Great Christmas Ideas For Your Wife.
I miss Billy Mays… he could have sold these by the truckload.
Ron Paul Scores One. Finally.
The House Financial Services Committee has approved Rep. Ron Paul’s measure to drastically expand the government’s power to audit the Federal Reserve.
The measure, based on a Paul proposal that has attracted more than 300 co-sponsors, passed, 43-26, as an amendment to a financial reform bill. The adoption of this amendment is an extraordinary victory for Paul, whose libertarian, anti-Fed leanings have often been dismissed by the political establishment.
In August, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was pressured about the growing popular movement to Audit the Fed spearheaded by Texas Congressman Ron Paul.
A visibly uncomfortable Geithner attempts to dismiss the question by stating “I’m sure people understand that you want to keep politics out of monetary policy.” He makes the stunning assertion that conducting an audit of the Federal Reserve—something never before done in its 96 year history—is a “line that we don’t want to cross,” proclaiming that such a move would be “problematic for the country.”
Seems to me the current US administration has already set the record for crossing the line… this should probe interesting. (Sorry for the commercial at the beginning.)
photo credit: MyTwistedLens
The Canadian Version Of Climate Change Fraud
A past event from our resident kook, David Suzuki.
Vancouver’s International Day of Climate Action: The Bridge to a Cool Planet Parade
Or, The Bridge to Nowhere?
David Suzuki’s encouraging Canadians to join people from around the world calling for action on global warming on Saturday October 24th. This message was recorded for the Bridge to a Cool Planet Parade, Vancouver contribution to the international day for climate action.
Canada may be a couple months away from playing a significant role in blocking international negotiations to renew the Kyoto protocol. If you want Canada to be part of a fair and binding treaty that works for everyone join millions of people from around the world calling for action on climate change. Join the Bridge to a cool Planet Parade!
For more information visit ClimateActionBC.org to see the rest of the video played as an introduction to a public forum bringing together academics, activists and artists to address Canada’s role in global warming and what addressing what climate change looks like on the ground in BC.
Trust me, we know what it looks like in Vancouver. It’s called the rape of the taxpayer, creation of transportation systems without freeways (average speed in Vancouver s 18km/hr), and the stripping of what little freedoms we have left.
Since the parade we have been freezing and soaked. Bring on Global Warming.
It’s also interesting to see the page on “what you can do..”
The momentum of this social movement is growing everyday. We will bring you regular updates about how to make meaningful action on climate change a reality.
And that’s it. Seems like Climate Action BC has lost some momentum.
They should hold this parade in Regina next year. I’d be interested to see how they would be received.
How many of the facts they spew out in this propaganda video are true? (now the fraud has been exposed…).
So Can We Get Rid Of The Carbon Tax Now?
BREAKING:
Warmist conspiracy exposed?
Hadley CRU hacked with release of hundreds of docs and emails.
The Sound Of All Hell About To Break Loose.
The global warming scandal of the century
Leaked FOIA files 62 mb of gold
Get all the evidence here in a nicely zipped 61 meg file.. while supplies last.
Some of the gems:
From: Jonathan Overpeck
To: “Michael E. Mann”
Subject: letter to Senate
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:49:31 -0700
Cc: Caspar M Ammann , Raymond Bradley , Keith Briffa , Tom Crowley , Malcolm Hughes , Phil Jones , mann@xxxxx.xxx, jto@xxxxx.xx.xxx, omichael@xxxxx.xxx, Tim Osborn , Kevin Trenberth , Tom Wigley
Hi all – I’m not too comfortable with this, and would rather not sign – at least not
without some real time to think it through and debate the issue. It is unprecedented and
political, and that worries me.
My vote would be that we don’t do this without a careful discussion first.
I think it would be more appropriate for the AGU or some other scientific org to do this -
e.g., in reaffirmation of the AGU statement (or whatever it’s called) on global climate
change.
Think about the next step – someone sends another letter to the Senators, then we respond,
then…
I’m not sure we want to go down this path. It would be much better for the AGU etc to do
it.
What are the precedents and outcomes of similar actions? I can imagine a special-interest
org or group doing this like all sorts of other political actions, but is it something for
scientists to do as individuals?
Just seems strange, and for that reason I’d advise against doing anything with out real
thought, and certainly a strong majority of co-authors in support.
