Posts Made By: Dave Snope

Cool time-lapse of a modular pier being built and 8.7 million pounds of cargo being offloaded to McMurdo Station.

The movement of supplies and cargo from the United States across thousands of miles of ocean to Antarctica to support scientific research on the southernmost continent relies on a certain serendipity.

When that fails, send in the Army.

That’s what the National Science Foundation (NSF) did when the ice pier at McMurdo Station , constructed during the 2011 winter, failed to thicken and harden, eventually melting away during the summer months like a deflated soufflé.

By Dec. 1, about two months before a cargo ship carrying nearly seven million pounds of supplies and equipment for the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) was scheduled to arrive, it was apparent that the pier would not be in any sort of shape to support the truck traffic required to move hundreds of 40-foot shipping containers on and off the vessel.

“We were out of options by the first of December. We had to commit to something, because it was obvious the pier wasn’t going to firm up and be substantial enough for operation,” said Paul Sheppard, Operations & Logistics Systems manager for NSF’s Office of Polar Programs (OPP) , which manages the USAP.


http://youtu.be/_GlQ9vFSFk4

WTI crude just broke $100, trading at $99.99.

Where are the liberal calls for yet another congressional investigation of the "speculators"? Oil just can't drop so fast in three days on it's own. Surely this is an example of price manipulations by the evil profiteers. Go get 'em!

Now over 88 million souls trying to live off of borrowed money and government handouts. The steepness of the slope since 2008 is scary. The amount of debt these people have has also skyrocketed. The prospects of paying that off look bleak. The banks are getting collateral calls. No good news on the horizon.

Our contry's economic policies and leadership needs a major shakeup.

OMG, Newsweek has a cover with Obama has the "First Gay President".

Well, there are those that say that Mooch is really Obama's beard. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

I know, I know. It's gay Andrew Sullivan making an analogy. But it's still a cover that President Ladies Tees can't be happy about.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/05/newsweek-cover-the-first-gay-president-123283.html

The Narcissist In Chief is at it again. I guess when you have no achievements to rest your laurels on, you rewrite official history and put yourself into it as a similar hero.

It he had one ounce of honesty, he would put something like this:
Economists have shown that FDR's big government policies caused the recovery from the Great Depression to take seven years longer than it should have if the economy was left alone. Obama's economic policies are even more massive and will likely take nine years to recover from, and at the same time he managed to far outstrip the presidential record for golf rounds. Obama, bigger, better, longer, and sportier.


The Heritage Foundation’s Rory Cooper tweeted that Obama had casually dropped his own name into Ronald Reagan’s official biography on www.whitehouse.gov, claiming credit for taking up the mantle of Reagan’s tax reform advocacy with his “Buffett Rule” gimmick. My first thought was, he must be joking. But he wasn’t—it turns out Obama has added bullet points bragging about his own accomplishments to the biographical sketches of every single U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge (except, for some reason, Gerald Ford). Here are a few examples:


•On Feb. 22, 1924 Calvin Coolidge became the first president to make a public radio address to the American people. President Coolidge later helped create the Federal Radio Commission, which has now evolved to become the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). President Obama became the first president to hold virtual gatherings and town halls using Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, etc.
•In a 1946 letter to the National Urban League, President Truman wrote that the government has “an obligation to see that the civil rights of every citizen are fully and equally protected.” He ended racial segregation in civil service and the armed forces in 1948. Today the Obama administration continues to strive toward upholding the civil rights of its citizens, repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, allowing people of all sexual orientations to serve openly in our armed forces.
•President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare signed (sic) into law in 1965—providing millions of elderly healthcare stability. President Obama’s historic health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, strengthens Medicare, offers eligible seniors a range of preventive services with no cost-sharing, and provides discounts on drugs when in the coverage gap known as the “donut hole.”
•On August 14, 1935, President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. Today the Obama administration continues to protect seniors and ensure Social Security will be there for future generations.
•In a June 28, 1985 speech Reagan called for a fairer tax code, one where a multi-millionaire did not have a lower tax rate than his secretary. Today, President Obama is calling for the same with the Buffett Rule.



That last one is especially laughable. Trying to find even the remotest comparison of himself to Reagan on economic policy tells us that he thinks all the voters are dumber than Michelle's bag of hamburgers.

...of the Harvard Law Review...

... a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”

The booklet, which was distributed to “business colleagues” in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel.

It also promotes Obama’s anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White–which Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead.




H/T Gateway Pundit

Here is the original story at Breitbart with details and background on the literary agent's book, with a big disclaimer that they are not birthers, but, rather, this is more evidence that the media has made no effort to vet Obama's background:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Obama-Literary-Agent-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii

Nice job on the logo:

For those that haven't been paying attention, here's another example of how you get unstoppable global warming. It works the same way in temperature record data records from all over the world. This time the data is from the Netherlands. The technique is always the same, whether it be Australian data, USA data, EUR data, Greenland data, doesn't matter. They take the original temperature data (blue line), which shows what everybody experienced, that it was warm during the 30's - 40's, and cold during the 60's - 70's, then you apply a "homogenizing factor", a simple step function that reduces the earlier temperatures by 1 degree K, and voila, you have unprecedented global warming. You publish the red line. There's usually some urban heat island effect, too, that increases the later century slope but the AGW scientists deny it exists.

If anybody complains about the adjustments, they are bullied and shot down as "unsophisticated". Because, you know, you have to be one of the IPCC principal authors to comprehend high school math.

Now of course this is just the temperature record manipulations, but they are equally unethical and activist with the long-term temperature reconstructions with proxy data.



Netherlands study by Frank Lausner

Here is a useful resource: A list of over 1000 papers. They seem to come out almost every day, but it's awfully nice of someone to compile them into an organized list with links.

Preface: The following papers support skeptic arguments against Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC), Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) or ACC/AGW Alarm.

Counting Method: Only Peer-Reviewed papers are counted. Supplemental papers; Addendums, Comments, Corrections, Erratum, Rebuttals, Replies, Responses, and Submitted papers are not counted but listed as references in defense of various papers. There are many more listings than just the over 1000 counted papers,

Criteria for Inclusion: All counted papers must be peer-reviewed, published in a peer-reviewed journal and support a skeptic argument against ACC/AGW or ACC/AGW Alarm.

Criticisms: All criticisms of this list have been refuted or a change made to correct the issue. Please see the notes following the list for defenses of common criticisms.

THE LIE:
"There was a massive study of every scientific article in a peer reviewed article written on global warming in the last ten years. They took a big sample of 10 percent, 928 articles. And you know the number of those that disagreed with the scientific consensus that we’re causing global warming and that is a serious problem out of the 928: Zero."

- Al Gore,

http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html

Ol' Slick Willie still has it. To he11 with presidential decorum when the Big Dog is around females. Vote Democat: They're exciting people.

TMZ.com:

Bill Clinton just out-Clinton’d himself — posing with two famous porn stars in Monaco moments ago. . . and one of them’s a real up-and-comer.

Clinton’s in a Monte Carlo casino right now for a special “Nights in Monaco” gala event — and several celebrities are in attendance. . . including Diane Kruger, Joshua Jackson. . . and a BUNCH OF PORN STARS.

The two porn stars on Bill’s arms are Tasha Reign (left) and Brooklyn Lee — AVN’s “Best New Starlet” in porn.

Brooklyn — who just posted the pic on her Twitter account — also just won the award for “Best Sex Scene” in “Mission Asspossible.” As for Tasha’s film credits. . . those include “Baby Got Boobs 8” and “Farm Girls Gone Bad.”

Our guess -- Bill did not have sexual relations with these women.