Obama is 'angry' and 'lame duck president'-Sarah Palin

7/22/11, "Sarah Palin Calls Out Barack Obama: He is an “Angry” “Lame Duck President”," Weasel Zippers

"After listening to the President’s press conference today, let’s keep in mind the following:

This is the same president who proposed an absurdly irresponsible budget that would increase our debt by trillions of dollars, and whose party failed to even put forward a budget in over 800 days! This is the same president who is pushing our country to the brink because of his reckless spending on things like the nearly trillion dollar “stimulus” boondoggle. This is the same president who ignored his own debt commission’s recommendations and demonized the voices of fiscal sanity who proposed responsible plans to reform our entitlement programs and rein in our dangerous debt trajectory. This is the same president who wanted to push through an increase in the debt ceiling that didn’t include any cuts in government spending! This is the same president who wants to slam Americans with tax hikes to cover his reckless spending, but has threatened to veto a bill proposing a balanced budget amendment. This is the same president who hasn’t put forward a responsible plan himself, but has rejected reasonable proposals that would tackle our debt. This is the same president who still refuses to understand that the American electorate rejected his big government agenda last November. As I said in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Tax Day Tea Party rally, “We don’t want it. We can’t afford it. And we are unwilling to pay for it.”

Now the President is outraged because the GOP House leadership called his bluff and ended discussions with him because they deemed him an obstruction to any real solution to the debt crisis.

• He has been deemed a lame duck president. And he is angry now because he is being treated as such.

His foreign policy strategy has been described as “leading from behind.” Well, that’s his domestic policy strategy as well. Why should he be surprised that he’s been left behind in the negotiations when he’s been leading from behind on this debt crisis?

Thank you, GOP House leaders. Please don’t get wobbly on us now.

2012 can’t come soon enough.

— Sarah Palin"

via Weasel Zippers

The Tuvalu climate guy who made them cheer and cry in Copenhagen doesn't even live on Tuvalu of course-Andrew Bolt

12/17/09, "Putting our economy in the hands of Chavez fans," Andrew Bolt, Australia Herald Sun

"These maniacs in Copenhagen are voting on your future:

President Chavez brought the house down.

When he said the process in Copenhagen was “not democratic, it is not inclusive, but isn’t that the reality of our world, the world is really and imperial dictatorship…down with imperial dictatorships” he got a rousing round of applause.

When he said there was a “silent and terrible ghost in the room” and that ghost was called capitalism, the applause was deafening.

But then he wound up to his grand conclusion – 20 minutes after his 5 minute speaking time was supposed to have ended and after quoting everyone from Karl Marx to Jesus Christ - “our revolution seeks to help all people…socialism, the other ghost that is probably wandering around this room, that’s the way to save the planet, capitalism is the road to hell....let’s fight against capitalism and make it obey us.” He won a standing ovation.

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And at the end of this first clip, Chavez rouses the rabble with more anti-Americanism, too:

I don’t think Obama is here yet. He got the Nobel Peace Prize almost the same day as he sent 30,000 soldiers to kill innocent people in Afghanistan.

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And a mass-murderer at Copenhagen lectures us about our crimes:

The anti-capitalist theme was picked up on by Mr Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s veteran President, who is the target of Western sanctions over alleged human rights abuses.

“When these capitalist gods of carbon burp and belch their dangerous emissions, it’s we, the lesser mortals of the developing sphere who gasp and sink and eventually die.”

UPDATE 3

"Nothing is real in Copenhagen - not the temperature record, not the predictions, not the agenda, not the “solution”. In fact, here’s how fake it all is:

The lead negotiator for the small island nation of Tuvalu, the bow-tie wearing Ian Fry, broke down as he begged delegates to take tough action.

“I woke up this morning crying,” and that’s not easy for a grown man to admit,” Mr Fry said on Saturday, as his eyes welled with tears.

”The fate of my country rests in your hands,” he concluded, as the audience exploded with wild applause.

