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by Das Goob! Now listen!
-"Life is hard. It's harder if you are stupid" John Wayne
Monday, February 16, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
Really, what is in the Spending Package (often labeled the "Stimulus Package"?)
I am trying not to let my head explode at the moment. Instead, a moment of zen.....
I will merely list the bulk of the projects in the spending bill and you can decide for yourself...which are PORK and which are actual economic stimulating items. IN order to quantify what group the spending falls into, please use Barney Frank's words as a litmus test: It should be, "Temporary, Timely, and Targeted." Please note I could only find info on $585 Billion of it....the rest is still a secret! It hasn't leaked out yet!
Good luck! ........aaaaaannnnd GO!
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program
$300 million for grants to combat violence against women
$2 billion for federal child-care block grants
$6 billion for university building projects
$15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships
$4 billion for job-training programs, including $1.2 billion for “youths” up to the age of 24
$1 billion for community-development block grants
$4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”
$650 million for digital-TV coupons; $90 million to educate “vulnerable populations”
$15 billion for business-loss carry-backs
$145 billion for “Making Work Pay” tax credits
$83 billion for the earned income credit
$150 million for the Smithsonian
$34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
$500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities
$44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters
$350 million for Agriculture Department computers
$88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building
$448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters
$600 million to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids
$450 million for NASA (carve-out for “climate-research missions”)
$600 million for NOAA (carve-out for “climate modeling”)
$1 billion for the Census Bureau
$89 billion for Medicaid
$30 billion for COBRA insurance extension
$36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
$20 billion for food stamps
$4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
$850 million for Amtrak
$87 million for a polar icebreaking ship
$1.7 billion for the National Park System
$55 million for Historic Preservation Fund
$7.6 billion for “rural community advancement programs”
$150 million for agricultural-commodity purchases
$150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish”
$2 billion for renewable-energy research ($400 million for global-warming research)
$2 billion for a “clean coal” power plant in Illinois
$6.2 billion for the Weatherization Assistance Program
$3.5 billion for energy-efficiency and conservation block grants
$3.4 billion for the State Energy Program
$200 million for state and local electric-transport projects
$300 million for energy-efficient-appliance rebate programs
$400 million for hybrid cars for state and local governments
$1 billion for the manufacturing of advanced batteries
$1.5 billion for green-technology loan guarantees
$8 billion for innovative-technology loan-guarantee program
$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
$4.5 billion for electricity grid
$79 billion for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund
I could spend hours writing about each item I think is a farce and cannot ever be thought of as "stimulus". But, I am nearly out of breath at the moment. I will tell you something, though. $79 BILLION FOR STATE FISCAL STABILIZATION FUND?!?!?!!? Are you kidding me! Let me guess, the states that are going under because they are WAY over spending and have no means to even pay their income tax returns to their constituents will get the bulk of this money, yet the states like mine, who are required by LAW to have a balanced budget, we get the middle finger. Reward the challenged....punish the prudent.
Representatives and Senators......make me sick....
by Das Goob! Now listen!
-"Life is hard. It's harder if you are stupid" John Wayne
I will merely list the bulk of the projects in the spending bill and you can decide for yourself...which are PORK and which are actual economic stimulating items. IN order to quantify what group the spending falls into, please use Barney Frank's words as a litmus test: It should be, "Temporary, Timely, and Targeted." Please note I could only find info on $585 Billion of it....the rest is still a secret! It hasn't leaked out yet!
Good luck! ........aaaaaannnnd GO!
