Lord Monckton once again confronts the lack of evidence and exposes global warming for the religion that it really is. Despite all the factual statistics he provides, the sources of his data, and hard evidence to back up his claims she not only refuses to believe it, but keeps reiterating her "faith" in the cause of global warming. Its another accurate display of the mindless following behind global cooling (sorry, that was so 1971) global warming climate change.

I'm actually very surprised that she stuck around for the entire interview. Most global warmists hate having their views questioned. Take Prof Stephen Schneider from Stanford University. While at the Copenhagen Climate Conference this past week journalist Phelim McAleer (’Mine Your Own Business’, ‘Not Evil Just Wrong’) asked a question about ‘Climategate’ emails. Not only did a UN official immediately try to take his mic away, but Prof Schneider called security and had him removed by force. If the science behind climate change is so settled, why will no one answer any questions? Hat tip to Tom L Lewis who has a lot of info compiled on climategate.

Remember when I said the mainstream media doesn't want you to learn about climategate?  Well they're not alone.  Apparently Google, a company known for its liberal agenda, censorship of conservatives, and blatant bias and favoritism doesn't want you to know about it either.

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From Talking About The Weather

Among the points of interest in the unfolding climate scandal is the fact that the term “climategate” rapidly eclipsed global warming in the number of links produced by a simple Google search.

As is standard, Google’s auto-suggest function facilitated this, several days into the story’s evolution. Anyone typing in the letters c-l-i would see the suggested time-saving choice of climategate. Within a day or two of the auto-suggest function being added for “climategate” it had become the top item in the list.

Suddenly, though, on Monday December 1, Google stopped offering “climategate” as a choice to those who typed c-l-i and even to those who typed c-l-i-m-a-t-e-g-a-t. Strange.

Intrigued, I sent a few questions to Google’s Global Communications Department and a polite gentleman by the name of Jake Hubert responded right away.

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To make a long story short, he goes all the way up the chain until he gets to the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt.

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I decided then to try another e-mail to Eric Schmidt (Sorry about that, Jake!). In the meantime, I’d seen that Google searching “climategate” (if one was willing to type in the whole phrase) now produced 22 million links.

Dear Mr. Schmidt,

Thank you for following up with Jake Hubert, who has reached out to me by telephone.

Unfortunately, the explanation makes no more sense by phone than it did by e-mail.

Climategate generates 22 million links on the main Google search engine. Global warming, by comparison, generates fewer than 11 million.

The idea that a numbers-driven algorithm stopped Google Suggest from filling in Climategate is absurd on its face. (Google Suggest, as it should, continues to in-fill global warming when a user begins typing it.)

These are my questions for you and your staff:

1. Was Google contacted by Al Gore or any one of his business associates regarding climategate searches on Google? If so, when did the approach take place?

2. What was the process that led to the decision to remove Climategate from the Google Suggest function?

3. Will Climategate be added to the list of Google Suggest items again?

4. Does Google feel that it acted according to its own highest ethical principles in this matter?

Thank you in advance for your consideration.

Sincerely yours,

Harold Ambler

I pushed send, got my daughter into her gymnastics gear, and rushed out the door. When I returned a little less than two hours later, I put my sleeping daughter on the couch and rushed upstairs to check my e-mail. Nada. Then I did a Google search, typing c-l-i-m … and there it was – offered by the gloriously user-friendly Google Suggest function – “climategate.”

Coincidence?

You never know.

Was Google briefly complicit in the largest scientific scandal in at least a generation, attempting to minimize it behind the scenes? Like I said, you never, ever, ever, ever know. Ever.

P.S. Four hours after the function returned, Google Suggest on “climategate” was altered again. Instead of the single word “climategate,” which yields 27 million links per search, Google now offers “climate gate scandal,” which yields 6 million. Only by hand-typing the complete word “climategate,” to the last letter, can users view an additional 21 million links. The evident message from on high? “Tamp it down.” The apparent success of the strategy: close to non-existent.

