I don’t think we have ever seen this behavior from anyone in the Senate, not even from those infamous Democrat boozers, Dodd and Kennedy.

Twas the night before Christmas, when through the Senate and House
Not a constituent was represented, not even a mouse.
The provisions were added to the fine print with care,
In hopes that the voters would never look there.

Obama was nestled all snug in his bed
While visions of a Socialist society danced in his head.
With Michele in her designer ‘kerchief, and Barrack in his cap,
The White House settled down for a two week Hawaiian winters nap.

When on the steps of the Senate there arose such a clatter,
Harry Reid sprang from his seat to see what was the matter.
Away to the window he flew like a flash,
Tore open the curtain, and got help lifting the sash.

The moon on the steps, covered with new fallen snow
Gave the luster of mid-day to the Senators below.
When, what to Reid’s incredulous eyes should appear
But a Republican committee strategerizing with out fear.

With a man from Connecticut, grinning and shaking hands
Reid in a moment knew it was Joe Lieberman.
More rapid than payoffs and kickbacks they came
Mitch McConnell whistled and shouted and called them by name.

Now Kyl, Now, Brownback! Now, Bunning and Cornyn!
On, Graham!, On, Hutchinson, On, Grassley and Ensign!
To the top of the steps, to the floor of the hall
Now dash healthcare! Dash healthcare! Dash Healthcare reforms all!

As dry pages that before the people sit unread and heavily veiled,
When they meet with an Administration that is too big to fail.
So up to the houses theses Senators flew,
With a handful of votes and a mandate too.

But then in a twinkling, Reid decided to deal,
He’d do what it took; he would lie, cheat and steal.
As he turned to the floor, and was turning around,
Lieberman and his caucus came in with a bound.

He was dressed to the nines, from his head to his foot,
With dollar signs in his eyes, and Brooks Brother’s Suit.
A bundle of line items he had in the pocket of his pants,
Provisions, Medicare expansion, and millions in grants.

His eyes how they twinkled! His dimples so merry!
His cheeks like Chris Dodd’s were gin blossomed like a cherry.
His drooping crooked mouth, hung low like a hound,
His vote was for sale, he didn’t need to make a sound.

The grin on Reid’s face shown old yellow teeth
The yes votes and dollar signs encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a frail, gaunt face, and bent crooked back,
He would force healthcare reform through despite the Republican attack.

Senator Nelson, held out until the deal went through,
Senator Sanders, Dodd, Leahy and Levin all got in line too.
With a wink of his eye, and a nod of his head,
Reid knew he had the votes, the filibuster was dead.

He spoke not a word, but went right to his work,
And paid off the Senators, like a heartless old jerk.
And laying a finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, the deficit rose.

He sprang to his feet, when the quorum was called,
He voted “no” by mistake, but his vote was recalled.
And we heard him exclaim, through the laughs and thrill,
“Yes,” healthcare for all no matter the size of the bill!

from the Office of Senator Mitch McConnell

Thursday, December 17, 2009

‘And here’s the most outrageous part: at the end of this rush, they want us to vote on a bill that no one outside the Majority Leader’s conference room has even seen. That’s right. The final bill we’ll vote on isn’t even the one we’ve had on the floor. It’s the deal Democrat leaders have been trying to work out in private’

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor Thursday regarding the importance of getting it right on health care reform:

“Senators on both sides acknowledge that the health care bill we’re considering is among the most significant pieces of legislation any of us will ever consider.

“So it stands to reason that we’d devote significant time and attention to it.

“Indeed, some would argue that we should spend more time and attention on this bill than most — if not every — previous bill we’ve considered.

“The Majority disagrees.

“Why? Because this bill has become a political nightmare for them.

“They know Americans overwhelmingly oppose it, so they want to get it over with.

“Americans are already outraged at the fact that Democrat leaders took their eyes off the ball. Rushing the process on a partisan line makes the situation even worse.

“Americans were told the purpose of reform was to reduce the cost of health care.

“Instead, Democrat leaders produced a $2.5 trillion, 2,074-page monstrosity that vastly expands government, raises taxes, raises premiums, and wrecks Medicare.

“And they want to rush this bill through by Christmas — one of the most significant, far-reaching pieces of legislation in U.S. history. They want to rush it.

