were often the witless dupes and “useful idiots” (in Lenin’s words), of the Communists.

As Lord Lawson wrote in his book, those worried about imminent environmental catastrophe, as compared, for examples, to nuclear terrorism or even large meteoric collisions, “need not worry about saving this planet. They are already living on another one … We appear to have entered a new age of unreason … It is from this, above all, that we really need to save the planet.”

Two of Canada’s greatest and most undersung recent heroes are environmental economist Ross McKitrick and statistical minerologist Steven McIntyre, who by their tireless research in the teeth of the entire ecological establishment, proved the former IPCC claim of drastically accelerated global warming was a fraud. These men have been prominently mentioned in the hacked emails that have just revealed the outrageous lengths the scientific propagators of the Great Green Fraud have gone to to suppress the facts.

Michael Schlesinger, a climatologist at the University of Illinois, a bringer of the Faith, in the New York Times, “The absolute worst thing that humanity could do is mistake a short-term natural cooling for the absence of human-caused global warming and, in so doing, not transition as soon as economically possible from the fossil fuel age to the post-fossil fuel age.

To make this mistake would leave a legacy of global warming for our children, grandchildren and multiple generations thereafter which they likely could not reverse, and for which they would likely not forgive us.

This we must not do.”

What about the debt, the loss of freedom, the jobs, the loss of rationality?

And it’s not been proven that it will even work.

But it will feel good.

And it’s a “Crisis”.

“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”-Rahm Emanuel, White Chief of Staff.

On (Last) Tuesday, ABCNews.com’s top story was, “Worse Than the Worst: Climate Report Says Even Most Dire Predictions Too Tame”

There’s even less time for humanity to try to curb global warming than recently thought, according to a new in-depth scientific assessment by 26 scientists from eight countries.

Sea level rise, ocean acidification and the rapid melting of massive ice sheets are among the significantly increased effects of human-induced global warming assessed in the survey, which also examines the emissions of heat-trapping gases that are causing the climate change.

“Many indicators are currently tracking near or above the worst-case projections” made three years ago by the world’s scientists, the new Copenhagen Diagnosis said.

Nor has manmade global warming slowed or paused, as some headlines have recently suggested, according to the report, which you can see here.

The Thought Police binders are firmly in place. And  Chicken Little is happy.

I have no doubt this started out as a well-meaning crusade. But that was a long time ago. In a Non-Partisan galaxy, far far away…

The case for global warming rests on “all kinds of evidence,” says climate scientist Don Wuebbles of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. “Look at what’s happening to ice in the Arctic. Explain that as ‘no global warming.’ It doesn’t take a genius to see, obviously, warming is happening, e-mails or not.” (USAToday)

Putting aside how condescending that statement is, can he explain the Patagonian glacier in Argentina THAT IS GROWING???

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Argentina’s Perito Moreno glacier is one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures.

Nourished by Andean snowmelt, the glacier constantly grows even as it spawns icebergs the size of apartment buildings into a frigid lake, maintaining a nearly perfect equilibrium since measurements began more than a century ago.

“We’re not sure why this happens,” said Andres Rivera, a glacialist with the Center for Scientific Studies in Valdivia, Chile. “But not all glaciers respond equally to climate change.” (Newsmax)

or  In the Western Himalayas, a group of some 230 glaciers are bucking the global warming trend. (Discovery.com 5/5/2009)

MOUNT SHASTA, Calif. —  Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta’s flanks are a rare exception: They are the only known glaciers in the continental U.S. that are growing.(Fox 2008)

Or won’t that be “reviewed”.

Glaciers are growing in the Himalayan Mountains, confounding global warming alarmists who have recently claimed the glaciers were shrinking and that global warming was to blame.

A new study of the Karakoram, Hindu Kush, and Western Himalaya mountain ranges by researchers at England’s Newcastle University shows consistent recent growth among the region’s glaciers.

Researchers found cooler summers are failing to melt winter snows, which are themselves becoming more frequent, resulting in advancing ice sheets.

The study was published in the September 2006 issue of the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate.

Oh, look it was.

But the Religion rolls on.

Nothing to see here.

A March 14, 2005 report from the activist group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) claimed, “Himalayan glaciers are among the fastest retreating glaciers globally due to effects of global warming.”

The WWF said its report “reveals the rate of retreat of Himalayan glaciers accelerating as global warming increases.”

National Geographic, for example, reported on March 10,2006 that glaciers were shrinking throughout the Himalayas and that “these water supplies could eventually dry up as the glaciers melt due to global warming.”

But not if they are growing.

Whoops.

Guess we better just ignore that Inconvenient Truth.

Or maybe it takes an “idiot” to wonder if it man-caused at all or a “natural variation” as some global warming advocates call the lack of warming lately.

So maybe we do need so “useful idiots” to wonder if the agenda behind the rhetoric and “the consensus” is entirely above aboard.

We need a Reformation.

We Need Heresy.

We Need Truth.

Not Politics.

Guilt.

I suffer from the guilt of existence. I’d feel guilty if I had a child before some of my friends I know who have desired children for years. Especially since I also know they desire children so much more than me.

And the ability to stay home and live primarily off my husband’s income so I can devote my time and attention to my novel (which I have no idea whether it will be any good or be able to earn any money). I have so many friends and family members who do not have this opportunity. I feel bad. Something tells me I must work full-time like them to make life fair even though I don’t have to.

It’s not fair that people who want to live must die when there’s someone like me who thinks so little of herself that she would trade places with someone who was dying.

I wait every night, you know, to die.

I’ve given up on suicide because I’ve tried numerous times and I can’t succeed. People tell me it’s because God says it’s not my time to go.

So every night, I wait for God. I wait for Him to take me. I anticipate “my time to go.” That final breath, that final gasp of air that God won’t let me recover from. I wait for it nightly.

But then I wake up each morning, somewhat stupefied as to why I’m still alive. What’s God’ s purpose for me? Am I meant to accomplish something monumentally great or simply exist to bring a smile to my husband’s face each day for the next 60 years?

And what’s wrong with that? Why can’t I be content simply to exist only to make other people happy?

“I tend to be of the mindset that in order to be pleasing to God, I have to do something big, something that leaves an evident footprint in the world. I think deep down I know this isn’t a true philosophy, but when I just live everyday life, I feel useless.” –Sizzledowski, “Sometimes I talk to myself… a lot“

No, I’m not content because I’ve been taught that “bigger is better.” (Well, except when it comes to weight.)

Servant leadership.

My father used to work in the maintenance department of a large ad agency and sometimes he’d get whatever leftovers were no longer wanted. One time, the agency developed (or recycled, I’m not sure) a slogan and printed up more T-shirts than they could use so my dad brought a bunch of them home. The slogan has stayed with me to this day:

“Good enough is not enough.”

So I’ll always feel like a failure. Because once I achieve that one “great” thing, I’ll always be looking for the next great thing. It’s a vicious cycle–always looking to outdo myself. This was also part of Michael Jackson’s downfall. As a perfectionist, he was always trying to “top” himself. The “Thriller” album sold 26 million copies worldwide back in the 80s, immediately becoming the best-selling album of all time. In fact, it is STILL the best-selling album of all time with more than 100 million copies sold worldwide. (The next album that comes even close is AC/DC’s “Back in Black” with 49 million copies.)

“Good enough is not enough.”

Jackson wanted to continue to break records and continue to top the charts even after “Thriller” but was never able to relieve that kind of success again in his lifetime.

So where does it stop? A person can’t always be number one.

Jesus said the first shall be last and the last shall be first. (Mk. 10:31, Matt. 20:16) As a Christian, what does this mean to me?

It means the only way to truly lead is by serving. That is what Jesus did. And not to minimize my Lord in any way but that is also the example all the great human heroes followed: Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa. Not self-serving but serving others. Who will have had more of an impact 100 years from now: Madonna or Martin Luther King, Jr.? God bless Madonna if history textbooks mention her musical impact from the 1980s but MLK, Jr. has changed the lives of many people in this country. From the White House down to little ol’ me, he continues to have a lasting impact beyond his death. As a result of MLK, Jr.’s tireless work, I can write a blog post with fairly good grammar and spelling that reaches a multicultural audience because I had the opportunity to receive a stellar education from Kindergarten through college. (Let’s just conveniently ignore the fact that the last sentence was atrociously written, though.)

The world says to be number one and never settle for last place. My Lord says the first shall be last and the last shall be first. The world says take the lead; be a leader. Jesus says, “Follow me” (Matt 4:19); be a servant (Jn. 13:12-17).

With things like pride and self-sufficiency (really a subset of pride), being a true, consistent servant is difficult:

• Never seeking glory for yourself.
• Always doing things for the benefit of others.
• Constantly knowing your limitation so you can ask for help for the sake of others.

Not easy.

There is nothing quite like it. Nothing that has the same power to set you free. Often there is nothing quite so difficult. Often you have to practice it over and over again. Often it doesn’t produce change in anybody else but yourself. And yet, it’s always well worth the agony of doing it. We’re talking about forgiveness!

It’s essential to forgive to live in freedom. There is no way around it. I know many people who don’t live in forgiveness with other people and who are suffering because of that. I have been in situations where I didn’t forgive people. I was also suffering. A wise person once said these clever words:

“Unforgiveness is the poison I drink while waiting for someone else to die!“

These are powerful and true words. It’s always sad when you see people who choose not to forgive. So often it’s small things that hinder deeper and more fulfilling relationships. Words were said, value statements were put on people, and people choose to hold a grudge, stay in a place of self-righteousness, and the cancer of bitterness grows inside of you. It’s always like this. Whether you agree with this or not. Whether you are a Christian or not. Unforgiveness is a cancer that kills. It slowly takes life out of you. Whatever person you choose not to forgive, you’re tied to. You give the other person power. Power to control your life. You think about the other person, and you know that you lack peace and joy inside of you. It’s the power of sin. As Christians, as children of God we are forgivers per nature. We have been given a new nature, the very nature of Christ. And since he forgave us of everything, we are free to forgive other people for whatever they may do to us.

