tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post8084058039587525070..comments2023-10-07T05:29:20.923-07:00Comments on McClatchy Watch: Friday December 11 -- Got news or an update?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-5272096223638092502009-12-12T12:31:18.040-08:002009-12-12T12:31:18.040-08:00Would you folks please find out about our Pension ...Would you folks please find out about our Pension fund.<br /><br />We don't care if you hate the President, I hated yours, George Bush.<br /><br />Lets find out where our money is so we can go the grocery store when we retire.<br /><br />WE don't care about gays or any right wing jerk like Rush says. Please just follow the money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-33737284621546029402009-12-11T15:17:07.524-08:002009-12-11T15:17:07.524-08:00Jennings is so sick, he thought he was doing these...Jennings is so sick, he thought he was doing these young teens a favor. I don’t want him in a position to do a favor like this for teens, or anyone for that matter. Sick-o jerk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-43485454701007226472009-12-11T14:57:39.715-08:002009-12-11T14:57:39.715-08:00Handing out gay bar guides to teens below the lega...Handing out gay bar guides to teens below the legal drinking age? What did he think the teens were going to do in these bars? It boggles the mind. Jennings needs to go, and NOW!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-42653187310686501942009-12-11T08:57:54.100-08:002009-12-11T08:57:54.100-08:00Kevin Jennings scandal has legs - a congressman de...Kevin Jennings scandal has legs - a congressman delivered a speech in the House <a href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/rep-michael-burgess-r-tx-calls-for-removal-of-dangerous-school-czar-kevin-jennings-video/" rel="nofollow">calling for Jennings to be removed</a>.Kevin Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04694898785243338105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-82808967628857881022009-12-11T06:54:06.675-08:002009-12-11T06:54:06.675-08:00UPDATE: Sen. Baucus gave girlfriend $14K raise; To...UPDATE: Sen. Baucus gave girlfriend $14K raise; Took on taxpayer-funded trip to Asia... <br />Drudge Report<br />===<br />The moral outrage from the Dems will be deafening, right? Maybe Baucus faces the months of phony journalism articles like Gov. Sanford did, right? Immorality is okay for Dems because they don’t pretend to be honest and moral, right? Not to worry, Polosi will drain the swamp.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-70712215345666475222009-12-11T06:39:50.797-08:002009-12-11T06:39:50.797-08:00Obama’s Safe School Czar Passed Out Gay Bar Guides...Obama’s Safe School Czar Passed Out Gay Bar Guides to Teens <br />Only in the Obama White House can a man with a history of handing out bar guides to teens be promoted to Safe Schools Czar.<br />Fox NationAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-35378912599577862142009-12-11T05:29:24.813-08:002009-12-11T05:29:24.813-08:00Health alarm finally rouses Mike [Bloomberg]and go...Health alarm finally rouses Mike [Bloomberg]and gov (New York Post)<br /><br />Better late than never, Gov. Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg have woken up to a pending disaster aimed at New York, otherwise known as the health-care overhaul. <br /><br />A letter they wrote to Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand is so damning about the cost to the city and state that two questions arise. <br /><br />First, why are Schumer and Gillibrand, along with local House Democrats, supporting legislation that would slam the home team? <br /><br />Second, why did Paterson and Bloomberg not speak up sooner, given the Medicare cuts and tax hikes they suddenly worry about have been on the table all along? <br /><br />Paterson and Bloomberg say the proposed "Medicaid policies could add close to $1 billion annually in new state Medicaid costs to New York." <br /><br />They say the only way to compensate would be for them to cut millions from other programs. <br /><br />They call a separate federal proposal "devastating" to the city's Health and Hospitals Corp., saying it would mean closing nearly all neighborhood clinics while still leaving millions of New Yorkers without insurance. <br /><br />And they argue that "all of the major financing options -- from Medicare cuts, to Medicare tax increases, to excise taxes on higher-cost health plans -- can be expected to extract more revenue/savings from New Yorkers than the per capita national average." <br /><br />The city estimates the difference would mean the cost for each New Yorker would be 23 percent above the national average. <br /><br />In other words, "reform" for the rest of the country will mean pain for New York. <br /><br />I've noted before the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's warning against the bad habit of New York liberals taking money from home and shipping it to Washington, which then uses it to subsidize other states. <br /><br />[snip] <br /><br />The health-care bills would exacerbate the problem. The prescription is a no vote.