Junk Science of global warming exposed

Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) the ranking member on the Environment and Public Works committee has announced he will call for an investigation on “Climategate.”

During a floor speech, he said, “Today, I will discuss something else – scientific integrity and how to improve it. Specifically, I will discuss the systematic and documented abuse of the scientific process by an international body that claims it provides the most complete and objective scientific assessment in the world on the subject of climate change – the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC. I will conclude with a series of recommendations as to the minimum changes the IPCC must make if it is to restore its credibility.”  Listen to him speak on the topic here.

The Washington Times editorializes in Hiding evidence of global cooling. This telling opener speaks volumes: “Scientific progress depends on accurate and complete data. It also relies on replication. The past couple of days have uncovered some shocking revelations about the baloney practices that pass as sound science about climate change.”

And the UK’s Telegraph weighs in with this exposé, calling the global warming hoax “a scandal could well be the greatest in modern science.“

The global fear-mongering has made a bundle for scientific charlatan, Al Gore, but his celebrity status as a doom-and-gloomer may soon be coming to an end.

Seeing Red AZ wrote about this in No wonder the libs have stopped calling it “global warming.”

Sarah Palin was ridiculed when she spoke of “Death Panels”

This recent Wall Street Journal article refers to “The Rationing Commission.” Different words, same concept.  Obowma and his league of Congressional Democrats want to accomplish the same thing, regardless of what name is pinned on this horse’s patootie.

As envisioned by the Senate Finance Committee, the commission — 15 unelected Presidential appointees — would have to meet certain budget targets each year as they dictate medical decisions.  Starting in 2015, Medicare could not grow more rapidly on a per capita basis than by a measure of inflation. After 2019, it could only grow at the same rate as GDP, plus one percentage point.

Health care, treatments and access to medical procedures will be rationed. Your personal relationship with your doctors and the ability to make choices will cease to exist.

If you read nothing else, do yourself and your family a favor and read this article. Then call the Democrats who are pushing this disaster through.

Democrats for sale: “We’re just negotiating the price”

Until recently Sen. Ben Nelson (Dem-NE), Sen. Mary Landrieu (Dem-LA) and Sen. Blanche Lincoln (Dem-AR) were the last holdouts among the 58 Democrats and two Independents whose votes Majority Leader Harry Reid and Barack Obowma must have to force the American people into a socialized medicine plan controlled by the federal government.

Landrieu was bought off with over $100 million in federal funds for her state of Louisiana and lifted restrictions on oyster harvesting, among other considerations.

AP reports that Nelson insisted Reid omit from the bill any change in the insurance industry’s protection from federal antitrust law. The House version of the legislation would expose the industry to scrutiny by both the Justice Department’s antitrust lawyers and the Federal Trade Commission. Reid, who spoke out strongly in favor of the change in antitrust treatment earlier in the fall, left it out of the bill he drafted over several weeks and unveiled on Wednesday.

Lincoln, the most politically vulnerable as the only one of the three seeking reelection next year, would benefit from having presidential backing. She has perfected the art of speaking out of both sides of her mouth, one side for the home folk and the other for the administration. The report says that in public she has asked that the bill be available for 72 hours before the vote occurs. In private, her demands have been more substantive. At home, she has suggested her vote will be influenced by former President Bill Clinton — a 12-year Arkansas governor.

The Democrat slipperiness is reminiscent of this tale widely (and probably incorrectly) attributed to Winston Churchill:

“At a late night dinner party, so the story goes, an inebriated Churchill asked an attractive woman whether she would sleep with him for a million pounds.

“Perhaps,” the woman said coyly.

“Would you sleep with me for one pound?” Churchill then asked.

“Of course not, what kind of woman do you take me for?” the woman responded indignantly.

“Madam, we’ve already established what kind of woman you are,” said Churchill, “now we’re just negotiating the price.”

Democrat Fed-Med: Health care Americans cannot afford

After weeks of secretive drafting, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-UT) unveiled Barack Obowma’s socialized, government takeover of American health care.

The Democrat’s $849 billion measure designed to remake the nation’s health care system, relies on cuts in future Medicare spending  (read: Rationed Care to America’s seniors) to cover costs, higher payroll taxes for others (read: Redistribution of wealth) and new taxes on patients undergoing elective cosmetic surgery.