It’s the way of freedom. It always brings life. It always builds up relationship. It’s the road of brokenness. It’s the road less traveled. It’s always easy to find people, inside or outside the church, who will agree with you that it’s not reasonable for you to forgive, and that you’re right in holding a grudge. But the truth is that forgiveness has nothing to do with ‘fairness’. It’s a choice of life or death. If you forgive, you experience life in your relationships to God, yourself and other people. If you choose not to forgive, you experience bitterness and a lack of life.

Is forgiving easy? No, it rarely is. True forgiveness is painful. Often very painful. But it’s also freeing. I let go of the right I feel to judge and condemn other people, and I’m free to just be me, a human being who is aware of the fact that I often make mistakes myself and hurt other people and need their forgiveness.

Unless you’ve been broken by God and understand the power of living as a broken cup and relying on his strength and not your own, it’s nearly impossible to forgive. Why would you? You can always finds reasons why you shouldn’t take the first step towards forgiveness. Your flesh will tell you that your anger and lack of forgiveness is well justified. And other people will too. Misery attracts company, so it’s often fairly easy to find somebody to sit and whine with. It doesn’t bring any life at all. It just fans the flame of bitterness inside of you. Forgiveness is the highroad that’s painful, but life-giving to travel. It’s the road where Christ is and leads you. “Forgive them Father, they don’t know what they’re doing” were some of Jesus’ lasts words. He left us an example of how to live our lives. We are free to forgive, because we’re forgiven. Forgiveness, like anything else of great value in the Christian walk, is a response. We forgive, because God forgave, just like we love, because he first loved us, and we can draw near to him, because he first drew near to us.

I encourage you to forgive whatever wrong people may have done to you. It will bring life. Guaranteed.

Blessings, Torben

I love one of the first lines in this song: “You are strong when you feel weak, in your brokenness complete”

The purpose of this blog page is to provide truth and facts about the Carpenter’s Union organizing tactics which are clearly false, unethical, in some cases illegal, abusive, and they don’t pass the simplest of tests…including the “smell test”.

They’ve used as the basis of their assault on Lone Sun Builders, Inc. (LSB) that they don’t have a benefits program, they pay cash, and they pay below average wages.  When in actuality LSB has one of the best benefits programs in the business including a health plan, dental plan, 401K and life insurance.  Currently over 98% of eligible employees participate in the health plan.  LSB pays 92% of its employees’ health premium; and that’s for the Lovelace Plan with $20 primary care doctor co-pays and $10 prescription co-pays.  Other benefits include discounts on vision, health reimbursement account, and a public works pension plan. Not to mention that we pay 100% of the life insurance policies for our employees.  LSB employees are well paid, treated well and like family, receive free safety and apprenticeship training, and they are happy with their employment.  Many employees are long-term employees. No one is ever paid cash – that is illegal.

We are active in our community, in Albuquerque Public Schools, the University of New Mexico (UNM), the UNM Children’s Hospital, multiple trade and professional organizations, the Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, and the Hispano Chamber of Commerce.  We support each organization we belong to with financial contributions, mentoring, participation on their boards, or in the form of “sweat equity” and ambassadorship.

Our Mission Statement speaks for itself and we unequivocally live by it:

Our mission is to provide quality with integrity. We take pride in our financial responsibility, work history, business ethics and safety training. We believe that our loyalty to employees, vendors and clients will build our reputation for the future. We subscribe to the pillars of character counts: Respect, Responsibility, Trustworthiness, Fairness, Caring and Citizenship.

And in all due respect to unions, “We are not anti-union” as I, Chet Karnas, am a former member of two labor unions in my life.  We are merely, “mission accomplished” when it comes to treating our employees with dignity and fairness; and we are against the “organizing tactics” of this union.

Besides the Carpenter’s Unions’ behavior being abhorrent, please consider the following facts:

1. The union states we don’t have benefits and we do; but they utilize day laborers without health benefits to protest us and others.
2. The union organizers are from out-of-state and don’t even own New Mexico driver’s licenses but yet they can trump the union CEO’s who own local companies.  They turn the business climate ugly without allowing for freedom of speech from local owners of union shops.  Does anybody get that?
3. They besiege local hospitals, schools, banks, hotels, restaurants and a museum with day laborers that have no restroom facilities and park themselves on public sidewalks behind unsightly banners.  It’s ugly, it’s disturbing, it’s anti-business, it’s splitting our community, it’s not a tourist attraction to visitors, and it has no basis in our community.

The CONTENT of this blog will include background articles, letters and information; a video archive detailing facts about the above statements, links for different topics which are still a work in process but will include our biographical information, and comments and contributions from readers and authors of this forum.

The bottom line is we have experienced harmonious labor relations for many decades in New Mexico, and our community cannot accept unethical, slanderous, divisive tactics by out-of-state operators acting like thugs.

ATR: This year we have much for which to be thankful: family, friends, and the Obama-Reid-Pelosi National Energy Tax (Cap and Trade) has not yet become law to name a few. We would like to remind you of 10 reasons you should be thinkful for that this year:

1. We don’t have to pay over $100 billion in additional taxes.
2. We don’t have to pay an additional $3.6 trillion in gas taxes.
3. We won’t lose 1.1 million jobs between 2012 and 2030 and 2.5 million each year after that.
4. We haven’t made new industries that are dependent on government handouts for their survival.
5. We don’t have a new bureaucracy in place to allocate and sell carbon credits that will increase corruption and favoritism in Washington, DC.
6. Our energy costs will not go up by $1500 per year for a family of four.
7. We won’t have our national debt increase by 26 percent by 2030. An increase of $116,600 for a family of four.
8. We won’t have protectionist tariffs to create trade wars and cause increased prices and shortages on the goods we need.
9. We won’t have a reduction in GDP of $9.4 trillion between 2012 and 2030.
10. We won’t have a 58% increase in gas prices

But 2010 is another matter.

Be Thankful that the media is saving you from hearing about the Global Cooling..Global Warming…Global Climate Change…Climate Change scam…

I found this on the Newstribune.com reader comment section:

Remember now, fellow travelers. The facts really don’t matter as long as the IDEA and the MESSAGE are useful in the eyes of liberals. The so-called information presented by “scientists” is only meant to illustrate the problem, not prove it. Where have y’all been? If we hadn’t listened to the warnings about global cooling 25 years ago, the planet would be plunged into a new ice age by now. And look–we’re actually getting warmer! See, calling public attention to a problem really does work. So accept what these people are telling us, and before you know it, the planet will cool down again. We are all just too dumb to make decisions for ourselves. Yesterday: Mammograms for everyone, save the breasts! Today, uhm, not so much. Global warming will go the same route. Trust me!

ABC (still ignoring the real story and still obsessed with the couple who crashed the State Dinner LAST WEEK, so be thankful they know a real news story when they see it!

Some recent studies, including one by Britain’s Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research, indicate that global temperatures have plateaued during the past decade, which could undermine arguments that the Earth is undergoing a long-term warming trend because of the burning of fossil fuels. Phil Jones has denied manipulating evidence and said his comments were taken out of context.

Climate change skeptics “don’t have the science on their side anymore, so they’ve resorted to a smear campaign to distract the public from the reality of the problem and the need to confront it head-on in Copenhagen,” said Mann, professor of meteorology at Pennsylvania State University who was the recipient of several of the published e-mails.

But the pressure is getting to some people, even if the Media continues to ignore it with gusto:

Leading British scientists at the University of East Anglia, who were accused of manipulating climate change data – dubbed Climategate – have agreed to publish their figures in full.

But others:

Gavin A. Schmidt, a NASA climatologist involved in many of the e-mail exchanges, said that voluntarily disclosing more data would never satisfy the “very hard-bitten, distraught core” of climate skeptics. “The number of attacks on our integrity will actually increase since there will be more ways to twist what it is we do to support some conspiracy theory or other,” he said.

Mike Hulme, a climate scientist at the University of East Anglia and author of “Why We Disagree About Climate Change,” said the disclosures could offer a chance to finally bring the practices of climate researchers and the intergovernmental panel into the modern era, where transparency — enforced legally or illegally — is inevitable and appropriate.

“The I.P.C.C. itself, through its structural tendency to politicize climate change science, has perhaps helped to foster a more authoritarian and exclusive form of knowledge production,” he said in an e-mail message, “just at a time when a globalizing and wired cosmopolitan culture is demanding of science something much more open and inclusive.”

Dr. Curry and others said that if nothing else, the e-mail correspondence suggested that climate scientists needed to show more temperance in dealing with their critics.

“We won the war — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, and climate and energy legislation is near the top of the U.S. agenda,” Dr. Curry said. “Why keep fighting all these silly battles and putting ourselves in this position?”

Ah, the condescending, snotty personal attacks of the liberal caught with his hands in the cookie jar.

I guess we can be thankful they never change.

American Thinker:

Jonathan Leake, writing in the UK’s Times Online, offers a balanced overview of the scandal and this fascinating point regarding the chronology of the “breaking” of the story:

It was a powerful and controversial mix – far too powerful for some. Real Climate is a website designed for scientists who share Jones’s belief in man-made climate change. Within hours the file had been stripped from the site.

Several hours later, however, it reappeared – this time on an obscure Russian server. Soon it had been copied to a host of other servers, first in Saudi Arabia and Turkey and then Europe and America.

What’s more, the anonymous poster was determined not to be stymied again. He or she posted comments on climate-sceptic blogs, detailing a dozen of the best emails and offering web links to the rest. Jones’s statistical tricks were now public property.

Note carefully the fact that this modern shot heard round the world first found a point of entry through Russia, then Saudi Arabia, and then Turkey – next Europe, and lastly the United States.

In other words, the traditionally supposed intellectual freedom and free speech climate of the West was “stoney ground” in comparison to the accessibility of outlets under the more repressive regimes of Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. Perhaps the greater story is the truth itself – and its indomitable will to reveal itself through even the most unlikely of conduits and efforts of even one individual arrayed against a worldwide apparatus of dishonesty.