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-28144481393765942182009-12-11T05:28:18.233-08:002009-12-11T05:28:18.233-08:0010 Million Could Lose Employer Coverage Under Sena...10 Million Could Lose Employer Coverage Under Senate Health Bill, CBO Says (FOXNews.com) <br /><br />The Congressional Budget Office estimates that up to 10 million people could lose their employer-based insurance coverage under the Senate's health care reform bill. <br /><br />The Congressional Budget Office estimates that up to 10 million people could lose their employer-based insurance coverage under the Senate's health care reform bill. <br /><br />In new figures out Monday, the nonpartisan office said the net loss would add up to about 5 million -- the anticipated loss of employer coverage on one end would be offset in part by the expectation that a new mandate would drive other employers to cover millions more workers who are not currently covered. <br /><br />But the estimate assumes many employers, particularly small businesses with low-wage workers, would opt to pay the fine and drop their insurance plans. <br /><br />The CBO estimated this would affect between 9 million and 10 million workers. <br /><br />The estimate was provided after Republicans pressed the CBO for details on employer coverage, and it added fuel to the GOP argument that President Obama's claim that nobody will be forced to give up their private coverage is bunk. <br /><br />It comes in the middle of a heated debate in the Senate over whether and how the government should enter the market with its own insurance plan. <br /><br />"If you like what you have you can't keep it," the Senate Republican office said in an e-mail highlighting the CBO report and keying off the president's refrain. <br /><br />Though some of those who lose their coverage would be eligible for government subsidies to buy insurance, some would not, according to the CBO. <br /><br />For instance, a family of four making more than $88,000 would not qualify for subsidies and could face even higher premiums in the private marketAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-8259698380347647552009-12-11T05:16:02.359-08:002009-12-11T05:16:02.359-08:00We'll cover everyone by covering less? DeathCa...We'll cover everyone by covering less? DeathCare (MilwaukeeJournal-Sentinel)<br /><br />We'll cover everyone by covering less? <br /><br />Now, said the Senate to us sheep, we'll do health care this way: No public option. Just a, um, public option. <br /><br />Senate Democrats' leaders, looking to pass something, on Tuesday night dropped the notion of a government-run health plan. <br /><br />Too many of their less liberal members recognized a money pit when they saw one. Instead, the plan is to let more middle-aged people join their elders in Medicare. <br /><br />Uh, guys: Medicare is government-run. It's eight years away from fiscal ruin, its own trustees reported earlier this year. This deal trades a dysfunctional plan for a laughable one. <br /><br />It also reveals the futility of Obamacare reaching one of its key goals: slowing the rise in health care spending. Congress' plans all do this in part by cutting Medicare by as much as a half-trillion dollars. <br /><br />Now the Senate would put perhaps 3 million more subsidized clients on that Titanic. There will be no cuts, only swifter collapse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-50013236917365010222009-12-11T05:15:19.332-08:002009-12-11T05:15:19.332-08:00The Healthcare Polling Data That Has Democrats So ...The Healthcare Polling Data That Has Democrats So Freaked Out<br />(The Business Insider)<br /><br />Polled support for the health care plan wending its way through Congress continues to crash downward in the polls. <br /><br />And before you say it, it's not just Rasmussen, which has actually been pretty much in the middle of the other polls. Here's where we stand as of today. <br /><br />For reform advocates, this is not good news. At 40% approval, it probably passes. At 30% approval--what Social Security reform enjoyed by the time it imploded--it's not going to no matter how the Senate massages their plan. <br /><br />Democrats cannot pass a bill this large on a straight party line vote if the only people in the country who want it are Democrats. <br /><br />Where is the line crossed between "probably will" and "probably won't"? <br /><br />In September, a seasoned political reporter told me that the numbers could not go "much lower" before Democrats were forced to abandon the bill. Well, it's lower--and the disapproval is spiking. <br /><br />The silver lining in this for reform advocates over the last few days has been Nate Silver's argument that a significant portion of the opposition to the plan was coming from the left: <br /><br />Ipsos also asked a parallel question of people who supported the plan: did any of them support the plan because they oppose health care reform and thought that the plan was sufficiently watered-down so as to "keep health care reform from happening"? <br /><br />A small number of people picked this response: about 10 percent of those in favor of the plan, or 3 percent of the entire sample. <br />Combining these numbers together, we get the following:Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-38152724155991350482009-12-11T05:14:11.700-08:002009-12-11T05:14:11.700-08:00Tycoon: Finance Gap May Doom Climate Talks [Soros ...Tycoon: Finance Gap May Doom Climate Talks [Soros Demands Additional $100 Billion]<br />CBSNews <br /><br />Money Proposed by Rich Nations to Help Poor Adapt to Climate Change is Insufficient, Says U.S. Billionaire George Soros <br />George Soros, businessman and philanthropist, announces during a press conference a plan to generate an additional 100 billion US dollars for climate change relief at the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen<br /><br />The $10 billion a year proposed by rich nations to help the poor adapt to climate change is "not sufficient" and the gap between what's offered and what's needed could wreck the Copenhagen climate conference, American billionaire George Soros said Thursday. <br /><br />At a European Union summit in Brussels, meanwhile, wealthier members of the 27-nation bloc were having to press poorer, reluctant neighbors in Eastern Europe to contribute to the $10 billion fund. <br /><br />"Europe should take its fair share" of the $5 billion to $7 billion a year target sum for 2010-2012, said Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency. <br /><br />The EU is expected to announce later Thursday the amount of money it will offer to impoverished, developing nations. <br /><br />Britain has said it will contribute $1.3 billion over three years, and Sweden will give euro800million ($1.2 billion). German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany would contribute but gave no figure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-82023338745506235252009-12-11T05:12:17.187-08:002009-12-11T05:12:17.187-08:00Congress Considers $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill -- ...Congress Considers $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill -- 2 billion for climate research!!( Fox) <br /><br />Wow ... do you know how much data you can fabricate for $2 Billion? <br /><br />Fabricated data is less than half the cost of real data. Think of the research that can be done with this..... it boggles the mind. <br /><br />And $2 billion would be poured into climate change research, $75 million more than last year. <br /><br />Congressional negotiators have come to an agreement on a $1.1 trillion spending bill to fund the federal government after the middle of this month. <br /><br />This spending bill would fund nine Cabinet agencies and all the programs within them for the fiscal year that began in October. <br /><br />It also includes $49 billion for foreign aid, a third more than last year. <br /><br />NASA would get $18.7 billion, almost a billion dollars more than last year. <br /><br />A heating program for the poor would get $5.1 billion, about 40 percent more than President Obama requested. <br /><br />Another $2.5 billion would go to high speed trains, in addition to the $8 billion in the stimulus package passed earlier this year. <br /><br />But the bill cuts nearly $300 million from the $4.4 billion that Obama requested in economic and security aid to Pakistan and Afghanistan. <br /><br />Democrats also are using this spending bill to change the 1988 Dornan amendment, which prohibits taxpayer dollars from funding abortions in Washington, D.C. The bill adds the word "federal" to the amendment to allow the D.C. government to use local dollars for funding abortion. <br /><br />Republican critics say this is an accounting gimmick to find a way to use public dollars to pay for abortions. <br /><br />The House could vote on this bill as early as Thursday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-5097602570452389062009-12-11T05:11:06.182-08:002009-12-11T05:11:06.182-08:00Republicans Plan to Form Counter-Delegation at Cli...Republicans Plan to Form Counter-Delegation at Climate Conference<br />(Fox)<br /><br />A GOP counter-delegation is forming to undermine the Obama administration's work on an international climate change agreement in Copenhagen, warning that the president is poised to make commitments he can't keep and drawing heightened attention to controversial leaked e-mails. <br /><br />At least a half-dozen Republican senators and representatives are planning to head to Denmark next week, as part of the overall U.S. congressional delegation, which includes plenty of Democrats as well. <br /><br />But the Republicans have a markedly different agenda. <br />"Truth squad," is how Sen. Jim Inhofe spokesman Matt Dempsey described the GOP team. <br /><br />He called the Democratic visitors to the conference the "doom squad." <br /><br />The Oklahoma Republican and ardent global warming skeptic plans to head to Denmark along with Sens. Roger Wicker of Mississippi and John Barrasso of Wyoming. <br /><br />On the House side, Reps. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, Joe Barton of Texas and Darrell Issa of California are tentatively planning to attend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-57327933175197898662009-12-11T05:10:24.922-08:002009-12-11T05:10:24.922-08:00EPA Scientist Silenced in Coverup (Human Events)