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program
$300 million for grants to combat violence against women
$2 billion for federal child-care block grants
$6 billion for university building projects
$15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships
$4 billion for job-training programs, including $1.2 billion for “youths” up to the age of 24
$1 billion for community-development block grants
$4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”
$650 million for digital-TV coupons; $90 million to educate “vulnerable populations”
$15 billion for business-loss carry-backs
$145 billion for “Making Work Pay” tax credits
$83 billion for the earned income credit
$150 million for the Smithsonian
$34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
$500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities
$44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters
$350 million for Agriculture Department computers
$88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building
$448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters
$600 million to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids
$450 million for NASA (carve-out for “climate-research missions”)
$600 million for NOAA (carve-out for “climate modeling”)
$1 billion for the Census Bureau
$89 billion for Medicaid
$30 billion for COBRA insurance extension
$36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
$20 billion for food stamps
$4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
$850 million for Amtrak
$87 million for a polar icebreaking ship
$1.7 billion for the National Park System
$55 million for Historic Preservation Fund
$7.6 billion for “rural community advancement programs”
$150 million for agricultural-commodity purchases
$150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish”
$2 billion for renewable-energy research ($400 million for global-warming research)
$2 billion for a “clean coal” power plant in Illinois
$6.2 billion for the Weatherization Assistance Program
$3.5 billion for energy-efficiency and conservation block grants
$3.4 billion for the State Energy Program
$200 million for state and local electric-transport projects
$300 million for energy-efficient-appliance rebate programs
$400 million for hybrid cars for state and local governments
$1 billion for the manufacturing of advanced batteries
$1.5 billion for green-technology loan guarantees
$8 billion for innovative-technology loan-guarantee program
$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
$4.5 billion for electricity grid
$79 billion for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund
I could spend hours writing about each item I think is a farce and cannot ever be thought of as "stimulus". But, I am nearly out of breath at the moment. I will tell you something, though. $79 BILLION FOR STATE FISCAL STABILIZATION FUND?!?!?!!? Are you kidding me! Let me guess, the states that are going under because they are WAY over spending and have no means to even pay their income tax returns to their constituents will get the bulk of this money, yet the states like mine, who are required by LAW to have a balanced budget, we get the middle finger. Reward the challenged....punish the prudent.
Representatives and Senators......make me sick....
by Das Goob! Now listen!
-"Life is hard. It's harder if you are stupid" John Wayne
Friday, February 6, 2009
A REAL HERO.....
You want a real American Hero story to read? We have so little lately to inspire us and reaffirm our beliefs that real heroes still exist. This story should do that and take your mind off of the clows in D.C. for a while. Stories like this helps people like me to get by from day to day. Here's the story:
Ed Freeman: A Hero of Our Country.
Imagine this: You're a 19 year old kid, critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, 11-14-1965, LZ Xray, Vietnam. Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 - 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the Medi-Vac helicopters to stop coming in.
You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is halfway around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter, and you look up to see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because there are no Medi-Vac markings on it.
Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were told not to come.
He's coming anyway.
And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the waiting Doctors and Nurses.
And, he kept coming back...... 13 more times.... and took over 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.
Ed originally was in the infantry in the Korean War, and due to his heroism on the battlefield, was given a field commission (enlisted to officer). While he was humble, this commission made his childhood dream of becoming a pilot possible. Almost.
The military had a rule then that people taller than 6'2" could not be pilots. The military determined Ed to be "Too Tall", a nickname that has followed him since. Luckily, in 1955, the military changed this stance and Ed was in. He learned both on fixed wing aircraft and then transferred to helicopters.
During the Vietnam War, when the reports were coming in about the insurmountable odds being faced, the commander of the air wing that Ed was a part of asked for volunteers to go in and get them. Ed was the only one that stepped forward. He and his commander saved so many that day...men that certainly would have perished had it not been for Ed.
His commander decided later on to submit him for the Medal of Honor, but did not meet the two year statute of limitations for that award. Didn't matter to Ed. He did what he thought was right, regardless of the potential for recognition. E
d is my hero.
Fortunately, the statute of limitation was removed in 1995, and in 2001, Ed Freeman received a long overdue Medal of Honor from President George H. W. Bush.
Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died August 20, 2008 in Boise , ID , at the age of 80.
May God rest his soul.....
Oh yeah, Paul Newman died that day too. I guess you knew that. He got a lot more press than Ed Freeman. Where is the Justice? Can you compare the two and justify the difference in press, respect, and admiration? I can't.
This guy is someone we should inspire to be like. We don't need to march in the path of bullets, but understand that his heroism should inspire us to do good for everyone.
by Das Goob! Now listen!-"Life is hard. It's harder if you are stupid" John Wayne
Friday, January 30, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
The Amazing Story Behind Tho Global Warming Scam
You have to read this. A great recount of the evolution of the idea of global warming....and the scam it has grown into. This is written by a meterologist, not a politician....