Cheers, Peck
Dear fellow Eos co-authors,
Given the continued assault on the science of climate change by some on Capitol Hill,
Michael and I thought it would be worthwhile to send this letter to various members of
the U.S. Senate, accompanied by a copy of our Eos article.
Can we ask you to consider signing on with Michael and me (providing your preferred
title and affiliation). We would like to get this out ASAP.
Thanks in advance,
Michael M and Michael O
______________________________________________________________
Professor Michael E. Mann
Department of Environmental Sciences, Clark Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
From: Phil Jones
To: ray bradley ,mann@[snipped], mhughes@
[snipped]
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000
Cc: k.briffa@[snipped],t.osborn@[snipped]
Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,Once Tim’s got a diagram here we’ll send that either later today or first thing tomorrow. I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd [sic] from1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. Mike’s series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.
Thanks for the comments, Ray.
Cheers, Phil
Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit
This should make for an eventful event in Copenhagen..
“If the whole world comes to Copenhagen and leaves without making the needed political agreement, then I think it’s a failure that is not just about climate. Then it’s the whole global democratic system not being able to deliver results in one of the defining challenges of our century. And that is and should not be a possibility. It’s not an option,” Connie Hedegaard tells cop15.dk in an interview.
Her personal success criteria for Copenhagen?
“I think what matters is that we, when we depart from Copenhagen, with credibility can say we brought the world on the right track, on a track that makes it credible that we can stay below the two degrees average increase in temperature worldwide. That is basically the success criteria we must try to deliver on.”
Good luck.. we’re on to the fraud. And proof is starting to pile up.
Paramedics Endanger Vancouver.
Unions playing with people’s lives:
Following last week’s government-imposed back-to-work contract after a seven month strike….
Over 50 paramedics booked their shifts off right before they were about to start on Friday night, pulling 35 ambulances off the road.
On Saturday more shifts were booked off, and the BCAS said it will be down 24 ambulances, including 10 in Metro Vancouver, and 10 in the Fraser Valley. Boston Bar, Hope, Agassiz, and Pemberton will be without an ambulance all together and will rely on neighbouring municipalities.
Victoria sent Vancouver a few ambulances to help deal with the shortage:
Sending ambulances from Victoria to the Lower Mainland on the weekend was “extremely stupid,” according to a spokesman for the union representing the province’s 3,500 ambulance paramedics.
“That was a very ill-conceived idea and someone needs to be held accountable,” said B.J. Chute, director of public education for the Ambulance Paramedics of B.C.
Two ambulances and two crews travelled by ferry from Victoria to the Lower Mainland Friday and remained there throughout yesterday.
No, B.J., pulling a stunt like this is stupid.
John Strohmeier, the president of CUPE Local 873, said the union had nothing to do with the cancelled shifts.
Glad to hear the union isn’t behind this. They won’t mind if, as Ronald Reagan did, we just fire anyone that misses work without proof.
Someone needs to be held accountable.
As the body count starts to rise in Vancouver, hopefully our politicians will realize that an outright ban on the union actions in health care is a reasonable solution. Or, even better, it’s time to open up the service to private competition.
That would end the union’s playing with people’s lives.
photo credit: t-dot-s-dot
Maybe VANOC Will Run The Games Better Than The Technology.
VANOC blows it again with their last chance, online Olympic ticket ordering scheme. Saturday was the day for those brave enough to fork over huge amounts of money to see Latvia play Poland in hockey, or maybe a luge event. The claim was 100,000 tickets would be available.
The online ticket system broke down on November 7th, leaving over a hundred thousand people frustrated, so they decided to push it a week and get things fixed. The concept of a waiting room was employed, so that the ordering system wouldn’t crash with the anticipated 150,000 visitors.
Things didn’t go well - although not quiet an epic fail, enraged Internet buyers spent the day waiting in a virtual waiting room for tickets.
Some of the better comments:
I waited for about 25 minutes in the Virtual Waiting Room, got in, logged on and the site crashed! I went to search for the event I wanted and the page never came up. I know it’s not my internet connection because I opened another window just to make sure. I tried several different events too, and the same thing happend. After a while I hit “refresh” and the page just went blank and stayed that way. I had to give up because I have places to be, but I’m hoping there will be another opportunity if this happend to everyone and not just me
got in and then the site didn’t work – 5.5 hrs
How can VANOC possibly report it went smooth?????? absolute rubbish. I signed in at 10h00 to the virtual waiting room . At 10 to 6 p.m tonight , I got into the site. Yes, some 7 and half hours later. So few events left, I got nothiing. Don’t publish it went smooth. Nothing in the lotto, nothing inthe second round, and Nothing in the fiasco today. So much for being a local who cannot enjoy some of the events. So much for Vancouverites being allowed access to the games in our own city! Pathetic! You shouold be ashamed VANOC
I got on after six hours but the site froze.. so now I am back to square one.
