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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

May 12, 2011 09:49 PM Forum: Politics

Get Yer Obama SEAL Action Figure

Posted By Dave Snope
Buy one while they last, because Barack made the "gutsy call" and showed "just as much courage as SEAL Team 6".

On Wednesday morning, Hero Builders released the Obama SEAL Team 6 action figure — a muscular President in fatigues armed with an M1-A4.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42996803/ns/business-small_business/



May 23, 2011 08:02 PM Forum: Politics

2 Pictures Worth 2000 Words

Posted By Dave Snope
Two men in their 20's. Recognize them?


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http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/05/two-pictures-worth-2000-words.html#links

May 23, 2011 08:24 PM Forum: Politics

War Powers Limit Expired May20

Posted By Dave Snope
President Obama's 60-day time limit on the use of military force in Libya expired May 20th.

Section 1544(b) of the War Powers Resolution states that "the President shall terminate any use of United States Armed Forces" at the end of the 60-day period unless Congress:
1.declares war or authorizes the use of force
2.extends the deadline
3.is unable to meet as a result of armed attack

What will our "constitutional law professor" (errr, senior lecturer) do about this?

Senator Obama in 2007 on the War Powers Resolution:

"The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.

"History has shown us time and again ... that military action is most successful when it is authorized and supported by the Legislative branch. It is always preferable to have the informed consent of Congress prior to any military action."


ed. to fix date

May 24, 2011 08:28 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

NCAR: Sea Level Could Rise 15-25 ft in 20 Years

Posted By Dave Snope



Long before Kevin Trenberth was going full bore, NCAR was making the same climate predictions.

Only this was in Jan 8, 1979. And they were completely, utterly, uselessly wrong. Regardless, Trenberth is still spewing the same chicken little nonsense about our future.

At least they're consistent at NCAR. What the heck, if people keep throwing money at you to be wrong, then by all means, be wronger. Don't laugh at them, laugh with them. Embarrassment is for suckers!

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/1979-ncar-forecast-sea-level-may-rise-15-25-feet-before-the-year-2000/

May 27, 2011 08:39 PM Forum: Politics

Oslo: ALL Rapes in Last 5 Years Commited By Muslim

Posted By Dave Snope
According to the just-released police report:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p__qffobdE&feature=player_embedded

Reminds me of an interview I read a few years ago of a Stockholm muslim man, who said that Swedish girls were fair game for rape because they were not muslim and did not dress according to muslim rules. In Sweden, though, it is illegal to collect statistics on the ethnicity of rapists, so they'll never officially know if they are near 100% too. But they do have a rape rate of 4X the rest of Europe, under similar ethnic mixed areas as the Oslo situation.

June 1, 2011 11:57 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Prediction: Warming Until 2000, Then Cold

Posted By Dave Snope
St. Petersberg Times, 1979



A reminder that there was a time when climate scientists actually did science.

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/1979-before-the-hockey-team-destroyed-climate-science/

June 2, 2011 12:22 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Green Energy Needs Toxic Waste Exemptions

Posted By Dave Snope
Is Green Energy more important than a safe environment?

EU ministers voted on Friday to exempt solar panels from a ban on toxic substances in electrical goods, enabling leading maker First Solar to keep selling its products in the industry’s biggest market.

The revised European Union law generally bans the use of six hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment, including cadmium, which is used by U.S.-based First Solar — the world’s No. 1 solar company by market share — in its panels.

“In order to attain the EU’s ambitious targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency, photovoltaic panels to produce energy from solar light do not have to comply with the restriction,” EU ministers said in a statement after the vote.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/05/27/us-eu-toxics-idINTRE74Q24G20110527

June 3, 2011 05:36 PM Forum: Politics

EU Spends $32M/yr in U.S. To Promote Leftist Cause

Posted By Dave Snope
Brussels is pouring nearly £20million a year from its human rights budget on lecturing the Americans on left-wing causes.

The EU Human Rights Fund is intended to help promote Western values in the developing world. But a shock report has found at least £17million of cash – around £2million from British taxpayers’ – has been ploughed into promoting the pet causes of Eurocrats in the U.S.

It is being spent on promoting abolition of the death penalty, discussion of climate change, green energy, and the International Criminal Court – all controversial subjects in the U.S.

More than £3million has been funnelled to American universities to promote the benefits of European integration and a further £3million to think-tanks who want to study EU affairs.
The European Commission’s own accounts show millions have also been paid to unnamed individual opinion formers in the U.S.

The report’s British author Sally McNamara said: ‘It is impossible to justify EU human rights budgets being spent in one of the world’s freest nations.’

Tory MP Douglas Carswell said: “The U.S. was founded by North Americans fed up with Europeans interfering in its internal affairs.”

‘The U.S. as a country has done more to bring liberty and human rights to the world than anyone in Europe. They don’t need any lessons from Brussels.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1393765/EU-spends-20m-year-promoting-left-wing-causes-U-S.html#ixzz1ODSOKl6R

June 3, 2011 07:01 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Cats Leave Biggest Carbon Paw Print

Posted By Dave Snope
This is going to cause quite a moral dilemna for warmist liberals because liberals are predominately cat people.

http://notrickszone.com/2011/06/03/cats-leave-biggest-carbon-paw-print-among-house-pets-study-finds/

German daily Bild, which has more readers than the WSJ, USA Today and NYT combined, reports that cats leave huge carbon paw-prints and so make a significant contribution to climate change. Each househiold cat is repsonsible for the emissions of 2.2 tons of CO2 annually.

The information is based on a story appearing in health magazine Healthy Living and on a study from climate company ClimatePartner.

According to Bild, internet portal utopia.de tested the impacts of five different pets on climate. Bild writes:


Catfood, cat litter, waste… every cat leads to 2.2 tons of CO2 emissions annually. No other house pet leaves such a terrible ecological paw-print.

Just the manufacture of cat food and its packing leads to about one ton of CO2 per cat. The waste disposal of food cans and cat litter burdens the climate with an additional 1250 kg of carbon dioxide. Then you have to include the water consumption for cleaning the cat potty.”

The house cat is an even bigger climate sinner than a dog, says Bild.

June 4, 2011 06:01 PM Forum: Off Topic Discussions

Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer?

Posted By Dave Snope
Serious question. Is there a real threat, or is it more sensationalist junk science like silicone breast implants?

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