Posts Made By: Dave Snope

This should be a huge story and a big scandal, if only we had a centrist press. Obama's team broke the law again:

Emails obtained by The Daily Caller show that the U.S. Treasury Department, led by Timothy Geithner, was the driving force behind terminating the pensions of 20,000 salaried retirees at the Delphi auto parts manufacturing company.

The move, made in 2009 while the Obama administration implemented its auto bailout plan, appears to have been made solely because those retirees were not members of labor unions.

The internal government emails contradict sworn testimony, in federal court and before Congress, given by several Obama administration figures.

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Delphi, a General Motors company, is one of the world’s largest automotive parts manufacturers. Twenty thousand of its workers lost nearly their entire pensions when the government bailed out GM. At the same time, Delphi employees who were members of the United Auto Workers union saw their pensions topped off and made whole.

The White House and Treasury Department have consistently maintained that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) independently made the decision to terminate the 20,000 non-union Delphi workers’ pension plan. The PBGC is a federal government agency that handles private-sector pension benefits issues. Its charter calls for independent representation of pension beneficiaries’ interests.


So the Administration made a ruthless decision to benefit its union allies over non-union workers. And then claimed they had not made this decision at all; an "outside" group, the PBGC, had made the decision. They were as much the victims here as anyone else, you understand.

Is that true?

Well, a meeting of "the entire bailout team" was to occur in April 2009 to discuss, among other things, "pension issues."

But after the Friday meeting, [a PBGC staffer named Joseph House] emailed PBGC staffers Karen Morris and John Menke. “We’ve been disinvited,” he wrote. “It’s for the best.”
“Who uninvited us?” Morris replied.

“Treasury,” House responded.

If Treasury is "disinviting" the PBGC, the agency with the actual statutory power to make decisions about private-sector pensions, from discussions about pensions, in what possible sense is the PBGC making these decisions? They weren't even permitted in the room.

So, among other things in play:

Obama's team lied. Yet again.

Obama's team made a cut-throat, client-service decision to favor its own voters over other similary-situated citizens. Again.

Obama's team broke the law (the PBGC has the power to make these decisions; Tim Geithener does not). Again.

And Obama's crony socialism once again punishes tens of thousands of working citizens in order to advance his crony socilalist agenda, all the while accusing Romney of doing similar things. But with the crucial distinction that Romney was a private businessman, whereas Obama is the Chief Executive of the United States of America.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/07/emails-geithner-treasury-drove-cutoff-of-non-union-delphi-workers-pensions/

I'm still astonished that anybody voted for a foul-mouthed nasty mud-slinging angry comedian for the important office of U.S. Senator. Shame on you, Minnesotans. James Madison said that a senator should have a “greater extent of information and stability of character”.

Still, that's a total of 243 people either convicted of voter fraud or awaiting trial in an election that was decided by 312 votes. With 1,099 examples identified by Minnesota Majority, and with evidence suggesting that felons, when they do vote, strongly favor Democrats, it doesn't require a leap to suggest there might one day be proof that Al Franken was elected on the strength of voter fraud.

And that's just the question of voting by felons. Minnesota Majority also found all sorts of other irregularities that cast further doubt on the Senate results.

The election was particularly important because Franken's victory gave Senate Democrats a 60th vote in favor of President Obama's national health care proposal -- the deciding vote to overcome a Republican filibuster. If Coleman had kept his seat, there would have been no 60th vote, and no Obamacare.


http://washingtonexaminer.com/york-when-1099-felons-vote-in-race-won-by-312-ballots/article/2504163

Here lies the solution to hot weather:

The central lesson of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else, meaning that human activities interact with nature in sometimes problematic ways. Thus, evidence accumulating this summer of powerful and accelerating changes in the global climate offers a warning that capitalism’s insatiable appetite for profits is pushing the global climate system toward runaway global warming.

The physical evidence has appeared in the form of intense heat waves and a spreading drought covering two-thirds of the U.S., the continuing collapse of ice shelves in Antarctica, and now the sudden melt-off of ice over the whole of Greenland.

The only viable choice in responding to the ecological crisis of capitalism is socialism. Continuing the effort to reform capitalism is a dead end, as Rio+20 has unequivocally demonstrated. Abandoning modern society also is not a choice, as that would mean abandoning the very tools we need to limit the impact of the crisis and adapt to a changing climate.