Jesus, in Luke 19:40, when admonished to silence the truth, made a startling claim about the geological record that collided with accepted scientific notions in His day:

And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.

It would appear that the repression of truth in the scientic community and the Mainstream Media in the west has indeed caused “the stones to cry out.”

Be thankful for crying stones.

Now we just have to guard against crying wallets.

With regards to the recent “email scandal” surrounding the climate change research…

I think it is only fair that the climate skeptics in return publish their complete email correspondence of the last decade, to show that they themselves are far removed from all the things they accuse the climate scientists of.

I’m not holding my breath for that though.

Thierry Henry ist zum geprügelten Hund geworden. Nicht nur die Iren, sondern auch die eigenen Landsleute zeigen mit dem Finger auf ihn und stellen den Franzosen für sein Handspiel an den Pranger. Richtig so, meint man im ersten Moment sagen zu müssen. Wer sich unfair verhält, gehört mit Spott überhäuft. Dabei zerreißen sich allerdings auch all diejenigen das Maul über Henry, die in seiner Situation ganz genauso gehandelt hätten.

Das Handspiel hat insofern Brisanz, als dass es das entscheidende Tor einleitete, durch das die Iren nicht, dafür aber die Franzosen trotz dürftiger Leistung in den Relegationsspielen zur Weltmeisterschaft nach Südafrika fahren. Dennoch bleibt es, was es ist: ein Regelverstoß. Ein Verstoß, der nicht geahndet wurde, ein Verstoß, wie er im Fußball bis hinab in die Kreisligen permanent vorkommt und immer wieder die Gemüter erhitzt.

Eben jene Gemüter mögen bitte jetzt einmal einen Schritt nach vorne machen, die sich aufrichtig davon freisprechen können, auf dem Fußballfeld in einer ähnlichen Situation nicht wie Henry zu handeln. Das ist für die Iren natürlich nur ein schwacher Trost, aber sie können ja nun nach dem Handspiel von Henry mit einem neuen Fairness-Gedanken den Fußball verändern, indem sie solche von ihnen verursachten Regelverstöße in Zukunft sofort beim Schiedsrichter anzeigen.

Das gilt übrigens nicht nur für die Iren. So wie der Regelverstoß ein Regelverstoß bleibt, bleibt Henry der Übeltäter. Der Umgang mit seiner Person spricht ihn nicht von seinem Vergehen frei. Er verdeutlicht indes die Scheinheiligkeit des Profisports. Frankreich liebt den Verrat, aber nicht den Verräter.

Bureaucracy is the collective organizational structure, procedures, protocols, and set of regulations in place to manage activity, usually in large organizations and government.it is represented by standardized procedure (rule-following) that guides the execution of most or all processes within the body;. A bureaucracy traditionally does not create policy but, rather, enacts it. Law, policy, and regulation normally originates from a leadership, which creates the bureaucracy to put them into practice. In reality, the interpretation and execution of policy, etc. can lead to informal influence. A bureaucracy is directly responsible to the leadership that creates it, such as a government executive or board of directors.As a matter of practicality, the bureaucracy is where the individual will interface with an organization such as a government etc., rather than directly with its leadership.

Midwest Voices: I suddenly realized how easy it might be to get “the bureaucracy” working for you. If there existed a “consensus” on what the greater good should be- and maybe even the means to get there (ends justifying the means) by the various ruling elites in this country (and/or world), then the few people willing to take a personal hit for justice might never get his or her message out due to the machinery of the bureaucracy working against them.

The bureaucracy doesn’t question orders or take the initiative to question assumptions. The bureaucracy obeys. And once the government bureaucracy gets moving in a certain direction it isn’t that easy to get it derailed- no matter how idiotic what they are doing seems. It is a self-licking ice cream cone, as some call it. Paradigms are not questioned nor directions changed- until maybe there’s a lot of embarrassing press and Congressional inquiries.

ClimateGate, challenging the “bureaucracy” and “the consensus” that the Global Warming Religionists have built up. And how the media is on board with the “consensus” and unwilling to question it.

Just like Health Care Reform.

Just Like ACORN.

Just Like Cap & Trade.

Just Like “terrorism”, a word a Liberal can’t even think let alone discuss.

The wheels of bureaucracy grind very slowly.

And when the media is in on it. It’s positively Orwellian.

IBD:  Here’s a dirty little secret about the New York Times: It likes to leak things. Important things. Things that change the course of the public conversation. From the Pentagon Papers to the ruined terrorist-surveillance programs of the Bush era, the Times has routinely found that secrecy is a danger and sunlight is a disinfectant.

Until now. A troublesome hacker recently released e-mails going to and from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain, e-mails that exposed how the “scientific experts” cited so often by the media on global warming are guilty of crude political talk, attempts at censoring opponents and twisting scientific data to support their policy agenda.

The e-mails prove just how dishonest this left-wing global warming agenda truly is.

And now suddenly, the New York Times has found religion and won’t publish these private e-mails. Environmental reporter Andrew Revkin, who’s more global warming lobbyist than reporter, quoted — sparsely — from the e-mails, but declared that he would not post these texts on his “Dot Earth” blog on the Times Web site: “The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.”

That rule didn’t apply to things like the disclosure of the Swift global bank monitoring program against terrorists.

Unlike our secret terror-fighting efforts, there is no grave matter of national security to protect here. There is only a danger of shredding the undeserved reputation of some global-warming alarmists as nonpartisan, nonideological, just-the-facts scientists with no preconceived environmentalist or statist agenda.

The networks also have ignored this emerging scandal with all the ignorance they could muster.

But in the seven days after the New York Times revealed the existence of an NSA program to monitor communications to terrorist cells abroad, the three networks ran a combined 23 stories about the program, more than one story, per network, per night.

How many have run stories on ClimateGate?

Virtually none, and the few, like CNN’s micro-mini blow-off is about what you get.

It doesn’t fit THEIR agenda.

Their bureaucracy.

Their “perceived wisdom”

Their “consensus”.

So it’s no big deal.

Charles Krauthammer:  The United States has the best health care in the world but, because of its inefficiencies, also the most expensive.

The fundamental problem with the 2,074-page Senate health care bill (as with its 2,014-page House counterpart) is that it wildly compounds the complexity by adding hundreds of new provisions, regulations, mandates, committees and other arbitrary bureaucratic inventions.

Worse, they’re packed into a monstrous package without any regard to each other. The only thing linking these changes — such as the 118 new boards, commissions and programs — is political expediency.

Each must be able to garner just enough votes to pass. There isn’t even a pretense of a unifying vision or conceptual harmony.

The result is an overregulated, overbureaucratized system of surpassing arbitrariness and inefficiency. Throw a dart at the Senate tome:

• You’ll find mandates with financial penalties — the amounts picked out of a hat.

• You’ll find insurance companies (who live and die by their actuarial skills) told exactly what weight to give risk factors, such as age. Currently insurance premiums for 20-somethings are about one-sixth the premiums for 60-somethings. The House bill dictates that the young shall now pay at minimum one-half; the Senate bill, one-third — numbers picked out of a hat.

• Y ou’ll find sliding scales for health-insurance subsidies — randomly picked — that will radically raise marginal income-tax rates for middle-class recipients, among other crazy unintended consequences.

The bill is irredeemable. It should not only be defeated. It should be immolated, its ashes scattered over the Senate swimming pool.

But the Bureaucracy demands to be fed. And the Democrats want to gorge it on 1/6 of GDP of this country.

They believe it benefits them.

The Frankenstein’s Monster of Bureaucracy will be created by them and they will be Frankenstein.

They will still have the illusion of being in control of it.

Even after the creature breaks out and terrorize everyone it won’t be their fault.

And considering they were off by on Medicare cost projections. They  were 1/9 of the reality and it’s getting worse every day. Can you imagine what this going to look like in your kid’s life time??

God help us all.

(oh, sorry left wingers that was a right-wing extremist evil Christian moment)

Allah Akbar.

Feel better now

Try Nate Silver, a statistician and liberal-media favorite, recently named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People. He says scientists in this exchange were unethical:

“Dr. Jones, talking candidly about sexing up a graph to make his conclusions more persuasive. This is not a good thing to do — I’d go so far as to call it unethical — and Jones deserves some of the loss of face that he will suffer.”

But then he adds the typical liberal disclaimer: “Unfortunately, this is the sort of thing that happens all the time in both academia and the private sector — have you ever looked at the graphs in the annual report of a company which had a bad year? And it seems to happen all too often on both sides of the global warming debate.”

When conservatives are wrong, conservatives are wrong. When liberals are wrong, everyone does it, don’t you know?

It’s no big deal.

Nothing to see here.

Hey, did you remember Mark Foley? , wasn’t he just awful…

In another e-mail from Jones to Mann, the Washington Post reported, there’s talk of cutting skeptical scientists out of the official U.N. report: “I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report,” Jones writes. “Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”

But you can’t take that literally, it was “out of context”. That’s not really what he said…

But Tea Bag Protests are all shills for Insurance Companies.

And anyone who denies the “consensus” on Global Warming must be a shill for the fossil fuels industry…

Fascinating, isn’t it folks.

This kind of censor-your-opponents activity ought to disgust a journalist who values openness and rigorous debate above all.

Every day the networks avoid this story, they’re saying they don’t really care about either of those values. In fact, they become willing accomplices in a cover-up of global proportions.

So what else aren’t they willing to tell you? Hmmmm….

That is, after they get over their obsession with the couple who crashed the State Dinner, that is.

After all, that is really big news.

And ClimateGate is not.

And the formation of massive new bureaucracies is not either.

Nor is massive tax increases in a recession.

And we all know that bureaucrats are vastly more tolerant, kind, flexible, efficient, and more willing to help you out in a real crisis.

Don’t worry, be happy.

“Hope and Change” is on it’s way.

The following definitions are from Webster’s online dictionary:

Main Entry: cap·i·tal·ism

Date: 1877

: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market

Main Entry: so·cial·ism

Date: 1837

1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2 a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state

The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) of the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. The Tenth Amendment restates the Constitution’s principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted to the national government nor prohibited to the states by the constitution of the United States are reserved to the states or the people.

