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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (35243)	7/17/2008 6:56:15 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

Mathematically Confirmed: There Is No Climate Change Crisis Here's something unlikely to make the cover of Time. From the Science & Public Policy Institute: WASHINGTON (7-15-08) — Mathematical proof that there is no "climate crisis" appears today in a major, peer-reviewed paper in Physics and Society, a learned journal of the 10,000-strong American Physical Society, SPPI reports. Christopher Monckton, who once advised Margaret Thatcher, demonstrates via 30 equations that computer models used by the UN's climate panel (IPCC) were pre-programmed with overstated values for the three variables whose product is "climate sensitivity" (temperature increase in response to greenhouse-gas increase), resulting in a 500-2000% overstatement of CO2's effect on temperature in the IPCC's latest climate assessment report, published in 2007. Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered [http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/index.cfm] demonstrates that later this century a doubling of the concentration of CO2 compared with pre-industrial levels will increase global mean surface temperature not by the 6 °F predicted by the IPCC but, harmlessly, by little more than 1 °F. The paper reveals the following: • The IPCC's 2007 climate summary overstated CO2's impact on temperature by 500-2000%; • CO2 enrichment will add little more than 1 °F (0.6 °C) to global mean surface temperature by 2100; • Not one of the three key variables whose product is climate sensitivity can be measured directly; • The IPCC's values for these key variables are taken from only four published papers, not 2,500; • The IPCC's values for each of the three variables, and hence for climate sensitivity, are overstated; • "Global warming" halted ten years ago, and surface temperature has been falling for seven years; • Not one of the computer models relied upon by the IPCC predicted so long and rapid a cooling; • The IPCC inserted a table into the scientists' draft, overstating the effect of ice-melt by 1000%; • It was proved 50 years ago that predicting climate more than two weeks ahead is impossible; • Mars, Jupiter, Neptune's largest moon, and Pluto warmed at the same time as Earth warmed; • In the past 70 years the Sun was more active than at almost any other time in the past 11,400 years. Someone had better get this news to Al Gore, since he won't be seeing it on TV. I'm sure he'll want to apologize for causing a lot of senseless hysteria over nothing. rightwingnews.com hat tip to Brumar

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (35243)	7/17/2008 7:05:01 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224750

This summer feels the same as others..cooler and longer Spring than normal, but now it's hotter than he1l in July..as usual.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (35243)	7/17/2008 7:10:27 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224750

Energy Crisis Solution, Obama Style! from dontvoteforobama.com (PUMA website): OBAMA SAYS: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.... That's not leadership. That's not going to happen. " In a nutshell, Barack says that all you bitter Americans need to trade your large vehicles for small death traps, stop eating until you are full, and freeze in the wintertime. That's a SOLUTION! Damn, I could have figured that out. You are supposed to be the Harvard graduate. Tell us something impressive for God's sake! Come up with ONE original idea. I wonder if an Obama administration will subsidize car trade-ins. If gas is $5 a gallon, no dealership is going to give you a decent amount in trade for that gas guzzler. It is a lot easier to say "get a smaller car" than it is to do. Especially during a time when home prices are going down, interest rates are beginning to climb, gas prices are high and rising. Obama with all his worldly wisdom simply states get another car, eat less and adjust your thermostat. This sounds like an asinine statement from a liberal ass! I must admit that he is consistent because it sounds just as naive as his foreign policy. From Obama’s website: “Obama is the only major candidate who supports... direct presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions…. Talk to our Foes and Friends: Obama is willing to meet with the leaders of all nations, friend and foe.” Be nice and talk with radical foreign leaders and we can iron out our differences. Yeah, right Barack. That may work in the school yard, but this isn't a madrassa in Indonesia! This is the real world with real problems. This is way bigger than the problems of a bi-racial child trying to find his identity. This is way bigger than a Harvard student trying to decide if he is going to escalate his drug abuse from cocaine to heroin! In 2004 you stated that you lacked the experience to run for President in 2008. See the video. I think you need to re-evaluate yourself and make that promise good! You were actually correct for a change.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (35243)	7/17/2008 7:57:42 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224750