In between these extremes lies socialism, a system that would redirect the wealth of society to meeting human needs and restoring and preserving a healthy environment. Through central planning under the command of the working class, human society would be able to address and react to even some of the harshest aspects of global warming.


http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/ecological-crisis-capitalism.html

So far. John Nolte makes his list:

1. Romney Killed My Wife -- This howler, courtesy of a pro-Obama super PAC, has sucked most of the oxygen out of yesterday and today's news narrative. In-between denouncing the ad, Romney's attempting to work through the clutter of this distraction to hit Obama for dismantling welfare reform.

2. Outsourcer-In-Chief -- This lie came courtesy of the Washington Post, who, in direct coordination with the Obama campaign, slammed Romney for outsourcing jobs he didn’t outsource.

3. Romney's Gaffe-tastic Overseas Escapades -- To make Romney look like a stumble-bum and destroy any hope he had of looking presidential or like a statesman, the corrupt media created gaffes out of whole cloth, going so far as to make Ugly American spectacles of themselves on sanctified ground. The Narrative was set and executed brilliantly.

4. Romney Will Crush the Middle Class With Tax Increases -- Both the media and Obama campaign have teamed up to use a phony study (co-authored by a former Obama official) to accuse Romney of planning to cut taxes for the wealthy and raise taxes on the middle class. Lies don’t get much bigger than this, but Romney's had to be out there defensively explaining why this isn’t true ever since.

5. Harry Reid's McCarthyism -- This sinister but undeniably brilliant tactic sucked up six-days of the news-cycle and was a total and complete victory for the Obama campaign. For six-days we talked about Romney's taxes and not about Obama's failures. Reid, who has no plans to run for reelection, took all the fire and Obama floated above it all. Genius.

6. Romney's a Felon -- Both DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Senior Obama Campaign Advisor Stephanie Cutter used the word "felon" to describe Mitt Romney's association with Bain. This sucked the air out of three-days worth of news-cycles and while the media cried foul, they also made sure Obama paid no political price whatsoever. Moreover, Romney was reduced to a man demanding an apology. Another total win for Team Obama.

7. Romney Opposes Abortion Exceptions For Rape and incest Victims -- This ad comes straight from the Obama campaign, not a surrogate. It's another brazen, bald-faced lie that makes Romney look extreme and that the media has made sure Obama pays no political price for telling.

8. Romney the Gay-bashing Prep School As*hole -- In another blatantly false anti-Romney attack obviously coordinated between the Obama campaign and the Washington Post, the Post reaches back a half-century to Romney's mind and declare it homophobic.

9. Romney's More Secretive Than Nixon -- This one explains itself.

10. That's Racist -- This narrative is just starting to bubble up again. Chris Matthews was all over it last night and The New Yorker hit the theme that Romney's criticism of Obama dismantling welfare reform is racially based. And that's just the most recent example.


http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/08/Obamas-Top-Ten-Audacious-Lies

It's an Obama World:

New York’s top Department of Homeland Security cop is suing Department of Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano in an explosive but heretofore unnoticed federal lawsuit alleging Homeland Security employment discrimination against straight male agents by Napolitano (READ the federal complaint) in favor of her lesbian girlfriend and sexual harassment of male agents by Napolitano’s handpicked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Chief of Staff, Suzanne Barr. The lawsuit alleges that Barr demanded a male ICE Special Agent engage in oral sex with her and that she relocated three top male ICE agents’ offices to the men’s bathroom at ICE headquarters. All of the alleged misconduct was the behavior of Barack Obama’s hand-picked people running the Department of Homeland Security, who’ve created a hostile work environment for straight male agents, a story I recently broke on this site.

The lawsuit further elucidates several stories reported on this site about discrimination against straight male Homeland Security officials in favor gay officials, including Napolitano’s girlfriend, Dora Schriro. As I noted, Schriro had zero experience in law enforcement, and yet, she was appointed ICE Policy Director and set the current Obama immigration enforcement policy of not enforcing immigration laws.


The sleazy details are at: http://www.debbieschlussel.com/52747/exclusive-top-ny-homeland-security-cop-sues-napolitano-alleges-obama-dhs-officials-anti-straight-discrimination-demands-for-oral-sex-j-no-appointed-lesbian-girlfriend-ice-chief-of-staff-hara/#more-52747

Boretti (2012) begins his work by noting that in its report of 2007, the IPCC projected that global sea level was likely to rise somewhere between 18 and 59 cm by 2100; but he says that certain "model-based analyses performed recently have predicted much higher sea level rise [SLR] for the twenty-first century," even "exceeding 100 cm if greenhouse gas emissions continue to escalate," citing most pointedly in this regard the studies of Rahmstorf (2007, 2010). However, he notes that studies reaching just the opposite conclusion have also been published, referencing those of Holgate (2007), Wunsch et al. (2007), Wenzel and Schroter (2010) and Houston and Dean (2011).
Working with what he calls "the best source of global sea level data," which he identifies as the TOPEX and Jason series of satellite radar altimeter data, Boretti applies simple statistics to the two decades of information they contain to "better understand if the SLR is accelerating, stable or decelerating." So what did he find?