Do you see the difference between between these two ideologies? Capitalism works, Socialism does not. America was built by pioneers. Men and Women with a can do spirit. They fought for Freedom. Free to be who you are. They did it all themselves. They learned that with hard work came rewards. They never gave up, they never quit. A lot of blood has been shed to protect our freedom and our liberties. We fought to get where we are, we worked hard.

Now something more sinister is happening. Our government is being taken over from the inside. We never fired a shot, but it’s happening. We are being force fed Socialism. They are cramming it down our throats with government run healthcare, private business bailouts and so called stimulus money. If you want to slay an eagle, you can cut off its head or stab it in the heart. The head of our country is our government, and the heart is our economy. Our economy will eventually collapse if the government continues with this radical spending spree. We simply cannot sustain the debt load. The 800 Billion dollar stimulus package was the shadiest deal we have ever seen. They gave no one time to read it and just bulldogged it through. We still don’t know where all that money went.

We are slowly being taken over. This period will be known as “The Great Deception” in history. This country was won with the blood of men. We were founded as one nation under God. The government has lost all sight of this. They are working to ban God completely. Look at the Old Testament; this is not a wise move.

Like it or not, this country was founded by Europeans with a belief in God. We used Christian principles to get where we are. Now we are moving away from this. Moving away from our Morals and Values that have gotten us this far. Other newer immigrants may argue to push Christianity right out of our society. Look at the Declaration of Independence, was it signed by anyone with a Middle Eastern name? The answer is a resounding NO. If they want a different form of government, let them leave the country and pursue their options.

As Americans, we need to take our country back. Our trust is being betrayed by the current administration. They are changing the very principles this country was founded on. America is being dismantled from the inside.

Therefore I think Barack Hussein Obama II should be charged with Treason.  You can add Nancy Pelosi as well.

It’s time to take our country back.

Main Entry: trea·son

Etymology: Middle English tresoun, from Anglo-French traisun, from Latintradition-, traditio act of handing over, from tradere to hand over, betray — more at traitor

Date: 13th century

1: the betrayal of a trust: treachery
2: the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance or to kill or personally injure the sovereign or the sovereign’s family

My youngest son Wyatt, was born with a baseball in one hand, and a basketball in the other. His older brother was about to turn five when he was born, so he was always trying to live up to his big bro’s standards. . .a tough job for one so much younger. No one let him win at anything, for the simple pleasure of winning. He had to work hard to learn how to compete at an early age, because his brother was athletic, an honor student, and wanted to be the best at everything he did.

It was not enjoyable to watch him get walked on at times, but we also knew he was learning a life lesson in the process, and he could not be given everything on a silver platter, as much as his momma wanted him to experience the joy of succeeding.

I will never forget the day he had to learn the lesson that the world is not fair. All the times his brother beat him at running, making baskets, hitting baseballs, or winning board games, he lost fair and square. The night we went to a PTO function where trophies were given to grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-8 for shooting free throws, our family watched and cheered as they let him compete against the K-2 graders because he was still too young to be in school. Wyatt made every free throw but one, into the plastic Michael Jordan basketball goal with the miniature basketball; far better than the other competitors. Naively, we screamed and clapped and told him how he won. He wasn’t stupid–he could count and knew he had the most points. When the trophies were doled out, he waited patiently to receive his. Someone must have overlooked his score, because third, second, and first places went to kids with lower scores. It was all over, and when it became obvious he was not getting a trophy, he bit his quivering lip, and held the tears in. Four years old. In the car, the tears came. So did mine. How do you explain only the kids who go to school get the trophies, even though he knew he made more baskets? It was absolutely heartbreaking. His aunt, uncle, and cousins had been there, too. He must have felt humiliated. We all went home, deflated.

About an hour later, there was a knock on our door. It was his uncle. He had gone to his basement and scrounged up an old basketball trophy of his own, about 20 years old, by the look of the dulling metal and the ’70’s style shorts on the basketball player posed with a raised ball. He had taken a piece of green paper and written with a Sharpie, “Hoop Shoot ’95, 9 out of 10,“ and taped it to the marble base where the metal plate with his own inscripted honor had been.

It was touching, and Wyatt was so pleased. We could tell he felt important. We watched as a big smile spread across his little face. It was precious.

The trophy has always kept its place of honor on a cabinet where other awards like the GEC All-Conference MVP in baseball and Duff-Kingston Sportsmanship in basketball have joined it over the years. He has made his own way in sports and academics, possibly because of those early lessons he was forced to learn from his big brother. He didn’t know it then, but the fact that life isn’t always fair was the least of the lessons to be learned that night of the PTO function. When he reads this story and is reminded of how his big, tough, six- foot-something uncle went to the effort to even the playing field for him, he is going to see the unconditional love that only God can put in another’s heart. It is the kind of life lesson we all want our children to experience first hand.

Before outlining the code section by section I will show the new numbering that is going to be important to all those using or needing to refer to it. This is more or less the content listing, but important as a a guide – a sort of drop-down menu. For ease (lc) will refer to the new Lending Code and (bc) to the defunct Banking Code.

Introduction: This has been changed to reflect the legal and regulatory changes that affect the code.

Section 1: Key commitments (lc) mainly contains the Fairness Commitments of section 2 (bc).

Section 2: Communications and financial promotions appears to be a gathering together of these matters, but mainly section 3 (bc).

Section 3: Credit reference agencies At first glance this appears again to be a consolidation of matters more scattered in the (bc), but mainly in section 13.

Section 4: Credit assessment looks new, and certainly is a move to more openness and transparency in bank operation. It may also be a response to criticism of the ‘largesse scattering’ by lenders in the past decade in particular.

Section 5: Current accounts overdrafts This section looks as though it may be new. Again a matter of transparency and clear information about bank methods.

Section 6: Credit cards These have become a gigantic part of the loans market, and so now justify a longer and more detailed section; previously section 10 (bc).

Section 7: Loans appears to be part of the old section 13 (bc).

Section 8: Terms and conditions looks like a new – and short – clarification of how signatories should ensure customers understand the terms and condition surrounding a loan.

Section 9: Financial difficulties Replaces section 14 (bc). There are important additions and changes. I have already given some detail on this in the blog.

Section 10: Complaints replaces section 15 (bc). It is updated of course, in line with the regulatory changes.

Section: 11: Monitoring is more or less the old brief section 16.

Annex A: Summary box for unsecured loans is like a template or guide to code subscribers.

Annex B: Statement of Principles for micro-enterprises I have dealt with at some length already. It also appears to cove the getting help information from section 17 (bc).

I think the Glossary has not been carried over to the new code, but perhaps that can be corrected soon.

Joseph Harris – Debt Control Man

Author: Control Your Debt Crisis on Your Own Terms
http:www.controlyourdebtcrisis.co.uk

WHY WE ARE PLANNING 2-3 DAY BOOT-CAMPS AND MANUALS FOR LAWYERS, BOOT-CAMPS FOR FORENSIC ANALYSTS, AND BOOT-CAMPS FOR LAYMEN. IT’S JUST NOT AS SIMPLE AS YOU MAY WANT IT TO BE.

NOT EVERYTHING ENDS WELL. THE BATTLE IS ON. THIS JUDGE SAID THE ASSIGNMENT DOESN’T NEED TO BE RECORDED TO PROVE OWNERSHIP. HE’S TECHNICALLY RIGHT, BUT HIS CONCLUSION WAS WRONG. THIS IS WHY I KEEP SAYING THERE IS NO SILVER BULLET. The fact that an assignment is not recorded does not mean that it can’t be recorded — unless it is not executed in recordable form. If it isn’t executed in recordable form and it isn’t recorded then it violates the terms of the pooling and service agreement and the prospectus/indentures for the mortgage backed bond sold investors.

If the purported document violates the enabling documents then the assignment has not been accepted. If the assignment has not been accepted then there is no assignment. At best there is a conditional assignment which is clearly in violation of the the express terms of the enabling documents. The existence of the condition creates an issue of fact as to who really has the right to own, enforce and collect on the obligation, note and mortgage.

If there was no consideration for the “transfer? then there isn’t even an equitable argument for why the pretender lender should be allowed to foreclose. They have nothing to lose by the alleged default and obviously don’t even know if there is a default in the OBLIGATION that was FUNDED with ADVANCED MONEY by INVESTORS.

But you see, this Judge was already predisposed to not giving the “borrower” a free house. He/She needs to be coddled and led along the path of education so he/she understands that the “borrower” is actually an investor who purchased a financial loan product subject to terms and duties which were breached by all the people in the securitization chain. The “lender” is the investor who advanced the money and is not in court.

The pretender lender is using bluff and fraud to get their share of the great American pie at the homeowner’s expense, depriving the homeowner of the knowledge of the identity of the true lender, the ability to settle out of court with the true lender, the ability to comply with federal law in seeking modification, short-sale, refinance or even payoff because the pretender lender in Court in Florida doesn’t even have the right, power, authority or justification to execute a satisfaction of mortgage.

If they don’t have the power to execute a satisfaction of mortgage then how could they have the power to foreclose?

The problem with this case is that the homeowners should be aggressive but not to try to convince the Judge why he/she should get a free house. You must align yourself with the Judge’s basic sense of fairness and basic mistrust of legal maneuvering to get out of a legally owed debt. By focusing your aggression on discovery, enforcement of the QWR and/or DVL, asking for the name of the true lender and the production of documents and names, addresses and phone numbers of people who can testify under oath, you present the Judge with something he cannot or should not refuse and that any appellate court would reverse him on. You are asking for discovery to test the merits of the pretender lender’s allegation or position that they have the right to enforce the note, that they are the party to whom the obligation is owed, that they are a creditor in the sense that they advanced money which they will lose if they don’t get to enforce the note and obligation, and that therefore they are the beneficiary of the terms of the the mortgage that secures the alleged debt.