So moving. But let’s now learn more from Samantha Maiden about this former Greenpeace official from “Tuvalu”:

But the part-time PhD scholar at the Australian National University actually resides in Queanbeyan, NSW, where he’s not likely to be troubled by rising sea levels because the closest beach at Batemans Bay is a two-hour, 144km drive away. Asked whether he had ever lived in Tuvalu, his wife told The Australian last night she would “rather not comment”....

Still, it’s a long way from the endangered atolls of Tuvalu, with his neighbour Michelle Ormay confirming he’s lived in Queanbeyan for more than a decade, while

• he has worked his way up to being
  

• “very high up in climate change”.

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12/18/09, "MARK STEYN: IT MAY LOOK GREEN, BUT NOTHING IS REAL IN COPENHAGEN," Mark Steyn, DakotaBeacon.com

African drought not fault of US but natural, and Africa fails to maintain adequate rainfall measurement stations-UK Climate Science study

UK report says Africa lacks "political will to invest in the collection" of needed data.

July 2008, "Rainfall and Water Resources Variability in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 20th Century," Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, UK

Abstract, p. 1, "No consistent signals in rainfall and river flows emerge across the whole of SSA.

p. 4, "Detailed information on CRU TS 2.1 quality control and notes on data interpretation can be found in relevant publications, but we note here that Africa has generally poor spatial and temporal coverage

• of rainfall stations

(Hulme, 1996; Nicholson, 1996) and this is true for the CRU TS 2.1 data, particularly before the 1930s and after about 1980. To explore the possible effects of changing station distribution on basin rainfall series and runoff relationships we use gridded time series of the number of stations within range of a grid box (Mitchell and Jones, 2005; www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timm/grid/stns.html) and calculate a basin average series from all grid boxes in the basin. ...Because these series do not record the actual number of stations that have been used to generate rainfall values we concentrate on changes in their

• relative rather than their absolute number."...

p.6, (end) "Finally, the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia and Somalia, are poorly represented because of limited data availability, especially in eastern and southern Ethiopia where some very large river basins (e.g. Omo, Wabe Shebelle)

• remain sparsely instrumented and under-studied."...

p.8, (end), "Unfortunately it has not been possible to update most of these series beyond 2002, however, recent studies by L’Hôte et al. (2002) and Dai et al. (2004) note that rainfall conditions in the Sahel have not returned to those prior to the early 1970s. Rainfall and river flows certainly reached their lowest point in the mid-1980s and have stabilised and in most cases recovered somewhat."...

• (More on lack of rainfall stations in Africa sufficient to charge the US with genocide and requirement to pay billions in 'reparations' to corrupt governments. ed.)

page 19, "Figure 10...Correlations tend to strengthen moderately from the 1920s to the 1950s (as station density rises) and most records show a rapid (step-like) decay roughly around 1980 at which point data from the 1990s would just begin to feed into the relationships as data from 1970 are removed. This behaviour most likely reflects the dramatic decline in rainfall stations after 1990, with numbers in most cases dropping from over 50 to

• less than 10
  
• between the late 1980s and early 1990s."...

page 20, "The time series of rainfall stations in Central Africa (Figure 9 Congo and Bangui) shows their extreme scarcity for this region during most of last century. The Congo shows a rainfall breakpoint in 1980 (1981 river flows) that is associated with a modest difference in the slope and marked reduction in the strength of the rainfall-runoff relationship. The running correlation is highly unstable until 1940 because no rainfall stations contributed to the basin until 1930; and from then on,

• only five contributed to this vast basin."...

page 21, Discussion, "The decline in the overall number of sites, their frequency of reporting and in some cases quality of measurements, are major concerns for the understanding of environmental change in SSA. Although this is part of a global phenomenon with hydrological data (Vörösmarty et al., 2001), the situation is particularly bad in SSA. The massive decline in rainfall stations used in CRU TS 2.1 from the 1980s onwards

• severely constrains efforts to accurately monitor climate variability and confidently model biophysical systems.

