Ethics panel votes to charge Sanford
ov. Mark Sanford agreed Thursday to remove the last hurdle to a long-delayed House of Representatives impeachment investigation of his travel and campaign expenses.
Sanford’s attorneys said they planned to turn over a disputed State Ethics Commission investigative report to the House, likely early next week. House leaders have been waiting to review the report, which has been shielded from the public, before allowing impeachment hearings to begin.
Sanford’s attorneys provided some insight into the months-long ethics investigation Thursday, disclosing the commission has questioned about three-dozen instances of Sanford’s travel and use of campaign funds.
Its seems the Climate Change Community are conspiring liars who kept extensive records of their lies and conspiracies.
And guess what? They got hacked and their data and emails have been exposed.
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 Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites 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 Hadley 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.
They lie, that’s all they do. They are also hating death wishers.
One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:
“In an odd way this is cheering news.”
Oh, and they manipulate and suppress evidence.
But perhaps the most damaging revelations – the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal – are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.
Here are a few tasters. (So far, we can only refer to them as alleged emails because – though Hadley CRU’s director Phil Jones has confirmed the break-in to Ian Wishart at the Briefing Room – he has yet to fess up to any specific contents.) But if genuine, they suggest dubious practices such as:
Manipulation of evidence:
I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.
Private doubts about whether the world really is heating up:
The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.
Suppression of evidence:
Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4?
Keith will do likewise. He’s not in at the moment – minor family crisis.
Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have his new email address.
We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.
Fantasies of violence against prominent Climate Sceptic scientists:
Next
time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat
the crap out of him. Very tempted.Attempts to disguise the inconvenient truth of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP):
……Phil and I have recently submitted a paper using about a dozen NH records that fit this category, and many of which are available nearly 2K back–I think that trying to adopt a timeframe of 2K, rather than the usual 1K, addresses a good earlier point that Peck made w/ regard to the memo, that it would be nice to try to “contain” the putative “MWP”, even if we don’t yet have a hemispheric mean reconstruction available that far back….
They also seek to squeeze out and neutralize dissenters. Rules for Radicals…....
And, perhaps most reprehensibly, a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. How, in other words, to create a scientific climate in which anyone who disagrees with AGW can be written off as a crank, whose views do not have a scrap of authority.
“This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the “peer-reviewed literature”. Obviously, they found a solution to that–take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering “Climate Research” as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…What do others think?”
“I will be emailing the journal to tell them I’m having nothing more to do with it until they rid themselves of this troublesome editor.”“It results from this journal having a number of editors. The responsible one for this is a well-known skeptic in NZ. He has let a few papers through by Michaels and Gray in the past. I’ve had words with Hans von Storch about this, but got nowhere. Another thing to discuss in Nice !”
Hat Tip to James Delingpole at telegraph.co.uk
California’s Unemployment Rates rose to 12.5 percent in October to set another modern record, even though more than 25,000 Californians found jobs, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday.
October’s job gains followed 66,000 job losses the month before.
Stephen Levy, senior economist at the Palo Alto-based Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy, [Talk about a grasp of the super-obvious>] said larger job gains are needed to lower the unemployment rate.
“The best we can say is that like the nation, the magnitude of job losses seem to be declining,” Levy said. “This is not a sign that the jobs losses have ended.”
The state has lost 687,700 jobs since October 2008, a decline of about 4.6 percent, according to the state’s survey of 42,000 California businesses.
Nearly 2.3 million Californians were without work in October. The number does not include the nearly 500,000 workers who have taken low-paying or part-time jobs because that’s all they could find, or the 109,000 people who have given up looking for work, according to the state.
1. Isn’t that nearly 3 million in lost jobs?
2. Doesn’t Stephen Levy have a wonderful grasp of the obvious. It reminds me of brilliant football broadcasters that say incredible things like, “unless you get the ball into the end zone, you just cannot win games!’
3. I guess Arnold took “The Terminator” label too seriously and terminated jobs.
I shudder to wonder what asphyxiation involved.
A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday.
Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying, according to the warrant. Authorities embarked on a nearly weeklong search that ended when the girl’s body was found dumped off a rural road.
Mario McNeill is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape of a child in the warrant, which was issued after police said they collected hair and fibers, clothes, and a straw from his 1997 Mitsubishi Galant. He was initially charged only with kidnapping.
The girl’s mother, Antoinette Davis, is charged with filing a false police report, trafficking her daughter and child abuse involving prostitution. Her family members have said they do not believe the charges.
Why, if they have any evidence that the mother sold this child into prostitution would they not charge her with being an accomplice to all of the perpetrator’s crimes. Shouldn’t she face murder charges as well?
It’s like the Grinch trying to steal Christmas: Strict anti-padophile rules on Santa Claus letters close down North Pole
For 55 years, the tiny Alaskan town of North Pole has been diligently answering a deluge of letters addressed to Santa Claus.
But the tradition has come to an abrupt halt after strict new anti-pedophile rules effectively closed down the town’s festive service.