...EPA Scientist Silenced in Coverup (Human Events)<br /><br />Monday’s declaration by the Environmental Protection Administration that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health is apparently a regulatory fraud. <br /><br />It was made after EPA regulators refused to consider a report from a leading EPA scientist rejecting the theory that emission of greenhouse gases causes global warming. <br /><br />The EPA’s highly-publicized action declared, “…GHGs [greenhouse gases] are the primary driver of climate change, which can lead to hotter, longer heat waves that threaten the health of the sick, poor or elderly; increases in ground-level ozone pollution linked to asthma and other respiratory illnesses; as well as other threats to the health and welfare of Americans.” <br /><br />The EPA declaration was puffed to the media as the way the Obama administration could impose limits on carbon dioxide emissions despite the fact that its “cap and trade” bill -- which passed the House earlier this year -- remains stalled in the Senate. <br /><br />It was obviously intended to increase pressure on the Senate to pass the House “cap and tax” bill and to give Obama leeway in Copenhagen to promise -- perhaps even agree to treaty limitations -- on U.S. carbon emissions. <br /><br />...And now the EPA has its own “Climategate.” It is in the report by EPA’s Dr. Alan Carlin who was -- according to this July 16 letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson -- subjected to a gag order. <br /><br />The March 16, 2009 report by Dr. Alan Carlin says -- among other things -- that “As of the best information we currently have, the GHG/CO2 hypothesis as to the cause of global warming, which this Draft TSD supports, is currently an invalid hypothesis from a scientific viewpoint because it fails a number of critical comparisons with available observable data. <br /><br />Any one of these failings should be enough to invalidate the hypothesis;Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-1139141423593334532009-12-11T05:09:28.293-08:002009-12-11T05:09:28.293-08:00The tip of the Climategate iceberg (Washington Tim...The tip of the Climategate iceberg (Washington Times)<br /><br />A skeptical public repeatedly has been told that questions about purported global warming are closed. <br /><br />"I think everybody is clear on the science. I think scientists are clear on the science ... <br /><br />I think that this notion that there's some debate ... on the science is kind of silly," said President Obama's Press Secretary Robert Gibbs when asked Monday about the president's response to the controversy. The flack was talking smack. <br /><br />Contrary to the whitewash job conducted by propagandists, there are 450 academic peer-reviewed journal articles questioning the importance of man-made global warming. <br /><br />The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine has collected more than 30,000 American scientists urging the U.S. government to reject the Kyoto Treaty, which pushes draconian measures to reduce carbon emissions. <br /><br />Much hay is made of 2,500 United Nations scientists who back Kyoto, but there are many more scientists with Ph.D.s among the 30,000 skeptics than there are among the oft-cited 2,500, most of whom are government bureaucrats without advanced degrees. <br /><br />That's hardly meant to be a blanket endorsement of the work done by all those holding doctorates in the field. <br /><br />There are significant problems with the three most-relied-on data series used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report. <br /><br />The report was derived from research at the University of East Anglia, NASA and the British...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-89411821890047533302009-12-11T05:08:24.340-08:002009-12-11T05:08:24.340-08:00House Democrats pass $447B omnibus (The Hill)
Hou...House Democrats pass $447B omnibus (The Hill)<br /><br />House Democrats passed a massive $447 billion appropriations conference report Thursday to fund a host of different government agencies in fiscal 2010. <br /><br />The conference report, approved on a 221-202 vote, didn't get any support from House Republicans, who raised concerns about spending increases. <br /><br />snip<br /><br />GOP members raised concerns that the bills will contribute to a 12 percent discretionary spending increase over last year. <br /><br />"Sadly, the misplaced priorities of this Congress have resulted in too much spending, fewer jobs and bigger government that the public doesn’t want and can’t afford," said Rep. Jerry Lewis (Calif.), the top House GOP appropriator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-63049329629983528322009-12-11T05:07:47.374-08:002009-12-11T05:07:47.374-08:00Harry Reid Cancels New Orleans Fundraiser With Mar...Harry Reid Cancels New Orleans Fundraiser With Mary Landrieu (GatewayPundit)<br /><br />The fundraiser for Harry Reid in New Orleans this weekend has been cancelled. Reid and Landrieu say they will be in Washington working on ramming through Obamacare. <br /><br />Harry Reid gifted Landrieu with $300 million after her vote to open debate on Obamacare. <br /><br />It was announced around the same time that she would hold a fundraiser for Harry Reid in December.