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From the “You Can’t Be Serious” File

Obama’s Brilliant First Year

By January, he will have accomplished more than any first-year president since Franklin Roosevelt.

Or, making the most of a bad situation… story here

Wonder how much Jacob Weisberg of Slate is getting paid for this propaganda.

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Next we have this gem:

photo credit: Barack Obama

New Canadian Anthem?

It hits all the major points – and features Canada’s team.

To you from Toronto… which, they tell me, is Canada.

FREE TO BE

(THE LEAFS’ SONG)

VERSE 1

From the Isle of Vancouver
To the Labrador Sea
One nation, glorious and free
Where I’m free to be me.

VERSE 2

From the song of the Prairies
To the call of the pond
Heroes of times come and gone
Where the memories go on and on and on
Oh! Oh! Oh! This is Canada’s song
Oh! Oh! Oh! Where my heart belongs

VERSE 3

Free to be a dreamer
Free to be who you are
Free to believe in your star
Free to go far
Oh! Oh! Oh! That’s Canada’s dream (Go Leafs Go)
Oh! Oh! Oh! This is Canada’s team (Go Leafs Go)

BRIDGE

TAG

Free to be a dreamer
Free to be who you are

Hope From Australia

Jolting the climate debate

SYDNEY — A leading climate-change sceptic seized control of Australia’s opposition on Tuesday, vowing to kill carbon trading legislation ahead of key UN talks.

Right-wing maverick Tony Abbott ousted Liberal Party leader Malcolm Turnbull by just one vote, 42-41, in a result that should doom marathon attempts to pass emissions laws.

A second defeat of the government bill — aiming to cut carbon pollution by between five and 25 percent of 2000 levels by 2020 — would give the government powers to call a snap election.

“We will oppose the legislation in the Senate — that is the right thing to do,” Abbott told reporters, adding that he was “not frightened of an election on this issue”.

And the UN concedes defeat in Copenhagen:

The United Nations’ chief negotiator says the international climate change summit in Copenhagen will not be a “failure”. Instead, he’s still confident the conference will deliver an agreement, with ambitious targets from rich nations, and commitments to cut emissions growth by the developing world. But he says a legally binding treaty is unlikely to be delivered until June 2010.

Let’s hope Harper has his hands in his pockets at Copenhagen… why anyone would impoverish their county under false pretense escapes me.

Here’s a recap of Climategate set to music:

Who Do You Trust?

Perhaps the worst spokesman ever.. on American Health Care reform.

The White House really needs to hire a czar to explain this Obamanation… their current spokesperson isn’t up to the job.

Let’s hope Americans kill it soon. The ramifications are huge for the world economy. And not in a good way, Joe.

The ClimateGate Scandal Explained

An easy explanation of what ClimateGate means…

ClimateGate emails and computer programs were taken from a main server at the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia. It is not known if this was a theft or the actions of a whistleblower, disgusted with what the lead scientists at CRU were doing.

ClimateGate exposed the cabal of 20 – 30 scientists (not just at CRU) that peer reviewed each others papers, strong-armed scientific journals to only print their views, and then sat on the IPCC panels as authors judging which published studies go into the IPCC final reports. This is why they always keep shouting “peer reviewed studies, peer reviewed studies, peer reviewed studies”. They owned the peer review process.

ClimateGate exposed that this small group has been adding positive corrections to the raw global temperature data, inflating the amount of published temperature rise over the last 50 years. Both CRU in the UK and NASA-GISS in the US add these biases. At CRU, the programmers did not even know what and why some corrections were added every month. Only since satellite monitoring for comparison have the amounts of biasing leveled off.

ClimateGate exposed the leaders of this cabal instructing each other to delete emails, data files, and data analysis programs ahead of already filed Freedom Of Information Act requests for raw data and computer codes, clearly a crime.

ClimateGate exposed the “trick” about the Hockey stick figure and other studies that performed proxy construction of past temperatures. After all, reconstruction of the last 1,000 years of climate is the first step in predicting the future with super computer programs as explained below:

Everything about all 21 super computer programs used by the IPCC to determine future global warming rely on best-determined past sensitivities to solar and volcanic effects (climate forcings) from the proxy temperature record.

1. The elimination of the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age (the handle of the hockey stick) was necessary so that past solar effects could be minimized, thereby allowing almost all of the warming in the last 75 years to be blamed on Greenhouse Gasses. Raw data (like tree-ring thickness, radioisotope of mud layers in a lake bottom, ice core analyses, etc.) are used as a proxy for reconstruction of the temperature record for 1000 AD to 1960 AD. To ensure desired results, statistical manipulation of the raw data and selecting only supporting data, cherry-picking, was suspected and later proved.

