Jul

25

Harry Reid’s Gettin’ Squirelley Under Oil Price Pressure

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- Scott Miller

Looks like cracks are beginning to show in the Reid-Pelosi oil drilling blockade. This from Fox News:

Reid Flares Over Media Coverage of Energy Proposal

WASHINGTON —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s advice to reporters who don’t get his energy agenda: Check your hearing.

At a “pen and pad” — a more casual, off-camera chat with reporters — Reid attacked and scolded correspondents in attendance, telling them he’s “really disappointed” in how they have been writing his energy plans, which include a bill to reign in speculation in the energy futures markets.

According to two Senate Democratic aides, Reid and other Democratic leaders were particularly stung by an article Thursday in The New York Times. It followed on several other reports that have highlighted Democrats’ attempts to fend off defections from their ranks to GOP-sponsored amendments, measures that would permit new drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf and in the West for oil shale.

Reid has offered Republicans only two amendments to his anti-speculation bill. He required one amendment to be a GOP alternative to his speculation bill — the other was to be a recently-introduced GOP energy bill that included OCS-drilling and oil shale measures.

On Thursday, Reid told reporters he offered Republicans “separate amendments” as well on oil shale drilling and on OCS drilling, although a review of floor proceedings this week shows no such specific offer.

Kyl said it was “very clear” to him that only two amendments would be permitted for Republicans, which is leading to a complete breakdown of floor action on the Reid bill.

Kyl pointed to a speech this morning by the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, who echoed Reid’s position that two amendments would be offered to Republicans on this energy debate.

Reporters tried to pin Reid down Thursday on the amendment issue.

In the exchange, Reid told one reporter she should “watch the [Senate] floor more often. … You might learn something.”

Another reporter explained she had watched the Senate proceedings and said it was not clear he was … offering separate amendments, to which Reid asked the reporter if she “spoke English.”

“Turn up your Miracle Ear,” Reid added.

Reid spokesman Jim Manley later told the reporter his boss’s comments were a show of “frustration,” not desperation.

Reid is frustrated?! What about the American people who have to pay the Reid Pelosi $2+/gallon gas tax because those two are blocking drilling in America! These idiots keep saying NO, NO, NO to every single plan to increase our energy supplies, and reduce our dependency on foreign oil, and all the while the American consumer takes it in the neck. Now get out of the damn way!

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Jul

24

News Flash! Europeans Rally to Anti-American Socialist Propoganda

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- Scott Miller

With our socialist media continuing  to make complete asses out of themselves by slobbering all over Obama… not only do we have to endure fawning news stories about his campaigning here, we also have to endure fawning news stories about his campaigning in Europe. This from the Politico:

 Obama to Berlin: ‘This is our moment’

Obama spoke before of a crowd of more than 200,000 – larger than any he has attracted in the United States – that stretched from the Victory Column to the Brandenburg Gate, where Reagan called on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachevto “tear down this wall” and end the Cold War. At pains to cast the speech as something other than a campaign rally on foreign soil, Obama entered and exited the stage without music or fanfare, giving the event a certain abruptness.

Beyond the stage, however, the day carried the usual trappings of an American campaign event, but with a European flair.

The food tents served German beer. Some attendees wore T-shirts that read “Global Tsunami for Change,” but waved small American flags. German TV anchors went live from ersatz studios erected on media risers packed with foreign journalists.

The country got swept up in the visit from the moment it was announced. Crowds began gathering outside the Obama’s hotel after he arrived Thursday morning, and remained throughout the day. German TV networks broadcast the speech live. Newspapers compared him to President John F. Kennedy.

“The savior is coming,” a German journalist said sardonically as Obama was introduced.

Kathrin Grabener, the news desk chief for RTL Television, said her station fielded complaints Thursday from viewers who took issue with its journalists for simply pointing out the Obama was not yet president.
“Viewers were protesting: ‘How can you say he might become the president. He is the president.’ They already think he is the president,” Grabener said. “We called it ‘Obamamania’ on our program today.”

Why the hell is he campaigning in Europe by the way? Could it be that he’s more comfortable hanging with socialists? Ahhh… note to BO… you are running for President of the United States… not Europe, or the whole freakin’ world for that matter. Plus, how hard is it to get 200,000 Germans out to a free all-day concert with sausage and beer?