The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax we citizens for our carbon footprints. Only two details stand in the way, the faltering economic times and a dramatic turn toward a colder climate. The last two bitter winters have lead to a rise in public awareness that CO2 is not a pollutant and is not a significant greenhouse gas that is triggering runaway global warming.
How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big government we have to struggle so to stop it?
The story begins with an Oceanographer named Roger Revelle. He served with the Navy in World War II. After the war he became the Director of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in La Jolla in San Diego, California. Revelle saw the opportunity to obtain major funding from the Navy for doing measurements and research on the ocean around the Pacific Atolls where the US military was conducting atomic bomb tests. He greatly expanded the Institute’s areas of interest and among others hired Hans Suess, a noted Chemist from the University of Chicago, who was very interested in the traces of carbon in the environment from the burning of fossil fuels. Revelle tagged on to Suess studies and co-authored a paper with him in 1957. The paper raises the possibility that the carbon dioxide might be creating a greenhouse effect and causing atmospheric warming. It seems to be a plea for funding for more studies. Funding, frankly, is where Revelle’s mind was most of the time.
Next Revelle hired a Geochemist named David Keeling to devise a way to measure the atmospheric content of Carbon dioxide. In 1960 Keeling published his first paper showing the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and linking the increase to the burning of fossil fuels.
These two research papers became the bedrock of the science of global warming, even though they offered no proof that carbon dioxide was in fact a greenhouse gas. In addition they failed to explain how this trace gas, only a tiny fraction of the atmosphere, could have any significant impact on temperatures.
Now let me take you back to the1950s when this was going on. Our cities were entrapped in a pall of pollution from the crude internal combustion engines that powered cars and trucks back then and from the uncontrolled emissions from power plants and factories. Cars and factories and power plants were filling the air with all sorts of pollutants. There was a valid and serious concern about the health consequences of this pollution and a strong environmental movement was developing to demand action. Government accepted this challenge and new environmental standards were set. Scientists and engineers came to the rescue. New reformulated fuels were developed for cars, as were new high tech, computer controlled engines and catalytic converters. By the mid seventies cars were no longer big time polluters, emitting only some carbon dioxide and water vapor from their tail pipes. Likewise, new fuel processing and smoke stack scrubbers were added to industrial and power plants and their emissions were greatly reduced, as well.
But an environmental movement had been established and its funding and very existence depended on having a continuing crisis issue. So the research papers from Scripps came at just the right moment. And, with them came the birth of an issue; man-made global warming from the carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.
Revelle and Keeling used this new alarmism to keep their funding growing. Other researchers with environmental motivations and a hunger for funding saw this developing and climbed aboard as well. The research grants began to flow and alarming hypothesis began to show up everywhere.
The Keeling curve showed a steady rise in CO2 in atmosphere during the period since oil and coal were discovered and used by man. As of today, carbon dioxide has increased from 215 to 385 parts per million. But, despite the increases, it is still only a trace gas in the atmosphere. While the increase is real, the percentage of the atmosphere that is CO2 remains tiny, about .41 hundredths of one percent.
Several hypothesis emerged in the 70s and 80s about how this tiny atmospheric component of CO2 might cause a significant warming. But they remained unproven. Years have passed and the scientists kept reaching out for evidence of the warming and proof of their theories. And, the money and environmental claims kept on building up.
Back in the 1960s, this global warming research came to the attention of a Canadian born United Nation’s bureaucrat named Maurice Strong. He was looking for issues he could use to fulfill his dream of one-world government. Strong organized a World Earth Day event in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970. From this he developed a committee of scientists, environmentalists and political operatives from the UN to continue a series of meeting.
Strong developed the concept that the UN could demand payments from the advanced nations for the climatic damage from their burning of fossil fuels to benefit the underdeveloped nations, a sort of CO2 tax that would be the funding for his one-world government. But, he needed more scientific evidence to support his primary thesis. So Strong championed the establishment of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This was not a pure climate study scientific organization, as we have been lead to believe. It was an organization of one-world government UN bureaucrats, environmental activists and environmentalist scientists who craved the UN funding so they could produce the science they needed to stop the burning of fossil fuels. Over the last 25 years they have been very effective. Hundreds of scientific papers, four major international meetings and reams of news stories about climatic Armageddon later, the UN IPCC has made its points to the satisfaction of most and even shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.