P.P.S. As of six days after this post (today is Tuesday December 8), Google Suggest no longer offers any choices for C-l-i-m-a-t-e-g-a-t-e, no matter how many letters one types. The total number of links appears to be stable around 30 million. The first reader who finds any Google search with 30 million or more links that Google Suggest doesn’t assist with wins the prize.

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Read the whole thing.  As of this writing, climategate is not auto suggested at all. In fact, when I get to “climategat” the only two auto suggests are “climate guatemala” and “climate guatemala city.” I tried it as two separate words, and even after typing the whole thing out (”climate gate”) I'm only being suggested “climate gates.”

I've been keeping an eye on this throught the climategate scandal. For a couple days it was autosuggested but has since disappeared despite the 24,600,000 search results. Just for giggles, I typed in my own name (JR Salzman) just to see what would happen. I got to "JR Sal" before my name or "JR Salzman logrolling" was suggested. Which is funny considering a search brings up only 1,250,000 results (most of them irrelevant).

Now I realize that my name and climategate are completely unrelated, but it got me thinking. I am a peon in terms of searches. I have never had an entire year of searches on my name that add up to one day of the climategate scandal's. Google trends will prove that because my results are so low I'm not even listed. So why auto suggest me and not climategate?

So then I thought, what if climategate is not showing up because there are more relevant autosuggested words in front of it? If that is the case then it should show up at "climatega-." Every autosuggest after that starts with "climate gu-"

  There is no logical reason why a word - with far more search results than many autocomplete words out there, a much more recent spike in searches, and a word that was autocompleted mere days ago - like climategate would suddenly disappear. Someone is fiddling. Its one thing if it had never autocompleted. Its another if it suddenly disappears.   

 As the old adage goes, follow the money.    Google wouldn't have anything to gain from the bogus science of global warming, would they? 

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Google Invests Millions in Green Energy

Google will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to jumpstart alternative energy technology, cofounder Larry Page announced Tuesday. Google will focus efforts on solar thermal power, wind power, and enhanced geothermal systems, the company said in a statement.
Google plans to spend tens of millions of dollars in 2008, as the project hires engineers and energy experts. Capital expenditures on renewable energy projects will reach hundreds of millions of dollars, the company said.

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OK, big deal.  Whats wrong with being "green?"

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Google Invests in Silver Spring; Expect More - "The search giant, which has been investing in startups through its philanthropy arm, has created a standard fund that will spend $100 million in 12 months."

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Wait a minute.  Silver Spring? Why does that sound familiar?  Oh yeah, its the same company Al Gore has heavily invested in and "advises."

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From Gore’s Dual Role: Advocate and Investor

The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient. It came to Mr. Gore’s firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital providers, looking for $75 million to expand its partnerships with utilities seeking to install millions of so-called smart meters in homes and businesses.

Mr. Gore and his partners decided to back the company, and in gratitude Silver Spring retained him and John Doerr, another Kleiner Perkins partner, as unpaid corporate advisers.

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I know what you're saying.  Mere coincidence.  But the article continues:

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 As a private citizen, Mr. Gore does not have to disclose his income or assets, as he did in his years in Congress and the White House. When he left government in early 2001, he listed assets of less than $2 million, including homes in suburban Washington and in Tennessee.

Since then, his net worth has skyrocketed, helped by timely investments in Apple and Google, profits from books and his movie, and scores of speeches for which he can be paid more than $100,000, although he often speaks at no charge.

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Still not enough?

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 Gore Can 'Buy' 2008 Election

Al Gore has such a fortune in Google stock that he could easily fund his own campaign for the White House, Democratic insiders say.

Gore became a senior adviser to the Internet search engine back in February 2001, and is a close friend of CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt. Google shares went public in 2004, and the stock has soared from $85 a share to more than $400. Co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are worth an estimated $11 billion each.