“And here’s the most outrageous part: at the end of this rush, they want us to vote on a bill that no one outside the Majority Leader’s conference room has even seen.

“That’s right. The final bill we’ll vote on isn’t even the one we’ve had on the floor. It’s the deal Democrat leaders have been trying to work out in private.

“That’s what they intend to bring to the floor and force a vote on before Christmas.

“So this entire process is essentially a charade.

“But let’s just compare the process so far with previous legislation for some perspective. Here’s a snapshot of what we’ve done and where we stand:

• The Majority Leader intends to bring this debate to a close as early as this weekend — four days from now, on this $2.5 trillion dollar mistake

• No American who hasn’t been invited into the Majority Leader’s conference room knows what will be in that bill

• This bill has been the pending business of the Senate since the last week of November — less than four weeks ago.

• We started the amendment process two weeks ago.

• We’ve had 21 amendments and motions — less than two a day.

“Now let’s look at how the Senate has dealt with previous legislation.

“No Child Left Behind (2001):

• 21 session days or 7 weeks.

• Roll Call votes: 44

• Number of Amendments offered: 157

“9/11 Commission/Homeland Security Act (2002):

• 19 session days over 7 weeks.

• Roll Call votes: 20

• Number of Amendments offered: 30

“Energy Bill (2002):

• 21 session days over 8 weeks

• Number of Roll Call votes: 36

• Number of Amendments offered: 158

“This isn’t an energy bill. This is an attempt by a majority to take over one sixth of the U.S. economy — to vastly expand the reach and the role of government into the health care decisions of every single American — and they want to be done after one substantive amendment. This is absolutely inexcusable.

“I think Senator Snowe put it best on Tuesday:

‘Given the enormity and complexity,’ she said, ‘I don’t see anything magical about the Christmas deadline if this bill is going to become law in 2014.’

“And I think Senator Snowe’s comments on a lack of bipartisanship at the outset of this debate are also right on point.

“Here’s what she said in late November:

‘I am truly disappointed we are commencing our historic debate on one of the most significant and pressing domestic issues of our time with a process that has forestalled our ability to arrive at broader agreement on some of the most crucial elements of health care reform. The bottom line is, the most consequential health care legislation in the history of our country and the reordering of $33 trillion in health care spending over the coming decade shouldn’t be determined by one vote-margin strategies – surely we can and must do better.’

“The only conceivable justification for rushing this bill is the overwhelming opposition of the American people. Democrats know that the longer Americans see this bill the less they like it. Here’s the latest from Pew. It came out just yesterday.

“A majority (58 percent) of those who have heard a lot about the bills oppose them while only 32 percent favor them.”

“There is no justification for this blind rush — except a political one, and that’s not good enough for the American people.

“And there’s no justification for forcing the Senate to vote on a bill none of us has seen.

“Americans already oppose this bill. The process is just as bad.

“It’s completely reckless, completely irresponsible.”

It has certainly been an interesting year as far as awards go…

We have seen President Obama receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and accept it the day he sends 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. No one was really sure why he received the prize, but it turns out that it is simply a popularity contest. Remember Al “Carbon Footprint” Gore won one to go along with his Academy award for his part in what is unraveling as the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the people of this country and the world.

I was also announced that the chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernacke is the Time Person of the Year. Time describes him as a “professorial leading scholar of the Great Depression. He knew how the passive Fed of the 1930s helped create the calamity — through its stubborn refusal to expand the money supply and its tragic lack of imagination and experimentation. Chairman Bernanke of Washington was determined not to be the Fed chairman who presided over Depression 2.0.”

This must be why our debt ceiling has reached epic, unprecedented proportions, the dollar is as weak as it has ever been, unemployment has reached historical high levels: 10%, it has been a year of escalating layoffs, an ever increasing number of bankruptcies and a wave of foreclosures that is washing over the country, bailouts to his buddies on Wall Street, and the drive for nationalization of the auto industry, the financial industry, and the health care industry. Way to go Time Magazine, Ben truly is Man-of-the-Year.

Who’s next… Tiger Woods of course.

Tiger “Where Da Women At” Woods, despite being exposed as a philandering, womanizing sex maniac has been given the distinction of “Top Athlete of the Decade” by The Associated Press. On and off the field of play this dude knows how to score.

