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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

December 18, 2013 03:57 PM Forum: Politics

MSNBC: Barack Obama Is Benevolent and Gay

Posted By Dave Snope
In which Bryan Preston nails MSNBC with the label "religious network". The religion of Dear Leader Barack, that is.

Religious cable network MSNBC rallied the faithful with a pair of heartworming messages. Toure reads a verse from The Audacity of Hope and declares that whatever color Santa Claus is doesn’t matter. Saint Nick is merely the forerunner to one who is greater.

“You do know there’s already a benevolent, generous black man in your children’s lives, who lives in a place that some people think is magical, who has given something to each and every American, whether they’ve been naughty or nice. You know who I’m talking about.”

On a different show on the same religious cable network, host Thomas Roberts declared the president’s sexuality for him.

The show’s topic was foreign policy and Russia. Roberts opined, “How do you think the president can balance all the delicate foreign-policy issues, but take a decisive stand on human rights, because so many people consider President Obama to be the first gay president?” Roberts told Shawn Gaylord of the the Human Rights Campaign.

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/12/16/msnbc-message-of-the-day-barack-obama-is-benevolent-and-gay/

December 19, 2013 04:01 AM Forum: Politics

Big Mentors

Posted By Dave Snope
Organizers.

Breitbart.com: So, Obama’s mentor worked in communist fronts and activities with Valerie Jarrett’s father-in-law and grandfather?

Kengor: Precisely.

Breitbart.com: Tell us about the Canter family.

The Canter family had deep Soviet/communist roots. Before arriving in Chicago, David Canter and his family lived in Moscow. David’s father, Harry Canter, worked for Stalin’s government as an official translator of Lenin’s writings. Harry had been secretary of the Boston Communist Party and ran for governor of Massachusetts on the Communist Party ticket. He was hardcore.

When they got to Chicago, they worked with Frank Marshall Davis in a bunch of ways: Harry and Frank taught together at the communist Abraham Lincoln School. Harry and David and Frank all did work for the Packinghouse Workers Union. They marched in Chicago’s May Day parades. In fact, Harry is listed in the April 28, 1947 edition of Davis’s Chicago Star—the Communist Party newspaper of Chicago, for which Davis was the founding editor-in-chief—wishing “May Day Greetings.”

Breitbart.com: Sum it up. Connect the dots again. We have this current troika in Washington—Obama and Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod. Sum up their connections to communist Chicago in the 1940s.

Kengor: Sure. Obama was mentored by Frank Marshall Davis. Davis worked with the Canter family, who mentored David Axelrod. Davis also worked with Vernon Jarrett and Robert Taylor, father-in-law and grandfather to Valerie Jarrett. They all served together in Chicago’s Communist Party circles in the 1940s.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/08/Trioka-Obama-Axelrod-Jarrett

December 26, 2013 06:37 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Our Sun

Posted By Dave Snope
I'm working my way up the learning curve of solar photography. I'm using a Lunt LS80 and a Flea 3 camera. Here are some shots from this weekend.


December 26, 2013 09:35 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

It's The Sun

Posted By Dave Snope
There are many papers that show a strong correlation between solar activity and earth's climate changes, both long term and short (e.g. 100 years) term. Here is a long term example. Of course, one shouldn't be quick to oversimplify forcing causes in complex systems and these are correlations and not causations, facts always brought forth in ethical science papers.

A paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters finds solar activity was strongly correlated to climate change over the past 200,000 years. The paper reconstructs solar geomagnetic field strength using the 10Be isotope proxy of cosmic rays, which is inversely related to solar activity. The reconstruction in Figure 2 shows solar activity at the end of the record ["near present day"] was at some of the highest levels of the past 200,000 years, and solar geomagnetic field intensity approximately 3 times higher than during the ice age ~180,000 years ago.

Figure 4 below shows the strong correlation between solar activity [grey and black] and the climate change proxy [d18O in red] over the past 200,000 years. According to the author, "The marine ä18O [temperature proxy] record and solar modulation are strongly correlated at the 100,000 year timescale. It is proposed that variations in solar activity control the 100,000 year glacial–interglacial cycles."