2. The slope of long-term 10-year running average global temperature using thermometers from 1900 to present (the blade of the hockey stick) was maximized with the sloppy gridding code, Urban Heat Island effects, hiding the declines, and even fabricating data (documented in the leaked source code comments revealed with ClimateGate). This ensured that the Greenhouse Gas effect coefficient in all 21 of the super computers was maximized, and that maximizes the temperature result at year 2100 based on Greenhouse Gas increases. This thermometer data was used to replace the tree ring-divergence after 1960 and plot this over the climate history data of (1) above giving the false impression that the reconstructed 1000 AD to 1960 AD results are more accurate than they are.

3. Because tuning of the super computer programs uses back casting, the computer outputs could always replicate the 20th Century (by design); therefore it was assumed that the models had almost everything in them. Because of (1) and (2) above, nearly all climate change predicted by the models was due to CO2 and positive feedbacks and hardly any of the climate change was for other reasons like solar, understood or not.

4. Over the years, when better numbers for volcanic effects, black carbon, aerosols, land use, ocean and atmospheric multi-decadal cycles, etc. became available, it appears that CRU made revisions to refit the back cast, but could hardly understand what the code was doing due to previous correction factor fudging and outright fabricating, as documented in the released code as part of ClimateGate.

5. After the IPCC averages the 21 super computer outputs of future projected warming (anywhere from 2-degrees to 7-degrees, not very precise), that output is used to predict all manner of catastrophes. (Fires, floods, droughts, blizzards, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, insects, extinctions, diseases, civil wars, cats & dogs sleeping together, etc.)

I hope that this makes the ClimateGate controversy easier to understand.

Frank J. Tipler, professor of mathematical physics at Tulane University:

The now non-secret data prove what many of us had only strongly suspected — that most of the evidence of global warming was simply made up. That is, not only are the global warming computer models unreliable, the experimental data upon which these models are built are also unreliable. As Lord Monckton has emphasized here at Pajamas Media, this deliberate destruction of data and the making up of data out of whole cloth is the real crime — the real story of Climategate.

It is an act of treason against science. It is also an act of treason against humanity, since it has been used to justify an attempt to destroy the world economy.

h/t

photo credit: ChromaticOrb

The Original Adam Lambert

But this guy had more class. Who could forget…

Nancy Pelosi Fan Club

The Dumocrats want to pass another stimulus to complete the looting of America:

Americans Would Accept More Red Ink in Exchange for Jobs

“We have to shed any weakness that anybody may have about not wanting to be confrontational on this subject for fear that we’d be labeled not sensitive to the deficit,” Pelosi said, in a recording posted by Think Progress.

“The American people have an anger about the growth of the deficit because they’re not getting anything for it. … If somebody has the idea that the percentage of GDP of what our national debt is will go up a bit, but they will now — and their neighbors and their children — will have jobs, I think they could absorb that, and then we ride it out and bring money in,” she said.

Audio here:

Try to find a supportive comment here.. or even a civil one. I guess that’s how Americans feel about Nancy and Barry’s stimulus.

Keep dancing.. the horror is almost over. 2010 can’t come soon enough.

Vancouver’s Three-Strike Law

Our infamous Bacon Brothers are at it again…

In Vancouver, we allow murderers who also have multiple and separate gun and drug charges, the ability to stay out of jail and keep on doing business.

Jarrod Bacon and his brother Jamie are already in the middle of trial involving 10 weapons charges. Jamie and Jarrod Bacon are facing 11 weapons-related counts between them, including possession of prohibited weapons with ammunition, unauthorized possession of a firearm and possessing a firearm with an altered serial number. Jamie Bacon is also charged with one count of drug possession. Jamie is also facing charges in connection with the Surrey Six slayings at the Balmoral Towers in October, 2007.

On Friday, a undercover police operation nabbed Jarrod Bacon and four others, all with ties to rival gangs - the UN and the Red Scorpions.

Why Jarrod Bacon is not in custody is anyone’s guess…

Then we have Sephon Sek, who just beat out 680 other poker players for a grand prize of $364,364. He was arrested by the RCMP in connection to the murders of six people in a Surrey condo bringing the total arrested to 6. Sek is alleged to have given the killers access to the Balmoral Tower without knowing their plans.

The fact that the Vancouver Sun has 150 stories on the Bacon brothers, hasn’t seemed to help put these thugs behind bars.