If you go into court spouting securitization theories it is very easy to say you haven’t convinced the Judge. If you go in demanding an evidentiary hearing based upon the rules of evidence and founded on common discovery and enforcement in obtaining relevant information about your loan, and seeking an accounting from those people, entities or parties that were participants in the securitization chain, then you are only asking for a COMPLETE accounting so that you discover what undisclosed fees were paid under TILA and RESPA, and the true identities of the people involved in your table-funded loan.

I’m sorry for your result Mr Fitzgerald, but perhaps with the aid of competent, licensed, local counsel you can move for rehearing, file a bankruptcy that will stay the proceedings, and/or appeal.

Author : L.Fitzgerald
Comment:
” Happy Thanksgiving …give thanks to all the Blessings you have……he said,

and don’t complaint of the things you don’t have..”

“I’ll be eating turkey with my ” kids ” tomorrow “…he happily remarked .

With a smile on his face ..this Orlando 9 th Judicial Circuit

Court .. Judge…denied my motion to vacate judgment , and

allowed my house to be sold on Jan. 2010.

We became a ” potential homelessness couple.”… .the day

before Thanksgiving..

He was very kind to a Wall Street Bankster [ plaintiff ]..he gave away my only home ….

During this hearing ..one of my main arguments ..

was the Plaintiff’s lack of recorded Assignments ..and chain of

Title .. [ The Bankster is not my original lender..].

The smiling Judge made this comment ..that shocked us …

” Florida law does not require Assignments to be recorded…

…to prove the Plaintiff’s ownership…!!.

Happy Thanksgiving.

While the Mainstream press is obsessed to distraction with the couple who crashed Obama’s Hollywood style State Dinner…

I move  on to the star of the show, the turkey.

Over at RealClimate.org, Gavin Schmidt, a modeler for the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has been downplaying the leak. Schmidt wrote: “There is no evidence of any worldwide conspiracy, no mention of George Soros nefariously funding climate research … no admission that global warming is a hoax, no evidence of the falsifying of data, and no ‘marching orders’ from our socialist/communist/vegetarian overlords.”

Now doesn’t this sound like your typical liberal caught with his fingers in the cookie jar. Snarky, snotty, and over-the-top dismissive. And what an interesting mention of George Soros, the Billionaire Socialist behind Moveon.org.

Fascinating. Like it came from a scripted playbook…

Yesterday, Professor Jones (Climatic Research Unit) refused to quit and denied that researchers had altered evidence to bolster the case for man-made climate change.

He added: ‘We absolutely stand by the science we produce here at the University of East Anglia and it has been peer reviewed and published.

‘Some of the emails probably had poorly chosen words and were sent in the heat of the moment, when I was frustrated. I do regret sending some of them. We’ve not deleted any emails or data here at CRU.

‘I would never manipulate the data one bit  -  I would categorically deny that.’

Me think he dost protest too much!

Jan 126,1998: Now, I have to go back to work on my State of the Union speech. And I worked on it until pretty late last night. But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I’m going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people. Thank you.- Pres. Bill Clinton

Yeah, we believed you Bill.

But yet again, a president doesn’t care, Politics and Agenda full steam ahead, damn the torpedoes!

Washington Post: The administration’s decision to identify a series of goals, including cutting emissions over the next decade “in the range of” 17 percent below 2005 levels, is a calculated risk, given that Congress has never set mandatory limits on greenhouse gases.

The figure amounts to a 5.5 percent cut below the 1990 levels that most countries use as a reference point, much less than what most other nations have called for. It is also less than what President Bill Clinton endorsed in the Kyoto talks in 1997 and well below the 25 to 40 percent cut that the European Union has asked of industrialized countries.

Richard Somerville of Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Michael Mann of Penn State; and Eric Steig of University of Washington – said that last week’s leaked emails controversy was apparently a part of a “smear campaign,” attempting to wreck the climate summit in Copenhagen next month.

Sounding Familiar yet?

Mann said: “What they’ve done is search through stolen personal emails—confidential between colleagues who often speak in a language they understand and is often foreign to the outside world.” He further added that the skeptics had largely turned “something innocent into something nefarious.”

So what language is that sir, Esperanto?

Classic attempt at diminishing the damage.

UK Telegraph: Met Office scientists called for urgent action on global warming and dismissed calls for a public inquiry into emails which suggest a conspiracy among international scientists to falsify data.

Although final figures will not be known until January, 2009 is likely to be the fifth hottest year on record, reversing a brief three-year “cold snap” caused by natural temperature fluctuations, they said.

So why aren’t the hotter temperatures, a “natural variation”??

Because, then the whole farce would be exposed. So only “cold” is a natural variation. Of Course, in 1975 “Global Cooling” was going to kill us all. So I so man has changed a lot in 35 years!

Temperatures over the next decade will be even higher, Met Office models predict.

But not a “natural variation”…

The organisation estimates that in half of the next 10 years average temperatures will be higher than those seen in 1998, the warmest year on record.

Half?! Oh my GOD!  It’s a Crisis! Save the Women and Children!

Some up, some “variation”, but were all doomed if we don’t do something drastic right now!

It’s a Crisis!

The Sky is Falling!

OH NO!

“It does seem that people are going to extraordinary lengths to discredit the data that shows that global warming is happening and that it is man-made.”-Dr Vicky Pope, head of climate change advice at the Met Office Hadley Centre.

Yeah, were using your OWN WORDS!

Or maybe that’s just a “variation”…

Now that’s just evil.

In one of the emails Prof Phil Jones, director of the unit, refers to a “trick” he used with raw data to “hide the decline” in global temperatures.

Last night he accused those who leaked the emails of a “concerted attempt to put a question mark over the science of climate change in the run up to the Copenhagen talks”.

Really?

Well, The President is off to Copenhagen again, hopefully he’ll be a successful as he as the last time he was there, when he came in last place for the Olympic bid for his boys in the hood in Chicago.

We can only Hope.

“Officials at the University of East Anglia confirmed in a statement on Friday that files had been stolen from a university server and that the police had been brought in to investigate the breach,” the New York Times reports.

But that, and the vast majority of the Mainstream “Ministry of Truth” Media, is about all they want to report. They don’t want to talk about it.

Because, it’s a heresy against their faith.

Their Religion- Global Warming.

Kevin Trenberth, who heads the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.,”It is incontrovertible” that the world is warming as a result of human actions, Trenberth said. “The question to me is what to do.”

Dr. Kevin Trenberth, the head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and prominent man-made global warming advocate, wrote in an e-mail: “The fact is we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.”

Ah, the Faithful and a “scientist” to boot….He is one of the people in the emails contained in “Climategate” by the way.

Climategate being the leaking onto the internet of data and emails that shows that Man-Made Global Warming is a farce.

I have said in past blogs what a crock I think Global Warming is and have provided evidence. But as the British author and satirist Douglas Adams once said, “Proof denies faith” and the two last things the Global Warming faithful want is to be wrong, and to have to defend their faith against the proof that they are wrong.

If you try looking for the story of the files and emails that show a major cover-up of information from the faithful to preserve their faith at all costs you’ll not see much of anything on the Mainstream Media. Because, like Van Jones, ACORN,  and other stories that the Liberal Elite don’t want to to talk about they want to just crush it and hope it goes away.

That “Journalism” today. It’s all Politics. All agenda all the time.

Washington Post:

While few U.S. politicians bother to question whether humans are changing the world’s climate — nearly three years ago the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded the evidence was unequivocal — public debate persists. And the newly disclosed private exchanges among climate scientists at Britain’s Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia reveal an intellectual circle that appears to feel very much under attack, and eager to punish its enemies.

In one e-mail, the center’s director, Phil Jones, writes Pennsylvania State University’s Michael E. Mann and questions whether the work of academics that question the link between human activities and global warming deserve to make it into the prestigious IPCC report, which represents the global consensus view on climate science.

“I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report,” Jones writes. “Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!”

In another, Jones and Mann discuss how they can pressure an academic journal not to accept the work of climate skeptics with whom they disagree. “Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal,” Mann writes.

“I will be emailing the journal to tell them I’m having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor,” Jones replies.

Your typical liberal response to any disagreeing with them, intimidate them, then if that doesn’t work, censor them.

WSJ:

This is downright Orwellian. What the Post describes is not a vigorous debate but an attempt to suppress debate–to politicize the process of scientific inquiry so that it yields a predetermined result. This does not, in itself, prove the global warmists wrong. But it raises a glaring question: If they have the facts on their side, why do they need to resort to tactics of suppression and intimidation?

It is hard to see how this is anything less than a definitive refutation of the popular press’s contention that global warmism is settled science–a contention that both the <LONDON>Times and the Post repeat in their articles on the revelations: “The evidence pointing to a growing human contribution to global warming is so widely accepted that the hacked material is unlikely to erode the overall argument,” the Times claims. The Post leads its story by observing that “few U.S. politicians bother to question whether humans are changing the world’s climate,” and that “nearly three years ago the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded the evidence was unequivocal.”

But don’t expect much more from the faithful than there usual scorn, contempt and disrespect.

This should be considered not merely a scientific scandal but an enormous journalistic scandal. The elite press treats skepticism about global warming as a mental defect. It uses a form of the No True Scotsman fallacy to delegitimize people who dissent from the (manufactured) “consensus.” Dissent is scientifically unserious, therefore dissenting scientist A is unserious. There’s no way to break in. The moment someone disagrees with the “consensus” they disqualify themselves from criticizing the consensus. That’s not how science is supposed to work. Skeptics who’ve received a tote bag from some oil company (me: or insurance company in the Health Care debate) are branded as shills, but scientists who live off of climate-change-obsessed foundations or congressional fiefdoms are objective, call-it-like-they-see-it truth seekers. Question these folks and you get a Bill Murrayesque, “Back off, man. We’re scientists.” (NRO)

Well said.

An even larger reason this is a journalistic scandal is that governments want to spend — literally — trillions of dollars on climate change.

Cap & Trade anyone? anyone?

Industries want to make billions off it.