But the fawning coverage by the media wasn’t the worse part of today’s spectacle… it was Obama’s anti-American rhetoric, oversees that made my blood boil (watch this at 2:30 sec into clip)

First of all, Jack-ass, our troops don’t torture. America doesn’t torture… stop saying that we do, and stop putting down the troops!

Secondly, I am sick and damn tired of liberals apologizing to Europeans on the behalf of Americans. You don’t speak for me, nor do you speak for millions of other Americans who love this country… stopping putting down my country you jerk!

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Jul

23

Obama Tells a Whopper in Israel

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- Scott Miller

The latest in his string of lies…

Uhhh one small problem BO, you are not the chairman of the Banking Committee. You are not even a member of the Banking Committee. You had nothing do to with passing any bill out of the Senate Banking Committee… I can just hear him now… “I’ve always said I had nothing to do with the US Senate Banking Committee”…

Hat tip to the Great One, Mark Levin, on the clip.

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Jul

23

Looking for Government to Help? You’ll Be Perpetually Disappointed.

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- Scott Miller

Conservatives believe that those who look to government to solve their problems, will perpetually live their lives in disappointment. For us conservatives, this is a universal truth, and this story from the AP is a case in point:

Minimum wage going up, little help as costs soar

WASHINGTON - About 2 million Americans get a raise Thursday as the federal minimum wage rises 70 cents. The bad news: Higher gas and food prices are swallowing it up, and some small businesses will pass the cost of the wage hike to consumers.

Ahhh note to you dumb-ass liberal reporter… not only will some small businesses pass along the cost to consumers, all businesses will pass along the cost to consumers in the form of higher prices. I know… I work for a very large business, and we raise prices to cover increasing costs. So guess who really pays for those government mandated pay increases… the American people! Min. wage increases are nothing more than yet another a backdoor tax on the American people.

Workers like Walter Jasper, who earns minimum wage at a car wash in Nashville, Tenn., are happy to take the raise, but will still struggle with the higher gas and food prices hammering Americans.

“It will help out a little,” said Jasper, who with his fiancee support a family of seven, and who earns the minimum plus commissions when customers order premium car-wash services.

The bus fare he pays each day to get to work already went up to $4.80 this spring from $4. “I’d like to be on a job where I can at least get a car,” he said.

Of course Walter is happy to take a hand-out that he didn’t earn! He’s one of millions of people out there who fumble through life looking to government to improve their lot in life. I don’t mean to pick on Walter, but he emblematic of a  failed educational system that does nothing to prepare our children for life in the real world. Nothing about starting a business. Nothing about how businesses and corporations work, etc… so we end up with far too many people don’t even know think for themselves.

I want to pick up Walter by the lapels and smack him around a bit and say “come on, man. Get a hold of yourself and start acting like a man! Stop asking others to provide for you, and start figuring out how YOU are going to change the direction of your life… without the help of anyone else! With hard work, and initiative… this is America damn it. A place where anyone can do anything they want if they just put their minds to it!” But no, we don’t teach our kids that in school, and you certainly won’t hear that from the lib reporter in our socialist media.

Walter, a bit of advice… if you want to get a car, you can do it. Get a second job, get a third job… do what you need to do to earn that money. Once you do, and you accomplish that goal on your own, you’ll get the feel for what I’m talking about… in America, your success is only limited by what you allow to limit you.

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Jul

22

Obama: I’ll be Prez for 8 to 10 Years…

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- Scott Miller

Complete and total moron when he’s off script… note to Obama campaign… keep him on a tight leash boys… (50 sec into clip)

Doesn’t it look like the fawning CBS reporter, Laura Logan, wanted to just throw Obama down and jump his bones… I mean this crap passes for serious journalism? After all, it wouldn’t be out of character for Laura… see, she’s married and managed to get pregnant with the baby from another married man while covering the story in Iraq. Quite a woman of character.

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Jul

22

McCain Campaign Finding It’s Footing

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- Scott Miller

As you know, I am by no means a fan of John McCain. I still have yet to decide if I will vote for the man in November… much depends on who he picks for VP. If he picks a conservative, I’ll support and vote for the ticket knowing we have a conservative ”next in line”.  If he picks another lib-RINO, I’m skipping the top of the ticket and voting for conservatives down-ticket.

