This latest revelation of an inconvenient errrr...truth has government representatives continuing to make up science to create panic to further their agenda.  Al Gore is outed as a complete liar in this episode by citing recene science and facts to prove that polar ice will be gone in 5-7 years during the summers.  The scientist that he quoted rebukes him and he once again skulks away to make up another lie to cover his previous lie. 

Question: Can we believe anything that the government tells us unless we see it with our own eyes?  Otherwise are they just making things up knowing that the American people are too fat, lazy and stupid to think for themselves and will take it at face value?  HEre's the read...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6956783.ece

There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday.

The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row.

Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.

In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.”

However, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast.

“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”

Mr Gore’s office later admitted that the 75 per cent figure was one used by Dr Maslowksi as a “ballpark figure” several years ago in a conversation with Mr Gore.

The embarrassing error cast another shadow over the conference after the controversy over the hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, which appeared to suggest that scientists had manipulated data to strengthen their argument that human activities were causing global warming.

Read on....
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6956783.ece

Tom Coburn, John McCain criticize use of stimulus by Chris Casteel

Read more: http://newsok.com/coburn-mccain-release-report-attacking-stimulus-projects/article/3423568?custom_click=lead_story_title#ixzz0ZNoTtrD1

Excerpts:  

 "No family in America would support many of the programs we’ve highlighted, such as a duplicative $350 million broadband map or a $5 million eco-friendly energy project for a near-empty shopping mall,” Coburn, R-Muskogee, said.

The report is the second compiled by Coburn and McCain on projects funded through the $787 billion stimulus bill. Many of the projects are for local cultural events, such as Shakespeare festivals or puppet shows.

Others cited include bike paths and contracts given to companies under criminal investigation.

The report states Oklahoma’s Transportation Department allotted $1.8 million in stimulus money to Oklahoma River Cruises, a service provided by the Central Oklahoma Transportation and Parking Authority in Oklahoma City. The funding was supposed to be used to operate and maintain boats owned by the service.

Another $1.1 million was awarded to Oklahoma State University professor Tammy Henderson to examine "the larger sociopolitical factors that shape grandparenthood in Alaska,” the report states.

Stimulus projects

Here are some of the projects listed in a report released by Sens. John McCain and Tom Coburn highlighting 100 projects they consider wasteful.

• Up to $5 million to install a geothermal energy system capable of heating an almost empty shopping mall in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

• $2.2 million for new pipes to pump recycled water to the Sharp Park Golf Course in San Francisco, even though the city council is considering closing the course.

• $943,000 to a private dinner cruise company for security efforts.

• $350 million to create a national map showing where broadband Internet service is available. According to the report, telecommunications companies already have the information online, and one broadband mapping consultant said his firm could create a national map for $3.5 million.

• $221,355 for Indiana University researchers to "advance our understanding of ... the role of cognitive and affective processes and condom application skills in explaining problems with condom use in young, heterosexual adult men.”

 

Herewith at this happy time of year, a few confessions from my beating heart:

I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They never know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they have broken up? Why are they so important? I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is, either, and I do not care at all about Tom Cruise's wife.

Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I am a subversive? Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are. Is this what it means to be no longer young. It's not so bad.

Next confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was  Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?

 I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.

http://www.benstein.com/121805xmas.html

Here's to us and those like us.  Happy Birthday Brothers.

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be never so vile. This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.” Shakespeare

This article from the Daily Dissappointment is just that if you think about it.  Oklahoma has received about 202 jobs from the $787B stimulus package.  Oklahoma makes up 1.2% of the US population and probably a larger percentage of tax payers.   Could you put 202 people to work with our percentage $9,427,549,526?

Without saying it, the Oklahoman has proven that the Stimulus package resulted in hardworking Oklahomans being ripped off to fund the weak, lame and lazy in our nation's populated locations who can't/won't take care of themselves. 

http://newsok.com/stimulus-creates-202-jobs-in-oklahoma/article/3409846?custom_click=headlines_widget

Thank you Sheriff Apaio.  Finally an elected official who remembers who he works for.  We need more like you.

"It doesn't bother me, because we are going to do the same thing," said Arpaio, whose deputies had arrested 16 people by Friday evening on unspecified charges. "I am the elected sheriff. I don't take orders from the federal government."

PHOENIX —  An Arizona sheriff known for cracking down on people who are in the country illegally launched a crime and immigration sweep in northwestern metro Phoenix on Friday, a half day after officials in Washington limited his powers to make federal immigration arrests.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose sweeps have led to allegations of racial profiling, said the rebuff from Washington won't stop him. He said he can still arrest immigrants under a state smuggling law and a federal law that gives all local police agencies more limited power to detain suspected illegal immigrants.

