Posts Made By: Dave Snope

The man who on his way to being the world's first carbon billionaire is still somehow so mad at skeptics that he has started swearing. Are his lips growing weary of having to suck harder and harder on the taxpayer teat to reach that billion dollar goal in time? Obama and company have been pouring truckloads of money into Gore's businesses via gov't stimulus contracts, but the writing is on the wall when they are caught spending 70% more than they are taking in and are being forced to reduce that to, errrrrh, 69%. Time to get mad.

“There’s no longer a shared reality on an issue like climate even though the very existence of our civilization is threatened. People have no idea! … It’s no longer acceptable in mixed company, meaning bipartisan company, to use the goddamn word climate. It is not acceptable. They have polluted it to the point where we cannot possibly come to an agreement on it.”

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Gore laments his failure: ‘When you go and talk to any audience about climate, you hear them washing back at you the same crap over and over and over again’

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/06/gore-fail-gore-starts-cussing-in-climate-talk/#more-44651

This film of an Eagle Owl landing was shot at 1000 frames per second
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=37MNE8tOBG4

It's Obamamagic. Economic alchemy. His snotty spokesman explains that if you follow the rainbow road to Obamaland, then POOF!, something will be created from nothing. No, even more magical than that, you can take something away from people, give a fraction of that to some other people, and the first people will receive back so much more than they started with that they will give full-time jobs with health-care benefits to the other people.

I remember Pelosi saying the same thing after the 2008 downturn. Magical thinking is running our country. How'd that work out, Nancy? Why didn't we just put everybody on unemployment? Would we end up with 100% employment, or 100% unemployment, in the end? (Nancy doesn't really care, as long as she's still part of the royal family and gets her liquor-stocked jet plane allowance.)

But not to worry. Even though the idiotic concept was put into practice in a massive experiment for several years and proven wrong, trust in the Great Economic Mind of Obama to make it work this time. He went to the best private schools, you know. And he oversaw the distribution of a fund that built an african village in Chicago. When it comes to distributing other people's money, he has blue-chip experience.

"I understand why extending unemployment insurance provides relief to people who need it, but how does that create jobs," Wall Street Journal's Laura Meckler asked Jay Carney at Wednesday's WH briefing.

Carney responded: "Oh, uh, it is by, uh, I would expect a reporter from the Wall Street Journal would know this as part of the entrance exam."

"There are few other ways that can directly put money into the economy than applying unemployment insurance," Carney said.

Carney answers the question: "It is one of the most direct ways to infuse money directly into the economy because people who are unemployed and obviously aren't running a paycheck are going to spend the money that they get. They're not going to save it, they're going to spend it. And with unemployment insurance, that way, the money goes directly back into the economy, dollar for dollar virtually."


http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/08/10/carney_unemployment_benefits_could_create_up_to_1_million_jobs.html

Why are the reporters seated in boy-girl pairs? Just noticed this. Is it random chance, a seating arrangement, or do media outlets send political reporters out in boy-girl pairs?

I have to say, though, that the scene is much easier on the eyes and the ears ever since the anti-semitic toad-voiced Helen Thomas left.

Oh, no, having another Texas governor that prays is going to give the left an aneurism. It would be funny to watch the MSM go back to hating the Iraq war and looking under every rock for U.S. war criminals. "Perry lied, people died" would be the new slogan. And he had better pronounce 'tomato' right, let alone calling a deceased war hero a "corpse man".

Obama's team may have to revise their 'Kill Romney' tactic.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry will make "a definitive announcement that he is in the 2012 race for the presidency Saturday," aides told Fox News.

The language is significant. For several days the Perry camp has said he would signal his intentions and announce later.

"This is it," the sources explain. No exploratory committee, no more deliberation.

Perry will spend most of next week on the road officially campaigning.


Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/08/11/rick-perry-announce-gop-candidacy-saturday#ixzz1UkwGIr5J

This time, ACORN can't claim that it was "rogue employees" that did the crimes. But watch out, the criminals are re-forming under new names so they can help Obama get elected in 2012.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was fined the maximum of $5,000 in Las Vegas today for its role in a massive voter fraud conspiracy.

Judge Donald Mosley said if an individual, as opposed to a corporation, had been before him, he would have handed down a 10-year prison sentence. “And I wouldn’t have thought twice about it,” he said, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Mosley criticized ACORN, which used to employ President Obama, for making a “mockery” of America’s electoral process. “This isn’t a banana republic,” he said.

In April ACORN pleaded guilty to felony-level unlawful compensation for registration of voters. With the full knowledge of upper management, ACORN illegally offered cash bonuses to its voter registration canvassers in a scheme called “Blackjack.” Canvassers received extra money if they hit the magic number of 21 registrations in a day. (ACORN, predictably, denies its upper echelon knew anything about the scheme.)

The organized crime syndicate probably won’t pay a cent of the fine. That’s because ACORN, the shell corporation that ran the corrupt ACORN network, is in bankruptcy.