Maybe we could toughen up our laws a wee bit? Let’s say after 10 charges you must be jailed until trials are complete?

Or would that be too harsh for our soft-on-crime politicians?

photo credit: chrys

Wrong Place At The Wrong Time

Saturday funny…

Wrecking Ball Smashes Into Passing Car – Watch more Funny Videos

Greenpeace Counters The Global Warming Hoax

Greenpeace action calls out climate fraud and astroturfing funded by Big Oil

Blame it on big oil – Greenpeace found the emails to counter the scientist’s emails that show they manipulated the data.

The action was meant to protest the US oil industry’s plans to have oil company employees attend anti-US climate action rallies while masquerading as concerned “Energy Citizens.” This Energy Citizens campaign is an attempt to use a tactic known as “astroturfing,” in which they give the appearance of a genuine grassroots movement while hiding the fact that it is actually a well-funded effort coordinated by large multinational corporations with a vested interest in preventing any new regulations of their dirty energy business.

Good Old Zen Dog has a plan:

Here’s an idea.

Find the local nut job. You know, the angry white man who foams at the mouth, and doesn’t know why.

It’s just stimulus response, and you can harness it. It isn’t right of course. No, it isn’t. That’s alright. We will continue to produce more people like that every year, unless it can be demonstrated that this process can be interdicted, and turned to uses unenvisioned by the engineers of this process.

So here is how it works:

– Identify the foaming at the mouth wing nut, [he's angry, using the English langue to form inintelligible verbal constructs of rage, and wearing a 'tin foil hat']

– observe the subject – WITHOUT INTERACTING – to determine that stimulus most likely to result in rage response

– During the observation period wear t-shirts affiliated with local university, blend in with that crowd so that later it will appear to have been just another behavioral quiz gone ary – [you haven't heard the quiz? It comes with questions like: Are you master of your own domain? What's the nature of your sexuality? What do you believe about God and spirituality? How suggestable are you? that kind of thing.]

– Once the rage stimulus has been identified, surround the subject with t-shirts bearing the logo of the local Oil Industry office, and present rage inducing stimuli. Repeat until desired detonation takes place.

To achieve maximum effect, create a national advertising campaign, one that using the tools of behavioral advertising foreshadows the detonation event, and be sure to incorporate the slogan FIST BUMP FIREWORKS. To increase effectiveness of the behavioral advertising, a bit of truth on this point may be greatly beneficial, and that would be achieved by attaching the FIST BUMP FIREWORKS slogan to an icon representing the general population, the average Joe.

[Fist Bump Fireworks is, to my understanding, a slogan first used in an advertising campaign paid for by McDonald's that first aired in the Vermont area on the same day DR. GEORGE TILLER was shot by the same type of individual I am suggesting be used above.]

Sounds crazy? That’s alright. I’m headed over to an NRA website now, to invite them up to Vermont for another gun protest. Never mind. I’m sure you don’t want to know.

They are off to a good start. Crazy people that are desperately trying to save their cause.

Conrad Black speaks out.

As Lord Lawson wrote in his book, those worried about imminent environmental catastrophe, as compared, for examples, to nuclear terrorism or even large meteoric collisions, “need not worry about saving this planet. They are already living on another one … We appear to have entered a new age of unreason … It is from this, above all, that we really need to save the planet.”

And finally, a good reason to keep spewing C02:

Talk about a Eureka moment. Scientists at Sandia National Labs, seeking a means to create cheap and abundant hydrogen to power a hydrogen economy, realized they could use the same technology to “reverse-combust” CO2 back into fuel. Researchers still have to improve the efficiency of the system, but they recently demonstrated a working prototype of their “Sunshine to Petrol” machine that converts waste CO2 to carbon monoxide, and then syngas, consuming nothing but solar energy.

photo credit: someones.life

Dubai Bites The Dust

Fast Company had a great article in September on Dubai fast collapsing economy, called Bye, Bye Dubai.

“So what they have been able to produce is a miracle.” Or was it a mirage?

Today, an estimated 50% of the slated developments are frozen or canceled. Banks have stopped lending. Housing prices fell 41% in the first quarter of 2009 and are expected to drop to preboom levels. The stock market has plunged 70% from its peak. And people across the socioeconomic spectrum are being laid off — and fleeing — in droves. But even fleeing is harder than it sounds: When foreigners, who once made up perhaps 80% of Dubai’s 1.7 million residents, lose their jobs, their work visas are rescinded and they generally have 30 days to pay their debts and leave. Those who fail to pay risk debtor’s prison. And debt here is now as deep and ubiquitous as the sand itself.