One reporter said this about his vote: “I looked at him as an athlete, I really did. I separated him a little bit. If this had happened three years ago and his performance had dropped off, that’s a different factor.” I guess we shouldn’t be surprised; Kobe was on trial for rape, O.J. was on trial for murder and is now behind bars for various other crimes, Sean Kemp of NBA fame was notorious for fathering multiple children with a multitude of women, etc, etc, etc… Now it has been leaked that Tiger may have been the cause of the break up between Tony Romo of the Dallas Cowboys and Jessica Simpson of… uh… . I hope Tiger appreciates the collateral damage that his actions have.

Here is how the voting came in: Tiger “received 56 of the 142 votes cast since last month by editors at U.S. newspapers that are members of the AP. More than half the ballots were returned after the Nov. 27 car accident outside his Florida home that set off sensational tales of infidelity.

Lance Armstrong, a cancer survivor who won the Tour de France six times this decade, finished second with 33 votes. He was followed by Roger Federer, who has won more Grand Slam singles titles than any other man, with 25 votes.

Record-setting Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps came in fourth with 13 votes, followed by New England quarterback Tom Brady (6) and world-record sprinter Usain Bolt (4). Five other athletes received one vote apiece.”

It seems that what we are awarding people for these days is simply being in the spotlight. We have become a world obsessed with fame, despite its fleeting nature. We all want our “fifteen,” and we will do what ever it takes. Bang a golf pro and then tell about it, pretend our child has fallen down a well, or been swept away in a hot air balloon, live in a house or on an island with eleven other strangers, and trick each other into behaving badly, get on stage and sing despite having no talent and have a cast of has bins critique and belittle them. It goes on and on….

With a 24-hour news cycle, hundreds of cable channels, thousands of pod casts, and other internet-based outlets, we have become a world of fast-food sound byte consumers. Much like the Super Sized Triple Decker butter-McCheese with bacon, we have given up on substance. We are all about the flavor regardless of the contents. We have elected a President with little or no experience based on an empty tag-line; “Hope and Change”, just so history could be made. Our so-called sports and Hollywood heroes are over-compensated to outrageous levels for hitting a ball, or pretending to be a comic book character, while off the field they cheat on, or beat on their families, because we have lifted them up on a pedestal that makes them feel above the law and above basic levels of human decency.

We award excellence and we revel in failure. We are whores for the sound-byte and the scandal. Are our own lives so empty, that we need to live vicariously through these people? I hope not. I am as guilty as anyone. I am a Vikings fan and I get real joy from seeing Brett Favre lead “My Team”, though I have no ownership stake, to one of the best seasons in a decade.

I think as my new years resolution I am going do something different. Every past year I have lied to myself about getting in shape, and working out. I am not going to do that for 2010. For 2010 I am just going to focus being good. Good to myself, good to my wife, good to my kids, good to my siblings, good to my business, good to the country.

Maybe if we all set our sights for 2010 on something simple like being “good” we would fall less often, and less far, and maybe we could give an award to someone who truly earned it and really deserved it.

Brophinator

Climate Change Is Nature’s Way
It’s our good luck one of Earth’s many ice ages ended 12,000 years ago.

The President Is No B+
In fact, he’s got the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year.

President Obama, will threaten the country tonight while speaking to Charles Gibson, veiled in the guise of a warning: the federal government “will go bankrupt” if we do not institute His health-care reforms. To many of the ignorant masses, those that are still hoping for change while in line at the unemployment office, this will sound like a sage warning from their illustrious and infallible leader. But to many of us who actually use our heads, this will be seen as exactly what it is… a threat.

This is a play right out of the Chicago organized crime handbook. “You’ze gives us $500.00 per week, and we will guarantee that your business won’t burn to the ground. If you’ze doesn’t, well I ain’t saying we’ll burn it, but you better make sure your fire insurance is up to date. Capice?”

Mr. Obama is threatening to continue his reckless and out of control spending, which will single handedly bankrupt Washington and the country, if we do not cow tow and give in to the passing of his so called health care reform. This “reform” has been proven by the CBO and many others to be ineffective, unrealistic, and so expensive that our grandchildren’s grandchildren will be paying for it.