At the same time, that Maurice Strong was busy at the UN, things were getting a bit out of hand for the man who is now called the grandfather of global warming, Roger Revelle. He had been very politically active in the late 1950’s as he worked to have the University of California locate a San Diego campus adjacent to Scripps Institute in La Jolla. He won that major war, but lost an all important battle afterward when he was passed over in the selection of the first Chancellor of the new campus.
He left Scripps finally in 1963 and moved to Harvard University to establish a Center for Population Studies. It was there that Revelle inspired one of his students to become a major global warming activist. This student would say later, "It felt like such a privilege to be able to hear about the readouts from some of those measurements in a group of no more than a dozen undergraduates. Here was this teacher presenting something not years old but fresh out of the lab, with profound implications for our future!" The student described him as "a wonderful, visionary professor" who was "one of the first people in the academic community to sound the alarm on global warming," That student was Al Gore. He thought of Dr. Revelle as his mentor and referred to him frequently, relaying his experiences as a student in his book Earth in the Balance, published in 1992.
So there it is, Roger Revelle was indeed the grandfather of global warming. His work had laid the foundation for the UN IPCC, provided the anti-fossil fuel ammunition to the environmental movement and sent Al Gore on his road to his books, his movie, his Nobel Peace Prize and a hundred million dollars from the carbon credits business.
What happened next is amazing. The global warming frenzy was becoming the cause celeb of the media. After all the media is mostly liberal, loves Al Gore, loves to warn us of impending disasters and tell us "the sky is falling, the sky is falling". The politicians and the environmentalist loved it, too.
But the tide was turning with Roger Revelle. He was forced out at Harvard at 65 and returned to California and a semi retirement position at UCSD. There he had time to rethink Carbon Dioxide and the greenhouse effect. The man who had inspired Al Gore and given the UN the basic research it needed to launch its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was having second thoughts. In 1988 he wrote two cautionary letters to members of Congress. He wrote, "My own personal belief is that we should wait another 10 or 20 years to really be convinced that the greenhouse effect is going to be important for human beings, in both positive and negative ways." He added, "…we should be careful not to arouse too much alarm until the rate and amount of warming becomes clearer."
And in 1991 Revelle teamed up with Chauncey Starr, founding director of the Electric Power Research Institute and Fred Singer, the first director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service, to write an article for Cosmos magazine. They urged more research and begged scientists and governments not to move too fast to curb greenhouse CO2 emissions because the true impact of carbon dioxide was not at all certain and curbing the use of fossil fuels could have a huge negative impact on the economy and jobs and our standard of living. I have discussed this collaboration with Dr. Singer. He assures me that Revelle was considerably more certain than he was at the time that carbon dioxide was not a problem.
Did Roger Revelle attend the Summer enclave at the Bohemian Grove in Northern California in the Summer of 1990 while working on that article? Did he deliver a lakeside speech there to the assembled movers and shakers from Washington and Wall Street in which he apologized for sending the UN IPCC and Al Gore onto this wild goose chase about global warming? Did he say that the key scientific conjecture of his lifetime had turned out wrong? The answer to those questions is, "I think so, but I do not know it for certain". I have not managed to get it confirmed as of this moment. It’s a little like Las Vegas; what is said at the Bohemian Grove stays at the Bohemian Grove. There are no transcripts or recordings and people who attend are encouraged not to talk. Yet, the topic is so important, that some people have shared with me on an informal basis.
Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam.
Al Gore has dismissed Roger Revelle’s Mea culpa as the actions of senile old man. And, the next year, while running for Vice President, he said the science behind global warming is settled and there will be no more debate, From 1992 until today, he and his cohorts have refused to debate global warming and when ask about we skeptics they simply insult us and call us names.
So today we have the acceptance of carbon dioxide as the culprit of global warming. It is concluded that when we burn fossil fuels we are leaving a dastardly carbon footprint which we must pay Al Gore or the environmentalists to offset. Our governments on all levels are considering taxing the use of fossil fuels. The Federal Environmental Protection Agency is on the verge of naming CO2 as a pollutant and strictly regulating its use to protect our climate. The new President and the US congress are on board. Many state governments are moving on the same course.
