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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

March 30, 2014 04:25 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Scariest IPCC Global Warming Impact Ever

Posted By Dave Snope
President Ladies' Tees is going to be very conflicted when he reads** this. He'll have to come up with some kind of equality of golfing bill.



** OK when Valerie Jarrett reads it for him.

March 30, 2014 05:08 AM Forum: No Holds Barred

How To Get An "A" At A Top University

Posted By Dave Snope
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of our nation's finest universities, ranking 30th in the latest U.S. News and World Report list of top schools and eighth on Forbes' list of top public colleges. And the bit of drivel above apparently earned an A-minus, according to ESPN.

The 'A-" essay in its entirety:


On the evening of December Rosa Parks decided that she was going to sit in the white people section on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. During this time blacks had to give up there seats to whites when more whites got on the bus. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. Her and the bus driver began to talk and the conversation went like this. "Let me have those front seats" said the driver. She didn't get up and told the driver that she was tired of giving her seat to white people. "I'm going to have you arrested," said the driver. "You may do that," Rosa Parks responded. Two white policemen came in and Rosa Parks asked them "why do you all push us around?" The police officer replied and said "I don't know, but the law is the law and you're under arrest.

That paper doesn't even make it six words before its first error (the actual date of Rosa Parks' bus incident was Dec. 1, 1955), and the rest of the paper would make a fourth-grade Language Arts teacher burn through two red pens.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/check-out-the-terrible-paper-that-earned-a-player-an-a--at-north-carolina-151005969.html

April 4, 2014 08:08 PM Forum: Politics

State Dept. Misplaced $6 Billion Under Hillary

Posted By Dave Snope
What an utter disaster of incompetence and mismanagement. Of course people should be fired and probably go to jail for misplaced 6 billion dollars!!!! That's more than the entire state budget of New Mexico!!! But does anybody on the left really give a damn? "At this point, what does it matter" what happens to other people's money? Probably came from "fat cats" who need to be taxed more anyway.

The State Department misplaced and lost some $6 billion due to the improper filing of contracts during the past six years, mainly during the tenure of former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, according to a newly released Inspector General report.

The $6 billion in unaccounted funds poses a “significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of internal control over the Department’s contract actions,” according to the report. ...

The situation “creates conditions conducive to fraud, as corrupt individuals may attempt to conceal evidence of illicit behavior by omitting key documents from the contract file,” the report concluded.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/state-department-misplaced-6b-under-hillary-clinton/

April 6, 2014 11:24 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

NYT Tom Friedman DumberThanABagOfHammers

Posted By Dave Snope
I don't like to make personal attacks, but this statement by the great liberal economist at the NY Times is so disgustingly stupid, ignorant, and offensive that I couldn't help it. He uses an inept analogy, fails at statistics, then makes an equally inept smear of those who disagree with him by labeling them with a marxist philosophy that more aptly applies to his own behavior.

And probably telling his audience exactly what they want to hear.

“New York Times” columnist Thomas Friedman took a nasty swipe at conservatives over the subject of climate change on Sunday April 6. Friedman appeared alongside Heidi Cullen of Climate Central on Sunday’s CBS This Morning and proceeded to mock conservatives who question human-caused climate change.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey-meyer/2014/04/06/thomas-friedman-conservatives-questioning-global-warming-s-not-conser#ixzz2y9RPO2RB

THOMAS FRIEDMAN: Let me put it in personal terms. So your son or daughter has a disease and you go to 100 doctors. 97% of them, 97 of the hundred say this is the cause and this is the cure. And 3% say this is the cause and this is the cure. That is what it is on the climate science. 97% of experts say this and 3% say that and conservatives are saying I’m going go to with the 3%. That’s not conservative, that’s Trotskyite radicalism.

Hey Thomas, Trotskyite this:


April 7, 2014 06:27 PM Forum: Politics

IRS Agents Testify: No Liberal Groups Targeted

Posted By Dave Snope
Well, we already knew this. But for those that only get their news from "journalists" of the main stream media, you'll have to start wringing your hands in a different motion.

IRS agents testified before Congress that the agency’s political targeting did not apply to progressive groups as Democrats and the media have claimed, according to a bombshell new staff report prepared by the House Oversight Committee chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa.

IRS agents testified before Oversight that ACORN groups were scrutinized because the agency thought they were old organizations applying as new ones. Emerge America was scrutinized for potential “improper private benefit.” No evidence exists that the IRS requested additional information from any Occupy Wall Street group.

“Only seven applications in the IRS backlog contained the word ‘progressive,’ all of which were then approved by the IRS, while Tea Party groups received unprecedented review and experienced years-long delays. While some liberal-oriented groups were singled out for scrutiny, evidence shows it was due to non-political reasons,” according to the Oversight staff report...

“[T]he Administration and congressional Democrats have seized upon the notion that the IRS’s targeting was not just limited to conservative applicants,” the report states. “These Democratic claims are flat-out wrong and have no basis in any thorough examination of the facts. Yet, the Administration’s chief defenders continue to make these assertions in a concerted effort to deflect and distract from the truth about the IRS’s targeting of tax-exempt applicants.”

“[T]here is simply no evidence that any liberal or progressive group received enhanced scrutiny because its application reflected the organization’s political views,” the report stated.



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/07/committee-staff-report-no-progressive-groups-were-targeted-by-irs/#ixzz2yE67Tasa

April 8, 2014 07:18 PM Forum: Politics

Health Insurance Rates Necessarily Skyrocket

Posted By Dave Snope
Thanks, Dimmocrats. Every move you make puts a greater strain on the average American family.

