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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

February 26, 2012 03:40 AM Forum: Politics

Candidate Rips $3.50 Gas, Vows To Create 5M Jobs

Posted By Dave Snope

LOL, some candidates will promise ANYTHING to get elected, knowing that there are plenty of ignorant voters to believe it and vote for them:
http://youtu.be/Ka_tjPLJwVI

February 26, 2012 04:02 AM Forum: Politics

Dear Leader Hires Greatest Propagandist For Film

Posted By Dave Snope

Obama has selected America's greatest propaganda film director to chronicle the triumphs and virtues of his first three years of rule. No American propaganda film has had more influence on the world than "An Inconvenient Truth", a film with 35 scientifically documented lies and about which a British court ruled that showing it in schools constituted a breach of section 406 of the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political indoctrination because of eleven specific "inaccuracies" (lies).

So, in order to portray the truth that is in the best interest of his subjects, and so that the people can find satisfaction in His leadership, and so that others can be indoctrinated, we have this:

With Hollywood gathering this weekend for the 84th Academy Awards, President Barack Obama has recruited Oscar-winning documentary director Davis Guggenheim to again produce a short film for his campaign.

Obama’s re-election staff in Chicago spent $162,834 on the film last month, according to the January Federal Election Commission filing. Currently in post-production, the film focuses on the president’s first three years in office, according to a campaign official.

This is just the latest involvement with Obama’s campaign for Guggenheim, who directed “Waiting for Superman,” a documentary about the U.S. education system, and won an Oscar in 2006 for “An Inconvenient Truth,” which chronicled former Vice President Al Gore’s drive to raise awareness about climate change.

In 2008, the filmmaker directed a biographical film about Obama for the Democratic National Convention. He also was involved in a 30-minute advertisement that the campaign ran on three major broadcast networks in the closing days before the election at a cost of more than $3 million.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-24/obama-enlists-guggenheim-for-campaign-film.html

February 28, 2012 05:29 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Best Global Warming Headline Ever

Posted By Dave Snope




Anthony Watt says it best: They really have lost the plot, haven’t they?


I’ve been getting a lot of pressure to cover the story by warmspinner Richard Black over at the BBC about a supposed feedback between Arctic sea ice and colder, snowier, winters in the UK and the EU. ...I’ve been resisting covering this for a little bit, because I knew sooner or later some MSM media fool would mangle this story into something unrecognizable (they always do). I was right, and the result is the most hilarious global warming headline ever:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/28/best-warming-headline-evah/#more-57828

March 1, 2012 10:00 AM Forum: Politics

Saddest Story Of The Year

Posted By Dave Snope

Schiff, 46, is facing another kind of jam this year: Paid a lower bonus, he said the $350,000 he earns, enough to put him in the country’s top 1 percent by income, doesn’t cover his family’s private-school tuition, a Kent, Connecticut, summer rental and the upgrade they would like from their 1,200-square- foot Brooklyn duplex.

“I feel stuck,” Schiff said. “The New York that I wanted to have is still just beyond my reach.”


Hmmm, I guess the campaign contributions to John Kerry never paid off for him.

“People who don’t have money don’t understand the stress,” said Alan Dlugash, a partner at accounting firm Marks Paneth & Shron LLP in New York who specializes in financial planning for the wealthy. “Could you imagine what it’s like to say I got three kids in private school, I have to think about pulling them out? How do you do that?”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-29/wall-street-bonus-withdrawal-means-trading-aspen-for-cheap-chex.html

March 1, 2012 09:32 PM Forum: Politics

Here We Go Again

Posted By Dave Snope

So, will this be taken to an official investigation level next?

I didn't see much new here. They even seem to be downplaying how bad the forgery is on his Selective Service Card, which if IIRC from a few years ago had 9 serious problems on it. That last point about the missing immigration records is new and if true is very disturbing.


Mike Zullo, Arpaio’s lead investigator, said his team believes the Hawaii Department of Health has engaged in a systematic effort to hide from public inspection any original 1961 birth records it may have in its possession.

“Officers of the Hawaii Department of Health and various elected Hawaiian public officials may have intentionally obscured 1961 birth records and procedures to avoid having to release to public inspection and to the examination of court-authorized forensic examiners any original Obama 1961 birth records the Hawaii Department of Health may or may not have,” Zullo said.

