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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

November 13, 2013 03:17 AM Forum: My Favorite WIMP.COM or YOUTUBE.COM

Michael Thornton

Posted By Dave Snope
Now, this spectacular Vietnam War battlefield rescue will be memorialized in bronze. Saturday, officials will dedicate a 10-foot statue depicting Thornton carrying Norris on his shoulders during the facility’s 28th annual Muster reunion at the National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce, Fla. “It was the only time this century when one Medal of Honor winner was rescued by a person who would eventually get a Medal of Honor for rescuing him,” said Rick Kaiser, executive director of the museum. . . .


http://youtu.be/Tc1KrzKavns

November 22, 2013 11:50 PM Forum: Politics

One California Employer's Terrifying True Story

Posted By Dave Snope


company, based in California, employs 600. We used to insure about 250 of our employees. The rest opted out. The company paid 50% of their premiums for about $750,000/yr.



Under obamacare, none can opt out without penalty, and the rates are double or triple, depending upon the plan. Our 750k for 250 employees is going to $2 million per year for 600 employees.



By mandate, we have to pay 91.5% of the premium or more up from the 50% we used to pay.



Our employees share of the premium goes from $7/week for the cheapest plan to $30/week. 95% of my employees were on that plan. Remember, we used to pay 50% now we pay 91.5% and the premiums still go up that much!!



The cheapest plan now has a deductible of $6350! Before it was $150. Employees making $9 to $10/hr, have to pay $30/wk and have a $6350 deductible!!! What!!!!



They can't afford that to be sure. Obamacare will kill their propensity to seek medical care. More money for less care? How does that help them?



Here is the craziest part. Employees who qualify for mediCAL (the California version of Medicare), which is most of my employees, will automatically be enrolled in the Federal SNAP program. They cannot opt out. They cannot decline. They will be automatically enrolled in the Federal food stamp program based upon their level of Obamacare qualification. Remember, these people work full time, living in a small town in California. They are not seeking assistance. It all seems like a joke. How can this be the new system?



Pelosi, pass the bill to find out what's in it? Surprise! You've annihilated the working class.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-20/obamacare-shock-one-california-employers-terrifying-true-story

December 5, 2013 03:04 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Lie About Polar Bears, Collect $100,000

Posted By Dave Snope
And influence millions of gullible people, esp. after Al Gore puts your junk science to music.

JUNEAU, Alaska — An Alaska scientist whose observations of drowned polar bears helped galvanize the global warming movement has retired as part of a settlement with a federal agency he says tried to silence him to protect its political goals.

Charles Monnett was briefly suspended in 2011 during an inspector general's investigation into a polar bear research contract he managed while working with what is now known as the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM. An Interior Department employee had alleged Monnett wrongfully released government records and that he and another scientist intentionally omitted or used false data in an article on polar bears.
...

Under the settlement, signed in October but released Wednesday by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Monnett will receive $100,000 but cannot seek Interior Department work for five years. His retirement was effective Nov. 15, at which point the agency agreed to withdraw the letter of reprimand and give Monnett a certificate for his work on the tracking project.


Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2013/12/04/3212138/scientist-reprimanded-over-emails.html#storylink=cpy


And he gets his full pension. That's academics. That's environmental sciences. The only people really hurt are the American people.

I remember this guy from back in the day because he got his "peer review" done by his wife and his grant provider. The ends justifies the means.

December 6, 2013 06:05 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

German Scientists Warn Of Coming Cool Period

Posted By Dave Snope
I don't know if you can predict future climate from past climate, but these guys seem to be doing rational analysis and not making up phony futures from fabricated simulations like many of the major warmist scientists do. I haven't looked into the efficacy of stalagmites as a temperature proxy, either. At least they aren't using any of bad proxies (ie Yamal tree rings, etc) that are so widely misused by warmists. And at least they are using natural cycles like the AMO and PDO which are so often inexplicably dismissed by warmist scientists even though the cycles widely accepted in the meteorology community. And the detailed spectrum is based on only one complete cycle, so I'm skeptical about making any predictions with that. Besides all that, their Fourier analysis of periodicity and wavelet method is straightforward math and makes sense.

FWIW:


German scientists found that two naturally occurring cycles will combine to lower global temperatures during the 21st century, eventually dropping to levels corresponding with the “little ice age” of 1870.

“Due to the de Vries cycle, the global temperature will drop until 2100 to a value corresponding to the ‘little ice age’ of 1870,” write German scientists Horst-Joachim Luedecke and Carl-Otto Weiss of the European Institute for Climate and Energy.

Researchers used historical temperature data and data from cave stalagmites to show a 200-year solar cycle, called the de Vries cycle.

They also factored into their work a well-established 65-year Atlantic and Pacific Ocean oscillation cycle. Global warming that has occurred since 1870 can be attributed almost entirely to both these factors, the scientists argue.

According to the scientists, the oft-cited “stagnation” in rising global temperatures over the last 15 years is due to the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean oscillation cycle, which lasts about 65 years. Ocean oscillation is past its “maximum,” leading to small decreases in global temperature.


http://notrickszone.com/2013/12/03/german-scientists-show-climate-driven-by-natural-cycles-global-temperature-to-drop-to-1870-levels-by-2100/

December 7, 2013 03:04 AM Forum: Politics

What's Bad For America Is Good For...

