Ethics panel finds Rangel broke rules
"Rep. Charles Rangel, the most powerful tax-writing lawmaker in Congress and a 40-year veteran of Capitol Hill, acknowledged Thursday that an ethics panel has accused him of accepting corporate money for Caribbean trips in violation of House rules."
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Why did a Canadian minister come to the U.S. for health care?
My heart, my choice,' Williams says, defending decision for U.S. heart surgery
"An unapologetic Danny Williams says he was aware his trip to the United States for heart surgery earlier this month would spark outcry, but he concluded his personal health trumped any public fallout over the controversial decision."
"I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics."
"I would've been criticized if I had stayed in Canada and had been perceived as jumping a line or a wait list. ... I accept that. That's public life," he said."
"An unapologetic Danny Williams says he was aware his trip to the United States for heart surgery earlier this month would spark outcry, but he concluded his personal health trumped any public fallout over the controversial decision."
"I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics."
"I would've been criticized if I had stayed in Canada and had been perceived as jumping a line or a wait list. ... I accept that. That's public life," he said."
Which came first?
I was listening to the radio in car when the question popped into my mind: "Which came first the global warming hysteria or "blood for oil"?
The left has a problem, it was against nuclear energy and against foreign wars to protect the oil supply. It was against coal because of pollution, acid rain, etc. Despite efforts since the 1970s, solar and wind energy could not compete on a price basis with coal, oil and nuclear.
The left was successful in stopping the growth of nuclear power with a movie and a small accident at three mile island. Then they stopped drilling off-shores for aesthetic reasons. And they were successful in ANWR for no logical reasons at all. Unfortunately it made us more dependent on foreign sources of oil. The left tried to stop the war in Kuwait/Iraq by yelling "No blood for Oil". But in fact the left actions early made it necessary to protect our oil supplies. That led to our forces being in Saudi Arabia, which led to 9-11, which led to the second Iraqi war.
The left needed a new way to stop our use of oil, "global warming" became the new mantra of left.
The left has a problem, it was against nuclear energy and against foreign wars to protect the oil supply. It was against coal because of pollution, acid rain, etc. Despite efforts since the 1970s, solar and wind energy could not compete on a price basis with coal, oil and nuclear.
The left was successful in stopping the growth of nuclear power with a movie and a small accident at three mile island. Then they stopped drilling off-shores for aesthetic reasons. And they were successful in ANWR for no logical reasons at all. Unfortunately it made us more dependent on foreign sources of oil. The left tried to stop the war in Kuwait/Iraq by yelling "No blood for Oil". But in fact the left actions early made it necessary to protect our oil supplies. That led to our forces being in Saudi Arabia, which led to 9-11, which led to the second Iraqi war.
The left needed a new way to stop our use of oil, "global warming" became the new mantra of left.
Monday, February 22, 2010
More Global Warming Mistakes
Climate scientists withdraw journal claims of rising sea levels
Another day, another global warming fallacy exposed
"From the Guardian in England: “Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings.”
The newspaper cited the Nature Geoscience publication, which published a retraction on its prediction that the seas would rise a whopping 89 centimeters (a little over 2 feet) by 2100."
"Nature Geoscience said in its retraction: “First, we tested the sensitivity of our results to the length of the time step used in the integration of the model for the period of deglaciation, which we found to be robust. However, we overlooked that the simulations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are sensitive to this time step, which led to an overestimation of the sea-level response to warming in the simulations for these centuries.
“Second, we did not include the effect of the uncertainty in the temperature reconstructions since the Medieval Climate Anomaly in our uncertainty estimates for the twenty-first-century projections. This led to an inconsistency between the twentieth-century simulation used to test the predictive capability of the model and the twenty-first-century simulation, owing to a provisional allowance for warming since the Little Ice Age in the twentieth-century simulations.”"
Another day, another global warming fallacy exposed
"From the Guardian in England: “Scientists have been forced to withdraw a study on projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding mistakes that undermined the findings.”
The newspaper cited the Nature Geoscience publication, which published a retraction on its prediction that the seas would rise a whopping 89 centimeters (a little over 2 feet) by 2100."
"Nature Geoscience said in its retraction: “First, we tested the sensitivity of our results to the length of the time step used in the integration of the model for the period of deglaciation, which we found to be robust. However, we overlooked that the simulations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are sensitive to this time step, which led to an overestimation of the sea-level response to warming in the simulations for these centuries.
“Second, we did not include the effect of the uncertainty in the temperature reconstructions since the Medieval Climate Anomaly in our uncertainty estimates for the twenty-first-century projections. This led to an inconsistency between the twentieth-century simulation used to test the predictive capability of the model and the twenty-first-century simulation, owing to a provisional allowance for warming since the Little Ice Age in the twentieth-century simulations.”"
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Glenn Beck Keynote Speech at CPAC
Part 3: What it Means to Be a Conservative
Part 4: Created Or Saved Jobs
Part 5
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