The investigators say the evidence contained in the computer-generated PDF file released by the White House as well as important deficiencies in the Hawaii process of certifying the long-form birth certificate establish probable cause that a forgery has been committed.
...
The Cold Case Posse advised Arpaio that they believe forgers committed two crimes. First, they say it appears the White House fraudulently created a forgery that it characterized as an officially produced governmental birth record. Second, the White House fraudulently presented to the residents of Maricopa County and to the American public at large a forgery represented as “proof positive” of President Obama’s authentic 1961 Hawaii long-form birth certificate.

“A continuing investigation is needed to identify the identity of the person or persons involved in creating the alleged birth certificate forgery and to determine who, if anyone, in the White House or the state of Hawaii may have authorized the forgery,” Arpaio said.

The investigators contend the videos illustrate their conclusion that the features and anomalies observed on the Obama long-form birth certificate were inconsistent with features produced when a paper document is scanned, even if the scan is enhanced by Optical Character Recognition, OCR, and optimized.

Additionally, the posse says, the videos demonstrate that the Hawaii Department of Health Registrar’s name stamp and the registrar’s date stamp were computer-generated images imported into an electronic document, as opposed to rubber stamp imprints inked by hand or machine onto a paper document.

“That we were able to cast reasonable suspicions on the authenticity of the registrar stamps was especially disturbing, since these stamp imprints are designed to provide government authentication to the document itself,” Zullo said, emphasizing that if the registrar stamps are forgeries, the document itself is likely a forgery.

The investigators also chronicled a series of allegedly inconsistent and misleading representations that various Hawaii government officials have made over the past five years regarding any original birth records held by the Hawaii Department of Health.

“As I said at the beginning of the investigation, the president can put all this to rest quite easily,” Arpaio said. “All he has to do is demand the Hawaii Department of Health release to the American public and to a panel of certified court-authorized forensic examiners all original 1961 paper, microfilm and computer birth records the Hawaii Department of Health has in its possession.”

Arpaio emphasized that the Hawaii Department of Health needs to provide, as part of the full disclosure, evidence regarding the chain of custody of all Obama birth records, including paper, microfilm and electronic records to eliminate the possibility that a forger or forgers may have tampered with the birth records.

The sheriff said the president should also authorize Honolulu’s Kapi’olani Hospital, the birth hospital listed on the Obama long-form birth certificate, to release any hospital patient records for Stanley Ann Dunham Obama, his mother, and for the newly born Barack Obama, to provide corroboration for the records held in the Hawaii Department of Health vault.

“Absent the authentic Hawaii Department of Health 1961 birth records for Barack Obama, there is no other credible proof supporting the idea or belief that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, as he and the White House have consistently asserted,” Zullo said.

“In fact, absent the authentication of Hawaii Department of Health 1961 birth records for Barack Obama, there is no other proof he was born anywhere within the United States.”

In addition, investigators say they have developed credible evidence that President Obama’s Selective Service card was a forgery, based on an examination of the postal date stamp on the document. Also, records of Immigration and Naturalization Service cards filled out by passengers arriving on international flights originating outside the United States in the month of August 1961, examined at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., are missing records for the week of President Obama’s birth.




I hate to link to World Nut Daily, but's that where the story is first:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/sheriff-joes-posse-probable-cause-obama-certificate-a-fraud/

March 2, 2012 09:24 PM Forum: Politics

Economy Weaker Today Than Has Been In 21 Months

Posted By Dave Snope

And getting worse and heading for a recession. That's what ECRI's Achuthan says. Of course, President Ladies Tees supporters are treating him like a 'denier'. He just isn't wise enough see the Emporer's fine clothes.


From UBS Financial Services:


“The Facts Ma’am. Just The Facts” - That was the classic interrogatory posture of Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) in the popular and long running radio and TV series, “Dragnet”. Just the facts was the posture taken by Lakshman Achuthan of ECRI in two recent interviews on the economy.

Last week Becky Quick interviewed Achuthan to see if he had adjusted or tempered his call that the U.S. was headed into a recession. That interview created enough of a stir that Bloomberg called him in for an interview on their network. We don’t have the transcript on Becky’s interview but here’s a bit of Achuthan’s Bloomberg interview:

Q: Lakshman, in three years there has not been a more anticipated set of interviews than with you today. Reaffirm your recession call.

A: Consider it reaffirmed, and let me explain why. Since our recession call five months ago, the definitive, hard data used to determine official recession dates have gotten worse, not better, despite the consensus view that things have been improving since we made that call in late September.

Q: Is the beginning of a consumption slowdown apparent?