This is part of Africa’s wider financial, political and institutional challenges to climate research (Washington et al., 2006).

Halting this trend will not be straightforward, current efforts to re-engage African governments and donors through demonstrating the practical and economic value of such measurements (e.g. CLIMDEV) may founder due to

• lack of widespread support.

These calls follow on from many previous attempts to support and develop observations in Africa (Hydromet, 1982; World Bank, 1989, HYCOS and so on). Without political will to invest in the collection of such data and with the reluctance of donors to support recurrent costs indefinitely, a strategic and pragmatic approach is called for. This should be based on identifying a limited set of benchmark sites for long-term international support because of their significance for understanding global environmental change. To overcome some of the limitations of in situdata compilation, it would be useful to overlap and extend our river basin rainfall series using merged/ full satellite products. (page 21)...

page 22, "Future Climate Change"

"As already noted it may be some time before climate change signals can be reliably identified in African river flow series. Although we note that the floods in summer 2007 across SSA are unprecedented in their temporal and spatial scale since at least the end of the 19th century....

Most projections of future climate and impacts on runoff when averaged across multiple climate models suggest relatively modest changes out to the 2050s vis-à-vis the variability observed during the 20th century."...

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Even the UN notes crime and poor government in Africa increases likelihood of drought and other negative consequences.

"AFRICA ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK," UNEP.org (UN Environment Program)

"Human activities such as deforestation and inappropriate management of land and water resources can contribute to the frequency and impacts of natural climatic events. For example, clearing of tropical forests in Central and Western Africa alters local climate and rainfall patterns and increases the risk of drought. Clearing of vegetation increases run-off and soil erosion, and damming of rivers and draining of wetlands reduces the environment's natural ability to absorb excess water, increasing the impacts of floods."...




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NY politicians eager to build Ground Zero mosque even using taxpayer funds of NY'ers who survived 9-11, but silent about Greek Orthodox Church

7/21/11, "Islamic Supremacism Trumps Christianity at Ground Zero," Pamela Geller, American Thinker (photo St. Nicholas Church outdoor service in absence of Church, 12/5/10)

"While New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg works in anxious haste to build the cultural obscenity that is the Ground Zero mosque, the iconic St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was built in 1916 and destroyed in the attack on the World Trade Center towers by Muslim terrorists, remains vanquished, unable to rebuild.

Bloomberg is lobbying for 9/11 taxpayer funds for the Islamic supremacist grifters behind the Ground Zero mosque, but St. Nicholas Church is in purgatory ten years after the worst day in modern American history.

Perhaps St. Nicholas Church should claim that it is a mosque -- then Bloomberg and New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn would probably pour the cement for its foundation. Remember: the New York Daily News reported last December that "Mayor Bloomberg's top deputies went to great lengths to help those trying to build a mosque at Ground Zero -- even drafting a letter to the community board for them."

After a Freedom of Information Act request from Judicial Watch, New York City officials released "a flurry of emails between its brass and Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam pushing to build a mosque near the sensitive site, and his supporters." It was worse than we imagined. The release of these documents, emails, and various exchanges between Mayor Bloomberg's office and the radical Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his motley crew of Islamic supremacists showed evidence of collusion, inappropriate political support for the Ground Zero mega-mosque, and favoritism given to the project.

Rauf is an open proponent of Islamic law, Sharia, with its oppression of women, stonings, and amputations. He is a prominent member of the Perdana organization, a leading funder of the jihad flotilla launched against Israel last year by the genocidal Islamic terror group, IHH. And he's a slumlord and grifter: Rauf snagged more than $2 million in public financing to renovate low-income apartments. He took the money, never did the renovations, and forced good people to live with vermin and dilapidation.

So why did the mayor apparently break ethical rules for a slumlord with radical ties, whose buildings were placed in receivership? And why isn't he working just as energetically for the rebuilding of St. Nicholas Church? Technically, he has no jurisdiction over the Port Authority, which is blocking the rebuilding of the church, but he could speak out more energetically for it -- and meanwhile, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver could do a great deal to help the church's cause -- but in sharp contrast to Bloomberg's work for the mosque,

• they haven't done a thing for the church.