Mr. Obama is already pushing the national debt beyond all historical limits and limits approved by Congress last February as part of the Recovery Act stimulus bill.: The ceiling was set at $12.104 trillion dollars. The latest posting by Treasury shows the National Debt at nearly $12.135 trillion.”

But don’t worry; Nancy “Botox” Pelosi is on the case. She is predicting that “job creation and deficit reduction will be the central Democratic themes for the coming year – and that public support for health care reform will rebound once a bill has been sent to President Barack Obama.” What a joke; job creation and deficit reduction, by increasing taxes, killing incentives for small and large businesses, and increasing the size of the Federal government. Where does it stop? Are we all going to work for the federal government?

This Congress and this Administration are the worst, most anti-American and anti-capitalism group of fools that have ever been assembled. Shame on us, for electing these empty suits, who lie to us everyday, and we simply line back up and go for more. They have cooked a shit sandwich, told us it’s a corn beef on rye and despite the smell and the taste we are opening up wide and biting down hard. I guess we are getting what we deserve…

But when will it be enough? How many shit sandwiches can we stomach before we demand to see the manager? The time has come to stop these so-called representatives from cramming legislation down our gullets for the sake of their legacy. They don’t care about you or me… they only care about the “history” they are making. Doesn’t it bother you that members of Congress and the President feel entitled dictate your healthcare choices for you, to force you into a system that is good enough for you, while exempting themselves from the very system they are proposing.

It is time for these hypocritical, lying, crooks, to leave office; starting at the top. Does the term taxation without representation ring a bell? Our money is being spent on the agendas of these morons; universal healthcare, Cap and trade, financial bailouts, the nationalization of industries. There was once a revolution that started for many of the same reasons. Taxes were levied on citizens on the other side of an ocean to pay for debts and foreign wars. They had no voice because their cries fell on the deaf ears of a monarch and a fiercely loyal parliament. It was not until their final declaration that their collective voice was heard, and changed the face of economics, and power in the world.

It is time for the people to make their declaration heard once again.

Brophinator

DAILY EXPRESS::::

HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made:

1) There is “no real scientific proof” that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from man’s activity.

2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than 0.00022 percent of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of the earth during geological history.

3) Warmer periods of the Earth’s history came around 800 years before rises in CO2 levels.

4) After World War II, there was a huge surge in recorded CO2 emissions but global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940.

5) Throughout the Earth’s history, temperatures have often been warmer than now and CO2 levels have often been higher – more than ten times as high.

6) Significant changes in climate have continually occurred throughout geologic time.

7) The 0.7C increase in the average global temperature over the last hundred years is entirely consistent with well-established, long-term, natural climate trends.

The IPCC theory is driven by just 60 scientists and favourable reviewers not the 4,000 usually cited.

9) Leaked e-mails from British climate scientists – in a scandal known as “Climate-gate” – suggest that that has been manipulated to exaggerate global warming

10) A large body of scientific research suggests that the sun is responsible for the greater share of climate change during the past hundred years.

11) Politicians and activists claim rising sea levels are a direct cause of global warming but sea levels rates have been increasing steadily since the last ice age 10,000 ago

12) Philip Stott, Emeritus Professor of Biogeography at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London says climate change is too complicated to be caused by just one factor, whether CO2 or clouds

13) Peter Lilley MP said last month that “fewer people in Britain than in any other country believe in the importance of global warming. That is despite the fact that our Government and our political class—predominantly—are more committed to it than their counterparts in any other country in the world”.

14) In pursuit of the global warming rhetoric, wind farms will do very little to nothing to reduce CO2 emissions

15) Professor Plimer, Professor of Geology and Earth Sciences at the University of Adelaide, stated that the idea of taking a single trace gas in the atmosphere, accusing it and finding it guilty of total responsibility for climate change, is an “absurdity”

16) A Harvard University astrophysicist and geophysicist, Willie Soon, said he is “embarrassed and puzzled” by the shallow science in papers that support the proposition that the earth faces a climate crisis caused by global warming.

17) The science of what determines the earth’s temperature is in fact far from settled or understood.