We are already suffering from this CO2 silliness in many ways. Our energy policy has been strictly hobbled by no drilling and no new refineries for decades. We pay for the shortage this has created every time we buy gas. On top of that the whole thing about corn based ethanol costs us millions of tax dollars in subsidies. That also has driven up food prices. And, all of this is a long way from over.
And, I am totally convinced there is no scientific basis for any of it.
Global Warming. It is the hoax. It is bad science. It is a high jacking of public policy. It is no joke. It is the greatest scam in history.
Written by John Coleman 1-29-09
by Das Goob! Now listen!
-"Life is hard. It's harder if you are stupid" John Wayne
The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax we citizens for our carbon footprints. Only two details stand in the way, the faltering economic times and a dramatic turn toward a colder climate. The last two bitter winters have lead to a rise in public awareness that CO2 is not a pollutant and is not a significant greenhouse gas that is triggering runaway global warming.
How did we ever get to this point where bad science is driving big government we have to struggle so to stop it?
The story begins with an Oceanographer named Roger Revelle. He served with the Navy in World War II. After the war he became the Director of the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in La Jolla in San Diego, California. Revelle saw the opportunity to obtain major funding from the Navy for doing measurements and research on the ocean around the Pacific Atolls where the US military was conducting atomic bomb tests. He greatly expanded the Institute’s areas of interest and among others hired Hans Suess, a noted Chemist from the University of Chicago, who was very interested in the traces of carbon in the environment from the burning of fossil fuels. Revelle tagged on to Suess studies and co-authored a paper with him in 1957. The paper raises the possibility that the carbon dioxide might be creating a greenhouse effect and causing atmospheric warming. It seems to be a plea for funding for more studies. Funding, frankly, is where Revelle’s mind was most of the time.
Next Revelle hired a Geochemist named David Keeling to devise a way to measure the atmospheric content of Carbon dioxide. In 1960 Keeling published his first paper showing the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and linking the increase to the burning of fossil fuels.
These two research papers became the bedrock of the science of global warming, even though they offered no proof that carbon dioxide was in fact a greenhouse gas. In addition they failed to explain how this trace gas, only a tiny fraction of the atmosphere, could have any significant impact on temperatures.
Now let me take you back to the1950s when this was going on. Our cities were entrapped in a pall of pollution from the crude internal combustion engines that powered cars and trucks back then and from the uncontrolled emissions from power plants and factories. Cars and factories and power plants were filling the air with all sorts of pollutants. There was a valid and serious concern about the health consequences of this pollution and a strong environmental movement was developing to demand action. Government accepted this challenge and new environmental standards were set. Scientists and engineers came to the rescue. New reformulated fuels were developed for cars, as were new high tech, computer controlled engines and catalytic converters. By the mid seventies cars were no longer big time polluters, emitting only some carbon dioxide and water vapor from their tail pipes. Likewise, new fuel processing and smoke stack scrubbers were added to industrial and power plants and their emissions were greatly reduced, as well.
But an environmental movement had been established and its funding and very existence depended on having a continuing crisis issue. So the research papers from Scripps came at just the right moment. And, with them came the birth of an issue; man-made global warming from the carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.
Revelle and Keeling used this new alarmism to keep their funding growing. Other researchers with environmental motivations and a hunger for funding saw this developing and climbed aboard as well. The research grants began to flow and alarming hypothesis began to show up everywhere.
The Keeling curve showed a steady rise in CO2 in atmosphere during the period since oil and coal were discovered and used by man. As of today, carbon dioxide has increased from 215 to 385 parts per million. But, despite the increases, it is still only a trace gas in the atmosphere. While the increase is real, the percentage of the atmosphere that is CO2 remains tiny, about .41 hundredths of one percent.
Several hypothesis emerged in the 70s and 80s about how this tiny atmospheric component of CO2 might cause a significant warming. But they remained unproven. Years have passed and the scientists kept reaching out for evidence of the warming and proof of their theories. And, the money and environmental claims kept on building up.
Back in the 1960s, this global warming research came to the attention of a Canadian born United Nation’s bureaucrat named Maurice Strong. He was looking for issues he could use to fulfill his dream of one-world government. Strong organized a World Earth Day event in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970. From this he developed a committee of scientists, environmentalists and political operatives from the UN to continue a series of meeting.