That said, his campaign seems to be finding their voice and exploiting Obama’s serious weaknesses in clever ways… here are a couple of his most recent ads… pretty good:

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Jul

22

Away From Teleprompter, Obama is a Babbling Buffoon

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- Scott Miller

When it comes to delivering a message, McCain and Obama are complete opposites. Voters would rather wake up with their heads sewn to the carpet than be forced to listen to a John McCain speech delivered from behind a teleprompter, and without one, Obama is incoherent.

Case in point, Obama’s interview with ABC news. Here’s a video clip of the genius Obama refusing to admit that he was wrong about the surge in Iraq:

The man said nothing in the course of fumbling around for a coherent answer… without his carefully crafted script from his campaign aides, the man’s a utter moron.

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Jul

21

The Crumbling Global Warming “Consensus”

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- Scott Miller

Just as Chicken Little was up on Capital Hill, telling Congress that the sky is falling, and we only have 10 years to fix it before the earth spontaneously combusts… we have a major voice for the eco-commies saying ‘whoops, I was wrong after all… global warming isn’t cause by man… so sorry for all that alarmism!’ This from the Australian (full article as it is extremely important to stop the eco-commies before they destroy America as we know it):

No smoking hot spot

I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia’s compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector.

FullCAM models carbon flows in plants, mulch, debris, soils and agricultural products, using inputs such as climate data, plant physiology and satellite data. I’ve been following the global warming debate closely for years.

When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects.

The evidence was not conclusive, but why wait until we were certain when it appeared we needed to act quickly? Soon government and the scientific community were working together and lots of science research jobs were created. We scientists had political support, the ear of government, big budgets, and we felt fairly important and useful (well, I did anyway). It was great. We were working to save the planet.

But since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming. As Lord Keynes famously said, “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”

1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.

Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.

If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.

When the signature was found to be missing in 2007 (after the latest IPCC report), alarmists objected that maybe the readings of the radiosonde thermometers might not be accurate and maybe the hot spot was there but had gone undetected. Yet hundreds of radiosondes have given the same answer, so statistically it is not possible that they missed the hot spot.

Recently the alarmists have suggested we ignore the radiosonde thermometers, but instead take the radiosonde wind measurements, apply a theory about wind shear, and run the results through their computers to estimate the temperatures. They then say that the results show that we cannot rule out the presence of a hot spot. If you believe that you’d believe anything.

2. There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None. There is plenty of evidence that global warming has occurred, and theory suggests that carbon emissions should raise temperatures (though by how much is hotly disputed) but there are no observations by anyone that implicate carbon emissions as a significant cause of the recent global warming.

3. The satellites that measure the world’s temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the past year (to the temperature of 1980). Land-based temperature readings are corrupted by the “urban heat island” effect: urban areas encroaching on thermometer stations warm the micro-climate around the thermometer, due to vegetation changes, concrete, cars, houses. Satellite data is the only temperature data we can trust, but it only goes back to 1979. NASA reports only land-based data, and reports a modest warming trend and recent cooling. The other three global temperature records use a mix of satellite and land measurements, or satellite only, and they all show no warming since 2001 and a recent cooling.

4. The new ice cores show that in the past six global warmings over the past half a million years, the temperature rises occurred on average 800 years before the accompanying rise in atmospheric carbon. Which says something important about which was cause and which was effect.

None of these points are controversial. The alarmist scientists agree with them, though they would dispute their relevance.

The last point was known and past dispute by 2003, yet Al Gore made his movie in 2005 and presented the ice cores as the sole reason for believing that carbon emissions cause global warming. In any other political context our cynical and experienced press corps would surely have called this dishonest and widely questioned the politician’s assertion.

Until now the global warming debate has merely been an academic matter of little interest. Now that it matters, we should debate the causes of global warming.

So far that debate has just consisted of a simple sleight of hand: show evidence of global warming, and while the audience is stunned at the implications, simply assert that it is due to carbon emissions.

In the minds of the audience, the evidence that global warming has occurred becomes conflated with the alleged cause, and the audience hasn’t noticed that the cause was merely asserted, not proved.

If there really was any evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming, don’t you think we would have heard all about it ad nauseam by now?

The world has spent $50 billion on global warming since 1990, and we have not found any actual evidence that carbon emissions cause global warming. Evidence consists of observations made by someone at some time that supports the idea that carbon emissions cause global warming. Computer models and theoretical calculations are not evidence, they are just theory.