And so will some of it’s biggest Prophets (Profits, that’s a funny ) , Like Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi.

James Taranto of Best of the Web Today reminds us of Al Gore’s statement in an interview with Grist, “I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.” In plain English, the former Vice President and Presidential candidate supports lying in favor of the causes he believes in and supports.

Taranto even manages to turn up a Stanford University professor, Stephen H. Schneider, who explained to Discover that in order to make the world a better place scientists sometimes have to “offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.”

Interject FOXNews: Professor Phil Jones, the head of the Climate Research Unit, and Professor Michael Mann at Pennsylvania State University, who has been an important scientist in the climate debate, have come under particular scrutiny. Among his e-mails, Professor Jones talks to Professor Mann about the “trick of adding in the real temps to each series…to hide the decline [in temperature].”

The poor will be hurt. Economies wrenched apart. And journalistic skepticism is almost nowhere to be found. If you know people in the “skeptic community” (for want of a better term) or even just normal, honest scientists, the observation that federal and foundation funding and groupthink is driving, or at least distorting, the climate debate is commonplace. But it’s given almost no oxygen in the elite press, because they are in on it. (NRO)

So, yeah,  ABC,NBC,CBS, etc are really going to cover this story in detail and depth.

Hey, is that pig Flying!!!!

A few More nuggets:

And there is a lot more. In another exchange, Professor Jones tells Professor Mann: “If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone” and “We also have a data protection act, which I will hide behind.” Professor Jones further urges Professor Mann to join him in deleting e-mail exchanges about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s controversial assessment report: “Can you delete any e-mails you may have had with Keith re: [the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report]?” In another e-mail, Professor Jones told Professor Mann and Professor Malcolm Hughes at the University of Arizona and Raymond S. “Ray” Bradley at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: “I’m getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don’t any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act!”

Professor Jones complains to another academic: “I did get an e-mail from the FOI person here early yesterday to tell me I shouldn’t be deleting e-mails” and “IPCC is an international organization, so is above any national FOI. Even if UEA holds anything about IPCC, we are not obliged to pass it on.” We only have e-mails from Professor Jones’ institution, and, with his obvious approach to delete files; we have no idea what damaging information has been lost.

London Telegraph:

But perhaps the most damaging revelations  – the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal – are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.

Here are a few tasters.

Manipulation of evidence:

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.

Private doubts about whether the world really is heating up:

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.

Suppression of evidence:

Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?

Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.

Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address.

We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.

Fantasies of violence against prominent Climate Sceptic scientists:

Next
time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat
the crap out of him. Very tempted.

Attempts to disguise the inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP):

……Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K back–I think that trying to adopt a timeframe of 2K, rather than the usual 1K, addresses a good earlier point that Peck made w/ regard to the memo, that it would be nice to try to “contain” the putative “MWP”, even if we don’t yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back….

And, perhaps most reprehensibly, a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, in other words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone who disagrees with AGW can be written off as a crank, whose views do not have a scrap of authority.

“This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the “peer-reviewed literature”. Obviously, they found a solution to that–take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering “Climate Research” as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…What do others think?”

“I will be emailing the journal to tell them I’m having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor.”“It results from this journal having a number of editors. The responsible one for this is a well-known skeptic in NZ. He has let a few papers through by Michaels and Gray in the past. I’ve had words with Hans von Storch about this, but got nowhere. Another thing to discuss in Nice !”

Pat Michaels, a climate scientist at the Cato Institute, told The Wall Street Journal: “This is what everyone feared. Over the years, it has become increasingly difficult for anyone who does not view global warming as an end-of-the-world issue to publish papers. This isn’t questionable practice, this is unethical.”

Unfortunately, we’ve a long, long way to go before the public mood (and scientific truth) is reflected by our policy makers. There are too many vested interests in AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming myth), with far too much to lose either in terms of reputation or money, for this to end without a bitter fight.

The New York Times argues: “The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.” – This from the same news organization that regularly publishes classified government documents!

As long as they were related to George W. Bush, Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld that is. I used to call the New York Times, Al-Jazerra East because they were so gung-ho for the propaganda victories and damn the consequences.

US President Barack Obama said Tuesday the world has moved “one step closer” to a “strong operational agreement” on climate change at next month’s Copenhagen summit after his talks with Indian and Chinese leaders.

And the Mainstream Media is going to do everything Orwellianly possible to not talk about it. EVER.

You, the public, just can’t handle the Truth.

The other day I was wondering how I can afford to send my son to college.  We are not rich and have very little in the way of savings. So I began to search the internet for Scholarship opportunities. What I discovered really annoyed me.  There are all kinds of scholarships available if you are a minority.  There are private and government grants available as long as you are Black, Hispanic, or a woman, but not for a white male.  There are small business loans for minorities, but not a white male. There are many laws that protect minorities, but none specifically for a white male.

Slavery ended over 100 years ago. There are no former slaves alive anymore.  Slavery only exists in the minds of some black people. They never experienced it. Most don’t even know their family history. The white people of today never owned a slave or knew anybody who did. Most white folks would be against slavery if it ever reared its ugly head again.  So why does racism still exist?  I found the answers on the internet. Government hiring guidelines for protection of jobs for minorities, but not for a white male.  Special loans made available for a minorities but not for a white male. Black history month, but no white history month. How about the United Negro College Fund, but no United White College Fund. Discrimination laws to protect minorities, but none designed specifically for a white man.

I asked a black friend of mine what the politically correct way to refer to a black person would be.  He said the correct terminology would be “African American”.  I asked him if he has ever been to Africa or if he has relatives there. I asked him if he has ever been to Africa. His answer to all of my questions was “NO”.  Then why should I call him and African American?  Why am I not called a “European American”?  It is the same thing isn’t it?

This is plainly a double standard.  If anyone should feel discriminated against, it should be the white male.  I have heard the argument that the white man is prosperous today because of the work of slaves, and we owe them.  I see just as many poor white folks as I do black folks.  The trailer parks show no discrimination in this area. At some point in history, every race has been discriminated against. The most prejudiced people I know are black.  Yet they are the first ones to cry discrimination.  No the white people aren’t keeping them down, they are keeping themselves down. Quit blaming others for your misfortune.  You don’t have it any worse than anyone else.

No matter what laws you put in place, there will always be ignorant people out there.  Some people may not like you because your hair is a different color than theirs or you live on a different side of town or you drive a foreign car, e.t.c.  Those people will always be there no matter what kind of laws you enact.  The hate spreads from one generation to another. No one is excluded. There will always be people who don’t like anyone different from themselves.

Why does the EEOC set hiring quotas? Isn’t that discriminatory? Why should one race be protected and others not? Today’s people never knew slavery. White people think the idea of slavery today would be ridiculous. Yet we are the very ones who suffer for something in which we had no part.  The prejudice today stems from special treatment for minorities, the NAACP and other groups like that. All white people see today is hate and distrust aimed at them. My generation says “what did we do wrong”? The answer lies in a history we were not a part of. How long do we have pay for the sins of the past? Every time that race card is played, you create more animosity between the races. It’s called racial tension.

We are all in the same boat.  The hate continues on both sides. The answer is not in differentiation but in equality. You will never change some people. There will always be ignorance on both sides.  Let’s not perpetuate it by having special treatment for one race over another.  Political correctness must go, it’s all a farce.  Life is hard for all of us, let’s come together and make a better world for everyone to live in. If we continue to have special laws that protect one race over another, then the hate will continue.

My grandmother once told me that when she grew up, if people needed food they received food; if they needed shelter then they received shelter.  People on welfare get money to buy what they need. Only some people abuse this privilege. They are sent a check to do with what they want. We have encountered people who abuse this system. I have seen a great number of people who are on permanent disability. Some are seriously disabled, while others are just getting a free ride. There is no reason why some of these people can’t become contributing members of society. Many could work doing something, but instead choose to do nothing. They sit at home and receive their Social Security checks and they have free health care through Medicaid. Wow, talk about a great setup. I can sit at home and do nothing and get a paycheck and benefits. Why in the world would anyone want to leave that? They don’t and that’s where the problem lies. People getting something for nothing.

We have kept people down through welfare. There is absolutely no incentive for them to get a job. If they find a job, they may make less money and they would lose their health benefits. So why work? It’s our own fault. We did this to ourselves. Strangely enough, it is these same people who complain that what they get is not enough. Instead of being grateful, they complain about what they don’t get. They need a good kick in the ass and be told to go get a job. Many of these people could do something productive, or could learn a new skill or trade that they can do. Instead they choose to sit at home and sponge off the rest of us.

I can hardly afford to take care of my own family. Why should I have to pay more of my money in taxes to take care of them? They certainly don’t appreciate it. They always want more. Meanwhile my children will have to do without while others get a free ride. Talk about unfair.

My Plan

My plan would involve building community housing for those that need help getting back on their feet. But there is a catch; each room will have only the basics, bed, bathroom, desk and chair. No personal belongings can be brought in except for clothes. Meals will be served cafeteria style. Each day you will be required to leave the house to look for a job. Daycare will be provided while you do this. You must come back each day and report your progress to a counselor. If you are not productive, you will be asked to leave. This way people will get what they need, not what they want. Classes will be held in the evening offering job search assistance, trades and skills. Having no television or radio in their rooms will encourage the people to get out as soon as possible. They will WANT a job, so they don’t have to live like this.  Their needs will be met, with cost being controlled by the appropriate State government.  The responsibility should lie with the local community, not the federal government. Cost control is easier at the local level. We can help the communities  take care of their own people. Direct control will cut down on fraud.

This housing is for the short term, not for those looking for a permanent place. This system will get the slackers out of the system, and only the truly needy will be there. No more handing out checks to do with as they please. This housing will be a last resort for them.

When this country was founded, it was not the intention of the people or the government to give people a free ride. 200 years ago people had the opportunity to work hard and make a decent living. You had to create your own opportunities, nobody owed you anything. If you lost your job, you relied on family, friends or your church to help you through. That worked then, and it could work now.