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 But of course, it doesn't stop there.  You just knew there was an Obama connection, didn't you.  I'm shamelessly ripping this off from Wikipedia so I dont have to link all the sources myself.   (All citations are linked on Wikipedia)

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Schmidt was an informal advisor to the Barack Obama presidential campaign and began campaigning the week of October 19, 2008, on behalf of the candidate ^[22]. He had been mentioned as a possible candidate for the new Chief Technology Officer position which Obama created in his administration. ^[23]. In announcing his endorsement for Obama, Schmidt jokingly said that with his $1.00 salary, he would be getting a tax cut ^[24]. After Obama won, Schmidt was a member of President Obama's transition advisory board. He proposed that the easiest way to solve all of the United States' problems at once, at least in domestic policy, is by a stimulus program that rewards renewable energy and, over time, attempts to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy.

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Looks like a whole lot of inconvienant truths.  Time to look for an alternative to Google.

 

Let’s stop and hypothesize for a minute.  Let's say your MasterCard is maxed out.  So is your Visa.  Same with the Discover Card.  You have a car payment you can't afford.  Your mortgage is well beyond your means.  You're barely making the payments.  If you continue to make the minimum payment it will take decades to pay off with the vast majority going to interest.  There is no end in sight.  So what do you do? 

Well if you're Dave Obey, you don't worry about small technicalities like losing your home or filing for bankruptcy.  You simply ask for a higher credit limit.  Looks like crazy Dave is at it again.  From the Examiner:

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The International Business Times has just reported that House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer, says Congress may need to raise the U.S. federal debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion. 

“It is December,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey said, “we don’t really have a choice. The bill’s already been run up; the credit card has already been used. When you get the bill in the mail you need to pay it,” he added. 

By “pay it”, Obey means borrow for it. 

Obey’s words perfectly encapsulate what has become the government’s chief fiscal operating principle: spend first, figure out where the money is going to come from later.

 But while the American government may be in the habit of kicking into the future the question of how it can pay its bills, other nations are beginning to ask America this very question. 

Last month President Obama visited China and found Chinese officials taking a keen interest in his healthcare reform plans. The Chinese’s interest in healthcare did not centre around the usual questions that have been preoccupying Americans. Instead, one participant in the talks recalled, “They wanted to know, in painstaking detail, how the health care plan would affect the deficit...” 

It is not surprising that China should take more of an interest than most Americans in this crucial question. After all, the United States already owes China two Trillion dollars and could be forced to beg for at least half that much again if Obama’s health care promises are realized. “Like any banker,” the NYT reported, “they wanted evidence that the United States had a plan to pay them back.” 

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Obey and Obama have hit the accelerator on this big debt train and seem bound and determined to charge ahead full speed whether there is track laid ahead or not. Ever wonder where the government gets money after it has already taken ours?  Well of course, it borrows.  How much does it borrow?  How much do we owe? 

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Spending as if there is no tomorrow 

Obama’s curious method for correcting his predecessors’ mistakes has been to perpetuate their disastrous policies to an unprecedented extreme. In an attempt to stimulate the economy out of the recession (a recession caused, principally, by so much unpayble debt), Obama borrowed more federal funds than any President in the nation’s history. Hardly had he settled into the White House when he signed two new bills, the $787B stimulus and the $410B omnibus, which together equal the $1.2T deficit he "inherited." Consequently, when the 2009 fiscal year finally ended this October, America had run up an all time record deficit of $1.58 trillion - 3.4 times the $459B deficit of 2008, and 10 times the $160B deficit of 2007. 

The impulse behind Obama’s borrowing spree is an economic theory known as Keynesianism. John Maynard Keynes (1883 –1946) argued that a failing economy could be revived by governments injecting money into it. As the new money began circulating, Keynes theorized, it would reach people who would spend it, creating economic growth and more revenue for the state coffers. 

Selling ourselves into slavery 

Keynesianism has an air of plausibility about it until we stop to ask where the money actually comes from that government so generously pumps into the economy. The answer, of course, is that it can only come from debt. However, given the inflationary implications of debt (see section below on how the Government gets money), even this indirectly comes out of the pockets of citizens in the form of currency devaluation. 

