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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

May 18, 2014 06:16 AM Forum: Off Topic Discussions

Bobby Kennedy Had Marilyn Monroe Killed

Posted By Dave Snope
That's what this new book claims. Decide for yourself:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2630449/EXCLUSIVE-Bobby-Kennedy-ordered-Marilyn-Monroes-murder-lethal-injection-prevent-revealing-torrid-affairs-RFK-JFK-dirty-Kennedy-family-secrets-new-book-claims.html

May 19, 2014 02:26 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

"Big Green" Is Much Bigger Than "Big Oil"

Posted By Dave Snope
All the alarmist shrills keep screaming that evil Exxon once donated $10M to skeptical global warming research or something. Or some bigger number that they make up.

The "Kill Keystone XL" crowd isn't little David up against a Big Oil Goliath. As usual, conventional wisdom isn't wisdom when the mainstream media ask all the wrong questions with commensurate answers.

Behemoth Big Green outstrips Big Oil in expendable revenue by orders of magnitude — if you know how to follow the money. ...

“U.S. environmental activist groups are a $13-billion-a-year industry — and they’re all about PR and mobilizing the troops.

“Their climate change campaign alone has well over a billion dollars annually, and high-profile battles against drilling, fracking, oil sands and Keystone get a big chunk of that, as demonstrated by the Rockefeller assault.”

Driessen then identified the most-neglected of all money sources in Big Green: “The liberal foundations that give targeted grants to Big Green operations have well over $100 billion at their disposal.” ...

“The federal government is currently spending $2.6 billion [per year] on climate change research (and only those who support the ‘carbon dioxide is a pollutant/major greenhouse gas' receive funding).”

http://washingtonexaminer.com/mainstream-media-dont-know-big-green-has-deeper-pockets-than-big-oil/article/2548405?utm_source=CFACT+Updates&utm_campaign=708b62c1f9-Big_Green_s_billions5_14_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a28eaedb56-708b62c1f9-269738545

May 20, 2014 06:29 PM Forum: Politics

How Obama Finds Out About EVERY Scandal

Posted By Dave Snope
LOL. Yeah this guy is really in charge of our country. I didn't even know that you could get the news at the golf course.

Video montage of how he learned of all his scandals:
http://youtu.be/HcLERK4xZ14

VA scandal: Heard about it on the news.
IRS scandal: Heard about it on the news.
Benghazi security: Heard about it on the news.
Fast and Furious: Heard about it on the news.
Lose your doctor: Heard about it on the news.
Bin Laden hit: MASTERMIND

May 21, 2014 11:01 PM Forum: Politics

Exclusive Breaking Analysis

Posted By Dave Snope




Obama’s lack of basic motor skills was on display Monday evening at a Little League game in Washington, D.C. He looked like he was trying to shot put a hacky sack, or something.

http://freebeacon.com/blog/exclusive-breaking-analysis-obama-still-cant-throw-a-baseball/

May 23, 2014 12:13 AM Forum: Politics

Do You Actively Want To Be Deceived?

Posted By Dave Snope
Or are you a skeptic? Which one are you? Do you enable The Liars or do you resist them?

Frances Porreto muses on Liars:

Politicians of our day are bolder, subtler, and more adroit in their deceits than any of their predecessors. Atop that, their consciences are more completely numbed than any non-felonious offender recorded by history. Those that claim to be Christians are almost certainly lying about that as well. At any rate, they appear confident that there is no afterlife, or that the consequences of their lives on Earth can somehow be finessed or effaced.

With very few exceptions, the contemporary American politician is, by definition, a sociopath.

...
Skeptics and persons with the habit of independent inquiry are very difficult to gull, even for the most skilled of deceivers. Systematic deceit works because a hefty fraction of the populace is not only deceivable, but amenable to being deceived. Indeed, quite a number of Americans actively want to be deceived. If denied the lies they expect (and in some cases, demand), they would greet the unvarnished truth with astonishment and dismay. They'd regard it as offensive, perhaps even intolerable.

...

The Founding Fathers held that politics and public office were unsuitable occupations for a career. Their original Constitutional design included several provisions intended to obstruct the establishment of the sort of life in public office that's common today. Their prototype statesman for the newborn Republic was a man of independent means who could leave his affairs in a steward's hands for a few weeks each summer while he busied himself with the rei publicae: i.e., with questions of state. It took several Constitutional Amendments, two World Wars, a Great Depression, and one hell of a lot of demagoguery to create the niche that makes political careerism possible.