Strong developed the concept that the UN could demand payments from the advanced nations for the climatic damage from their burning of fossil fuels to benefit the underdeveloped nations, a sort of CO2 tax that would be the funding for his one-world government. But, he needed more scientific evidence to support his primary thesis. So Strong championed the establishment of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This was not a pure climate study scientific organization, as we have been lead to believe. It was an organization of one-world government UN bureaucrats, environmental activists and environmentalist scientists who craved the UN funding so they could produce the science they needed to stop the burning of fossil fuels. Over the last 25 years they have been very effective. Hundreds of scientific papers, four major international meetings and reams of news stories about climatic Armageddon later, the UN IPCC has made its points to the satisfaction of most and even shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.
At the same time, that Maurice Strong was busy at the UN, things were getting a bit out of hand for the man who is now called the grandfather of global warming, Roger Revelle. He had been very politically active in the late 1950’s as he worked to have the University of California locate a San Diego campus adjacent to Scripps Institute in La Jolla. He won that major war, but lost an all important battle afterward when he was passed over in the selection of the first Chancellor of the new campus.
He left Scripps finally in 1963 and moved to Harvard University to establish a Center for Population Studies. It was there that Revelle inspired one of his students to become a major global warming activist. This student would say later, "It felt like such a privilege to be able to hear about the readouts from some of those measurements in a group of no more than a dozen undergraduates. Here was this teacher presenting something not years old but fresh out of the lab, with profound implications for our future!" The student described him as "a wonderful, visionary professor" who was "one of the first people in the academic community to sound the alarm on global warming," That student was Al Gore. He thought of Dr. Revelle as his mentor and referred to him frequently, relaying his experiences as a student in his book Earth in the Balance, published in 1992.
So there it is, Roger Revelle was indeed the grandfather of global warming. His work had laid the foundation for the UN IPCC, provided the anti-fossil fuel ammunition to the environmental movement and sent Al Gore on his road to his books, his movie, his Nobel Peace Prize and a hundred million dollars from the carbon credits business.
What happened next is amazing. The global warming frenzy was becoming the cause celeb of the media. After all the media is mostly liberal, loves Al Gore, loves to warn us of impending disasters and tell us "the sky is falling, the sky is falling". The politicians and the environmentalist loved it, too.
But the tide was turning with Roger Revelle. He was forced out at Harvard at 65 and returned to California and a semi retirement position at UCSD. There he had time to rethink Carbon Dioxide and the greenhouse effect. The man who had inspired Al Gore and given the UN the basic research it needed to launch its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was having second thoughts. In 1988 he wrote two cautionary letters to members of Congress. He wrote, "My own personal belief is that we should wait another 10 or 20 years to really be convinced that the greenhouse effect is going to be important for human beings, in both positive and negative ways." He added, "…we should be careful not to arouse too much alarm until the rate and amount of warming becomes clearer."
And in 1991 Revelle teamed up with Chauncey Starr, founding director of the Electric Power Research Institute and Fred Singer, the first director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service, to write an article for Cosmos magazine. They urged more research and begged scientists and governments not to move too fast to curb greenhouse CO2 emissions because the true impact of carbon dioxide was not at all certain and curbing the use of fossil fuels could have a huge negative impact on the economy and jobs and our standard of living. I have discussed this collaboration with Dr. Singer. He assures me that Revelle was considerably more certain than he was at the time that carbon dioxide was not a problem.
Did Roger Revelle attend the Summer enclave at the Bohemian Grove in Northern California in the Summer of 1990 while working on that article? Did he deliver a lakeside speech there to the assembled movers and shakers from Washington and Wall Street in which he apologized for sending the UN IPCC and Al Gore onto this wild goose chase about global warming? Did he say that the key scientific conjecture of his lifetime had turned out wrong? The answer to those questions is, "I think so, but I do not know it for certain". I have not managed to get it confirmed as of this moment. It’s a little like Las Vegas; what is said at the Bohemian Grove stays at the Bohemian Grove. There are no transcripts or recordings and people who attend are encouraged not to talk. Yet, the topic is so important, that some people have shared with me on an informal basis.
Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam.
Al Gore has dismissed Roger Revelle’s Mea culpa as the actions of senile old man. And, the next year, while running for Vice President, he said the science behind global warming is settled and there will be no more debate, From 1992 until today, he and his cohorts have refused to debate global warming and when ask about we skeptics they simply insult us and call us names.