"It doesn't bother me, because we are going to do the same thing," said Arpaio, whose deputies had arrested 16 people by Friday evening on unspecified charges. "I am the elected sheriff. I don't take orders from the federal government."

The officers were participating in a federal program that grants a limited number of local police departments special powers to make immigration arrests and speed up deportation. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement stripped Arpaio of his power to let 100 deputies make federal immigration arrests, but renewed another agreement that allows 60 jails officers to determine the immigration status of people in jail.

The sheriff's sweeps in some heavily Latino areas of metro Phoenix have drawn criticism that Arpaio's deputies racially profile people. Arpaio said people pulled over in the sweeps were approached because deputies had probable cause to believe they had committed crimes and that it was only afterward that deputies found many of them were illegal immigrants.

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Arpaio's office over allegations of discrimination and unconstitutional searches and seizures.

"He is doing this to thumb his nose at the Obama administration," said Lydia Guzman, president of the Hispanic civil rights group Somos America.

The sweeps have discouraged some Hispanics who have witnessed or been victims of crime to refuse to call Arpaio's deputies, for fear of mistreatment, Guzman said.

Observers who are part of Guzman's group fanned out across the area of the sweeps with video cameras to record exchanges between deputies and motorists.

Arpaio said volunteers will use cameras owned by his agency to video-record deputies so viewers can see for themselves that they weren't doing anything wrong. Arpaio responded angrily to a question during a news conference about the costs of the cameras, saying they were paid through seizures in drug cases. "Dope peddlers bought the cameras," Arpaio said.

A dozen anti-Arpaio protesters yelled throughout the news conference. At one point, they chanted: "Order equals K-K-K — here's what Arpaio has to say."

Kris Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and an advocate of expanding local immigration efforts, said Arpaio's office — like every other local police agency — can detain people suspected of immigration violations for a day or two until federal authorities come to pick them up.

In the past, Arpaio could have held such immigrants for longer than two days and conducted investigations of smuggling rings, Kobach said.

"It's really a slight narrowing, but it's not much," said Kobach, who worked as an immigration law adviser to then-U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft from 2001-2003.

Dan Pochoda, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing people who filed a lawsuit over the sweeps, said Arpaio still can't pull over motorists solely because they are suspected of being illegal immigrants.

"He can't do it under the terms he is claiming. He has indicated that he can stop people without the suspicion, based on what they look like, what they sound like," Pochoda said.

Arpaio said the Bush administration had no complaints about his use of the special federal powers, but all that has changed with the Obama administration.

"What's changed?" Arpaio asked. "Politics has changed, because they don't like us going on the streets to catch illegals."

This round of sweep, Arpaio's 12th, is set to end late Saturday.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,567902,00.html?test=latestnews

Well I thought I would never see the day, but I have to hand it to the current regime.  They are really good at spending other people's money.  Despite complaints by the Republicans about Stimulus bucks not being spent fast enough the Dems seem to be on track to spend it in accordance with their original plan. 

According to recovery.gov and confirmed by Politifact.com the Dems have spent $157B of OPM as of June.  Their original plan was to have $236B spent by the beginning of 2010 per the breakdown below that I have published previously.  I don't agree with the spendulus.  I think it was a bad idea from the start and it's filled with pork (updated by Sen Dr Tom Coburn on a weekly basis).  

The republicans need to find something more factual to stand on than "their not spending fast enough."  I mean really?  I'm sure they can spend us into poverty faster than they are doing if we challenge them and they try harder.

THIS IS EXCELLENT............MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY!!!!

 

This letter was sent to the Wall Street Journal on August 8, 2008 by Alisa Wilson, Ph.D. Of Beverly Hills , CA . in response to the Wall Street Journal article titled
"Where's The Outrage?" that appeared July 31, 2008.

"Really. I can tell you where the outrage is. The outrage is here, in this middle-aged, well-educated, upper-middle class woman. The outrage is here, but I have no representation, no voice. The outrage is here, but no one is listening for who am I?

I am not a billionaire like George Soros that can fund an entire political movement.  I am not a celebrity like Barbra Streisand that can garner the attention of the press to promote political candidates.  I am not a film maker like Michael Moore or Al Gore that can deliver misleading movies to the public.

The outrage is here, but unlike those with money or power, I don't know how to reach those who feel similarly in order to effect change.

Why am I outraged? I am outraged that my country, the  United States of America , is in a state of moral and ethical decline. There is no right or wrong anymore, just what's fair.

Is it fair that millions of Americans who overreached and borrowed more than they could afford are now being bailed out by the government and lending institutions to stave off foreclosure? Why shouldn't these people be made to pay the consequences for their poor judgment?