So, if you want to come to Vancouver and need some tickets, there’s always Craigslist. Or, you can try again with VANOC’s official scalper site.
“Our plan is to have our own valid resale sight so we can guarantee the tickets sold on our site are valid,” Denton said.
He said Vanoc would not be “policing” Craigslist for people selling tickets over face value and, in fact, Vanoc is “leaning to allow people to resell above face value” on its website.
“The purpose is full venues. We’ve seen in past Olympics seats go unused and it’s not as good an atmosphere for the athletes and fans,” Denton said.
Asked if Vanoc would profit from the re-sales Denton said any charge would re-coup the costs of designing the site and configuring its security.
“Our plan is certainly not to profit. There’s a lot of time and money spent to develop it. If we ended up breaking even I think we’d be pretty happy.”
Let the games begin.
photo credit: bensonkua Vancouver Limousine
The Word For Accorn – Precedent.
Obama’s community organizers aren’t taking the end of their funding lying down – and now are the first to challenge the abuse of power:
Representatives for ACORN sued the federal government Thursday morning in an attempt to regain the millions of dollars in funding the community organizing group lost after filmmakers videotaped its workers offering advice on how to commit tax fraud and various other felonies.
That qualifies the legislation as bills of attainder, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed the suit on behalf of ACORN. A bill of attainder punishes a person or group without the benefit of a trial, and is illegal under Article 1 of the Constitution.
Thursday’s lawsuit claims that Congress violated the right to due process enshrined in the Fifth Amendment — declaring the group guilty of a crime and punishing its members without completing an investigation within the Department of Justice or the IRS.
“It’s not the job of Congress to be the judge, jury, and executioner,” said Jules Lobel, an attorney representing the Center for Constitutional Rights.
“We have due process in this country, and our Constitution forbids lawmakers from singling out a person or group for punishment without a fair investigation and trial.”
The lawsuit itself singles out three defendants — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Director of the Office of Management and the Budget Peter Orszag, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan.
Due process hasn’t stopped hope and change up to this point. Although it’s interesting to see the people responsible for securing the Democrat victory turn on their masters…
Not that contract law has concerned Obama when it comes to his agenda:
Furor grows over partisan car dealer closings: who could forget the Democrats shuttering almost 800 Chrysler dealerships – virtually all Rebublican donors and profitable.
Then we have “How To Nationalize GM–Ripoff-Investors–Gift-It To The Unions“, where Obama and his Czars threatened institutional investors so they would not sue over secured creditor status. This was even extreme for Chavez.
We have also seen selective taxation of specific citizens (AIG bonuses), the threatening of banks over bonuses (do so and we’ll audit), and now the healthcare bill where they’ll make it mandatory and jail you if you refuse to have insurance.
Here’s some Texas wisdom, from the Governor:
Gov. Rick Perry had some pretty strong comments about the Obama administration on Wednesday in Midland, saying, “This is an administration hell-bent on taking America towards a socialist country.”
The Making Of The Hoax Of The Century
Great article on how the “movement” is now poised to the largest tax increase in world history -and we’ll be paying for it for a long, long time.
It explains how they moved from radicals to the ones actually setting the agenda, and what this means to us. This sounds just like our great David Suzuki.
It started differently. The people who had never believed in human freedom, in impersonal forces of the market and other forms of human interaction and in the spontaneity of social development and who had always wanted to control, regulate and mastermind us have been searching for a persuasive argument that would justify these ambitions of theirs.
After trying several alternative ideas — population bomb, rapid exhaustion of resources, global cooling, acid rains, ozone holes — that all very rapidly proved to be non-existent, they came up with the idea of global warming. Their doctrine was formulated before reliable data evidence, before the formulation of scientifically proven theories, before their comprehensive testing based on today’s level of statistical methods.
Politicians accepted that doctrine at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and — without waiting for its confirmation — started to prepare and introduce economically damaging and freedom endangering measures…