18) Despite activist concerns over CO2 levels, CO2 is a minor greenhouse gas, unlike water vapour which is tied to climate concerns, and which we can’t even pretend to control

19) A petition by scientists trying to tell the world that the political and media portrayal of global warming is false was put forward in the Heidelberg Appeal in 1992. Today, more than 4,000 signatories, including 72 Nobel Prize winners, from 106 countries have signed it.

20) It is claimed the average global temperature increased at a dangerously fast rate in the 20th century but the recent rate of average global temperature rise has been between 1 and 2 degrees C per century – within natural rates

21) Professor Zbigniew Jaworowski, Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection in Warsaw, Poland says the earth’s temperature has more to do with cloud cover and water vapor than CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.

22) There is strong evidence from solar studies which suggests that the Earth’s current temperature stasis will be followed by climatic cooling over the next few decades

23) It is myth that receding glaciers are proof of global warming as glaciers have been receding and growing cyclically for many centuries

24) It is a falsehood that the earth’s poles are warming because that is natural variation and while the western Arctic may be getting somewhat warmer we also see that the Eastern Arctic and Greenland are getting colder

25) The IPCC claims climate driven “impacts on biodiversity are significant and of key relevance” but those claims are simply not supported by scientific research

26) The IPCC threat of climate change to the world’s species does not make sense as wild species are at least one million years old, which means they have all been through hundreds of climate cycles

27) Research goes strongly against claims that CO2-induced global warming would cause catastrophic disintegration of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets.

28) Despite activist concerns over CO2 levels, rising CO2 levels are our best hope of raising crop yields to feed an ever-growing population

29) The biggest climate change ever experienced on earth took place around 700 million years ago

30) The slight increase in temperature which has been observed since 1900 is entirely consistent with well-established, long-term natural climate cycles

31) Despite activist concerns over CO2 levels, rising CO2 levels of some so-called “greenhouse gases” may be contributing to higher oxygen levels and global cooling, not warming

32) Accurate satellite, balloon and mountain top observations made over the last three decades have not shown any significant change in the long term rate of increase in global temperatures

33) Today’s CO2 concentration of around 385 ppm is very low compared to most of the earth’s history – we actually live in a carbon-deficient atmosphere

34) It is a myth that CO2 is the most common greenhouse gas because greenhouse gases form about 3% of the atmosphere by volume, and CO2 constitutes about 0.037% of the atmosphere

35) It is a myth that computer models verify that CO2 increases will cause significant global warming because computer models can be made to “verify” anything

36) There is no scientific or statistical evidence whatsoever that global warming will cause more storms and other weather extremes

37) One statement deleted from a UN report in 1996 stated that “none of the studies cited above has shown clear evidence that we can attribute the observed climate changes to increases in greenhouse gases”

38) The world “warmed” by 0.07 +/- 0.07 degrees C from 1999 to 2008, not the 0.20 degrees C expected by the IPCC

39) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says “it is likely that future tropical cyclones (typhoons and hurricanes) will become more intense” but there has been no increase in the intensity or frequency of tropical cyclones globally

40) Rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere can be shown not only to have a negligible effect on the Earth’s many ecosystems, but in some cases to be a positive help to many organisms

41) Researchers who compare and contrast climate change impact on civilizations found warm periods are beneficial to mankind and cold periods harmful

42) The Met Office asserts we are in the hottest decade since records began but this is precisely what the world should expect if the climate is cyclical

43) Rising CO2 levels increase plant growth and make plants more resistant to drought and pests

44) The historical increase in the air’s CO2 content has improved human nutrition by raising crop yields during the past 150 years

45) The increase of the air’s CO2 content has probably helped lengthen human lifespans since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution

46) The IPCC alleges that “climate change currently contributes to the global burden of disease and premature deaths” but the evidence shows that higher temperatures and rising CO2 levels has helped global populations

47) In May of 2004, the Russian Academy of Sciences published a report concluding that the Kyoto Protocol has no scientific grounding at all.

48) The “Climate-gate” scandal pointed to a expensive public campaign of disinformation and the denigration of scientists who opposed the belief that CO2 emissions were causing climate change

49) The head of Britain’s climate change watchdog has predicted households will need to spend up to £15,000 on a full energy efficiency makeover if the Government is to meet its ambitious targets for cutting carbon emissions.