<br /><br />NOLA.com reported: A New Orleans fundraiser scheduled Saturday for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has been canceled as the Senate expects to stay in session over the weekend to continue consideration on the health care overhaul bill. <br /><br />Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and political strategist James Carville were to host a brunch for Reid at the St. Charles Avenue home of businessman David Voelker. <br /><br />The entry level contribution was $4,800. Landrieu’s office said she would not be in Louisiana this weekend because she will be working on the health care legislation, which is likely to be shaped by floor votesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-84061968150604798052009-12-11T05:06:57.892-08:002009-12-11T05:06:57.892-08:00Reid it and weep: Harry's history hooey (NY Po...Reid it and weep: Harry's history hooey (NY Post )<br /><br />The Democratic leadership, in its efforts to destroy the US economy by passing an ill-conceived health plan, has sunk to a new low (" 'Slavery' Slur at GOPers," Dec. 8). <br /><br />Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's tirade, accusing the Republican Party of using the same tactics as those supporting slavery, is a desperate attempt to distort a debate about spending. <br /><br />It was President Lincoln, a Republican, who freed the slaves as Southern Democrats revolted. <br /><br />Reid is a disgrace to the ethical values necessary to serve this nation. <br /><br />All the issues Reid brought up were directly in support of individual freedoms. <br /><br />Passing this health monstrosity takes some of those very freedoms away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-90576650942742174502009-12-11T05:06:20.255-08:002009-12-11T05:06:20.255-08:00GE wins $1.4 billion wind farm contract (cnet.com)...GE wins $1.4 billion wind farm contract (cnet.com) Wow, look at that. Another contract for a big Obama donor.<br /><br />Power company Caithness Energy has given General Electric a $1.4 billion contract to supply wind turbines and 10 years' worth of maintenance for an Oregon wind farm, GE announced Thursday. <br /><br />The massive 845-megawatt wind farm, Shepherds Flat, will be located near Arlington, Oregon, but span approximately 30 square miles and cover parts of Oregon's Gilliam and Morrow Counties. <br /><br />He (the GE president) “paid” Obama back today with (another) serial condemnation of “excessive” pay (for executives of companies, NOT unions, government workers, or democrat thugs (er, ACORN) extortionists ....) Follow the money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-18116793677633258642009-12-11T05:05:44.787-08:002009-12-11T05:05:44.787-08:00Bolton: Obama's 'Pedestrian, Turgid, and U...Bolton: Obama's 'Pedestrian, Turgid, and Uninspired' Address (The National Review)<br /><br />Earlier today, Pres. Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in a ceremony in Oslo. Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton tells NRO that President Obama’s address in the Norwegian capital was “pedestrian, turgid, and uninspired.” <br /><br />“It followed the standard international leftist line,” says Bolton. “He played to the crowd and filled the speech with clichés from the American and international left by saying ‘America cannot act alone’ and that he ‘prohibited torture.’ <br /><br />The speech was also typical of Obama in its self-centeredness and ‘something for everybody’ approach.” <br /><br />“It was so diffuse that though I wouldn’t call it incoherent, it was getting close,” says Bolton. <br /><br />“It was a lot about him, again, especially with his comments about being at the ‘beginning, not end’ of his labors for the world.” <br /><br />Obama made some “breathtakingly simpleminded statements in his section on humanity’s history of war and the ‘hard truth’ that war will not end in our lifetimes,” adds Bolton. <br /><br />“No kidding. I don’t know what that is supposed to prove.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-23404341507826542722009-12-11T05:04:57.965-08:002009-12-11T05:04:57.965-08:00Norway Should Apologize for the 2009 Nobel Peace P...Norway Should Apologize for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize (MensNewsDaily.com )<br /><br />Most descriptions of the award of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama have been shortened. <br /><br />The Nobel Prize website says it has been awarded to Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." <br /><br />One of the criticisms of this award is that it was decided after Obama was in office for only 9 days. <br /><br />Having actually expended very little effort, other than campaigning for the office, and having actually accomplished nothing seems antithetic to the letter and spirit of Alfred Nobel's desire to reward and acknowledge those who have done the most for humanity. <br /><br />One must wonder, if awards are now given on the basis of hope for some desirable change, whether the awardee will live up to expectations. <br /><br />As he receives the award, many people are wondering how he'll “thread the needle” to comment on his new Afghanistan “surge” strategy; obviously recalling how much the left complained when Bush did it. <br /><br />But perhaps more to the point, in context; let's reflect a little on a past nominee, Adolf Hitler, and how well Obama stacks up. <br /><br />Hitler after all, formed an alliance with Japan, united Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia in the current spirit of the EU, negotiated non-aggression pacts with Poland and