So today we have the acceptance of carbon dioxide as the culprit of global warming. It is concluded that when we burn fossil fuels we are leaving a dastardly carbon footprint which we must pay Al Gore or the environmentalists to offset. Our governments on all levels are considering taxing the use of fossil fuels. The Federal Environmental Protection Agency is on the verge of naming CO2 as a pollutant and strictly regulating its use to protect our climate. The new President and the US congress are on board. Many state governments are moving on the same course.
We are already suffering from this CO2 silliness in many ways. Our energy policy has been strictly hobbled by no drilling and no new refineries for decades. We pay for the shortage this has created every time we buy gas. On top of that the whole thing about corn based ethanol costs us millions of tax dollars in subsidies. That also has driven up food prices. And, all of this is a long way from over.
And, I am totally convinced there is no scientific basis for any of it.
Global Warming. It is the hoax. It is bad science. It is a high jacking of public policy. It is no joke. It is the greatest scam in history.
Written by John Coleman 1-29-09
by Das Goob! Now listen!
-"Life is hard. It's harder if you are stupid" John Wayne
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Stop saying the Iraq war was unjust or unnecessary!
You know, one of the dumbest things that President Bush could have done during his tenure as Commander in Chief is to bet all his chips on finding weapons of mass destruction during the invasion of Iraq. DUMB!
We didn't need to find them. The fact that the U.N. made "resolution" after resolution after resolution threatening Iraq and Saddam Hussein with military action if he did not comply (which he never met) was enough for us to go. That is it. That is the only reason we would need to give military action. Of course, there is the confirmed fact of correlation between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. That just adds to the justification against this cruel dictator. But, unlike 99% of the US public that is more concerned about the temperature their mocha latte is being served to them, I remember the reports of what really happened in Iraq.
Now, long after the war has been over, and long after Saddam is dead, video comes out of Iraq of what he really did. He used chemical weapons (yes, those are considered weapons of mass destruction) on his own people. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed using these weapons. Unbelievable video footage of entire villages and small cities completely wiped off the map. Don't believe me? Look it up in your libraries. Find the videos made by National Geographic called, "Inside Saddam's Reign of Terror". Very graphic video showing all of these bodies gassed as they were in their houses, streets, markets, etc. Video of people round up, dumped in 6ft deep by 50ft long pits, and then buried. Beheading, breaking arms in front of peers for brutality sake, throwing people off of buildings, hanging on the wall for fun, maiming and torture of those accused of even petty crimes, all decrees written and ordered to be enforced by Saddam Hussein.
Google photos of Halabja, a city in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq. Gone. Dead people everywhere from chemical attacks, frozen in time. How about Hilla? Killing fields of Saddam Hussein. Mass grave of 3000 Shiite rebels from the uprising.
All in all, no chemical or biological weapons were found, but they did find 180 separate mass graves, totaling over 300,000 dead......of his own people......his countrymen.....his children.
You are right Hollywood, there were no weapons of mass destruction found. He used them all up on his own people. Quit judging from your glass houses with your Mercedes in the garage, your Louis Vitton bags, and all your other lavish living ways. Think for once with the grey matter in your head. This Iraqi villain had killed enough and needed to be handled in a similar manner as those he murdered. He was tried and convicted, expeditiously executed, and buried by the countrymen he once terrorized. These people now can live free generate their own government. You better thank your gods daily you live in a country that preserves those types of freedoms you take for granted.
by Das Goob! Now listen!
-"Life is hard. It's harder if you are stupid" John Wayne
We didn't need to find them. The fact that the U.N. made "resolution" after resolution after resolution threatening Iraq and Saddam Hussein with military action if he did not comply (which he never met) was enough for us to go. That is it. That is the only reason we would need to give military action. Of course, there is the confirmed fact of correlation between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. That just adds to the justification against this cruel dictator. But, unlike 99% of the US public that is more concerned about the temperature their mocha latte is being served to them, I remember the reports of what really happened in Iraq.