The wealthy, like the Emiratis, remain well cared for. Designer Roberto Cavalli, asked why he spent $30 million on his new Cavalli Club during a financial crisis, replied, “What financial crisis?”

After reading all the comments posted by other readers it is obvious that your view of Dubai is one sided. Governemnt is super efficient here and they proactively work on every challenge. Even in this downturn this place is stable, all job losses is just an indication of market fluctuation. Any company would go for restructuring to steer the company through difficult times.

You should have given an unbiased view of Dubai.

Today, the prospect of a complete collapse in Dubai drove the markets down significantly (S&P 500 equity futures contract show a potential drop on Wall Street of 2.2 per cent tomorrow)… and over the next week we may have another Iceland on our hands.

There’s a lot of abandoned wealth there also:

Police have found more than 3,000 cars outside Dubai’s international airport in recent months. Most of the cars – four-wheel drives, saloons and “a few” Mercedes – had keys left in the ignition.

This video was made in February.. and it’s been a fast downward spiral since.

It shows that the “too big to fail” assumption is just plain wrong, and it is a preclude of things to come.

They should have used a New York Credit Repair company to help.

Hiding the Decline – The Real Chart

Now the data is available, and the “trick” has been removed, here’s the accurate graphic showing the deleted data in red.

For the very first time, the Climategate Letters “archived” the deleted portion of the Briffa MXD reconstruction of “Hide the Decline” fame – see here. Gavin Schmidt claimed that the decline had been “hidden in plain sight” (see here. ). This isn’t true.

The post-1960 data was deleted from the archived version of this reconstruction at NOAA here and not shown in the corresponding figure in Briffa et al 2001. Nor was the decline shown in the IPCC 2001 graph, one that Mann, Jones, Briffa, Folland and Karl were working in the two weeks prior to the “trick” email (or for that matter in the IPCC 2007 graph, an issue that I’ll return to.)

A retrieval script follows...

Hopefully this accurate graph will be updated on all websites soon.

And now it’s time to follow the money…

Jimmy Carter Stupid

Don Imus is back and shares some Obama gold with Sean Hannity…

I think – I mean, I don’t know – I think he’s so – I think he’s a decent guy. And, OK, let me finish. And I think he’s fine. But I think he’s so happy to be president, and just the way he acts. And that little snapping his fingers and bopping around behind the podium when he reads the teleprompter about whatever he wants to do. I mean he’s really thrilled to death to be president. And that’s fine.” Imus said.

Google and Michelle Obama

Google Runs Ads Over Racist Michelle Obama Image

Apparently, when you do an search for Michelle Obama, choose “images” instead of web results, some interesting things come up..

First, Google asks if you’d like to find “Related searches: michelle obama monkey”

And if you look to the top, you’ll notice the ad:

You’d wonder why the fuss..
It’s because someone put up an image (since removed) of a doctored photo:

Inside Google’s ad:

We apologize if you’ve had an upsetting experience using Google. We hope you understand our position regarding offensive results.

There’s a lot more like this in the results:

They’ve even posted unflattering images of the first lady:

It makes sense… I was always puzzled why the number one image that people come to my blog for using Google image search is:

It’s odd that when you search George Bush Monkey, Google hasn’t run an ad… on the offensive meter, these are much worse.

But, it’s great to know that Google is out there looking after us.

Minnesotans for Global Warming

New video on the subject:

Sign the petition.. winter’s almost here.

The protest way back in 2007:

The Counter To The Global Warming Hoax

Global warming science alarming, say climate experts

Three UK groups studying climate change have issued an unprecedented statement about the dangers of failing to cut emissions of greenhouse gases.

Their comments came ahead of crunch UN climate talks in Copenhagen next month.

‘Loss of wildlife’

In a statement calling for action to cut carbon emissions, institutions said evidence for “dangerous, long-term and potentially irreversible climate change” was growing.

Global carbon dioxide levels have continued to rise, Arctic summer ice cover declined sharply in 2007 and 2008, and the last decade has been the warmest on average for 150 years.

Persistent drought in Australia and rising sea levels in the Maldives were further indicators of possible future patterns, they said.

Okee Dokee.. see here.

photo credit: The Library of Congress

Sunday Night Memories: ET

Who could forget this classic..now updated for 2009.

I think I drove by this ET on East Hastings. Very un-PC.

Boy Finds Own Real-Life E.T.