Obama and Lobbyists

Was it just me, or was Obama supposed to limit access of lobbyists?

Health Care Industry Officials, Lobbyists Met With Obama During Debate On Reform

"Top health care officials met with Barack Obama and other administration officials just as the president pushed Congress to pass legislation to overhaul the health insurance industry, newly released White House visitor logs show."

Palin 2012 SNL

Update: NBC pulled this clip, not even on Hulu. Why? Maybe because someone figured it out that the world ended under Obama's watch. Seems NBC is wholly owned by the Democratic party now.

SNL RIPS ON OBAMA

Global Warming Liars?

Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute

"...they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change."

"In one e-mail exchange, a scientist writes of using a statistical “trick” in a chart illustrating a recent sharp warming trend."

"Some skeptics asserted Friday that the correspondence revealed an effort to withhold scientific information. “This is not a smoking gun; this is a mushroom cloud,” said Patrick J. Michaels, a climatologist who has long faulted evidence pointing to human-driven warming and is criticized in the documents."


"Through the last century, tree rings and thermometers show a consistent rise in temperature until 1960, when some tree rings, for unknown reasons, no longer show that rise, while the thermometers continue to do so until the present."

-Why is this important? Because if use tree rings for data when thermometers readings weren't taken then your distorting the data. You would need to throw out all use of tree rings, then you limited to just a few years since data from thermometers is limited. And thus you can't make any valid conclusions about global warming.

Stopping global warming with a very long garden hose.

ABC 20/20 10/23/09
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8904740

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Freaked Out Over SuperFreakonomics
Global warming might be solved with a helium balloon and a few miles
of garden hose.
By BRET STEPHENS

Suppose for a minute—which is about 59 seconds too long, but that's for another column—that global warming poses an imminent threat to the survival of our species. Suppose, too, that the best solution involves a helium balloon, several miles of garden hose and a harmless stream of sulfur dioxide being pumped into the upper atmosphere, all at a cost of a single F-22 fighter jet.

Good news, right? Maybe, but not if you're Al Gore or one of his little helpers.

The hose-in-the-sky approach to global warming is the brainchild of Intellectual Ventures, a Bellevue, Wash.-based firm founded by former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold. The basic idea is to engineer effects similar to those of the 1991 mega-eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines, which spewed so much sulfuric ash into the stratosphere that it cooled the earth by about one degree Fahrenheit for a couple of years.

Could it work? Mr. Myhrvold and his associates think it might, and they're a smart bunch. Also smart are University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and writer Stephen Dubner, whose delightful "SuperFreakonomics"—the sequel to their runaway 2005 bestseller "Freakonomics"—gives Myhrvold and Co. pride of place in their lengthy chapter on global warming. Not surprisingly, global warming fanatics are experiencing a Pinatubo-like eruption of their own.

Mr. Gore, for instance, tells Messrs. Levitt and Dubner that the stratospheric sulfur solution is "nuts." Former Clinton administration official Joe Romm, who edits the Climate Progress blog, accuses the authors of "[pushing] global cooling myths" and "sheer illogic." The Union of Concerned Scientists faults the book for its "faulty statistics." Never to be outdone, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman scores "SuperFreakonomics" for "grossly [misrepresenting] other peoples' research, in both climate science and economics."

In fact, Messrs. Levitt and Dubner show every sign of being careful researchers, going so far as to send chapter drafts to their interviewees for comment prior to publication. Nor are they global warming "deniers," insofar as they acknowledge that temperatures have risen by 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit over the past century.
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An Interesting Article on "V" and conservatism in Hollywood.

The Hidden Truth Behind ‘V’

"Like many conservatives, I was intrigued and excited by the promos for ABC’s reboot of one of my favorite mini-series, “V.” Finally, we thought, one of us had infiltrated the system and slipped one by the hippies who run Hollywood. Even better, we hoped that ABC, in a brash display of “corporate greed” had decided to green-light a series that appeals to the many of us (the majority of the country actually) who are less than enthralled by the hopey changeiness of the current administration.


But alas, it wasn’t meant to be. As my colleague Jeffrey Jena pointed out, the show’s writer is a devout leftist and Obama supporter. " ....

Obama Care Preview: H1N1

If you want to get a preview of what it would be like under Obama/Pelosi health care, take a look at the swine flu vaccine. They told us there would plenty of vaccines, but people are still waiting hours in line just to be told the vaccines are gone. Now we find out major wall street firms have received vaccines before hospitals and those highly at risk.


"Recent news reports indicate 13 companies, including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Time Warner, have been cleared to receive the vaccine. "

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