The professional deceiver -- the politician -- emerged to occupy that niche.

Read the whole thing at:
http://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/2014/05/moving-lips.html

May 23, 2014 09:44 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

John Kerry Tells Huge Whopper About Warming

Posted By Dave Snope
He says this kind of utter BS every time he opens his mouth about the State Dept's highest priority, climate change. I just cherry picked this one example out of so many because I felt like it today.

Speaking at an environmentally-friendly technology event in Mexico City, Kerry said he had just caught a CNN weather report in his hotel and “saw the temperatures around the world right now.”

“Thirty-four degrees centigrade [Celsius] in Vietnam today, in May. Twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-two, thirty-three in places all around Europe,” he said. “Unprecedented. Breaks every record that’s ever been seen.”

“What we are seeing around the world is what scientists have predicted,” Kerry continued. “They’re not telling us that we may see global climate change. We are seeing it, and we’re seeing the impacts now.”

Wednesday was a hot day in Vietnam, with temperatures rising at their highest to 36 degrees celsius (96.8°F) at Tan Son Nhut international airport in Ho Chi Minh City. But according to Vietnam’s foreign ministry, the highest temperature recorded in May is 39°C (102.2°F) in Ho Chi Minh City, and 42°C (107.6°F) in Hanoi. The Hanoi record was registered in 1926.

The hottest places in Europe in the heat of the day on Wednesday, according to weatheronline.co.uk included parts of Russia, Germany, central Italy and southern Turkey, all in the 29-32°C (84-89°F) range.

The highest temperature ever recorded in European Russia was 44°C (111.2°F) in 2010; in Germany was 40.2°C (104.4°F) in 1983 and 2003; in Italy was 48.5°C (119.3°F) in 1999; and in Turkey was 48.8°C (119.8°F) in 1993.

Kerry went on to underline the urgency of combating climate change.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/kerry-says-wrongly-some-temps-week-broke-every-record-s-ever-been

May 27, 2014 11:39 PM Forum: Politics

ROFLOL At Mooch!

Posted By Dave Snope
Funniest quote I've seen all week:

“The last thing we can afford to do is play politics with kids’ health,” Mrs. Obama told participants.

BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Big ol' pot meet jumbo kettle.

Not to mention that the royal princesses eat the finest award winning gourmet school lunches available in the country prepared by the chefs at Sidwell Friends School, while the peasant children must eat Queen Michelle's planned dry revolting peasant diet that has driven a million kids off of school lunches to date. Where are all the progressive chants for nutrition inequality?


S. @Ssssarahv
Thanks Michelle Obama @BrytonDaniels


May 30, 2014 03:43 AM Forum: Politics

Obamacare Will INCREASE the No. of Uninsured

Posted By Dave Snope


A new study was released which shows that Obamacare will both increase the cost of health insurance and increase the number of uninsured.

Stephen Parente from the University of Minnesota did an analysis of Obamacare and its projected effect on the number of uninsured over the next ten years. He found that the number of uninsured will go up starting in 2017, due to the declining purchasing power of the government subsidies.
Parente also found that health insurance costs will increase by nearly $1400 for those individuals with “silver” plans and $4200 for families with “silver” plans.

Nationally, we estimate an initial decrease in the uninsured with greater use of the private health insurance subsidies, but over time health plan prices are likely to increase faster than the value of the insurance subsidy. As a result of the declining purchasing power of the insurance subsidy, the implementation of the qualified health plan requirements and the end of the reinsurance and risk corridor programs we estimate a significant reduction in the private insurance market in 2017 with steady declines continuing for the rest of the decade.



http://www.ijreview.com/2014/05/142679-heres-study-proves-obamacare-failure/

May 31, 2014 03:06 AM Forum: Politics

Can Somebody Please Buy Me Lunch?

Posted By Dave Snope
I'd like to have a few words with these people:

Less than three hours is left on the CharityBuzz.com auction for lunch with the political power couple, and the bidding stands at $305,000.

“Bid now on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have a private lunch with President Bill Clinton and Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Clinton Foundation’s headquarters in New York City,” the description of the auction item reads. The money will go to support the Clinton Foundation.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/29/lunch-with-bill-and-hillary-clinton-auctioned-off-for-over-300000/#ixzz33DAsg4WA

June 1, 2014 08:09 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Solar Shots From May 31

Posted By Dave Snope
There was a lot of large prominence activity yesterday:

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