Now, long after the war has been over, and long after Saddam is dead, video comes out of Iraq of what he really did. He used chemical weapons (yes, those are considered weapons of mass destruction) on his own people. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed using these weapons. Unbelievable video footage of entire villages and small cities completely wiped off the map. Don't believe me? Look it up in your libraries. Find the videos made by National Geographic called, "Inside Saddam's Reign of Terror". Very graphic video showing all of these bodies gassed as they were in their houses, streets, markets, etc. Video of people round up, dumped in 6ft deep by 50ft long pits, and then buried. Beheading, breaking arms in front of peers for brutality sake, throwing people off of buildings, hanging on the wall for fun, maiming and torture of those accused of even petty crimes, all decrees written and ordered to be enforced by Saddam Hussein.
Google photos of Halabja, a city in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq. Gone. Dead people everywhere from chemical attacks, frozen in time. How about Hilla? Killing fields of Saddam Hussein. Mass grave of 3000 Shiite rebels from the uprising.
All in all, no chemical or biological weapons were found, but they did find 180 separate mass graves, totaling over 300,000 dead......of his own people......his countrymen.....his children.
You are right Hollywood, there were no weapons of mass destruction found. He used them all up on his own people. Quit judging from your glass houses with your Mercedes in the garage, your Louis Vitton bags, and all your other lavish living ways. Think for once with the grey matter in your head. This Iraqi villain had killed enough and needed to be handled in a similar manner as those he murdered. He was tried and convicted, expeditiously executed, and buried by the countrymen he once terrorized. These people now can live free generate their own government. You better thank your gods daily you live in a country that preserves those types of freedoms you take for granted.
by Das Goob! Now listen!
-"Life is hard. It's harder if you are stupid" John Wayne
Monday, January 26, 2009
Who caused the housing crisis? W, of course.....
Please watch this video......
Now, you tell me how the housing crisis is George Bush's fault. How many warnings did they need to understand what was happening? Why isn't Barney Frank out on his hiney looking for work? What group of constituents would continue to blindly re-elect complete buffoons like him?
I blame George Bush for not beating the drum on this issue when we had a chance to fix it. The signs were there. People much smarter than him or Barny Rubble were sending up serious flags without coming straight out and grabbing him by the collar and saying, "YO, PREZ! WAKE UP CHUMP! THIS IS GOING TO GET UGLY IF WE DO NOT FIX IT!" Instead, we have to play nice because we are just right wing wackos that get blamed for everything. Good job.
Now everyone that loses their house will blame W. He obviously meant to kick them out in the street....... WHERE are your BRAINS, people?
Now, if you have 8 more minutes of time, watch this. Count how many representatives say there is no issue at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Unbelievable. Where is the public outcry? Why aren't people going berserk trying to oust these clowns? GET RID OF THEM! THESE ARE THE PEOPLE TO BLAME FOR THE HOUSING CRISIS!
Did you know who was the #1, #2, and #3 recipient of campaign funds from Fannie Mae? Look it up.
I think my eyeballs are going to explode.....
by Das Goob! Now listen!
-"Life is hard. It's harder if you are stupid" John Wayne
Now, you tell me how the housing crisis is George Bush's fault. How many warnings did they need to understand what was happening? Why isn't Barney Frank out on his hiney looking for work? What group of constituents would continue to blindly re-elect complete buffoons like him?
I blame George Bush for not beating the drum on this issue when we had a chance to fix it. The signs were there. People much smarter than him or Barny Rubble were sending up serious flags without coming straight out and grabbing him by the collar and saying, "YO, PREZ! WAKE UP CHUMP! THIS IS GOING TO GET UGLY IF WE DO NOT FIX IT!" Instead, we have to play nice because we are just right wing wackos that get blamed for everything. Good job.
Now everyone that loses their house will blame W. He obviously meant to kick them out in the street....... WHERE are your BRAINS, people?
Now, if you have 8 more minutes of time, watch this. Count how many representatives say there is no issue at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Unbelievable. Where is the public outcry? Why aren't people going berserk trying to oust these clowns? GET RID OF THEM! THESE ARE THE PEOPLE TO BLAME FOR THE HOUSING CRISIS!
Did you know who was the #1, #2, and #3 recipient of campaign funds from Fannie Mae? Look it up.
I think my eyeballs are going to explode.....
by Das Goob! Now listen!
-"Life is hard. It's harder if you are stupid" John Wayne
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