Thus, the paper appears to solve the mystery of what causes ice ages and glacial-interglacial cycles, which has remained unsolved due to the so-called 100,000 year problem of using Milankovitch Cycles to explain ice ages. That is, ice ages and glacial-interglacial cycles are primarily caused by changes in solar activity rather than solar insolation changes on the Northern and Southern Hemispheres as described by Milankovitch Cycles.

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/12/paper-finds-solar-activity-explains.html

December 28, 2013 06:49 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Guaging The Effects Of Climate Change First Hand

Posted By Dave Snope
What do you think they will conclude? They do have press photographers on board to illustrate to the world the devastating effects of climate change. Will they publish pictures of what is happening to them, or will they find a sick penguin and rush to surround it with a dozen tripods and a curtain of lighting equipment?

The Russian expedition ship is carrying scientists and passengers led by an Australian climate change professor, but they all may have to wait two more days for one or all three icebreakers to free it, said Capt. Wang Jiangzhong of the Snow Dragon…

The expedition to gauge the effects of climate change on the region began November 27. The second, and current leg of the trip, started December 8 and was scheduled to conclude with a return to New Zealand on January 4.

South Pole weather has stymied a rescue by a Chinese icebreaker trying to reach an expedition vessel trapped for the past four days in frozen seas, a ship officer told CNN Friday.

The Chinese icebreaker Xue Long, or Snow Dragon, was just six nautical miles away from the rescue, but now it’s stuck in an Antarctica ice floe, too.

The Chinese crew is hoping a French icebreaker 14 nautical miles away will arrive and offer relief, said Zhu Li, chief officer of the Chinese ship.

But it’s likely the French vessel Astrolabe will also be slowed by the polar cap’s extreme frigidity, Zhu said.

Those two icebreakers — plus a third, from Australia — were battling the planet’s coldest environment in trying to reach the stranded Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy, whose 74 researchers, crew and tourists remained in good condition despite being at a frozen standstill since Monday.


http://youtu.be/YF1NqKDs0Po

Maybe the Welsh woman who just cycled to the South Pole this week can offer a hand when she pedals past them on the ice.

6 Dec: SMH: Fairfax Media trip to Antarctica to see the effects of climate change
But global warming is an important story, and the trip will give Fairfax Media a rare opportunity to visit the continent most acutely affected by global warming. Antarctica is climate change ground zero. The data that scientists gather will play a crucial role in future climate models…
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/blogs/66-degrees-south/fairfax-media-trip-to-antarctica-to-see-the-effects-of-climate-change-20131206-2ywfj.html
I can't wait to see how this affects the models. Where will the heat be hiding this time? Is it covered up by the "dark money"?

January 8, 2014 07:17 PM Forum: Politics

Obama Admin To Schools: Go Easy on Black Kids

Posted By Dave Snope
Because what's important to leftists is equality of results, not equality of treatment. So when a black or Hispanic kid brings a gun to school, no more zero tolerance? Don't call the po-po's? But should they still suspend white kids for eating pop-tarts into an "L" shape, drawing a crude gun doodle, or, horror of horrors, actually having a 1" long plastic gun from a toy cowboy?

The Obama administration is urging schools to abandon overly zealous discipline policies that civil rights advocates have long said lead to a school-to-prison pipeline that discriminates against minority students.

The wide-ranging series of guidelines issued Wednesday in essence tells schools that they must adhere to the principle of fairness and equity in student discipline or face strong action if they don't. The American Civil Liberties Union called the recommendations "ground-breaking."

"A routine school disciplinary infraction should land a student in the principal's office, not in a police precinct," Attorney General Eric Holder said.

Holder said the problem often stems from well intentioned "zero-tolerance" policies that too often inject the criminal justice system into the resolution of problems. Zero-tolerance policies, a tool that became popular in the 1990s, often spell out uniform and swift punishment for offenses such as truancy, smoking or carrying a weapon. Violators can lose classroom time or become saddled with a criminal record.


This sounds just like the typical leftist BS and statistical abuse on criminal justice and prison populations. When someone takes a close enough look at cases, they found that for the exact same crimes, whites were actually slightly more likely to be prosecuted and slightly more likely to be recommended for the death penalty. It's hard darn work cleaning up all the mud slung by these race-based social justice people and there is rarely any budget and time for people to do it.