the Soviet Union, and made peace with Neville Chamberlain in the United Kingdom. <br /><br />As a result of his efforts, a strong international community developed and the role of the United Nations grew. <br /><br />In fact, had it not been for the stubborn resistance of right-wing zealots, World War II could have been completely avoided and all of Europe would have united by the middle of the last century – with the prospect of “global governance” not far away. <br /><br />The Norwegian Nobel Committee can't stop mentioning Obama's political commitment to the issue of global warming. <br /><br />As Obama steps up to the podium today to accept the prize, the world is waking up to the fact that the global warming scare has all been propaganda. <br /><br />The objective is not unlike what Hitler had in mind and there are no assurances that another world-war will not result from the effort. <br /><br />When the award was given to Al Gore and the IPCC two years ago, also for their efforts in promoting the global warming scam, it has been clear that the Norwegian committee is a tool in a new game of centralizing political power, promoting corruption, and waging war against democracy and freedom. Perhaps an apology isn't enough.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-59917656821391534142009-12-11T05:03:15.824-08:002009-12-11T05:03:15.824-08:00Obama, the Empty-suit Nobel Laureate (The Washingt...Obama, the Empty-suit Nobel Laureate (The Washington Times)<br /><br />The decision to award Mr. Obama the peace prize was made during the period of irrational exuberance - the Obamamania - that attended his ascent to power. <br /><br />Nominations closed Feb. 1, when he had been in office less than two weeks. <br /><br />The lingering sense developed that the noteworthy achievement the committee wanted to recognize was either that Mr. Obama was not George W. Bush, or that he was black. <br /><br />Unless you are Barack Hussein Obama, you generally don't get awards in life for just showing up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-2105672650212165272009-12-11T05:02:39.771-08:002009-12-11T05:02:39.771-08:00Obama's Nobel Peace Prize speech: Where's ...Obama's Nobel Peace Prize speech: Where's Kanye West when you need him? (The Telegraph)<br /><br />It was one of the lowest moments in 2009 for American celebrity. Taylor Swift was accepting her MTV Music Video Award for best female artist, but Kanye West thought he knew better. <br /><br />He leapt on stage, nicked the microphone, and offered this crude interruption: <br /><br />“Taylor, I’m really happy for you, and I’mma let you finish. But Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.” Beyoncé looked on, smiling at first, then – as his rant continued – with increasing alarm. <br /><br />It became an internet phenomenon. The words “I’mma let you finish” were plastered onto image after image online, and Kanye West was universally condemned. <br /><br />He was even called a “jackass” by Barack Obama. <br /><br />But we really could have done with Kanye West today, during the US President’s acceptance speech for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. <br /><br />Others are “far more deserving than I” he said, adding that he received the award with “deep gratitude and great humility”. <br /><br />Great humility? More like great humiliation. <br /><br />Obama does not deserve this prize. He knows it. And America knows it (just 19% of the US public think it was deserved). <br /><br />In fact, the only people that don’t know it are the “Distinguished Members” of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-42742039987165726602009-12-11T05:01:30.697-08:002009-12-11T05:01:30.697-08:00Dalai Lama: Obama's Nobel Prize Is 'A Litt...Dalai Lama: Obama's Nobel Prize Is 'A Little Early' (Fox News) The Dalai Lama is right. 0ba-Mao hasn’t done nearly as much as Arafat did.<br /><br /><br />The exiled Tibetan leader won the Nobel Peace Prize 20 years ago for his peaceful opposition to Chinese rule in his country, but believes President Obama was awarded the prize "a little" too soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-59629936241556039392009-12-11T05:01:03.572-08:002009-12-11T05:01:03.572-08:00Sarah Palin Says Critics Of Her WaPo Op-ed 'Go...Sarah Palin Says Critics Of Her WaPo Op-ed 'Got All Wee-Weed Up'<br />(Newsbusters.org)<br /><br />Showing the sense of humor millions of Americans fell in love with last year, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said Thursday that critics of her previous day's op-ed in the Washington Post <br /><br />"kind of got all wee-weed up about it and wanted to call me and others deniers." <br /><br />Palin, chatting with conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham, was obviously poking fun at something President Obama said over the summer: <br /><br />"There's something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up." <br /><br />According to Palin, who might have been referring to derogatory comments from folks like MSNBC's Chris Matthews, Andrea Mitchell, and Keith Olbermann, such was the reaction to her published views on global warming and the United Nations climate change conference currently taking place in Copenhagen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com