Hundreds of letters which have already arrived from eager children across the States may now be recycled.
The US Postal Service canceled its Operation Santa program which answers 150,000 children’s letter every year, after a volunteer was unmasked as a sex offender.
He was sacked before he could answer any letters, but the incident in Maryland sparked a nationwide clampdown.
Operation Santa had relied on thousands of volunteers to open the post and respond on behalf of Father Christmas, identifying themselves as the his elves and helpers.
These will now be replaced by a computerised system - blocking individuals access to children’s names and addresses.
However, the post office which serves North Pole, near the city of Fairbanks, simply cannot deal with editing out the names and replacing them with codes.
North Pole residents are likening the Postal Service to the Grinch trying to steal Christmas.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1229485/Its-like-Grinch-trying-steal-Christmas-Strict-anti-paedophile-rules-Santa-Claus-letters-close-North-Pole.html#ixzz0XQ0iRpON
A firefighter says he is in hot water with his department after his supervisors noticed his anti-Obama bumper stickers and banned him from parking inside the firehouse based on his political views.
“It’s freedom of speech as far as I’m concerned,” Hartford, Conn., firefighter Mike Di’Giacomo told WFSB-TV. “This is my personal vehicle.”
It seems to me that as a matter of Free Speech and equal protection under the law, either all bumper type stickers should be banned, which I would find odd to ban free political speech on public property; or, if they allow let us say the Pink Ribbons for Breast Cancer Awareness, they must allow all stickers that they do not contain any calls for violence or advocate a crime.
By the way, I love the first sticker!
Teen Sex, Teachers, and Sex Ed
We’ve all heard and/or read about secondary school teachers who are exemplars of the ancient Roman poet, Catullus. His most notable poem, “Odi et Amo” or, “I Hate and I Love,” expresses his ardent feelings toward his mistress, Lesbia, conflicted emotions due to the fact she dumped him.
Many, too many, of today’s teachers seem to have an equally-conflicting love, or lust, for some of their students which actually reflects a deep hatred for who and what they are, namely children.
If not totally innocent children, they are usually far less experienced, guileful, and worldly young people than the teachers and mentors who seduce and abuse them, whether they feel seduced and abused or not.
And classroom teachers are certainly not the only seducers and abusers of immature, “young adults,” a contemporary label which confers on kids an undeserved and misleading aura of adulthood. School administrators and supervisors at all levels of education are also complicit in the smarminess.
The latter contribute to the near-epidemic incidents of illicit teacher-student relationships by tolerating student garb which is often more appropriate to a streetwalker in Times Square than a classroom setting.
They design courses for high school kids more fitting for college-level students. They authorize and condone course material and readings one might expect in College English 101 but which only serve to stoke already-blazing teenage hormones. Then they express shock and indignation when wayward teachers hit on the kids.
Not often mentioned is the seductive behavior of the kids, behavior not offered as an excuse for lecherous teachers who should know better than become involved with children but, too often, don’t know better.
An Atlanta, Georgia teacher allegedly accented the “odi” rather than the “amo” part of Catullus’ poem: “Randolphe Forde, a teacher at Mundy’s Mill High School has been charged with making terroristic threats,” an extreme charge considering that all he did was try to hire a “hit student” to kill another student at his school.
Forde’s motive is not as yet known but it’s likely it went beyond chewing gum in class. The attorney for the target victim suggested it was because the 16 year old is gay and that Forde threatened to “hit him in his ‘effin mouth:” http://bit.ly/3UDCXy . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1330)
Homosexual activists and their liberal allies have thus far been able to sway public opinion anywhere, based on the merits, to gain voter support to change the definition of marriage. In every state (few) where it has been approved it was forced upon the people by the judiciary or legislature. Now in DC the Board of Elections have refused to allow the people the right to vote on this critical issue.
A lawsuit has been filed in Washington, D.C., challenging a decision by the city’s Board of Elections and Ethics not to allow citizens to vote on the definition of marriage, as had been proposed by an initiative.
“The people of D.C. have a right to vote on the definition of marriage,” said Austin Nimocks, a senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund. “The D.C. Charter guarantees the people the right to vote, and the council cannot amend the charter for any reason, much less to deny citizens the right to vote.”
Such a vote already has taken place in 31 states, and 31 times voters have approved the biblical one-man-and-one-woman definition for marriage. Most recently, after voters in Maine came to that conclusion, churches whose leaders had supported the biblical definition became targets of homosexual activists.
The D.C. board decided this week an initiative to uphold or reject the traditional definition of marriage would not be put to voters. The board suggested the proposal authorizes “discrimination” that is banned by its own Human Rights Act.
But the ADF said no act unrelated to expenditures passed by the D.C. Council can preclude the right of the citizens to vote as guaranteed by the D.C. Charter, which serves as a constitution for the federally managed enclave.
”The people of the district have the same right as the D.C. Council to propose legislation on any subject not related to appropriations,” said Cleta Mitchell, counsel to Stand for Marriage DC, a proponent of the Marriage Initiative of 2009.