The MSM airwaves are indundated with dimmocrats and there spokesholes telling us that the ACA has lowered health insurance rates, or slowed the rate of increases, and is making people's lives better.

(Forbes) Health insurance premiums are showing the sharpest increases perhaps ever according to a survey of brokers who sell coverage in the individual and small group market. Morgan Stanley’s healthcare analysts conducted the proprietary survey of 148 brokers. The April survey shows the largest acceleration in small and individual group rates in any of the 12 prior quarterly periods when it has been conducted.

The average increases are in excess of 11% in the small group market and 12% in the individual market. Some state show increases 10 to 50 times that amount. The analysts conclude that the “increases are largely due to changes under the ACA.”

...

Individual policies saw a much starker jump after the Obamacare exchanges launched, in anticipation of the health care law going live in 2014. Morgan Stanley’s September 2013 survey, like the previous three quarters, found a fairly constant growth rate around 2 percent — but in December, the rate had shot up to above 9 percent.

Morgan Stanley’s results echo what consumers are already seeing: the Affordable Care Act’s intensive regulation of the insurance market is driving health care premiums up strikingly.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgottlieb/2014/04/07/health-plan-premiums-are-skyrocketing-according-to-new-survey-of-148-insurance-brokers-analysts-blame-obamacare/?utm_content=bufferf3861&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer


Pelosi: “The real reason to do the Affordable Care Act…was the cost of health care in our country was unsustainable — unsustainable to individuals, to small businesses, to corporate America

April 20, 2014 05:29 AM Forum: Politics

Obamacare Is Working

Posted By Dave Snope
Hooooooweeeee!

Obamacare Is Working...

. . . for the 8 million people who’ve enrolled and may or may not have paid their premiums and may or may not have been among the 6.2 million people who liked their health-care plans but lost them because they were substandard plans with low deductibles, more benefits, more doctors, larger networks, and affordable premiums but that didn’t provide contraceptives for 63 year-old women who can’t stay on their parents’ plans because of the Republican war on women like Lois Lerner and Kathleen Sebelius who turned Obamacare around. So now a mere 44 million people remain uninsured after spending only $1.7 trillion on a program that will save or create shovel-ready jobs for more than 15,000 more IRS agents to protect the country from conservative terrorist organizations who oppose high unemployment, trillion-dollar deficits, massive tax increases, restrictions on religious freedom, dangerous defense cuts, suffocating regulations, feckless foreign policy, wanton disregard for the rule of law, out-of-control spending, and failed economic policies mainly because they’re bitter, mouth-breathing, climate-change deniers and racists who want to force frightening black women like Condi Rice and Ayaan Hirsi Ali to speak to sensitive white college professors and students who have enough problems dealing with skyrocketing tuition rates which they could easily handle if they could find a 28 hour-a-week job and Republicans would just vote for a $10.10 an hour minimum wage, which is good bit less than an Obamacare navigator makes for directing illegal immigrants undocumented Americans to the local health-care Exchange and board of elections. Those institutions are working at least as well as the reset button we gave to Russia to show Vladimir we have enough flexibility to allow him to invade Ukraine or, preferably, the Bundy Ranch, provided no big turtles get scared which is a red line that would prompt serious consequences such as the deployment of warm socks, MREs, or the Bureau of Land Management, all of which would be as terrible as Iran getting a nuclear weapon — which would never happen because we asked them not to — or even as catastrophic as the rollout of the Obamacare website which everyone knows was George Bush’s fault.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/376052/obamacare-working-peter-kirsanow

April 20, 2014 05:03 PM Forum: Politics

Billionaire Buys Off Obama For Keystone Delay

Posted By Dave Snope

What you won’t hear about in mainstream media is how Billionaire Tom Steyer drove the decision by promising to spend $100 million to help Democrats in the midterm election who help defeat the project:

With the decision pushed back probably past the election, this allows the Democrats to be for or against the decision depending on their election chances and how badly they need Steyer’s support. Given that a majority of Americans want the project to go through, this is good news for vulnerable Democrats. Meanwhile, American jobs suffer, and whatever economic impact the project might have had on Russia is ignored for the sake of Obama’s political gain.
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/04/130940-san-francisco-billionaire-just-bought-obama-delayed-keystone-xl-pipeline/

April 21, 2014 06:02 AM Forum: Politics

61% Say That Obama Is A Liar

Posted By Dave Snope
As for myself, I've never once seen him open his mouth without a lie coming out. Not. One. Time. Ever.

61% say President Obama lies either “most of the time” or “some of the time,” with a plurality of 37% opting for “most of the time.”

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/04/its-official-obama-is-a-liar.php

April 26, 2014 12:03 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Gore Tells Another Climate Whopper

Posted By Dave Snope
But then, we already know that he's been telling the most extreme lies in the climate policy field for decades. Because it's for our own good, as he implied in his book.

Former Vice President Al Gore made some amazing claims about global warming. The failed presidential candidate told Politico Magazine that “extreme weather events” are 100 times more common today than they were 30 years ago due to global warming.

But Gore’s claims actually run counter to mounting scientific evidence that global warming is not making the weather more “extreme.”

“The game changer for the first question is the extreme weather events related to climate that are now 100 times more common than they were just 30 years ago,” Gore told Politico. “This is having a huge impact. And they’re getting more frequent. More common. Bigger. More destructive. And people are looking at their hole cards.”


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/25/al-gore-makes-extreme-claims-about-global-warming-and-weather/#ixzz2zwg2Euql


For reference for Al Gore and his fellow travelers, 30 years ago was 1984, so let's fact check his statement the graphs.



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