Nobody promised you free healthcare. If you wanted something, you had to earn it. Earning something on your own creates self respect. It empowers you to be the master of your own life. Welfare is like a drug, once you start it; it becomes harder to leave it. We are creating a nation of lazy and whiney people. Welfare is not in their best interest. It takes away motivation and it contributes towards feelings of low self worth. It keeps people down.

In this country you are free to succeed and free to fail. Nobody is guaranteed success. Nobody owes you anything. You make your own way in this world. If you don’t like it, then go to another country and see how that works out for you.

Fortunately Americans are good people. We are always ready to lend a hand to those in need. Let’s focus on our own people first.

I worked my tail off to get where I am today. I have been paying back student loans for the last 20 years. It was a lot of hard work. I did this so I could enjoy a nice lifestyle, NOT so I could support freeloaders. You have the same opportunities that I have. Quit complaining and get moving. I am tired of paying your way.

DUTY…HONOR…INTEGRITY…SERVICE…CHARACTER…TRUTH

Our government was set up to be by the people and for the people. Government was set to be in the background, not the foreground. Set up to support not to control. We are a capitalistic society, a free market economy. This is why we have the best and brightest in the world. You have the freedom to control your own destiny. The opportunity to succeed or fail, it’s all up to you. This is our form of government and it works. People from all over the world come to America so that they can enjoy the same freedoms many of us take for granted. This is why we have so much success in our county. Work = Reward.
There are people in America that want to destroy what our forefathers have worked so hard to build. They want the government to give them free healthcare and welfare. They want the government to “take care” of them. This is called Socialism. You work hard and pay higher taxes and let the government decide what is best for you. You have no say in the matter. There are many examples of Socialism in the world. It doesn’t work and it takes away your freedom. It promotes laziness and irresponsible behavior. You become brain-dead.
Our government has already gotten way to big. We need to drastically downsize. We need to quit spending our hard earned money on non essentials. Why do we fund research into the mating habits of the South American fruit fly? Why are we fighting a losing battle in the Middle East? They have been fighting amongst themselves for centuries and will continue to do so after we leave. We are doing nothing but wasting lives and money.
Our country is in bad shape. We still have homeless people, high unemployment, mortgage loan defaults and a variety of other social ills. We need to focus on the domestic agenda. Why did we give Pakistan $400 million dollars in aid? We need that money right here in our country. Not only does the working American earn money to feed and clothe our poor, but we do it for the rest of the world as well. Enough. We can’t take it anymore. The government spends our money foolishly. We buried ourselves in so much debt that it won’t be paid off in 100 years or possibly ever be paid off. But the Government keeps spending more and more of your money.
We need to bring those overseas jobs back into the U.S. We have to stop our dependence on other nations. We can manufacture quality products ourselves, why did we give that away? We are Americans and we need to take our country back.

In December 2008 Jacqueline Reynolds from Lowestoft called in the bailiffs after Capital One failed to pay her the £1500 she won from a small claims judgement. Despite not disputing or challenging the ruling they failed to respond to her many phone calls seeking the money and still hadn’t settled their debt some weeks after the judgement.

Following advise from the Consumer Direct website she engaged bailiffs to enter their premises to seize goods to the value of the unsettled amount. Surprise, surprise, than and only then Capital One sparked into life and sorted out their own mess paying up. Their reason for not seemingly being bothered before the arrival of the bailiffs?  Guess what? An administrative error! Talk about the normal hopeless excuse. Still well done and bravo Jacqueline.

Fight Back Tip: You have rights so don’t be afraid to exercise them. See Consumer Direct website (www.consumerdirect.gov.uk) or visit The Citizens Advice Bureau.

There is advice out there……often free!!

This made me chuckle.

IBD:

No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems — of which getting elected and re-elected are No. 1 and No. 2. Whatever is No. 3 is far behind.

Many of the things the government does that may seem stupid are not stupid at all, from the standpoint of the elected officials or bureaucrats who do these things.

The current economic downturn that has cost millions of people their jobs began with successive administrations of both parties pushing banks and other lenders to make mortgage loans to people whose incomes, credit history and inability or unwillingness to make a substantial down payment on a house made them bad risks.

Was that stupid? Not at all. The money that was being put at risk was not the politicians’ money, and in most cases was not even the government’s money.

And it made the liberal, especially, “feel good” that all these people who couldn’t afford it were given houses they couldn’t afford so that when the whole scheme collapsed it was the evil capitalists fault. The same capitalists they used and lauded over to create the mess in the first place.

And these people would vote for them.

They could use that. And they can use the “crisis” also.

Then they got their power dream. Control of the US Government.

So what if they cause the worst crash in generations, they got the power and there main goal now is to hold on to it. Everything else doesn’t really matter.

So how do they fix the problem of Bush running up the deficit?

Why, they SPEND EVEN MORE, but they do it “compassionately”

Moreover, the jobs that are being lost by the millions are not the politicians’ jobs — and jobs in the government’s bureaucracies are increasing.

And there are 111 new bureaucracies and counting in the Health Care bill. That’s a lot of bureaucrats.

And when the government has control of 1/6 of our entire economy and you and the decision of whether you live or die. It will be a bonanza for them.

Vote for me or die.

But first you have to pay massive tax increases for 4 years so that we can cook the books to make it look like we’re fiscally responsible when we’re just trying to get more money for re-election by funneling money to phony congressional districts.

But it looks good.

So what if we only have 38% support. We’re going to do it anyways.

It’s all about THEM, not US. You silly little taxpayer.

What every politicians wants, a pliable electorate to abuse.

So who really cares about jobs. Sure, Obama and Co. are going to be “job focused” as one Democratic strategist said once they cram Socialized Medicine down your our throats. But that’s because 2010 is a Congressional Re-election year.

Nothing more.

And I have maintained that if you thought 2007-2008 was the nastiest, most partisan fight ever. Just wait until 2010 and 2012.

Unholy, unethical, total annihilation partisanship is coming to a TV and Newspaper near you in 2010.

And Obama and The Democrats will have their “journalist” in the Mainstream “Ministry of Truth” Media to back them up and lie like Pinocchio never conceived of.

Just like the Housing Crisis, even today.

After the cascade of economic disasters that began in the housing markets in 2006 and spread into the financial markets in Wall Street and even overseas, people in the private sector pulled back. Banks stopped making so many risky loans. Home buyers began buying homes they could afford, instead of going out on a limb with “creative” — and risky — financing schemes to buy homes that were beyond their means.

But politicians went directly in the opposite direction. In the name of “rescuing” the housing market, Congress passed laws enabling the Federal Housing Administration to insure more and bigger risky loans — loans where there is less than a 4% down payment.

A recent news story told of three young men who chipped in a total of $33,000 to buy a home in San Francisco that cost nearly a million dollars. Why would a bank lend that kind of money to them on such a small down payment? Because the loan was insured by the Federal Housing Administration.

The bank wasn’t taking any risk. If the three guys defaulted, the bank could always collect the money from the Federal Housing Administration. The only risk was to the taxpayers.

And they’re suckers.

Just look at the Great Political Prostitute of 2009, Sen. Mary Landreiu. She says she against the Health Care bill. Obama and Reid roll up to her and ask her what it will cost to get her vote. They put down 100 Million. She says $300 Million.

Done.

It’s not their money. They don’t need to care. Because it gets them what they want.

And now she and probably many other Prostitutes are going to pork the Health Care Bill to unimaginable heights.

But don’t worry, it’s all for a good cause in the end.

Health Care for the Uninsured and the Poor?

Hell no, the Government, specifically, the Democrats, win. They get the ultimate Gravy Train of Money.

Money to use to get Re-Elected.

And that’s far more important than silly little ole’ Health Care. Or Global Warming. Or Amnesty.

Anything they do, we pay for it.

But it’s for our own good. Don’t you know.

But not to worry. There will always be taxpayers, not to mention future generations, to pay off the national debt.

And those future taxpayers, your kids and their kids, can’t vote against THEM and and the future is someone else’s electoral nightmare. That is after they spend 60 years in office raking in the millions and the power, that is.

Very few people are likely to connect the dots back to those members of Congress who voted for bigger mortgage guarantees and bailouts by the FHA. So the lawmakers’ and the bureaucrats’ jobs are safe, even if millions of other people’s jobs are not.

Rep. Barney Frank is not about to cut back on risky mortgage loan guarantees by the FHA. He recently announced that he plans to introduce legislation to raise the limit on FHA loan guarantees even more.

Rep. Frank will make himself popular with people who get those loans and with banks that make these high-risk loans where they can pocket the profits and pass the risk on to the FHA.

So long as the taxpayers don’t understand that all this political generosity and compassion are at their expense, Barney Frank is an odds-on favorite to get re-elected. The man is not stupid. What is stupid is believing that politicians are trying to solve our problems, instead of theirs.

As for the FHA running low on money, that is not about to stop the gravy train, certainly not with an election coming up in 2010.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is also running low on money. But that is not going to stop it from insuring bank accounts up to a quarter of a million dollars. It would be stupid for them to stop with an election coming up in 2010.

Sound Familiar??

The comedian Gallagher was right when he said :

There’s a reason “Congress” begins with the word “con”. Because “con” is the opposite of “pro”, so “Congress” must be the opposite of “progress”. 

The accident involving Senator James Rhoades, Mr. Senavitis and Yamila Yafar was on October 17, 2008 at around 6:30pm which was a Friday evening on SR 209 a heavily traveled 2 lane roadway with a small bridge in front of the Beachwood Inn, a bar and grill. 

In the Fern Ridge State Police Crash Report signed and sworn to by Trooper Officer Jason Beers is states for all three units involved “Trailing Units NONE”.   Yet one of the witnesses they have who claimes to be able to see whose tires crossed the yellow lines and whose did not was two car behind Senator James Rhoades. 

There are also several other witnesses whom spoke up about is and quickly changed to they don’t want to get involved, this is what subpoenaes are for. 