Democrat aides say the mammoth, 2,074-page bill would reduce deficits by $127 billion over a decade and by as much as $650 billion in the 10 years that follow, citing as-yet-unreleased estimates by the Congressional Budget Office.

Question: How does increased spending lead to lower deficits?

“This bill has been behind closed doors for weeks,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). “Now, it’s America’s turn, and this will not be a short debate. Higher premiums, tax increases and Medicare cuts to pay for more government. The American people know that is not reform.”

Reid’s measure, which takes at least 34 hours to read, would require most Americans to carry health insurance and would provide hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to cover costs for those at lower incomes. In a further encumbrance to struggling American businesses, medium and large companies would not be required to offer coverage, but they would be forced to pay fees if the government ended up subsidizing their employees’ insurance.

Halloween is over, but for a fright, read the AP article here.

Politico has more here, including a stomach-turning video of Reid. His mouth is moving, so you can be assured he’s lying.

Obowma: Working to perfect the art of double talk

Reuters reports that Barack Obowma is issuing warnings about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying that if government debt were to pile up, it could lead to a double-dip recession.

“It is important though to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point, people could lose confidence in the U.S. economy in a way that could actually lead to a double-dip recession,” he said.

Obama says this while spending erratically and continuing to push excessively costly programs that will ultimately devastate the national economy, such as his stimulus, cap and trade, industry bailouts, his hallmark federalized health care overhaul and the granting of amnesty to approximately 30 million illegal aliens, who further negatively impact America’s ravaged job market.

Then, during an address in Shanghai, China earlier this week, Obama who has indicated his desire to clamp down on FOX News and curtail talk radio, disingenuously declared: “I’m a big supporter of non-censorship. I recognize that different countries have different traditions. I can tell you that in the United States, the fact that we have free Internet — or unrestricted Internet access — is a source of strength, and I think should be encouraged.”

The Examiner has more on Obama’s frontal attack on conservative talk radio. This man thinks the U.S. citizenry are fools who are watching the gauge on the beer keg more than his antics.

He’s wrong.

Thank God! Obowma is creating 30 jobs in AZ’s CD 15

President Obowma has claimed that the $787 billion economic stimulus package “saved or created” some 650,000 jobs. But almost as soon as the White House related this figure, news organizations found huge exaggerations in the reported data. Many of the jobs reportedly created are phantoms which do not exist or cannot be accounted for — among them the 30 new jobs in Arizona’s “staunchly Republican” 15th Congressional District.  Those jobs, costly through they would be at  $25,380.67 each, would be great news, IF Arizona had a 15th congressional district.

The trouble is, as the Los Angeles Times reports, there is no 15th Congressional District in Arizona. None. Nada. Zip. Zero. Doesn’t exist. Not in Arizona. Not even on paper at the Democratic National Committee. There are only eight. Period.

Obowma’s foolishly bogus comment is reminiscent of his startling claim to have visited all 57 states during his campaign.

The Left: Desirous of remaking Arizona in its own image

The daily is pounding its drum again. If you are new to Arizona and unacquainted with the technique, the newspaper often resembles a nagging ex-wife. The editorial staff can’t offer an opinion. They harp. They badger. They stridently repeat.  And often they rewrite the same thoughts with a slightly different skew.

Today’s editorial, Let’s energize Arizonans to push for changes, is a case in point.

The latest mission of the daily is government reform — which they want to accomplish from the top down.

Like lovesick swains, they have fallen hook, line and sinker for Sandra O’Connor ‘s namesake effort, the O’Connor House Project which is teamed up with the liberal Morrison Institute and the Center for the Future of Arizona. These groups and their overreaching concepts were represented at the recent Arizona Town Hall, which issued a report calling for a state Constitutional Convention to — among other things – allow these elites to revamp state government, raise taxes, and alter the methods of voting for elected officers by removing the citizen’s ballot component and replacing it with appointments by other elected officials.

The report also points to impediments to raising revenue and suggests the Constitutional Convention implement these major changes. The full report and its recommendations can be found here.