If the amount of money that the government desires exceeds the amount that American banks are willing to loan, then the government will go, hat in hand, to foreign banks. This is exactly what the Obama and Bush administrations have done, with the result that China and other foreign holders of America’s national debt are owed a combined total of about $3.3 trillion. Just to put this problem in perspective, America’s national debt is larger than the total economies of China, the United Kingdom, and Australia combined and is quickly approaching or exceeding the USA's 14 trillion GDP. (It appears less than that in charts, because the government has been cooking the books since the Clinton Administration. They are not counting Social Security and Medicare obligations as part of the debt.) If the pattern continues over the next decade, the government will borrow approximately $1.72 million every minute. 

The result is essentially that the American government has sold its people into slavery. Those who will be hit the hardest with this debt servitude are those future generations of Americans who will be crippled by their obligation to service the interest on such an extortionate debt. But it is not just the burden to pay the debt that will cripple successive generations. They will also face the much more terrifying prospect of holding a devalued currency, since devaluation is always the result of pumping so much debt-money into the economy over long periods of time.

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The article is a great read, even if it is a bit long.  Read the whole thing and educate yourself.  Politicians hate educated voters.  

Superior man accused of trespassing on own land

"Jeremy Engelking will appear in Douglas County court this afternoon to face a trespassing charge. But here’s the kicker: The Superior man allegedly trespassed on his own property.

Engelking, 27, aimed to hunt deer Wednesday morning when he noticed a pipeline crew on his land. He hopped on his ATV and told workers they had no right to be on his property because he had received no compensation from Enbridge Energy Partners L.P. for an easement.

Engelking said workers told him he was in an unsafe place and asked him to come to an equipment staging area, where he continued to argue his case.

But just as he was turning to leave, Engelking said an officer from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department arrived on the scene and approached with a Taser drawn.

“He ordered me to 'get down on the ground now!' And he said that I was being arrested for trespassing,” Engelking said.

When Engelking protested, pointing out that he was on his own property, he said Sgt. Robert Smith told him: “It doesn’t matter. You’re going to jail. You can tell it to a judge tomorrow.”

Engelking offered no resistance, but Smith placed him in handcuffs then transported him to the Douglas County Jail. After posting a $200 bail bond, Engelking was released that afternoon. He also had to pay about another $100 to recover his impounded ATV."

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It is unbelievable how many rights have been violated in this situation.  Lets start with the Enbridge.

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"Engelking’s arrest Wednesday is the latest episode in a long disagreement he and his father, Jerry Engelking, have had with Enbridge, dating to the company’s last pipeline expansion in 2002.

Jerry Engelking, who owns 200 acres next to his son, said he refused to sign off on changes proposed to the original 1949 easement across his property because he felt the revisions put too many restrictions on how he could use his property. That original easement said future pipes laid along the same route would require payments in advance.

According to court documents, Enbridge sent a $15,000 check to Jerry Engelking and also tried to hand-deliver payments, but Engelking refused to accept them.

Engelking said that to claim the money he would have had to broaden the scope of the existing easement across his property, so he turned the checks down. When the latest pipeline project came along, the Engelkings again refused to modify the original 1949 right-of-way agreement.

The family sought a restraining order against Enbridge on Sept. 24, arguing the company intended to use the pipeline for transporting petroleum products other than those originally allowed, protesting that they had not been paid and citing damage to property.

Douglas County Circuit Court Judge George Glonek granted a temporary injunction but lifted it the following day, saying the company’s plans for the pipeline were appropriate and efforts had been made to pay the Engelkings. "