50) Wind power is unlikely to be the answer to our energy needs. The wind power industry argues that there are “no direct subsidies” but it involves a total subsidy of as much as £60 per MWh which falls directly on electricity consumers. This burden will grow in line with attempts to achieve Wind power targets, according to a recent OFGEM report.

51) Wind farms are not an efficient way to produce energy. The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) accepts a figure of 75 per cent back-up power is required.

52) Global temperatures are below the low end of IPCC predictions not at “at the top end of IPCC estimates”

53) Climate alarmists have raised the concern over acidification of the oceans but Tom Segalstad from Oslo University in Norway , and others, have noted that the composition of ocean water – including CO2, calcium, and water – can act as a buffering agent in the acidification of the oceans.

54) The UN’s IPCC computer models of human-caused global warming predict the emergence of a “hotspot” in the upper troposphere over the tropics. Former researcher in the Australian Department of Climate Change, David Evans, said there is no evidence of such a hotspot

55) The argument that climate change is a of result of global warming caused by human activity is the argument of flat Earthers.

56) The manner in which US President Barack Obama sidestepped Congress to order emission cuts shows how undemocratic and irrational the entire international decision-making process has become with regards to emission-target setting.

57) William Kininmonth, a former head of the National Climate Centre and a consultant to the World Meteorological Organisation, wrote “the likely extent of global temperature rise from a doubling of CO2 is less than 1C. Such warming is well within the envelope of variation experienced during the past 10,000 years and insignificant in the context of glacial cycles during the past million years, when Earth has been predominantly very cold and covered by extensive ice sheets.”

58) Canada has shown the world targets derived from the existing Kyoto commitments were always unrealistic and did not work for the country.

59) In the lead up to the Copenhagen summit, David Davis MP said of previous climate summits, at Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and Kyoto in 1997 that many had promised greater cuts, but “neither happened”, but we are continuing along the same lines.

60) The UK ’s environmental policy has a long-term price tag of about £55 billion, before taking into account the impact on its economic growth.

61) The UN’s panel on climate change warned that Himalayan glaciers could melt to a fifth of current levels by 2035. J. Graham Cogley a professor at Ontario Trent University, claims this inaccurate stating the UN authors got the date from an earlier report wrong by more than 300 years.

62) Under existing Kyoto obligations the EU has attempted to claim success, while actually increasing emissions by 13 per cent, according to Lord Lawson. In addition the EU has pursued this scheme by purchasing “offsets” from countries such as China paying them billions of dollars to destroy atmospheric pollutants, such as CFC-23, which were manufactured purely in order to be destroyed.

63) It is claimed that the average global temperature was relatively unchanging in pre-industrial times but sky-rocketed since 1900, and will increase by several degrees more over the next 100 years according to Penn State University researcher Michael Mann. There is no convincing empirical evidence that past climate was unchanging, nor that 20th century changes in average global temperature were unusual or unnatural.

64) Michael Mann of Penn State University has actually shown that the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age did in fact exist, which contrasts with his earlier work which produced the “hockey stick graph” which showed a constant temperature over the past thousand years or so followed by a recent dramatic upturn.

65) The globe’s current approach to climate change in which major industrialised countries agree to nonsensical targets for their CO2 emissions by a given date, as it has been under the Kyoto system, is very expensive.

66) The “Climate-gate” scandal revealed that a scientific team had emailed one another about using a “trick” for the sake of concealing a “decline” in temperatures when looking at the history of the Earth’s temperature.

67) Global temperatures have not risen in any statistically-significant sense for 15 years and have actually been falling for nine years. The “Climate-gate” scandal revealed a scientific team had expressed dismay at the fact global warming was contrary to their predictions and admitted their inability to explain it was “a travesty”.

68) The IPCC predicts that a warmer planet will lead to more extreme weather, including drought, flooding, storms, snow, and wildfires. But over the last century, during which the IPCC claims the world experienced more rapid warming than any time in the past two millennia, the world did not experience significantly greater trends in any of these extreme weather events.

69) In explaining the average temperature standstill we are currently experiencing, the Met Office Hadley Centre ran a series of computer climate predictions and found in many of the computer runs there were decade-long standstills but none for 15 years – so it expects global warming to resume swiftly.