When my husband and I purchased our home, we were careful to purchase only what we could afford. Believe me, there are much larger, much nicer homes that I would have loved to have purchased. But, taking responsibility for my behavior and my life, I went with the house that we could afford, not the house that we could not afford. The notion of personal responsibility has all but died in our country.
 
I  am outraged, that the country that welcomed my mother as an immigrant from Hitler's Nazi Germany and required that she and her family learn English now allows itself to be overrun with illegal immigrants and worse, caters to those illegal immigrants.

I am outraged that my hard-earned taxes help support those here illegally. That the Los Angeles Public School District is in such disarray that I felt it incumbent to send my child to private school, that every time I go to the ATM, I see "do you want to continue in English or Spanish?", that every time I call the bank, the phone company , or similar business,  I hear "press 1 for English or press 2 for Spanish." WHY? This is America , our common language is English and attempts to promote a bi- or multi-lingual society are sure to fail and to marginalize those who cannot communicate in English.
 
I am outraged at our country's weakness in the face of new threats on American traditions from Muslims. Just this week, Tyson's Food negotiated with its union to permit Muslims to have Eid-al-Fitr as a holiday instead of Labor Day.  What am I missing? Yes, there is a large Somali Muslim population working at the Tyson's plant in Tennessee .  Tennessee , last I checked, is still part of the United States .  If Muslims want to live and work here, they should be required to live and work by our American Laws and not impose their will on our long history.

In the same week, Random House announced that they had indefinitely delayed the publication of The Jewel of Medina, by Sherry Jones, a book about the life of Mohammed's wife, Aisha due to fear of retribution and violence by Muslims. When did we become a nation ruled by fear of what other immigrant groups want? It makes me so sad to see large corporations cave rather than stand proudly on the principles that built this country. 

I am outraged because appeasement has never worked as a political policy, yet appeasing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is exactly what we are trying to do. An excellent article, also published recently in the Wall Street Journal, went through over 20 years of history and why talking with Iran has been and will continue to be ineffective. Yet talk, with a madman no less, we continue to do. Have we so lost our moral compass and its ability to detect evil that we will not go in and destroy Iran 's nuclear program? Would we rather wait for another Holocaust for the Jews - one which they would be unlikely to survive? When does it end?

As if the battle for good and evil isn't enough, now come the Environmentalists who are so afraid of global warming that they want to put a Bag tax on grocery bags in California; to eliminate Mylar balloons; to establish something as insidious as the recycle police in San Francisco. I do my share for the environment: I recycle, I use water wisely, I installed an energy efficient air conditioning unit. But when and where does the lunacy stop?  Ahmadinejad wants to wipe Israel off the map, the  California economy is being overrun by illegal immigrants, and the United States of America no longer knows right from wrong, good from evil. So what does California do? Tax grocery bags.

So, America , although I can tell you where the outrage is, this one middle-aged, well-educated, upper middle class woman is powerless to do anything about it. I don't even feel like my vote counts because I am so outnumbered by those who disagree with me.

Alisa Wilson, Ph.D. Beverly Hills , California

Barack Obama has "no regrets" about talking about things that he knows nothing about... because he does it all the time. 
This Professor "acted stupidly"' by not submitting to the authorities.  There is no doubt that if he wasn't so full of himself and pulling the "don't you know who I am" in front of his friend, this wouldn't even been in the news.  Seriously. 

Professor Gates, you may be someone special in your little world of academia, but you are probably like so many others who stay there (or in government jobs) because you can't make it in the competitive real world. 
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/07/24/does-obama-regret-saying-the-police-acted-stupidly-nope/


Oklahoma's humble representative Dr. Tom Coburn provided his latest Spendulus report via twitter.  Some excerpts
http://bit.ly/14Fmiu

29,000 stimulus grant will pay to hire a liaison to the film industry for the Oregon film festival (and she also gets to watch movies to decide which ones should be shown at the festival) click here to read more

Martini bar recommended for $25,000 stimulus grant by Missouri city; Martini bar and a Brazilian steak house scored higher than other area applicants for stimulus funds click here to read more

$1.8 million in stimulus funds paying for a 162 feet long wildlife overpass in Nevada click here to read more

Concealed guns law rejected in close Senate vote
It was close.  Republicans could have done a better job of vote counting before going to the floor, but it wouldn't have made it through Nancy's house.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090722/ap_on_go_co/us_concealed_weapons

Nancy Pelosi; Lies and the lying speaker who tells them
http://vodpod.com/watch/1623660-update-nancy-pelosi-lies-and-the-lying-speaker-who-tells-them-l