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Enbridge aknowledges that he has refused the money they offered him but decided to go ahead and run the pipeline across his property anyway even though a) the original 1949 easement contract doesn't allow it and b) the landowner refused any proposed changes.  So the guy doesn't want the pipeline run across his property.  So when he sees the company running the pipeline without permission, he confronts the workers who in turn call the police.  Enter arresting officer.  Now, you don't have to have military or civilian law enforcement training to know that the goal in any situation is to diffuse it not escalate it.  Apparently the arresting officer was sick that day in the academy and decided to show up with a taser drawn instead.  Now before you say "its just a taser," let me share some anecdotal evidence. One of the Soldiers in my fire team in Iraq had previously gone through training to become a police officer in the Duluth area.  Part of that training is getting tased.  Well obviously something went wrong because the taser knocked him unconscious and left him in a coma for the next 4 days.  Tasers are not toys. Apparently the arresting officer once again didn't get the memo (or he did get the memo and simply wanted to try out his shiny new toy).  In the military we have EOF, or Escalation of Force procedures we must adhere to.  It is a strict set of guidelines dictating what has to happen before we are allowed to escalate any situation to the point of drawing a weapon. Drawing a weapon and using it are always the very last steps in the EOF and should be taken ONLY if absolutely necessary.  So did the arresting officer follow EOF (I think the civilian police call it "pyramid of force continuum ")?  It doesn't look that way.  It looks as though the police officer decided to play judge and jury.  What about the "he was in hunting gear so he probably thought he had a gun" argument?  It doesn't hold water.  If the arresting officer thought he was armed and dangerous he would have pulled his gun instead of the taser.  After all, you don't bring a taser to a gun fight.

Of course this monstrosity doesn't stop there. After going before the judge Engelking finds out he's being charged with disorderly conduct as well despite the fact he wasn't disorderly.  My question is did the arresting officer have a signed warrant to go on his property to arrest him?  I'm not sure what the legal requirement is when dealing with easements, but all signs are pointing to no.  Furthermore, how can an officer arrest someone for trespassing on their own land? Or, if the easement is considered public land, then how can someone be charged with trespassing at all? 

While looking through the comments on this story I came across Jeremy Engelking's side of the story.  Apparently Enbridge and the Douglas County Sheriffs Department acted even worse than the story let on:

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"After reading comments I want say thank you and I want to clearify some things: Enbridge has not made 1 formal offer to me about the easement. The area where my 4-wheeler was parked and where I was located and arrested was the area a Precision Pipeline employee told me to go for "saftey reasons". As a condition of the check offered by Enbridge they wanted for us to completely change the current restrictions and wording on the easement. I have the additional paperwork. The easement says Enbridge is required to pay money for each additional pipeline put on our property. It also states that the amount is to be paid is before they lay the pipe. The easement states if a payment is not mutually agreed upon what actions are required for the negotiations to move forward. Enbridge has known my parents were not happy with their offer for more than 2 years so they have had more than ample time to take legal action. They also did not pay for the pipeline installed in 2002 because they were requesting additional terms to the easement. As for the firearm. Yes I had one. I was getting done deer hunting (unit 1m in WI allows that), I was dressed in blaze orange and my gun was fully cased on the front of my 4-wheeler the entire time and never touched. If my gun was an issue at no time during the 30 minute conversation with Precision or Enbridge employees before the Sheriff's department arrived was anything said to me about it. If it was an issue I'm sure the sheriffs department would not have just walked the 400 yards right out to me. They would have taken a more careful approach. **during court today douglas county also issued me a disorderly conduct ticket in addition to the tresspassing charge. Under the charge is written: "while in a public place, did engage in otherwise disorderly conduct". The ticket was written and signed today by the douglas county district attorney's office. "

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 Engelking is being charged with violating Wisconsin statutes 943.15(1)- Entry into/onto Bldg/Constuct.Site/Room (Misdemeanor) and 947.01 Disorderly Conduct (also a misdemeanor).  Both are criminal offenses.  To put it lightly, this guy is getting screwed.

 

  I have been looking for the right story to sum up Climategate so that I didn't have to type it up myself.   Most people have not heard of the Climategate scandal. Despite the world-wide and multi-trillion dollar repercussions of this junk science influencing policy making (Cap and Trade Scam) the mainstream media refuses to cover it because they are neck deep into global warming.  Fortunately a whistle blower or hacker uncovered global warming for the scam that it is.  From the Telegraph: Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'? 

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 "If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka CRU) and released 61 megabytes of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”. These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest:

Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more."

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Go read the whole thing.  The mainstream media is refusing to cover this.  Despite the fact that global warming is now thoroughly debunked and global temperatures have been falling for the last 10 years, they continue to look the other way like the scandal doesn't exist.  In fact, just today Associated Press published an article called "Global warming may require higher dams, stilts."   Here is their blinding ineptitude and dishonesty:

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With the world losing the battle against global warming so far, experts are warning that humans need to follow nature's example: Adapt or die.