70) Richard Lindzen, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote: “The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of the Earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. Such hysteria (over global warming) simply represents the scientific illiteracy of much of the public, the susceptibility of the public to the substitution of repetition for truth.”

71) Despite the 1997 Kyoto Protocol’s status as the flagship of the fight against climate change it has been a failure.

72) The first phase of the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which ran from 2005 to 2007 was a failure. Huge over-allocation of permits to pollute led to a collapse in the price of carbon from €33 to just €0.20 per tonne meaning the system did not reduce emissions at all.

73) The EU trading scheme, to manage carbon emissions has completely failed and actually allows European businesses to duck out of making their emissions reductions at home by offsetting, which means paying for cuts to be made overseas instead.

74) To date “cap and trade” carbon markets have done almost nothing to reduce emissions.

75) In the United States , the cap-and-trade is an approach designed to control carbon emissions and will impose huge costs upon American citizens via a carbon tax on all goods and services produced in the United States. The average family of four can expect to pay an additional $1700, or £1,043, more each year. It is predicted that the United States will lose more than 2 million jobs as the result of cap-and-trade schemes.

76) Dr Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, has indicated that out of the 21 climate models tracked by the IPCC the differences in warming exhibited by those models is mostly the result of different strengths of positive cloud feedback – and that increasing CO2 is insufficient to explain global-average warming in the last 50 to 100 years.

77) Why should politicians devote our scarce resources in a globally competitive world to a false and ill-defined problem, while ignoring the real problems the entire planet faces, such as: poverty, hunger, disease or terrorism.

78) A proper analysis of ice core records from the past 650,000 years demonstrates that temperature increases have come before, and not resulted from, increases in CO2 by hundreds of years.

79) Since the cause of global warming is mostly natural, then there is in actual fact very little we can do about it. (We are still not able to control the sun).

80) A substantial number of the panel of 2,500 climate scientists on the United Nation’s International Panel on Climate Change, which created a statement on scientific unanimity on climate change and man-made global warming, were found to have serious concerns.

81) The UK’s Met Office has been forced this year to re-examine 160 years of temperature data after admitting that public confidence in the science on man-made global warming has been shattered by revelations about the data.

82) Politicians and activists push for renewable energy sources such as wind turbines under the rhetoric of climate change, but it is essentially about money – under the system of Renewable Obligations. Much of the money is paid for by consumers in electricity bills. It amounts to £1 billion a year.

83) The “Climate-gate” scandal revealed that a scientific team had tampered with their own data so as to conceal inconsistencies and errors.

84) The “Climate-gate” scandal revealed that a scientific team had campaigned for the removal of a learned journal’s editor, solely because he did not share their willingness to debase science for political purposes.

85) Ice-core data clearly show that temperatures change centuries before concentrations of atmospheric CO2 change. Thus, there appears to be little evidence for insisting that changes in concentrations of CO2 are the cause of past temperature and climate change.

86) There are no experimentally verified processes explaining how CO2 concentrations can fall in a few centuries without falling temperatures – in fact it is changing temperatures which cause changes in CO2 concentrations, which is consistent with experiments that show CO2 is the atmospheric gas most readily absorbed by water.

87) The Government’s Renewable Energy Strategy contains a massive increase in electricity generation by wind power costing around £4 billion a year over the next twenty years. The benefits will be only £4 to £5 billion overall (not per annum). So costs will outnumber benefits by a range of between eleven and seventeen times.

88) Whilst CO2 levels have indeed changed for various reasons, human and otherwise, just as they have throughout history, the CO2 content of the atmosphere has increased since the beginning of the industrial revolution, and the growth rate has now been constant for the past 25 years.

89) It is a myth that CO2 is a pollutant, because nitrogen forms 80% of our atmosphere and human beings could not live in 100% nitrogen either: CO2 is no more a pollutant than nitrogen is and CO2 is essential to life.

90) Politicians and climate activists make claims to rising sea levels but certain members in the IPCC chose an area to measure in Hong Kong that is subsiding. They used the record reading of 2.3 mm per year rise of sea level.

91) The accepted global average temperature statistics used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that no ground-based warming has occurred since 1998.

92) If one factors in non-greenhouse influences such as El Nino events and large volcanic eruptions, lower atmosphere satellite-based temperature measurements show little, if any, global warming since 1979, a period over which atmospheric CO2 has increased by 55 ppm (17 per cent).

