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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 (154464)	4/2/2013 7:02:11 PM
From: Jack of All Trades	9 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

Once again you failed to READ Kenny, he said "we need to banned lawyers from becoming politicians" Not ban them from practicing law. Do you actually charge your clients for your services?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (154464)	4/2/2013 7:21:13 PM
From: TideGlider	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224750

Democracy was never based on lawyers. Law makers, yes...lawyers...no, It is a shame as it was once a respected profession.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (154464)	4/3/2013 7:52:38 AM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224750

Kenny...This post is only to distract you from the pending court case about Hussein being an illegal in the office of president. Scientists on climate change: Er, never mind! Researchers admit data showing warming trend can't be verified wnd.com A research paper in a prestigious journal that claimed to show a dramatic increase in global temperatures in the 20th century caused huge headlines around the world. There’s just one problem. It’s not true. “Global Temperatures Highest in 4,000 Years,” blared the New York Times on March 7. The Times was reporting on what it called “the most meticulous reconstruction yet of global temperatures,” contained in a study published March 8 in the journal Science by Shaun Marcott, Jeremy Shakun, Peter Clark and Alan Mix. However, once other scientists began looking into the data in the study, called “A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years,” the reconstruction began to look far less than meticulous. The authors of the study quietly admitted last weekend that their claim of surging temperatures can’t be supported by their data. The establishment media outlets that reported the study with such fanfare have been largely silent on the stunning admission, although the Washington Post did report today that there is now a “controversy” over the data. And, the New York Times has a climate blog posting that wonders “how the authors square the caveats they express here with some of the more definitive statements they made about their findings in news accounts.” The data in the paper came from Marcott’s Ph.D. thesis at Oregon State University in 2011, which is online. But the chart in the dissertation does not show the same warming uptick seen in the paper published in Science. And the abstract to his thesis does not mention an uptick. Stephen McIntyre of Climate Audit looked into the research and found the study’s authors had re-dated some of the samples used to determine the findings. Without the re-dating, the research would have shown no upswing in temperatures in the 20th century. McIntyre emailed Marcott to ask how he got the conclusions in the Science article from the data in his dissertation. Marcott replied that his reconstruction of 20th-century temperatures was probably “not robust.” In other words, probably not accurate. When that revelation became public, Marcott promised to clear up things in an online post. But when it finally appeared Sunday, Marcott admitted, “[The] 20th-century portion of our paleotemperature stack is not statistically robust, cannot be considered representative of global temperature changes, and therefore is not the basis of any of our conclusions.” In other words, the 20th century portion of their findings is useless. The authors now say there is a warming spike if a 20th-century thermometer record is grafted onto their chart. But that undercuts the original plausibility of their findings, that the warming was verified by both modern thermometers and their data. The study was apparently an attempt to revive the now-discredited “hockey-stick” graph created by Penn State professor Michael Mann and used by Al Gore in his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” which incorrectly concluded that today’s temperatures are unprecedented in 1,300 years. WND has reported the hacked Climategate emails indicated the graph was created by a “trick” used to force the data into a pattern of steadily increasing temperatures. The debunking of the study published in Science is just the latest blow to global warming advocates. In December, WND columnist Lord Christopher Monckton told attendees at a global climate conference in Doha, Qatar, there has been no global warming in nearly the last two decades. It took until March for the establishment media to catch onto that fact, reporting that scientists were “puzzled” by the lack of global warming for almost 20 years.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (154464)	4/3/2013 7:56:03 AM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

Kenny..Looks like hussein obama really loves his sunni moslum brotherhood, sort of like when he wouldn't allow charges against black thugs at voter place..you remember that Kenny? Obama OK with American joining al-Qaida? U.S. won't charge citizen for terrorism despite his admissions Aaron Klein Wednesday, April 03, 2013 wnd.com JERUSALEM – Is the Justice Department refusing to charge an American for joining an al-Qaida-front terrorist group because the Obama administration is reportedly arming the so-called Syrian rebels who consist in part of members of the very same jihad organization? The case centers on U.S. Army veteran Eric Harroun, who not only admitted to joining the al-Qaida front group Jabhat al-Nusra but has boasted on Facebook and YouTube about his adventures fighting with the jihad group. Al Nusra, responsible for hundreds of terrorist attacks in Syria, was designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization last December. The group has also targeted American troops in Iraq. Harroun has not being charged with membership in a terrorist organization despite his admissions and even posting online photos of himself fighting with al-Nusra. Instead, Harroun only faces the charge of allegedly using a rocket-propelled grenade in Syria. The law used to charge him states, “Any national of the United States who, without lawful authority, uses or threatens, attempts, or conspires to use a weapon of mass destruction outside of the U.S. shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or if death results, may be punished by death.” Failure to charge Harroun with membership in a terrorist organization may now set a major legal precedent regarding the activities of al-Nusra. Charging Harroun with joining al-Nusra could also have major legal implications for U.S. officials. Confirming WND’s exclusive reporting for over a year, the New York Times two weeks ago reported that since early 2012, the CIA has been aiding the Arab governments and Turkey in shopping for and transporting weapons to the Syrian rebels. This week, Reuters further reported Obama allegedly signed a secret order in 2012 authorizing U.S. agencies such as the CIA to provide support to rebel forces in Syria. The type of support includes helping to run a secret military communications command center in Turkey to aid rebel groups. The Reuters article also said U.S. citizens are training rebels and possibly giving them equipment, at least since the summer. A major issue of arming the Syrian rebels is the inclusion of jihadists, including al-Qaida, among the ranks of the Free Syrian Army and other Syrian opposition groups. Al-Nusra is said to heavily permeate the Syrian rebel ranks. The New York Times and Reuters both report the U.S. is working to vet the rebels for inclusion of al-Qaida, but it is not immediately known how successful such vetting has been and whether the rebels directly armed by the U.S. will share their weapons with jihadists within their ranks. Meanwhile, Harroun, 30, of Phoenix was arrested Tuesday by the FBI at a hotel near Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia. A Justice Department official told CNN that FBI agents questioned Harroun at the hotel then took him into custody. Harroun joined the U.S. Army in 2000, and he was discharged with full disability pay for an injury in 2003 without ever having seen battle, according to his father. The London Daily Mail reported Harroun has bragged online about joining al-Nusra. “Getting into al-Nusra is not rocket science,” he said. “It just takes balls and brains.” Harroun reportedly revels in his “hero” status and boasts on Facebook and in YouTube videos of his bloody exploits with al-Nusra in Syria. The Daily Mail noted his Facebook page is littered with photos of himself brandishing handguns, rifles, mortars and other weaponry. In a photo of himself holding a mortar in one hand and a rifle in the other that he posted on Facebook, he writes, ‘Lol Army of Darkness, This is my BOOM STICK. Lol.’ Harroun described himself as a Sunni Muslim on Facebook and writes about his hatred of Israel and Zionists. In the “Favorite Quotations” section of his profile he writes, “The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.”