Designed to appear benign they nonetheless conclude these “barriers to effective government” need their wisdom and oversight. A clue that all is not as presented  is contained in these words deprecating the current system, which they say “encourages extremist candidates” and the practice of ballot initiatives which they opine “has created dedicated funding streams that cannot be touched, even in times of severe need.” That translates to limits on taxation which the people support and the Town Hallites want lifted.

Don’t be fooled by the high-sounding rhetoric.  This is a fundamental takeover of state government by a liberal cabal, with the blessing of the left-wing Arizona Republic.

They don’t intend to tarry. We can’t afford to ignore the massive power-grab they envision and intend to implement.

Legalizing grateful Democrats in time for the 2010 elections

Obowma’s Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently addressed a gathering at the Center for American Progress, a liberal Washington, D.C. policy group. She unveiled new arguments for an amnesty/legalization program for illegal aliens living in the U.S. in her duplicitous presentation, Napolitano actually claims such a program will enhance national security and protect American workers from unfair competition from lower-paid, easily exploited illegal immigrants.

“Let me emphasize this: we will never have fully effective law enforcement or national security as long as so many millions remain in the shadows,” Napolitano said, adding that the “recovering economy would be strengthened as these immigrants become full-paying taxpayers.”

Recovering economy? With the soaring unemployment numbers recently surpassing the dreaded double-digit marker, Americans likely missed that  piece of fabrication.

Under the administration’s plan, illegals who hope to gain legal status would have to register, pay fines and all taxes they owe, pass a criminal background check and learn English.

None of that standing in line as legal immigrants to this country do. Nope.  Sneaking in moves you right to the front of the line, encouraging the arrival of even more lawbreakers.

Some were quick to challenge Napolitano’s claims that border security had significantly improved or that American workers would be helped by bringing illegal immigrants into the system.

“How can they claim that enforcement is done when there are more than 400 open miles of border with Mexico?” asked Rep. Lamar Smith (TX) the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee. He said the administration should “deport illegal immigrant workers so they don’t remain here to compete with citizen and legal immigrant job seekers.”  Read Rep. Smith’s  reply to Napolitano here.

The full New York Times report can be read here.

Linda plays an ever goofier one-note tune: Open borders provide ocean ports

In today’s daily, Linda Valdez tells readers: We must recognize border benefits as well as problems. Her piece begins by taking on Sen. Russell Pearce, whom she refers to as “one of Arizona’s biggest border critics” when he says, “The greatest threat to our citizens is the failure to enforce our immigration laws.”

Linda says he’s so wrong, that “it’s time for a reality check.”

In Linda’s simplistic view, the budget deficit outweighs illegal immigration — failing to acknowledge the symbiotic relationship. She ignores the impact the wage-undercutting illegal work force has on unemployed American citizens, exacerbated by the massively struggling economy. She glosses over benefits such as medical care and public education illegals receive, and the impact of their criminal activity, both to Americans who are victims and the overburdened criminal justice system, all arenas reeling under the costly stress. Instead of mentioning the myriad problematic burdens tied to the gift of instant citizenship conferred on newborns born to illegals, her article depicts a few prosperous Mexican visitors shopping at the toney Biltmore Fashion Park.

Linda, you see, thinks there is more to the Mexico problem “than illegal immigration and drug trafficking.” She says there are “huge potential benefits to sharing a border with a nation that has a young labor force, an emerging middle class and a taste for American products — not to mention ocean access that could make Arizona a shipping alternative to Long Beach, California. Mexico, she says, could bring two ocean ports to this landlocked state.

After the economy began its free fall, and the argument that there are jobs American’s refuse to do no longer held water, Linda presented us with the sad tale of “broken families” when illegals returned home. That didn’t sell.  Now she enthuses that we will have access to a ocean port.

Give her a point for inventiveness and a goose egg for veracity.

Religion of Peace update: Feds seize mosques, skyscraper

Federal prosecutors have taken steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.

In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed a civil complaint in federal court seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets of the Alavi Foundation and an alleged front company.

The assets include Islamic centers in New York City, Maryland, California and Houston,  more than 100 acres in Virginia, and a 36-story office tower in New York.

USAToday has a complete report here.