That means elevating buildings, making taller and stronger dams and seawalls, rerouting water systems, restricting certain developments, changing farming practices and ultimately moving people, plants and animals out of harm's way.
 

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Seriously, you cannot make this stuff up.  Its like seeing your house on fire and then walking inside to make a cup of coffee.  The lengths to which the mainstream media will stoop to misinform the public is absolutely appalling.

  Climategate doesn't fit their liberal narrative on the religion of environmentalism.  That's why you haven't heard one peep about it.  Do yourself a favor and read up on this scandal.  It probably has far greater repercussions on your life than any other scandal to date, but the media doesn't want you to know about it.  Educate yourself.  Politicians hate informed voters.  

 

 

There are few things that get under my skin more than playing politics with Soldier's lives.  Dave Obey (D-WI) told ABC news that he has no problem with it.

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“The powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Committee has a stark message for President Obama about Afghanistan -- sending more troops would be a mistake that could "wipe out every initiative we have to rebuild our own economy." "There ain't going to be no money for nothing if we pour it all into Afghanistan," House Appropriations Chairman David Obey told ABC News in an exclusive interview. "If they ask for an increased troop commitment in Afghanistan, I am going to ask them to pay for it." Obey, a Democrat from Wisconsin, made it clear that he is absolutely opposed to sending any more U.S. troops to Afghanistan and says if Obama decides to do that, he'll demand a new tax -- what he calls a "war surtax" -- to pay for it.

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  Obey’s strategy is the same as President Obama’s.  They are on a mission to drive down support by making the war as drawn-out and unattractive as possible.  It has been over 3 months since General McChrystal asked for additional troops, yet only now has Obama done anything to act on his request.  Many are now calling Obama the “Ditherer in Chief” for his indecisiveness.  And now Dave Obey has decided to jump on board the Democrat’s anti-war bandwagon and start driving down support for the war even further.  Obey, like many Democrats, is quick to play the Vietnam card in regards to Afghanistan.  Unfortunately Obey uses a very different American history to draw his conclusion (judging by his “ain't going to be no money for nothing” grammar it’s starting to look like he skipped a few grades in school).  

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Via Hotair:

Obey tells ABC that wars always end progressive agendas:Such a high war cost, he warns, will make it impossible to pay for any of Obama’s major domestic initiatives.  “That’s what happened with the Vietnam War, which wiped out [President Lyndon Johnson's social program] the Great Society,” Obey said. “That’s what happened with the Korean War, which wiped out Harry Truman’s Square Deal. That’s what happened with the end of the progressive movement before the ’20s when we went into World War I. In each case, the cost of those wars shut off our ability to pay for anything else.

”There is so much foolishness in this statement that’s almost impossible to unpack it all.  But I’ll try:

-  So far, Obey and his Democratic allies haven’t shown how they will pay for Obama’s domestic initiatives now, even without any further war funding.  Every single program they’ve proposed will add to the deficit, including Obey’s Porkulus bill.
-  The Great Society programs didn’t end with the Vietnam War.  We still have them around, especially Medicare, which has grown massively since LBJ.  We only curtailed LBJ’s welfare program in the mid-90s because of its stultifying effects and runaway costs, and we weren’t in a shooting war when we did it.  What program does Obey think got cut from LBJ’s agenda?
-  We went into World War I in 1917, and came out in 1919.  “Before the ’20s” sounds as though Obey thinks the war was in that decade, but even without that, the progressive agenda had plenty of time (and prosperity) in that decade to succeed if people wanted it.  It died of its own accord, not because of war.
-  And for that matter, did World War II end the New Deal?  We still have FDR’s stamp all over federal government.
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  Let’s be very clear about something: this is not about the money.  Obey has absolutely no problem spending other people’s money on his pet government projects, including steering a couple billion to his own son.  His $787 billion “stimulus” has been an epic failure that will burden generations to come with massive debt.  He had no problem with millions of dollars in pork in his Stimulus Bill.  In fact, as he put it in an interview with NPR (and has Sean Duffy for Congress has been hammering away on him) he simply said “So what?”    He only cares when it fits his politics. Obey’s actions have nothing to do with what is best for America and everything to do with his liberal ideology.