What is going to happen over the next decade as global temperatures continue not to rise? The Labor Government is about to deliberately wreck the economy in order to reduce carbon emissions. If the reasons later turn out to be bogus, the electorate is not going to re-elect a Labor government for a long time. When it comes to light that the carbon scare was known to be bogus in 2008, the ALP is going to be regarded as criminally negligent or ideologically stupid for not having seen through it. And if the Liberals support the general thrust of their actions, they will be seen likewise.

The onus should be on those who want to change things to provide evidence for why the changes are necessary. The Australian public is eventually going to have to be told the evidence anyway, so it might as well be told before wrecking the economy.

Hey Johnny… you listening?

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Jul

19

Decoding Obama Speak

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- Scott Miller

If the American people are going to truly understand Obama’s marxist intentions , they are going to need our handy dandy little Obama speak decoder below (some of this applies to McCain too):

  • Change = All you’ll have left when we are done taxing the bejesus out of you
  • Victims of the housing crisis = Idiots who bought a home they couldn’t afford
  • Make a difference in Americans lives = insert government into every aspect of your lives
  • 47 million American uninsured = less than 20 million (10% of Americans) chronically uninsured
  • Invest = Spend your money
  • Pay their fair share = pay government more than they get to keep for themselves
  • Hand-up = Hand-out
  • Working Americans = 50% of Americans who pay almost zero income taxes
  • Sacrifice = Pay more taxes to government
  • Address climate change = instituting socialist policies in America
  • Bitter Americans = Americans who believe in God, limited government, and the rule of law
  • Community Organizer = radical rebel-rouser
  • Turn the page = turn a blind eye to higher taxes and bigger government
  • Phased redeployment = Surrender to the terrorists
  • Cap and Trade = We’ll cap America’s prosperity, and trade her sovereignty to world government 
  • I’ve always said = I’ve straddled this issue like a porn star
  • Bring them out of the shadows = Give them Amnesty, and free access to our social safety net
  • NeoCon = Anyone not a Liberal
  • It’s not Amnesty = It’s Amnesty
  • Green jobs = government created jobs funded by you and I, the taxpayer
  • Comprehensive Immigration Reform = Amnesty
  • Pathway to citizenship = Amnesty
  • Cowboy diplomacy = Putting America’s best interests above all else in negotiations
  • Torture = Anything stronger than a good tongue lashing
  • I will stand up for you = I will control all aspect of your lives
  • Invisible Americans = Americans who want a hand out
  • We are in it for the American people = the American people are in for it
  • Privileged few = Any hard working American
  • Restore America’s credibility to the world = Cede American sovereignty to the UN
  • Corporate greed = Corporations desire to make a small profit
  • Americans who’s voices have not been heard = Americans who want a hand out
  • Universal health care = poor quality health care for everyone with waits that would make Rip Van Winkle seem like a young man
  • Addressing the issue of the 12 million illegal aliens here = give the 12 million illegals amnesty

While this is just a start, it should prove very handy, for the next time you hear Barack Obama spew out his coded liberal speak in his beautiful speeches… you’ll now know what he is really saying.

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Jul

18

Hey Fatso, Gore, Butt the Hell Out… Nobody Asked Ya’

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- Scott Miler

With all of his Chicken Little, global warming propaganda falling apart under greater scrutiny, Fatso keeps on pluggin’ along as if he still has some credibility… after all, how’s he gonna’ make his billions if “green energy” isn’t forced upon the American people? This from the AP:

Gore sets energy goal for next president to heed

WASHINGTON - Just as John F. Kennedy set his sights on the moon, Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace.

He said it also coincides with experts’ predictions that unless dramatic changes to reduce global warming pollution are made within the next decade, “our ability to ever recover from this environmental crisis” may be lost.

Gore said the single most important policy change would be placing a carbon tax on burning oil and coal.

Ahhh…  and there we get to the real motive behind the eco-commie movement… to enslave the American people with higher, and more taxes (a new “carbon” tax) on every aspect of their lives.

After all, taxation is nothing more than a process by which government steals your labor. It is a modern day form of slavery, and the eco-commies want to control essentially every aspect of your lives, and they don’t give two rats asses if you like it or not… after all, these initiatives are done in the name of saving the planet… who can argue against that?

Now, I know there are some libs out there reading this and saying “you’re wrong, Chicken Little only cares about saving our planet”. I say, BS… Barabara Streisand… watch this video of his carbon footprint motorcade wasting… what?… fossil fuels at his very “the sky is falling” speech (video):

Hat Tip to Americans for Prosperity on the great video.

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