In American schools, black students without disabilities were more than three times as likely as whites to be expelled or suspended, according to government civil rights data collection from 2011-2012. Although black students made up 15 percent of students in the data collection, they made up more than a third of students suspended once, 44 percent of those suspended more than once and more than a third of students expelled.
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More than half of students involved in school-related arrests or referred to law enforcement were Hispanic or black, according to the data.


Holder sees his primary job as an affirmative action position for minorities.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/08/school-to-prison-pipeline_n_4560737.html

January 8, 2014 09:39 PM Forum: Politics

Poverty level under Obama breaks 50-year record

Posted By Dave Snope

Fifty years after President Johnson started a $20 trillion taxpayer-funded war on poverty, the overall percentage of impoverished people in the U.S. has declined only slightly and the poor have lost ground under President Obama.

Although the president often rails against income inequality in America, his policies have had little impact overall on poverty. A record 47 million Americans receive food stamps, about 13 million more than when he took office.

The poverty rate has stood at 15 percent for three consecutive years, the first time that has happened since the mid-1960s. The poverty rate in 1965 was 17.3 percent; it was 12.5 percent in 2007, before the Great Recession.

About 50 million Americans live below the poverty line, which the federal government defined in 2012 as an annual income of $23,492 for a family of four.

In spite of the administration’s anti-poverty efforts, however, the government reported this week that poverty by some measures has been worse under Mr. Obama than it was under President George W. Bush. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 31.6 percent of Americans were in poverty for at least two months from 2009 to 2011, a 4.5 percentage point increase over the pre-recession period of 2005 to 2007

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/7/obamas-rhetoric-on-fighting-poverty-doesnt-match-h


January 8, 2014 11:52 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Meanwhile Europe's Mild Winter is Global Warming

Posted By Dave Snope

Europe and especially Germany have been enjoying an unusual, weeks-long spell of mild weather with temperatures in the double-digit Celsius range. Southerly winds have kept the continent mild for weeks. Warmists have been coming out and saying: Aha! Just as we predicted! And they are even claiming the same about the deadly cold weather gripping North America.

However, yet another veteran German meteorologist has come out and dumped cold water on the claims that the supposed weather extremes are signs of a warming planet. Meteorologist Udo Baum at wetter.net here tells readers that the extreme cold wave gripping the US and the mild weather in Europe are nothing unusual and are all part of natural weather. - See more at: http://notrickszone.com/#sthash.wgRWog3f.dpuf

January 11, 2014 06:53 AM Forum: Politics

The War On Women Going Strong

Posted By Dave Snope

Additionally, the number of women who are not in the labor force climbed to a record high of 55,028,000 last month. That was up slightly from the 55,026,000 women who were not in the labor force in October, and up 203,000 from 54,825,000 women who were not in the labor force in November. - See more at: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/20000-fewer-women-held-jobs-december#sthash.iqZ5bOEc.dpuf


The Obama recovery: making more women dependent on big government than ever before.

January 12, 2014 05:39 AM Forum: Politics

Unemployment Rate Drops to 6.7%

Posted By Dave Snope
Good news, right? Only for True Believers.

Rather than being the sign of a vibrant economy, the falling unemployment rate is actually an arithmetic artifact of the BLS head-counting process. If the labor force participation rate had held steady since 2009, the number of people in the labor force today would total nearly 162 million people. Instead, BLS reports the official number to be just shy of 155 million.

And thanks to how BLS calculates and reports the official unemployment rate, those 7 million people are not included among the ranks of the unemployed. Add them back in and you have an unemployment rate that averages a very stubborn 10.8 percent since the end of the recession.


Here’s what the unemployment rate would look like if the labor force participation rate — basically the number of people in the economy working or looking for work — had remained constant since June of 2009:


http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/10/thank-labor-force-dropouts-not-new-jobs-for-a-falling-unemployment-rate/

P.S. OK there is some good news. The 7 million person fudge factor used to be 8 million. The lie is getting smaller.

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