Cuomo could order Port Authority Executive Director Chris Ward to stop blocking the church's reconstruction. He hasn't. Silver hasn't done a thing, either. Yet if they support the Ground Zero mosque, they should at least extend the same level of support to this church that was on the site for 85 years.

I spoke with Evan C. Lambrou, who is a former editor of the National Herald, the country's oldest and largest Greek-American newspaper, and a distinguished graduate of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Boston. He explained that it was "wrong for the Port Authority to take the church's original property for its purposes, in exchange for another parcel nearby; extract the church's good faith by promising to actually deliver the promised new parcel; and then not make good on that promise. In short, the Port Authority got the church to do something it didn't really want to do by promising the church something else instead, and then refused to give what was promised. That's just not right. It's morally reprehensible, in fact."

Yes, it is, and it gets worse. Lambrou continued: "It's very disgraceful that the Port Authority has compelled the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese to file a federal lawsuit just to rebuild one of our churches. And it's simply astounding that people work themselves into such a frenzy about Park 51; that so many elected officials have rushed to defend development of an Islamic community center two blocks away from Ground Zero; and that virtually no one cares about the Port Authority's plans to exclude a Christian church from Ground Zero altogether."

Lambrou skewered the double standard: "This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and principles, so if elected officials are going to support religious freedom for Muslims in America, they should do the same for one of

• this country's Christian minorities."

"That's why I'm disappointed," Lambrou said, "in Governor Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver." He sent them both letters and emails, but their response "wasn't even lukewarm." He received "one feel-good call from a press officer at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation assuring me that the "Cuomo Administration cares." And as for Silver, one of his aides told Lambrou that he was "concerned" about the church. That was it. Lambrou sent them both information from the American Center for Law and Justice that pointed out that in refusing to rebuild the church, the Port Authority had violated three constitutional amendments. Nonetheless, Lammbrou said, "neither Mr. Cuomo nor Mr. Silver have voiced their support for the church publicly. I have urged them to do so several times, and they still haven't yet."

Lambrou told me: "This is both a moral and a Constitutional matter. Is it really that difficult for them to release a substantive public statement of support for rebuilding this church? Is it really so hard for them to tell the Port Authority to do the right thing for the church?" When I asked him if the lawsuit that the church had filed against various New York officials might be causing the silence, he responded: "This is a no-brainer, and the lawsuit is no excuse. Anyway, the lack of response to my concerns has been deeply disheartening. Orthodox Christian rights are being violated by a powerful public entity under their watch, and the people who should be defending us are doing nothing about it."

While those of us who oppose the Islamic supremacist mosquestrosity at Ground Zero are routinely called bigots, it is St. Nicholas Church that is encountering actual bigotry. Lambrou said, "I never thought I would find myself contending with this kind of bigotry in 21st Century America, and I feel completely betrayed that those who are in a position to reverse the problem have done nothing about it. That indicates they're actually willing to relegate this innocent and historic house of worship to oblivion and, in so doing, perpetuate the tragedy of 9/11."

They are, but we aren't. Stop the Islamization of lower Manhattan. Stand with us against the Ground Zero Mosque and for St. Nicholas Church

• on September 11 at our Freedom Rally at Ground Zero."

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Below original St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church destroyed on 9-11, via Atlas Shrugs article

• More images of St. Nicholas Church in relation to the World Trade Center

Above NY Daily News photo, article 12/7/10

• Below 12/5/10 service, via Atlas Shrugs

Last photo shows a few of the Church's artifacts that survived the slaughter on 9/11/01. photos below via Atlas Shrugs




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12/7/10, "St. Nicholas Church sues Port Authority, claims that agency is blocking church's reconstruction," NY Daily News, Larry McShane

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Muslim footbaths on Madison Avenue, 9/26/10

Muslim Parade Day, Madison Avenue, NY City, 9/26/10

• photos above from Urban Infidel, Madison Avenue, 9/26/10

via Atlas Shrugs

The Arctic is warming, icebergs melting away, unheard of temperatures-Washington Post, Nov. 2, 1922

Nov. 2, 1922, "Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt," Washington Post, AP story, via WUWT

"The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway.

Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm.

Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds."...

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from Watts Up with That, 3/16/08, via Tom Nelson

"You ask, I provide. November 2nd, 1922. Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt."

Government-owned BBC will only support views of global warming/climate reporting that might profit the government

7/20/11, "Climate change sceptics should get less BBC coverage and be challenged 'more vigorously', says report on science output," UK Daily Mail, Paul Revoir. via Instapundit, Jammie Wearing Fool

"Climate change sceptics will get less of a hearing on the BBC because they are at odds with the majority view among scientists, a report reveals.

The corporation’s governing body is set to change the way the BBC covers the issue by urging it to

• focus less on those who disagree with the majority ‘consensus’.

The BBC Trust report, out today, is in part based on an independent review of the broadcaster’s coverage by Steve Jones, professor of genetics at University College London."...

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Organized crime all across the climate 'industry' expected nothing less. ed.

via Instapundit, via Jammie Wearing Fool

"Green" approved curricula for public school children pulsates with evils of GDP, free markets, how US society must change, climate just red herring

7/15/11, "Indoctrination Fridays: Green Curricula’s Real Target is Free Markets, Not Global Warming," Kyle Olson, BigGovernment.com

"The lessons have spread throughout southeast Michigan. One school district, Bloomfield Hills – which ironically serves one of the wealthiest communities in the state – purchased the curriculum for $750. Ann Arbor Public Schools paid $4,900 for a day-long seminar. Similarly, Eastern Michigan University paid Creative Change $19,133.67 between 2007 and 2008 to “identify community groups and schools, help to develop, plan for, and facilitate Stakeholders Meetings, and collaborate writing the implementation proposal.”

Eastern Michigan University and Ann Arbor Public Schools, spent our tax dollars to spread this poison around the region.

There’s nothing wrong with teaching kids to turn off the lights and if it’s yellow to let it mellow. But Creative Change goes beyond common sense reforms and pushes a socio/political agenda.

One sample lesson plan – “Economics for the Common Good” – focuses on the Gross Domestic Product and how it is supposedly a misleading indicator of economic “progress.” You see, if there is an oil spill, millions if not billions are spent cleaning it up. That looks good for the GDP but not so good for the environment, according to their theory. So the progressives sought to compensate for that by devising the “Genuine Progress Indicator.” This measurement would take into account the “bad things” that grow the GDP to reflect the progress society is making.

“There is a growing acknowledgement that the GDP does not reflect sustainability’s aim to balance economic concerns with environmental and social goals.” Nevertheless, “…the GPI measures our combined economic, social, and environmental progress.”

Even nuttier, the writers suggest this as a novel idea because for once, bees will be able to get long-overdue credit for their contribution to society. “The GDP also ignores the many life-sustaining services performed by nature, such as pollination by bees and water purification by wetlands. Scientists conservatively estimate that these services are worth about $33 trillion per year,

• almost twice the total world GDP of $18 trillion.”...

Alas, the lesson acknowledges that a GPI “can never be 100% accurate.”

But how do we make this understandable to the pimply faced teens? Cartoons!

“…Create a comic strip featuring the adventures of a GDP superhero and super-villain. The superhero, for example, would drive a gas-guzzling SUV, crash it into a lake (causing an expensive clean-up), rack up huge hospital bills, and file a lawsuit. The villain, on the other hand, wouldn’t even have a car, would walk to work, and resolve conflict through discussion and mediation.”

Oy.

It’s no wonder America’s future is looking more bleak, when this is the type of garbage filling our students’ minds. Instead of belittling free markets and economic success with unrealistic characatures, perhaps it would behoove teachers to reflect on the real progress, innovation and high standard of living that capitalism

• has brought to America."...

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