93) US President Barack Obama pledged to cut emissions by 2050 to equal those of 1910 when there were 92 million Americans. In 2050, there will be 420 million Americans, so Obama’s promise means that emissions per head will be approximately what they were in 1875. It simply will not happen.

94) The European Union has already agreed to cut emissions by 20 percent to 2020, compared with 1990 levels, and is willing to increase the target to 30 percent. However, these are unachievable and the EU has already massively failed with its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), as EU emissions actually rose by 0.8 percent from 2005 to 2006 and are known to be well above the Kyoto goal.

95) Australia has stated it wants to slash greenhouse emissions by up to 25 percent below 2000 levels by 2020, but the pledges were so unpopular that the country’s Senate has voted against the carbon trading Bill, and the Opposition’s Party leader has now been ousted by a climate change sceptic.

96) Canada plans to reduce emissions by 20 percent compared with 2006 levels by 2020, representing approximately a 3 percent cut from 1990 levels but it simultaneously defends its Alberta tar sands emissions and its record as one of the world’s highest per-capita emissions setters.

97) India plans to reduce the ratio of emissions to production by 20-25 percent compared with 2005 levels by 2020, but all Government officials insist that since India has to grow for its development and poverty alleviation, it has to emit, because the economy is driven by carbon.

98) The Leipzig Declaration in 1996, was signed by 110 scientists who said: “We – along with many of our fellow citizens – are apprehensive about the climate treaty conference scheduled for Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997” and “based on all the evidence available to us, we cannot subscribe to the politically inspired world view that envisages climate catastrophes and calls for hasty actions.”

99) A US Oregon Petition Project stated “We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind. There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of CO2, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.”

100) A report by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change concluded “We find no support for the IPCC’s claim that climate observations during the twentieth century are either unprecedented or provide evidence of an anthropogenic effect on climate.”

Though I have a BBA in Economics, I am certainly no economist, but I do understand simple economic processes and theories. I am baffled by the latest dictum to come from the chosen one Obama, on economic recovery: “We must spend our way to recovery!” As I said I am no great Noble prize winning Economist, although with the way they seem to give those things out to anyone regardless of accomplishment, maybe I am.

Anyway, back to my point. “President Barrack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to “spend our way out of this recession” until more Americans are back at work. What is he smoking, and inhaling? I think he has an FDR complex… How much do you want to bet that he’ll twist his ankle on the golf course, where he spend more time than Tiger Woods, who lately seems to be spending his time banging out hole-in-ones of a another sort, and show up in a wheel chair, and smoking from long cigarette holder.

So far the President has done nothing but blame the previous administration, increase the deficit more than any President in history, and weaken the dollar like the currency of some banana republic. His job stimulus has failed miserably creating at best temporary jobs for people that are over qualified to work them. Accountants and scientists greeting consumers at Wal-Mart. “Hello, and welcome to Wal-Mart, I am Doctor Jones… would you like a carriage…”

Mr. Obama is calling for more government spending on infrastructure projects… highways and bridges. I am sure that the unionized “construction” companies in Chicago are lining up to get their fare share of “No-show” and “No-Work” jobs. We can call this the Tony Soprano Infrastructure Stimulus Act of 2010. He is also calling for tax breaks for those who spend outrageous amounts of money on retro-fitting their homes to be more efficient… They are calling this “Cash for caulkers.” I wonder if this program will work as well and the Cash for Clunkers program did. A program that temporarily boosted sales of cars, all on the dime of the taxpayer; you got a rebate, and they let you pay for it… Now I know why the Obama White House thinks we are all stupid… because “stupid is as stupid does.”

But I think I have figured it out. How does one dig oneself out of a hole? It is simple. You keep digging until you reach China, and then voila you are free. Well not really, you are in communist China, where you have very little freedom, and live under dictatorial rule by a government that care little about the individual and stifles its society and people.

And I think that is it. Obama is literally digging his way to China. He has always been a socialist, and his policies of government control of business, health care, education, and the financial sector could be described as communist and even fascist.

When he ran some called him the Manchurian Candidate, perhaps they were right. He really has visions of becoming ObaMao.

Brophinator.