Do Dems represent Pelosi or their districts? They need to protect your freedom of speech: The Democrats' Fairness Doctrine Dilemma by Seton Motley, humanevents.com, 07/17/2008 ET Congressional Democrats remain silent, acquiescing in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s determination to prevent legislation to block the reimposition of the so-called Fairness Doctrine. For all their prattling about protecting civil liberties, none of them -- not a single one -- has so far signed the discharge petition to allow the Broadcasters’ Freedom Act to be wrested from Pelosi’s grip to protect our freedom of speech. Where do they stand on the the federal regulation that served for four decades to remove issues of import from the radio airwaves and left us with 24-hours a day of liberal dominance of the radio airwaves? Ronald Reagan removed the restriction in 1987, and the rest has been Rush Limbaugh-led broadcasting history. These Ds have been this quiet because they are not at liberty to discuss it. What we have been witnessing is a remarkable exhibition of partisan discipline. Last summer Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a diktat that no Donkey was to talk about the Fairness Doctrine, nor meet with anyone who wanted to talk about it. All the while she was repeatedly denying any Democratic interest in its revival. And her subordinates have all come to heel. Pelosi herself, however, went on a bender and spilled the beans to John Gizzi in Human Events. Quoth the Speaker, when asked if she would allow Congressman Mike Pence’s Broadcaster Freedom Act (BFA - H.R. 2905) -- the bill that would kill once and for all the Fairness Doctrine -- out of jail in committee, to which she had exiled it, she answered unhesitatingly “No.” Pelosi went on to say that in fact “the interest in my caucus is the reverse” and that New York Democratic Rep. “Louise Slaughter has been active behind this [revival of the Fairness Doctrine] for a while now.” When asked if she herself supported the return of the Doctrine, she, again without hesitation, said “Yes.” Madame Speaker revealed herself to be not only virulently anti-First Amendment, but with the Rep. Slaughter disclosure regarding ongoing toil towards reinstatement less than fully affiliated with the truth. And made an already difficult situation for Congressional Democrats even worse. On June 11th, Congressman Pence, along with most of the Republican leadership, my boss Brent Bozell, talk radio star Laura Ingraham and many, many others, announced a multi-faceted, multi-organizational push to get the BFA out of committee and on to the floor for a vote. With Pelosi’s blockade in place, the only way for this to happen is with a discharge petition signed by 218 of Pence’s fellow members. A month later, 197 are on board -- and they’re ALL Republicans. No Democrat has crossed up Pelosi, despite the fact that she revealed their agenda, one which few Americans outside the Washington Beltway agree. The pressure on these holdout Donkeys continue to grow. Their constituents have let them hear it and have it, spending the last thirty days bombarding them with phone calls, emails, faxes and letters demanding that they sign the petition for Broadcaster Freedom. We here at the Media Research Center have already had more than 150,000 people sign on on our website. Congressman Pence told me that many Democrats have approached him in the halls of the Cannon Office Building and the Capitol saying things like “My constituents are really giving it to me on the Fairness Doctrine and the BFA. Anything I can do, you let me know.” To which the Congressman always replies “Great, sign the discharge petition,” at which point his Donkey counterparts get flustered and skittish, then silent, and then turn and run (or at the very least walk briskly) away. Which means that the Pelosi gag order, despite her own violation of it, is still rigidly in effect for every member of her Democratic caucus. And raises the question: just who is it that these Democrats are representing? On this vital issue of free speech, it isn’t the people who elected them. Their constituents have made their will known, loudly and in large numbers, and their cries have fallen on deaf Donkey ears. These Democrats have chosen fealty to the San Francisco Speaker over the commitment they made to the men and women who voted them into office. Time is running out. Congressional Democrats need to remember that they are Representatives -- and just who it is they represent. Are they some zombie army, sent to Washington to follow blindly the orders of Nancy Pelosi, regardless of how they conflict with the will of their people? They seem to think so. On this, their people have spoken. They want Congressman Pence’s Broadcaster Freedom Act to have a full and fair up or down vote, and they have been demanding of their Representatives that they sign the discharge petition to make that happen. It’s time Congressional Democrats finally started listening. Mr. Motley is the Director of Communications for the Media Research Center. If you like, or dislike, he may be reached electronically at SMotley@MediaResearch.org.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (35243)	7/18/2008 9:13:11 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224750

Gores ride to speech in 3 gas-guzzling vehicles--kept one idling for 20 min By Amy Ridenour \| July 18, 2008 Apparently complacent about criticism from the Tennessee Center for Policy Research that his family's energy use at his Nashville home is more than 19 times greater than the average American household's, Al Gore has committed conspicious energy consumption once again. In Washington D.C. Thursday to deliver yet another speech warning Americans about global warming caused, Gore believes, by excessive use of fossil fuels, Gore handed yet more evidence to critics who believe he's a hypocrite. He did so by traveling to his speech in what almost certainly was an unnecessary entourage of three luxury gas-guzzling vehicles -- two Lincoln Town Cars and a Surburban SUV -- one of which was kept idling outside for twenty minutes, apparently to keep the interior cool for the driver, Mrs. Gore and the Gores' adult daughter. Brent Bozell's newsbusters.com