Soldiers are not political pawns Mr. Obey.  Your disregard for our Soldier’s lives and our national defense is absolutely disgusting and irreprehensible.  You are out of touch with needs of Wisconsin and our great nation as a whole. 

I don't like posting the same stuff as everyone else, but this is too good not to.  If there is one video you take time out of your day to watch, make it this one.



This pretty much echoes the same thing I've been asking all along. How do you save money by spending money? It reminds me of the typical college advice for getting rid of a hangover (start drinking again). Any bets CNN will fact-check this SNL skit too?

I meant to post this a few days ago, but didn't get around to it. Apparently the stimulus plan by President Obama and Congressman Dave Obey isn't quite as stimulating for Wisconsin as they let on.  From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

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 Don't count on stimulus job tally

A stimulus job report that says more than 10,000 jobs were saved or created in Wisconsin is rife with errors, double counting and inflated numbers based more on satisfying federal formulas than creating real jobs, a Journal Sentinel review has found.

In one case, five jobs were mistakenly listed as 50 - and then counted twice. In another, pay raises to workers were listed as saving more than 100 jobs. And in another, jobs were listed as saved even though the money had not been received and no work on the project had begun.

The problems mirror those surfacing around the country, as the federal numbers claiming 640,000 jobs created or saved by stimulus money are being scrutinized.

Among the Journal Sentinel's findings:

Double-counted jobs: About $7.3 million of federal money will flow to the Parkland Sanitary District in Douglas County to replace its sewer system, a project listed as creating or saving 100 jobs even though work won't start until this spring, federal recovery data shows.

But that number is inflated by 95 jobs, Parkland Sanitary District treasurer Eric Shaffer admitted.

When reporting to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's online reporting system, Schaffer meant to type "5" but mistakenly added a zero - and that 50-job figure appears twice in the federal data because it was a combined grant and loan. He tried to correct the error, but was told it was too late for the federal reporting deadline.

"We are volunteers, and we made a mistake," Shaffer said. "It was a simple typographical error, and we tried to fix it. Now that we understand the system, it will be much easier."

Meanwhile, three other Wisconsin towns reported jobs on combined federal loans and grants that were counted twice, doubling their totals from 35 to 70 jobs, records show.

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Make sure you read the whole thing. Ed Morrissey from Hotair chimes in:

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You have to love the example of the Parkland Sanitary District data being part of the White House claims.  They took credit for 100 jobs that don’t even exist, at least 95 of which they overstated when the jobs really do begin.  They took a 1900% markup on five phantom jobs — for a sewage project.  If anyone doubted that the White House numbers were crap, this should utterly convince them.

More phantom jobs exist in Wisconsin’s data, all of it from contracts given directly from the federal government.  One contractor claimed to have saved 24 jobs without receiving any money at all for that project, which may be the most efficient use of government funds in US history.  Five low-income housing projects reported saving 38 jobs through renter’s assistance, even though it saved — at best — five jobs.  It turns out that the money came from a HUD grant that had nothing to do with job creation.

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Its a great demonstration of what a giant scam the entire "saved and created" jobs count is.  It's not possible to actually tally how many jobs have been "saved and created" since there is no indicator on the economy to gauge such results. Which is the whole reason why spending cheerleaders like Dave Obey are quick to tout it because they know its nearly impossible to prove otherwise.

It's important not to forget that as chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Dave Obey is one of the main individuals responsible for the $787 billion epic disaster:

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Defense and No Apologies From Author of Fiscal Bill

WASHINGTON — When House Republicans look at the $825 billion economic package headed toward a vote this week, they do not see President Obama. To them, the bill personifies Representative David R. Obey, the prickly Wisconsin Democrat who is chairman of the Appropriations Committee and has spent 40 years in Congress as a champion of federal spending.