In news articles they state that the Chef of the Beechwood Inn heard the crash, told the owner there was a serious accident out front and them along with the parton in the Beechwood Inn were stuck there while rescue and removal was done and that they saw and watched what was going on.   They are all ovbious witnesses to the resting spot of the vehicles and where the truck was moved to for rescue of Mrs. Edith Rhoades to the double yellow lines.

Although the Crash Reports states no trailing units they have a witness traveling northbound 2 cars behind Senator James Rhoades.  

Those who  know this stretch of roadway know how busy it is and on a Friday at 6:30 pm in the evening there obviously were alot of vehicles trailing behind all Units being witness to the accident itself and the final resting spot of the vehicles before they were moved. 

I know if this happened to you, you would want people to come forward.  It seems people these days just don’t want to get involved but for truth and justice should in any case no matter how big or small, how little you think the information you have is, it all helps in the end. 

Stand together and don’t let others hang for something they shouldn’t.  GOD BLESS ALL

Whether one believes it or not,  Al Gore’s Video did contained some universally recognized truth. An example is the metaphor of the Frog placed in boiling water. It will immediately jump out while the frog placed in slowly heating water will boil to death.  80 years of heating Americans in a cauldron of expanding Government and diminishing liberty is coming to a boil. Yet for some reason we expect the criminals to place restrictions on themselves after these 80 years of  expanding their strength and power.

Washington says that it is “Healthcare” that is broken” to distract from the fact that we have a broken governing system itself.  The recent “Louisiana Purchase and Vote Sale” (to pass a vote that does not merit passing) brings up a central issue.  The buying and selling of votes is common place. Whether called “pork barrel” or “ear marks” they amount to the same. They use our money for their own re-election bids and lobby satisfaction. Additionally, since election campaigns are mostly funded from outside the representative’s district and we get this self-perpetuating power structure expanding beyond control. Any other business or person would be prosecuted for buying and selling influence i.e. bribes.

I am a Cancer specialist, a Radiation Oncologist. In 30 years of practice I have witnessed incredible heroics and tragedies. No tragedy, no malignancy, has ever been more out of control than our Federal Government.  Without a serious, sustained effort to stop the malignancy, the future result is obvious. 

While the “fix” becomes more difficult each day, the pain of continuing “as is” will be much greater.  It will be proving Karl Marx 19th century theory that America is destined to vote for Communism controled by a ”Workers Party” .

I urge you to join the fight to expand factual knowledge of the American public. Real truth and knowledge shows that liberty and freedom provide the most good for the most people.For 40 years the Federal Government has controlled ”education” and increasingly dimminished the libertu of Americans. Thus, we have a lot of  catching up to do. Please, talk, write, phone, twitter, facebook, and fund.  Address individuals, groups,  friends, family and strangers. Do research to the consequences of expanding power. (Remember the theme in literature, “Power Corrupts and Absolute Power corrupts absolutely”.)

If you are not convinced think about this.  ”Robin Hood” sounds like a hero but when he can choose  your boss or neighbor or your parent or child, does he still look good? After all it is only “other people”? Add the power of the Federal Government and what can possibly stop their power addiction from destroying you as well?

*(“The frog placed in cool water does not know to jump out as it is heated to a boil”. This parable is quoted by the Left  as a way to motivate the population to react to “Global Warming” and against the loss of liberties in the war on terror.  They should look in the mirror and unless this is their intentional strategy to feather their own power bed, they will change.  )

Every year the President pardons the White House Turkey.

This year, we are the turkey and all we have to look forward to is a noose.

Buffalo News Opinion: Right now, the legislation is driven by empty promises, the residue of Obama’s 2008 campaign, congressional Democrats’ need to “do something” before they’re hobbled in next year’s elections and by special interests and ideologues who want to build a pathway to single-payer coverage.

If the they want to do real reform (and I have said this before):

1. Tort Reform.

Even uber-Liberal Chris Matthews said, in a discussion with Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS), said “you have found the Democrats achilles heel. Tort Reform would bring cost down but there is none in this bill because of the Trial Lawyers”

I thought his intestines were going to jump up and strangle him before he finished, or at least his Socialist masters at MSNBC would have a mysterious power outage before he finished.

Because he is correct.

The Trial Lawyers are amongst one the biggest contributors to the Democrats. So we can’t do any reform there.

Pelosi-Care Version:

Section 2531, entitled Medical Liability Alternatives, establishes an incentive program for states to adopt and implement alternatives to medical liability litigation. [But] a state is not eligible for the incentive payments if that state puts a law on the books that limits attorneys fees or imposes caps on damages.

Pelosi-Care, we are there for you, the consumer.

2. Portability

You can’t buy coverage across state lines.

So with “Choice & Competition” you’d think we’d get this one.

No.

We get a bankrupt government that is going to tax you for 4 years BEFORE any benefits and when the whole thing goes pear-shaped and balloons out of control guess who is going to be hit with the tab.

And let there be no doubt that it will happen.

And since a for-profit Free Enterprise industry will be hamstrung by regulations and a “competitor” that has the power to tax and print as much money as it feels like  will be driven to extinction.

So you’ll have nothing but good old, reliable, “compassionate”, Uncle Sam.

And he has a great track record:

The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 – you’ve had 234 years to get it right; it’s broke.

Social Security was established in 1935 – you’ve had 74 years to get it right; it’s broke.

Fannie Mae was established in 1938 – you’ve had 71 years to get it right; it’s broke.

The “War on Poverty” started in 1964 – you’ve had 45 years to get it right. $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to “the poor”; it hasn’t worked and our entire country is broke.

The Alternative Minimum Tax — 41 years go- passed to “soak the rich” is now considered by Democrats to be an onerous tax on the middle class.

Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 – you’ve had 44 years to get it right; they’re both broke.

Freddie Mac was established in 1970 – you’ve had 39 years to get it right; it’s broke.

Trillions of dollars were spent in the massive political payoffs called TARP, the “Stimulus,” the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009…. none show any signs of working, although ACORN appears to have found a new source: the American taxpayer.

And finally, to set a new record: “Cash for Clunkers” was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009! It took cars (that were the best some people could afford) and replaced them with high-priced and less-affordable cars, mostly Japanese. A good percentage of the profits went out of the country. And the American taxpayers take the hit for Congress’s generosity in burning three billion more of our dollars on failed experiments.

It the net loss was $24,000 per vehicle! And auto sales slumped right back to where they were afterwards. It had no effect.

But it made the liberals feel good.

So, with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record that proves that “services” you shove down our throats are failing faster and deeper, you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system-  20% of our entire economy???

With all due respect,  Are you crazy? Or do you think the American people are? (ATR)

Worse, they think they are superior and you’re just too stupid to realize it so they have to do for your own good.

And they want to stuff this Turkey.

And this is no Treducken (a real dish by the way-A Treducken is a dish consisting of a partially de-boned turkey stuffed with a de-boned duck, which itself is stuffed with a small de-boned chicken), this one is just going to be stuffed with pork and the rotting fruits of our labors.

So who wants a slice?

On Tuesday, the Senate health committee voted 12-11 in favor of a
two-page amendment courtesy of Republican Tom Coburn that would
require all Members and their staffs to enroll in any new
government-run health plan. It took me less than a minute to sign up
to require our congressmen and senators to drink at the same trough!
Three cheers for Congressman John Fleming of Louisiana !
Congressman John Fleming ( Louisiana physician) has proposed an
amendment that would require congressmen and senators to take the same
healthcare plan they force on us (under proposed legislation they are
curiously exempt).

Congressman Fleming is encouraging people to go on his Website and
sign his petition (very simple – just first, last and email). I have
immediately done just that at:
http://fleming.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=55&sectiontree=29,55
Please urge as many people as you can to do the same!
If Congress forces this on the American people, the Congressmen should
have to accept the same level of health care for themselves and their
families. To do otherwise is the height of hypocrisy!
Please pass this on!!

Many students will be faced with tough, ethical decisions throughout his or her career. As students and public relations professionals, we should now the legal and ethical guidelines to help us in sticky situations.

I once had a professor who gave an example of ethics by using chairs. The first chair was a solid ethical person. The second chair was a slippery ethical person. The third chair was a person who had no ethics whatsoever. My professor asked the class what chair we would be sitting in at the end of the day. I stressed over this question because I believed I would sit in the solid ethical chair, but as he explained the different chairs I began to realize that I have made some decisions that could border being unethical.

Making decisions can be stressful because you must think of all the possible  outcomes. If we want people to trust us then we must make ethical decisions. I’m  reading a book called Public Relations Writing and Media Techniques by Dennis  Wilcox, and one of the chapters’ focuses on legal and ethical guidelines.

Guidelines for ethical conduct from Public Relations Society of America Code of Ethics:

Advocacy

• We serve the public interest by acting as responsible advocates fro those we represent.
• We provide a voice in the marketplace of ideas, facts, and viewpoints to aid informed public debate.

Honesty

• We adhere to the highest standards of accuracy and truth in advancing the interests of those we represent and in communication with the public.

Expertise

• We acquire and responsibly use specialized knowledge and experience.
• We advance the profession through continued professional development, research, and education.
• We build mutual understanding, credibility, and relationships among a wide array of institutions and audiences.

Independence

• We provide objective counsel to those we represent.
• We are accountable for our actions.

Loyalty

• We are faithful to those we represent, while honoring our obligation to serve the public interest.

Fairness

• We deal fairly with clients, employers, competitors, peers, vendors, the media, and the general public.
• We respect all opinions and support the right of free expression.

One question many public relations professionals have is “what is truth?” People have many different views on what is right and what is wrong. It is stressful trying to decide whether or not to go along with what your company is saying or stand up and say something.

I handle these situations in a way that will help reduce the stress and anxiety of making such tough decisions.

Here are a few of my own tips:

• Ask around – ask professionals you look up to if they think the decision you are making is ethical or not.
• Sleep on it – don’t make rash decisions.
• How will you feel about the outcome – if you are going to feel guilty about the decision you made then it is probably the wrong choice.

Before making any decisions ask yourself, “what chair will I be sitting in at the end of the day?” Hopefully these guidelines and tips will help you with any ethical decisions you must make.