Even those who have no problem with gay marriage have said it should be up to the states, but I doubt they meant the voters in those states should have no voice in the matter. Yet, time after time the voters are being denied their rights on this issue.
Can Barney Frank Dunk on Lebron? No, he cannot. Nor can anyone else in Washington. Nor can they catch passes from Ben Rothlisberger in the Super Bowl or strike out Derek Jeter in the World Series. They are not equipped to do so.
So what?
This ridiculous image speaks to the business malaise infecting the economy since Obama took office. The point is that politicians are equally ill-equipped to run the auto industry or the health industry or the lending industry or the insurance industry—and their determination to do so is sucking all the dynamism from the entrepreneurial class in this country.
With the threat of this administration and congress, what is the possible motivation for anyone with ideas and capital to invest his time, talent, and money into a risky endeavor? There appears to be none. In fact, there appear to be powerful incentives not to invest any time or treasure—thus an economy with almost zero creative inertia.
For Obama voters, almost zero creative inertia means almost no one is having bright ideas, starting businesses based on them, and hiring employees to help share the dream.
Consider: A professional sports league featuring Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Dennis Kucinich, and Robert Byrd is not an enterprise that can successfully draw investors or paying customers, nor will it command media attention as anything resembling excellence. The entrepreneurial class in this country looks at the governing class in Washington today and sees a bunch of misfit incompetents who are determined to play starring roles in every nook and cranny of the economy.
And it is repulsive as well as disheartening. Maybe three of the 535 members of Congress have what it takes to keep a small business alive for a single fiscal quarter. We believe even fewer have what it takes to roll the dice and actually start one.
Yet they continue to pass laws and speak to reporters about all they are doing to create or save jobs. Yeah, right.
[...]
Any business idea, from the first day it is hatched, is nothing more than a series of cost-benefit analyses that the idea-holder either acts on or passes. Sometimes the first decision is to forget the idea. Sometimes the first decision is to move ahead and invest some cash. Perhaps a few million cost-benefit analyses later you might have Microsoft or Home Depot or ESPN. Or you might have Bill’s Plumbing or Johnson’s Quality Homes or a café or an electrical wholesaler, and so on. And those businesses still operate on a constant stream of risk-reward decisions. In the business world, there is no neutral gear.
This is the American dream. And it is being killed daily because there are few opportunities worth the risk anymore, thanks to Washington. Whether the Congress or the administration will infuse themselves directly into a given industry is not the only point. When government arrogantly claims it can perform impossible slam dunks in the banking industry, the auto industry, the insurance industry, and the medical industry, all the while imposing confiscatory taxes, there is almost nowhere to escape them in any legitimate business.
[...]
For many decades, the American dream has been undergirded by the faith that regardless of its current state, the economy would come back around thanks to the greatness of ordinary people being free to do extraordinary things. Thus the bold gunslinger mentality many business owners have had in previous recessions, refusing to participate, and even expanding cheaply to grab market share in the next recovery.
But it’s different now, and there is no denying it. The dream itself is being killed by legal and regulatory micromanagement. Washington is determined to employ policies to cure something that can be cured only by government getting the hell out of the way.
A small business summit in the White House will accomplish nothing unless the invitees include unions and lawyers and bureaucrats, in which case it will be devastating. When did a union or a lawyer or a bureaucrat ever start a business? How many times a day do they kill one?
And that’s the climate entrepreneurs see. Unions, lawyers, and bureaucrats gain more power and leverage every day. The big opportunity now is to spend government money: an eighteen-million-dollar government contract to create an awful Recovery.org website, SEIU union jobs in ObamaCare, bankruptcy lawyers, and perhaps carbon credit trades coming. There are ACORN-style crony contracts to be had, not to mention all the jobs created by the David Axelrod astroturfing media escapades. If you are connected or if your dream is to enrich yourself by killing the dreams of others, then the field is ripe for you.
But if you simply want to live some iteration of building a better mousetrap, this is not currently the country for you. And entrepreneurs can sense it. This is not about tax policy. It is not about health care. It is not about cap-and-trade. These are all terrible and need to be stopped, but most importantly, the dying American dream is in trouble. We now have a class of people in Washington now that will relentlessly pursue these ruinous initiatives, and a never-ending stream of similarly un-American agendas, until they are removed from power.
The businessmen are under attack, and they know it. This kind of economy cannot work—not until pigs fly, or until Barney Frank dunks on Lebron James.
If only Obama were as motivated to fight and kill terrorists as he is to fight and kill American private sector business.
NY-23 ABSENTEE COUNTS: Hoffman can’t win
It’s over. Rep. Bill Owens, D-Plattsburgh, leads by 3,105 votes with 3,072 absentee ballots left to be counted.
...With 58.6 percent of all absentees counted, Mr. Hoffman has gained 71 votes on Mr. Owens so far.
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
Romans 13-1:
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
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