A: Let’s go to those key, hard facts. GDP growth, year-over-year, peaked in the third quarter of 2010 at 3.5%. By the second quarter of 2011, it had fallen to 1.5% and it’s basically flat-lined from there. It has not reaccelerated. It’s a similar pattern for personal income growth and it’s a similar pattern for the broad measures of sales growth. As of January, when you look at industrial production growth, year-over-year, it has now declined to a 22-month low. Taking all of these key aggregate measures of output, jobs, income, and sales, putting it into our Coincident Index, the growth rate has now dropped to a 21-month low. The economy is weaker today than it has been in 21 months.

March 4, 2012 12:40 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Why Nordhaus Wrong About Skeptics Being Wrong

Posted By Dave Snope

In which geoscientist David Middleton takes down the six strawman arguments erected by economics professor William Nordhaus in his recent essay published in the important science journal "New York Review of Books".

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/03/why-william-d-nordhaus-is-wrong-about-global-warming-skeptics-being-wrong/#more-58200

March 4, 2012 11:37 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Why AGW Alarmists Must Cheat, Steal & Lie

Posted By Dave Snope

AJStrata reviews some of the recent examples of corruption, explains why the alarmists are wrong, then explains why they are desparate enough to take high-risk behaviors that would get most other professionals fired and/or prosecuted.

I believe the escalating corruption inside the C-AGW community (from fudging their own data, to censoring contrary data, to violating FOIA laws, to open fraud and theft) is because the C-AGW hypothesis is running out of time. These zealots were so over confident because of the holiness of their quest they overstated their confidence and then their conclusions. Now all that arrogance and ignorance is coming home to roost.

A few interesting reports out in the last 2 weeks illustrate what I mean. First off, the real world data is now statistically so far off from the IPCC theories that each passing year is another data set proving the hypothesis of C-AGW to be completely wrong:
...facts and data here...
The data does not lie, neither does the math. You can take ALL of the prior IPCC predictions – based on their flawed hypothesis – and see the same result. There models and predictions are wrong with higher confidence levels than ever claimed for C-AGW and the human CO2 component.

Finally, the evidence continues to mount showing global climate driven primarily by solar output, and that the current reduction in solar activity is indicating a cooler global climate for the next few decades. This solar based theory is 1000 times more compelling than C-AGW.

The reality check is happening now, and the C-AGW hypothesis is crashing and burning. For its desperate clingers-on it is clearly time to pull out all the stops – especially the ethical ones. At least that is what they believe.

The truth is the overly dramatic (or over-egged for our UK friends) claims of C-AGW were lost years ago. Lost to bad math and hidden data, lost to unethical decisions, lost to a lack of a true scientific method and lost to a lack of professionalism. You can’t undo years down the wrong path with a stupid propaganda stunt. But by the number of Gleick defenders coming out of from under their rocks, it is clear we are not done with that kind of nonsense.

The C-AGW proponents rang the alarm bells, and the broader community of scientists and engineers answered. The problem for C-AGW proponents – the answer was the IPCC got it wrong.

It is hard for the zealots of C-AGW to realize this, but they are not leading this current round of revolutionary global-scale science. They were simply the catalyst of failures in conventional thinking (discovered anomalies) that initiated the revolutionary thinking. And now their C-AWG hypotheses are being replaced with new, better scientific theories.



http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/18155#more-18155

March 5, 2012 09:43 AM Forum: Politics

New From Breitbart: Barack's Lovesong To Alinsky

Posted By Dave Snope

In which Barack Obama was on a panel at the world premier of "The Love Song of Saul Alinsky". A panel composed of communists and crypto-socialists to discuss the great communist himself.

Andrew wanted to do what the mainstream media would not. First and foremost: Andrew pledged to vet President Barack H. Obama.

Andrew did not want to re-litigate the 2008 election. Nor did he want to let Republicans off the hook. Instead, he wanted to show that the media had failed in its most basic duty: to uncover the truth, and hold those in power accountable, regardless of party.

From today through Election Day, November 6, 2012, we will vet this president--and his rivals.

We begin with a column Andrew wrote last week in preparation for today’s Big relaunch--a story that should swing the first hammer against the glass wall the mainstream media has built around Barack Obama.


http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/04/obama-alinsky-love-song

March 8, 2012 12:06 AM Forum: Politics

RFK jr Calls Sen. Inhofe a Call Girl

Posted By Dave Snope

Where is all the outrage from the left about this hate speech? Where are the calls for an apology? Where are the boycotts?

"Speaking of prostitutes, big oil's top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers," the New York-based environmentalist wrote Tuesday on Twitter.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73702.html#ixzz1oTl7IJwk