Senior ACORN executives Amy Adele Busefink and Christopher Howell Edwards were also convicted for their roles in the scheme. ACORN cared so little about the conspiracy that its voter mobilization division, Project Vote, put Busefink in charge of the group’s national get-out-the-vote drive in 2010 while she was under indictment in Nevada.

Significantly, this is the first time ACORN itself, as opposed to its individual employees, has been convicted of a crime.

But this is not the first time that ACORN has found itself in legal hot water.

Judicial Watch recently uncovered massive voter fraud by ACORN in Colorado and ACORN settled a racketeering lawsuit in Ohio out of court last year and agreed to leave the state. In the settlement with the Buckeye Institute’s 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, ACORN agreed to “cease all Ohio activity” and surrender all its state business licenses.

Despite the bankruptcy filing, ACORN continues to operate. Project Vote and ACORN’s mortgage bubble generator ACORN Housing (renamed Affordable Housing Centers of America) are still is business. ACORN’s state chapters now operate under assumed names such as Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, New York Communities for Change, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment, and Action United (Pennsylvania).

ACORN officials openly acknowledge the network is restructuring and will re-emerge soon to help reelect President Obama in 2012

http://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2011/08/10/breaking-banana-republic-acorn-hit-with-maximum-fine-in-voter-fraud-scheme/

Really? That is The Annointed One's New Deal to solve the unemployment problem? Really? A little bureaucratic restructuring and a new name? Really? The joke's on the American people and it's a bad one.

This man has nothing. He is nothing. He knows nothing.

That was clear before the election, though. People are getting what they voted for.

I hope everybody on the East Coast is safe next weekend. My heart goes out to the folks on Hatteras and Ocracoke as I have seen the devastation hurricanes can do to those unprotected islands. Our country has had a nice break from hurricanes for years, but everything has a period.

As Irene steams towards the U.S. east coast, somebody is going to call it man-made global warming. Who will call it first? The NYT, BBC, CNN, WashPo, LAT, NBC....? Al Gore, John Kerry, maybe even Barack? What's your guess? One of these will be first to cite some 'expert' calling it AGW. Some expert from RealClimate, Penn, NASA GISS, Colorado, or just some novice climatologist at a Uni with a big mouth and a PhD. Anything for a scary soundbite for MSM.

In the face of all the facts, that hurricane activity has been going down, someone will blame this on big oil and SUVs.

The last hurricane of any kind to make landfall in the U.S. was Ike, hitting TX in Sept 2008.

The last major hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. was in 2005.

Global Cyclone Energy has been falling for 6 years and regional activity tends to track with ENSO/PDO/AO oscillations. There is ZERO correlation to CO2, SUVs, industrial growth, or whatever.


Major Hurricanes To Make Landfall in last 10 years:



Sorry, wish I could make these pictures smaller.

All I have to say is that people have a wide range of learning rates. It was crystal clear in 2007 that this was a man with a special sense of self-importance and self-obsession even among politicians, and that his lack of job experience and leadership experience made his reality far removed from his fantasy of his achievements and his potential greatness. He didn't even earn his political positions, he simply stepped into voids. Some were saying that he had Narcissitic Personality Disorder. But people were blind to this. Some are finally starting to look behind the curtain.

I recently had drinks with respected senior Democrats in New Hampshire. They were Barack Obama supporters in 2008 and now have serious buyer’s remorse.

They were alarmed at the lack of leadership, which they feel Obama showed while he still had a substantial majority in the House and Senate. “Steffen, that health care monstrosity used up all his goodwill and has scared the crap out of voters. They just don’t understand what’s in there and he has done nothing to explain it.’

They were unanimous in blaming him for the avalanche of Republicans and the tea party movement ascendance that has paralyzed Washington. “Obama never stepped up to the plate and gave the Democrats a vision of how to retain power,” one said. “In 2010 he just walked away. He’s worse than Bill Clinton. It’s all about the Big O.”

Another comment that stuck with me was the fear that his low and still slipping poll numbers spell doom.

“Steffen, have you read Politico on Pete de Fazio’s comments on Oregon?” I had not.

Here it what Politico wrote about one of the brightest liberal Democrats:

“Saying there’s no ‘fight’ in President Barack Obama, a House Democrat who returned to Oregon for the congressional summer recess said he isn’t sure the president can win a second term or even carry his very blue state. Rep. Peter DeFazio says he’s unhappy with the president’s ‘flip flops’ in negotiations with Republicans and thinks a moderate GOP candidate could beat Obama next year. ‘At this point, it pretty much depends on how far out there the Republican nominee is. You know, with a respectable someone who is a little bit toward the middle of the road Republican nominee, he’s going to have a very tough time getting reelected,’ DeFazio told Portland TV station KGW.”

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110823/OPINION01/308230010/-1/SPORTS09/Steffen-Schmidt-Some-Dems-think-unthinkable-Not-Obama

This guy really knows his way around the donkeys.

"These Donkeys don't live in the United States of France..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6etfJgZQ7A&feature=player_embedded#!