Included in the package is $30 billion to subsidize health insurance for those who lose their jobs, $20 billion to accelerate new health care information technology, $1 billion to renovate community health centers, $600 million to train health care workers, $15 billion to increase college Pell Grants and $4 billion to help communities buy and improve distressed properties.

Indeed, it was Mr. Obey, the third-most-senior member of the House, who, in large measure, shaped the bill, in concert with other House Democratic leaders. And though Mr. Obama has embraced the bill, not a single House Republican has lent it support. The president himself is scheduled to visit Capitol Hill on Tuesday to try to address Republican concerns that Mr. Obey and others are using the legislation to push vast amounts of money into health care and other favored initiatives.

“It is pretty obvious we are funding the chairman’s priorities,” said Representative Jerry Lewis of California, the senior Republican on the appropriations panel. Mr. Lewis described Mr. Obey as driven by a “pent-up desire to spend money in existing programs.”

But the plan is expected to pass with or without Republican support, and Mr. Obey makes no apologies for its contents. An essential part of responding to any economic crisis, he said, is looking out for those on the receiving end of the turmoil.

“You have to take into account the fact that there are certain people in this society getting crushed by this economy,” said Mr. Obey, whose work on the package left him worn down and struggling to regain his voice. “They lose their jobs, they lose their health insurance, they lose their ability to keep their kids in college.

“If you didn’t have two million additional people out of work, you wouldn’t have to be looking for ways to help them. What the hell do you do if the economy goes to hell and two or three or four million more people are out of work?”

Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, the senior Republican on the Budget Committee, sees it differently. “This is 1936 economics,” Mr. Ryan said. “But it reflects David’s ideology and his economic doctrine. They took everything in their file cabinet that has been piling up for 100 years, threw it in this bill and called it economic stimulus.”

Mr. Obey, 70, the product of a Catholic blue-collar upbringing in Wausau, said that if he had sole ownership, he would have turned out a costlier measure with more health spending.

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Just to put things in perspective, if the $787 billion was divvied up amongst the residents of Wisconsin, each man, woman, and child would receive $139,837.35. That buys a lot of beer and cheese.  Yes, our beloved Congressman Obey is to blame for saddling the entire nation and generations to come with massive high-interest debt that will do absolutely nothing to stimulate the economy.  And no, he doesn't feel the least bit sorry about it.  And why should he?  He managed to funnel $2.25 billion in funds to the National Park Service to reward his own son.  

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OBEY'S PORK

 A top House Republican is demanding an investigation into whether the more than $2 billion for national parks in the House stimulus package is proper in light of the fact that the chief lobbyist for the National Parks Conservation Association is the son of House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey.

NPCA is a major player in advocating for national parks funding, and its senior vice president for government affairs is Craig Obey, son of the Wisconsin Democrat who has long been his party's top Appropriations Committee member.

The money included in the stimulus bill that passed Mr. Obey's committee - $2.25 billion - was about equal to the National Park Service's total yearly budget, and would be a staggering increase and almost three times the $802 million that the Senate Appropriations Committee approved for park spending in its stimulus bill.

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Sounds like it's time to send Dave Obey packing, and I'm not talking about a trip to Green Bay.  Wisconsin needs a better representatitive. 

Medicaid is a means-tested welfare program created in 1965 to provide health care for low income families. Despite the fact that it is one of the most poorly performing of all the federal welfare programs it has become the cornerstone of how health insurance is expanded under Obamacare. The Health care “reform” bills advancing in the House and Senate would expand Medicaid by making this government-run health plan available to all adults with incomes at or below 150% of the poverty line. The change would dramatically multiply eligible recipients, with 46 states seeing increases of at least 20%, including 16 posting jumps of 50% or more. Almost 21% of the entire U.S. population would be eligible for Medicaid and seven states and the District of Columbia would have eligibility rates of at least 25%.

 

Here is a video of me giving PTSD to my occupational therapist at Walter Reed. Rachael Nichols of ESPN is there to witness the trauma I am inflicting. (For reference to this post see here.)