Posted By Dave Snope
...Washington. I'd like to see a chart like this that includes the MD/VA suburbs of DC where all the very rich consultants live.



http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-03/chart-day-whats-bad-america-good-washington-dc

December 7, 2013 10:45 PM Forum: Politics

148 Years Ago Today...

Posted By Dave Snope
...The Republican Party Passed The 13th Amendment Outlawing Slavery. Well, yesterday now.


On this day in 1865, the 13th Amendment — abolishing slavery — became part of the Constitution — when ratified by three-quarters of the states.
Despite protests from the Democrats, the Republican Party made banning slavery part of its national platform in 1864. Senator Lyman Trumbull (R-IL) wrote the final version of the text, combining the proposed wordings of several other Republican congressmen.

All Republicans in Congress voted for the 13th Amendment, while nearly all Democrats voted against it. So strongly did President Abraham Lincoln (R-IL) support the 13th Amendment, he signed the document, though presidential approval is not part of the amendment process.

Yes, outlawing slavery was a Republican achievement.

December 14, 2013 03:27 AM Forum: Politics

Here's Your Typical Demo Corruptonomination

Posted By Dave Snope
Like Obama and all his nominees, qualifications come from donations and sycophancy. No skills necessary in actually protecting the American people.

In the wake of Dirty Harry Reid’s sabotage of the filibuster, Democrats have rammed through the Senate nomination of a shady Chicago crony associated with dangerous Clinton corruption and at least two visas-for-sale schemes.

The White House wants Alejandro Mayorkas to helm the No. 2 position at the Department of Homeland Security.

What qualifies Mayorkas to serve as DHS deputy secretary? Well, there’s his prodigious fundraising in 2008 as an Obama bundler, of course. There’s his dutiful pro-open borders record in his current job as director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. And once again, the operational motto of the Beltway prevails: Screw up, foul up, move up.

During the Clinton years, then U.S. Attorney Mayorkas phoned the White House on behalf of convicted drug dealer Carlos Vignali. Mayorkas joined other high-profile California liberals in the dialing-for-pardons campaign. Vignali’s father (also suspected of drug trafficking) had dumped $200,000 in the coffers of Hillary Clinton’s brother, Hugh, to secure his son’s commutation. Mayorkas pleaded ignorance of Vignali senior’s suspected criminal activity and admitted failure to do his “due diligence.” Like fellow Clinton corruptocrat and current Attorney General Eric Holder, Mayorkas’ pardongate “mistake” cost him nothing. He was instead rewarded with plum government positions and access.

Allegations of fraud, reckless rubber-stamping and lax enforcement — from veteran internal whistleblowers — have plagued Mayorkas’ tenure at USCIS. Rather than keeping his nose clean, Mayorkas apparently got himself involved in even more rotten business. The DHS inspector general has been probing a slimy visas-for-sale scheme tied to the Obama bundler for the past 15 months. (One reason for the delay: the IG’s office itself is under investigation for unethical behavior and favoritism.)

Mayorkas and other higher-ups are being investigated for their alleged roles in intervening on behalf of GreenTech, a crony company with ties to Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Hillary Clinton’s other brother, Anthony.

Whistleblowers have been punished and ostracized. Independent media have been intimidated and, in the case of the Franklin Center, sued for raising questions about the Democrats and immigrant investor fraud. The most transparent and ethical administration ever is stonewalling to protect Mayorkas. And citizenship is available to the highest crony foreign bidders.

http://michellemalkin.com/2013/12/13/culture-of-corruption-the-dems-dangerous-dhs-pick/

December 17, 2013 06:41 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

17 Years And 3 Months With No Global Warming

Posted By Dave Snope


December 17, 2013 06:44 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Why The Models Have Always Been Wrong

Posted By Dave Snope
Well, just one of the reasons. When they aren't adjusting the historic temperature date, they are adjusting the future temperature sensitivity with 10X CO2 duration.


December 17, 2013 08:16 PM Forum: Politics

Reddit Bans Global Warming Skeptic Viewpoints

Posted By Dave Snope
Al Gore is pleased with this new censorship. And more evidence that this is a religion based on faith for many of it's believers because they call skeptics "apostates" and "deniers". The tweets back at him are pretty funny.

Not one of Gore's falling-sky predictions have come true. All that remains for him is censorship and the glory and money from his sycophants. The emperor has no clothes.

http://twitchy.com/2013/12/17/screw-free-speech-al-gore-is-pleased-that-reddit-is-censoring-climate-deniers/?utm_source=autotweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter

LOL they use the discredited 97% consensus excuse to support the ban. Which is a political argument not a scientific argument. You know, since 77 out of 79 questionnaires that we picked out of the 3000 that were returned support our premise, it's a consensus. So let's label all other viewpoints with heinous names that smack of evil pogroms and mass murder.

When 97 percent of climate scientists agree that man is changing the climate, we would hope the comments would at least acknowledge if not reflect such widespread consensus. Since that was not the case, we needed more than just an ad hoc approach to correct the situation.

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