The Australian scientist reports that the average rate of SLR over the almost 20-year period of satellite radar altimeter observations is 3.1640 mm/year, which if held steady over a century would yield a mean global SLR of 31.64 cm, which is just a little above the low-end projection of the IPCC for the year 2100. However, he also finds that the rate of SLR is reducing over the measurement period at a rate of -0.11637 mm/year2, and that this deceleration is also "reducing" at a rate of -0.078792 mm/year3.

Commenting on these findings, Boretti writes that the huge deceleration of SLR over the last 10 years "is clearly the opposite of what is being predicted by the models," and that "the SLR's reduction is even more pronounced during the last 5 years." To illustrate the importance of his findings, he notes that "in order for the prediction of a 100-cm increase in sea level by 2100 to be correct, the SLR must be almost 11 mm/year every year for the next 89 years," but he notes that "since the SLR is dropping, the predictions become increasingly unlikely," especially in view of the facts that (1) "not once in the past 20 years has the SLR of 11 mm/year ever been achieved," and that (2) "the average SLR of 3.1640 mm/year is only 20% of the SLR needed for the prediction of a one meter rise to be correct."

Hey, I've got an idea: let's put the UN in charge of American citizen's guns, the internet, global energy via global warming, and world banking. Oh wait...they already thought of that.

The election of a Sudanese warlord accused of genocide to the United Nations Human Rights Council is now virtually guaranteed, since he has the full backing of the world body’s African delegation.

The International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for Omar Al-Bashir — its first ever for a sitting head of state — for crimes against humanity he allegedly committed in Darfur. Yet, his regime is set to take its place on the panel, in the latest bizarre appointment to make a mockery of the UN’s human rights credibility, according to critics.

It’s like putting “Jack the Ripper in charge of a women’s shelter,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch.


http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/08/08/sudan-election-to-un-human-rights-council-all-but-certain-watchdog-says/

Another gigantic theft from the U.S. Taxpayers to become a chinese company. There are so many people in the Obama admin that are abject failures and should never hold a job again. Well, they never should have been hired in the first place.

Aug 8 (Reuters) - U.S. battery maker A123 Systems,
which got a $249 million green technology grant from the U.S.
government three years ago, said on Wednesday that a Chinese
auto parts maker is looking to take an 80 percent stake in the
faltering company.
China's Wanxiang Group Corp plans to invest up to $450
million, A123 said.
A123, which makes high-tech auto batteries for hybrid and
electric vehicles, received the federal grant in 2009 under an
Obama administration initiative to encourage the development of
green technology.
In 2010, Energy Secretary Steven Chu visited A123's Romulus,
Michigan, plant where he applauded the company for being "a
perfect example of what's possible when the private sector,
government, and academia work together".
Obama's push for clean energy technology has come under fire
from Republicans since the failure of two government-backed
solar panel makers in the last two years.
Solyndra LLC, which filed for bankruptcy protection in
September 2011, left taxpayers on the hook for $535 million in
loans. The company filed a Chapter 11 reorganization plan in
July.
Abound Solar filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in July.

The Obama administration has said the country must win a
clean energy race with China through advances in areas such as
battery technology and solar power.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/08/a123systems-results-idUSL4E8J84OH20120808

A look back in time as Paul Ryan classily "unpacks" the dem healthcare budget to a blank Obama. All those numbers and facts just seem bothersome and tiresome to the prez. And sets the table for what a mental midget Joe Biden is compared to himself, something he wouldn't know the meaning of until today.

So many zingers to the Golfer In Chief in just a few minutes.

"Since the CBO can't score your bill because it doesn't have sufficient detail..."
"What has been placed in front of them is a bill that is full of gimmicks and smoke and mirrors"
"Hiding spending will not reduce spending".
"The American people are engaged. I would respectfully submit you are not listening to them"
"We don't believe the government should be in control of all of this. We want people to be in control"
"I respectfully disagree with the Vice President about what the American people are or are not saying or whether we are qualified to speak on their behalf. We are all representatives of the American people"

http://youtu.be/zPxMZ1WdINs

Barack begins his feeble reply to this intellect with "aghh eeh oghh ughhh"

LOL, this was worth sharing: