I could not have said this any better, so here is the best answer to two men that i loath, hate, shun, who are miserable human beings. Thank you Keith, you make a statement and you know how to make it sting.......
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Limbaugh twists Obama’s response to Haiti
I want Rush Limbaugh to shut his bigoted serpent forked tongue, I am so sick of the news stations giving him any national acceptance. They gave him so much voice that he felt he deserved the title of GOP manager. If he had that kind of power I would leave the political landscape. He ias not worth enough to be a rug for my beloved dog. When he dies the worms, ma gets, flies will leave him alone for fear of being infected. I do not like him, I do not want to see him anymore, why do you justify him by showing what a jackass he is. STOP GIVING HIM VOICE AND A SOAP BOX TO SPREAD HIS VILE GARBAGE.
Nothing this President does is good enough for him, and I do not think that will change. That is all I have to say on this subject!
Nothing this President does is good enough for him, and I do not think that will change. That is all I have to say on this subject!
Robertson: Haiti 'cursed' since Satanic pact
I am a Christian and I believe that God loves all his subjects and the idea that God holds a grudge, Mr Robertson SHAME SHAME, you know better than that. I am fed up with national tv who gives idiots like you a public stance to tell your stupid lies. I would not call you a Christian or a good leader. How dare you think your pea sized brain is any better than anybody else's, God will deal with you the day he arrives to take his church home. because I am sure you will go but once gone I do not know where you will be. Because Jesus will deal harshly with those of forked tongue.
I will not waste much breath on this, my next blog will answer both of these blogs quite well, and I can not take the bow for that.
The Rev. Pat Robertson, on his CBN broadcast today, offered his own explanation of the earthquake in Haiti: "Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it," he said. "They were under the heel of the French ... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, 'We will serve you if you'll get us free from the French.'
"True story. And the devil said, 'OK, it's a deal,'" Robertson said. "Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after another."
His words, which refer to a piece of Haitian folklore about the country's founders, come around the 6:00 mark in the report above, which also includes interviews with missionary groups active in the country.
Several comments from what Pat Robertson said.
Pat Robertson is, quite simply, an embarrassment to our country. And his protege Bob McDonnell will be sworn in this week as governor of Virginia. How shameful.
what will Robertson say when America and all nations fall and are destroyed? On the day of God's wrath?
I wonder who his source was? Lucifer himself? Good Lord...And this is the same nut who, last night on his show stated "It looks like Brown really has a chance to win the seat for the people up there. Oh goody. Let's hope he does" Nothing like the religious nut job right to give you chills...
I will not waste much breath on this, my next blog will answer both of these blogs quite well, and I can not take the bow for that.
The Rev. Pat Robertson, on his CBN broadcast today, offered his own explanation of the earthquake in Haiti: "Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it," he said. "They were under the heel of the French ... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, 'We will serve you if you'll get us free from the French.'
"True story. And the devil said, 'OK, it's a deal,'" Robertson said. "Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after another."
His words, which refer to a piece of Haitian folklore about the country's founders, come around the 6:00 mark in the report above, which also includes interviews with missionary groups active in the country.
Several comments from what Pat Robertson said.
Pat Robertson is, quite simply, an embarrassment to our country. And his protege Bob McDonnell will be sworn in this week as governor of Virginia. How shameful.
what will Robertson say when America and all nations fall and are destroyed? On the day of God's wrath?
I wonder who his source was? Lucifer himself? Good Lord...And this is the same nut who, last night on his show stated "It looks like Brown really has a chance to win the seat for the people up there. Oh goody. Let's hope he does" Nothing like the religious nut job right to give you chills...
Wall Street Rakes Big Bonuses, Obama Fails to Stem Abuse
Smith Faculty Opinion Article
 | By Dr. Peter Morici, Professor of International Business E-MAIL WEB SITE |
Wall Street Rakes Big Bonuses, Obama Fails to Stem Abuse
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and other big Wall Street banks are awarding multi-million dollar bonuses to the same financiers who pushed the nation to the brink of financial ruin. President Obama voices outrage but fails to stem the abuse.
Wall Street leaders argue those bonuses were earned, much like jewel thieves refer to a big heist snatched from an impenetrable safe.
Wall Street has kept its mischief legal by salting the pockets of politicians running for Congress and President, and by making certain that key policymakers at Treasury and Federal Reserve are faithful Goldman Sachs alumni.
Those bonuses were made possible by billions in taxpayer financed TARP funds and nearly two trillion in loans from the Federal Reserve and through the FDIC.
Those funds helped Wall Street financial institutions, deemed too big to fail, survive their own misdeeds. Bankers used this cash, much obtained at near zero interest rates, not to make loans for homes and businesses but to trade derivatives, currency futures and other exotic contracts.
The fallout is a dramatic drop in the interest paid by banks for private capital too. Retirees suddenly found CDs that once paid four or five percent interest, now pay two or three percent.
Essentially, Treasury and chiefs Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke are taxing grandma to subsidize Goldman Sachs and finance huge big paydays for bankers who hatched the greatest financial calamity in 80 years.
Meanwhile Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and others continued their pay cartel salaries to everyone from top executives to the mailroom clerk.
It is not surprising that their CEOs, who get the biggest paydays, claim huge bonuses are essential for rewarding talent. When my students grade themselves, they reach self-serving conclusions too.
Sadly, Obama, Geithner and Bernanke could halt this madness but don't.
These banks serve as primary dealers in U.S. Treasury securities-a very profitable business-and depend on Fed lines of credit to sustain business. Status as primary securities dealers and access to Fed financing could be withdrawn from banks that refuse to establish sane compensation practices going forward.
Cynically, Wall Street has contributed mightily to the campaigns of Senate and House committee members who make the rules and President Obama's election campaign.
Goldman Sachs and others paid Obama's senior economic advisor Lawrence Summers millions in speaking and consulting fees the year between being fired as President of Harvard and joining the Obama Administration.
Americans should expect better but won't get it as long as Barack Obama has the audacity to hope voters will look the other way.
Why Free Trade Is Failing America
Smith Faculty Opinion Article
| | By Dr. Peter Morici, Professor of International Business E-MAIL WEB SIT |
This link to read his writings for 2009
http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/opinion/morici/2009
January 05, 2010
Why Free Trade Is Failing America
No economic policy could better serve Americans than genuine free trade but open trade policies are failing Americans. Free trade is a compelling idea. Let each nation do more of what it does best, and specialization will raise productivity and incomes.
Americans are not sharing in those benefits because President Obama, like President Bush, permits China and others to cheat on the rules, unchallenged, to the detriment of the U.S. interests he was elected to champion.
The World Trade Organization has greatly reduced tariffs, prohibits virtually all export subsidies, and regulates other national policies that could subvert trade, such as health and product safety standards arbitrarily slanted to favor domestic suppliers.
For these rules to optimize trade, raise productivity and boost incomes, exchange rates must adjust to reasonably reflect production costs. To buy Chinese televisions, Americans must be able to purchase yuan with dollars; however, an artificially strong dollar that overprices U.S. tractors and software in China will unravel the benefits of trade by denying Americans opportunities to export to pay for those televisions
Exchange rates are established in currency markets, created by businesses trading through major financial institutions. Unfortunately, China and several other Asian governments blatantly manipulate those markets without a credible U.S. response and with ruinous consequences for American workers.
The United States annually exports $1.6 trillion in goods and services, and these finance a like amount of imports. This raises U.S. gross domestic product by about $170 billion, because workers are about 10 percent more productive in export industries, such as software, than in import-competing industries, such as apparel.
Unfortunately, U.S. imports exceed exports by another $400 billion, and workers released from making those products go into non-trade-competing industries, such as retailing, where productivity is at least 50 percent lower. This slashes GDP by about $200 billion, overwhelming the gains from trade, and requires workers displaced by imports to accept lower wages.
The trade deficit creates an excess supply of dollars in international currency markets, as Americans offer more dollars to purchase foreign products than foreigners demand to purchase U.S. products.
Simple supply and demand should drive down the value of the dollar against the yuan and other currencies, make U.S. imports more expensive and exports cheaper, and reduce or eliminate the trade deficit. But the Chinese government subverts this process by habitually printing and selling yuan for dollars in currency markets, keeping its currency and exports artificially cheap.
Currency manipulation creates a 25 percent subsidy on China’s exports, and other Asian countries are impelled to follow similar policies, lest their exports lose competitiveness to Chinese products.
Also, huge trade imbalances between Asia and the West, perpetuated by currency mercantilism, create an imbalance in demand—a shortage of demand for the goods and services produced in the United States and Europe, and artificially robust demand for products made in China and elsewhere in Asia.
Consequently, to keep the U.S. economy going, Americans must both borrow from foreigners and spend too much, as they did through 2008, or their government must amass huge budget deficits by borrowing from abroad, as it is now does thanks to stimulus spending and the TARP.
In the bargain, the United States sends manufacturing jobs to Asia in industries that would be competitive, but for rigged exchange rates. The trade deficit slices $400 to $600 billion off GDP, and Americans suffer unemployment above 10 percent.
China grows at nearly 10 percent a year and makes American diplomats look like fools for advocating free markets as a growth policy.
Campaigning for the Presidency, Barack Obama promised to do something about Chinese currency manipulation. Instead, like a good supplicant, he now thanks Chinese officials for buying U.S. Treasury securities.
China’s development policies make its leaders look smart but nothing makes them look like geniuses better than an American president who appeases their beggar-thy-neighbor policies.
It will be impossible for the United States to create the 9 million jobs needed to bring unemployment down to pre-recession levels without taking on China’s currency manipulation and other unfair trade practices.
For that Americans may need to wait for a better president—one with the courage to stand up to China.
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Me? I don’t fly much. I’ve got travel issues. I’m not afraid to fly, mind you — though I’ve never bought the notion that airline travel is much safer than traveling by car. While statistically true, it’s not the whole story. If you’re a skilled driver, don’t tailgate, pay attention to road conditions, don’t use your cell phone or send text messages, and are not drunk or half-asleep, you DO have some control over getting to your destination safely.
Not so, the passengers on the flight to Detroit carrying the Nigerian underpants bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Well, actually, the passengers DID have some control over the situation and were able to subdue the would-be attacker. But that’s only because Abdulmutallab’s attempt to detonate his underpants went awry. Had his briefs exploded, there may well have been no survivors.
No, when it comes to air travel, I have two monumental fears: 1) Being stuck in the terminal the whole day, or overnight, whether its due to a blizzard or some guy casually walking past an unmanned security checkpoint; 2) being stuck in the plane on the tarmac for hours on end. I have some experience with the former, and the latter gives me nightmares.
…Sometimes I think the airlines are less concerned about a terrorist carrying a box-cutter aboard the plane, than a law-abiding passenger going postal when the plane sits on the tarmac for six hours. The likelihood of the former is still quite remote, while the latter becomes more likely as airline “service” continues to deteriorate.
Now, with the implementation of new guidelines by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and CIA and FBI agents under order to “connect the dots” as intently as they solve their sudoku puzzles, perhaps we can all fly with a little less fear of exploding undergarments or footwear? But what’s certain is that negotiating airport concourses and boarding your flight will be more arduous than ever.
As for privacy concerns raised by libertarians regarding full-body scans at airports, I say, get over it! In fact, the TSA should hire perverts to operate the scanning machines. However ghastly the thought, these degenerates would never be late for work, never get bored, and NOT miss a thing! Mentally balanced TSA employees, on the other hand, would quickly find the task of examining scan after scan intolerably dull. Dangerously dull.
Trust me on this. Having taken life drawing classes during college, I can tell you, the thrill of sketchingnaked ladies (or guys, depending on the audience) quickly wanes. It was a three-hour class, and our instructor would bang on a big trash barrel with a cane, periodically, to keep students from nodding off and dropping their charcoal sticks on the floor. When that didn’t work, he would have us break for five minutes of calisthenics.
Only the criminally depraved can could stare at body scans all day, five days a week, remain alert and keep our country safe! Keep them chained to their posts for public safety, if necessary, but they’d probably stay put of their own accord.
Better yet, we could do what an editor friend of mine suggested: have everyone show up at airports for a pat-down, wearing only trench coats and sneakers. Or maybe we could all just fly in the buff — passengers, flight attendants and pilots alike? Who knows — mass displays of public nudity might eliminate the threat from Muslim extremists altogether!
Fly naked? I’ll do it if you will.
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MSNBC Slideshow there were several of these I thought worth merit and a little funny.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
The mini ice age starts here
My comments are at the end of this blog. I hope that you read this...being that this is tweeted by a Republican and they;re nineteenth century outlook on everything......
my daughter in miami is using her heat for the first time in a decade. Al gore cant explain it but this article can
newtgingrich from web
Last updated at 11:17 AM on 10th January 2010
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in
summer by 2013.
According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.
The scientists’ predictions also undermine the standard climate computer models, which assert that the warming of the Earth since 1900 has been driven solely by man-made greenhouse gas emissions and will continue as long as carbon dioxide levels rise.
They say that their research shows that much of the warming was caused by oceanic cycles when they were in a ‘warm mode’ as opposed to the present ‘cold mode’.
Last week, as Britain froze, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband maintained in a parliamentary answer that the science of global warming was ‘settled’.
Among the most prominent of the scientists is Professor Mojib Latif, a leading member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has been pushing the issue of man-made global warming on to the international political agenda since it was formed 22 years ago.
Prof Latif, who leads a research team at the renowned Leibniz Institute at Germany’s Kiel University, has developed new methods for measuring ocean temperatures 3,000ft beneath the surface, where the cooling and warming cycles start.
He and his colleagues predicted the new cooling trend in a paper published in 2008 and warned of it again at an IPCC conference in Geneva last September.
Last night he told The Mail on Sunday: ‘A significant share of the warming we saw from 1980 to 2000 and at earlier periods in the 20th Century was due to these cycles – perhaps as much as 50 per cent.
'They have now gone into reverse, so winters like this one will become much more likely. Summers will also probably be cooler, and all this may well last two decades or longer.
‘The extreme retreats that we have seen in glaciers and sea ice will come to a halt. For the time being, global warming has paused, and there may well be some cooling.’
As Europe, Asia and North America froze last week, conventional wisdom insisted that this was merely a ‘blip’ of no long-term significance.
Though record lows were experienced as far south as Cuba, where the daily maximum on beaches normally used for winter bathing was just 4.5C, the BBC assured viewers that the big chill was merely short-term ‘weather’ that had nothing to do with ‘climate’, which was still warming.
The work of Prof Latif and the other scientists refutes that view.
On the one hand, it is true that the current freeze is the product of the ‘Arctic oscillation’ – a weather pattern that sees the development of huge ‘blocking’ areas of high pressure in northern latitudes, driving polar winds far to the south.
Meteorologists say that this is at its strongest for at least 60 years.
As a result, the jetstream – the high-altitude wind that circles the globe from west to east and normally pushes a series of wet but mild Atlantic lows across Britain – is currently running not over the English Channel but the Strait of Gibraltar.
However, according to Prof Latif and his colleagues, this in turn relates to much longer-term shifts – what are known as the Pacific and Atlantic ‘multi-decadal oscillations’ (MDOs).
For Europe, the crucial factor here is the temperature of the water in the middle of the North Atlantic, now several degrees below its average when the world was still warming.
But the effects are not confined to the Northern Hemisphere. Prof Anastasios Tsonis, head of the University of Wisconsin Atmospheric Sciences Group, has recently shown that these MDOs move together in a synchronised way across the globe, abruptly flipping the world’s climate from a ‘warm mode’ to a ‘cold mode’ and back again in 20 to 30-year cycles.
'They amount to massive rearrangements in the dominant patterns of the weather,’ he said yesterday, ‘and their shifts explain all the major changes in world temperatures during the 20th and 21st Centuries.
'We have such a change now and can therefore expect 20 or 30 years of cooler temperatures.’
Prof Tsonis said that the period from 1915 to 1940 saw a strong warm mode, reflected in rising temperatures.
But from 1940 until the late Seventies, the last MDO cold-mode era, the world cooled, despite the fact that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere continued to rise.
Many of the consequences of the recent warm mode were also observed 90 years ago.
For example, in 1922, the Washington Post reported that Greenland’s glaciers were fast disappearing, while Arctic seals were ‘finding the water too hot’.
It interviewed a Captain Martin Ingebrigsten, who had been sailing the eastern Arctic for 54 years: ‘He says that he first noted warmer conditions in 1918, and since that time it has gotten steadily warmer.
'Where formerly great masses of ice were found, there are now moraines, accumulations of earth and stones. At many points where glaciers formerly extended into the sea they have entirely disappeared.’
As a result, the shoals of fish that used to live in these waters had vanished, while the sea ice beyond the north coast of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean had melted.
Warm Gulf Stream water was still detectable within a few hundred miles of the Pole.
In contrast, Prof Tsonis said, last week 56 per cent of the surface of the United States was covered by snow.
‘That hasn’t happened for several decades,’ he pointed out. ‘It just isn’t true to say this is a blip. We can expect colder winters for quite a while.’
He recalled that towards the end of the last cold mode, the world’s media were preoccupied by fears of freezing.
For example, in 1974, a Time magazine cover story predicted ‘Another Ice Age’, saying: ‘Man may be somewhat responsible – as a result of farming and fuel burning [which is] blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the Earth.’
Prof Tsonis said: ‘Perhaps we will see talk of an ice age again by the early 2030s, just as the MDOs shift once more and temperatures begin to rise.’
Like Prof Latif, Prof Tsonis is not a climate change ‘denier’. There is, he said, a measure of additional ‘background’ warming due to human activity and greenhouse gases that runs across the MDO cycles.
But he added: ‘I do not believe in catastrophe theories. Man-made warming is balanced by the natural cycles, and I do not trust the computer models which state that if CO2 reaches a particular level then temperatures and sea levels will rise by a given amount.
'These models cannot be trusted to predict the weather for a week, yet they are running them to give readings for 100 years.’
Prof Tsonis said that when he published his work in the highly respected journal Geophysical Research Letters, he was deluged with ‘hate emails’.
He added: ‘People were accusing me of wanting to destroy the climate, yet all I’m interested in is the truth.’
He said he also received hate mail from climate change sceptics, accusing him of not going far enough to attack the theory of man-made warming.
The work of Profs Latif, Tsonis and their teams raises a crucial question: If some of the late 20th Century warming was caused not by carbon dioxide but by MDOs, then how much?
Tsonis did not give a figure; Latif suggested it could be anything between ten and 50 per cent.
Other critics of the warming orthodoxy say the role played by MDOs is even greater.
William Gray, emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University, said that while he believed there had been some background rise caused by greenhouse gases, the computer models used by advocates of man-made warming had hugely exaggerated their effect.
According to Prof Gray, these distort the way the atmosphere works. ‘Most of the rise in temperature from the Seventies to the Nineties was natural,’ he said. ‘Very little was down to CO2 – in my view, as little as five to ten per cent.’
But last week, die-hard warming advocates were refusing to admit that MDOs were having any impact.
In March 2000, Dr David Viner, then a member of the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, the body now being investigated over the notorious ‘Warmergate’ leaked emails, said that within a few years snowfall would become ‘a very rare and exciting event’ in Britain, and that ‘children just aren’t going to know what snow is’.
Now the head of a British Council programme with an annual £10 million budget that raises awareness of global warming among young people abroad, Dr Viner last week said he still stood by that prediction: ‘We’ve had three weeks of relatively cold weather, and that doesn’t change anything.
'This winter is just a little cooler than average, and I still think that snow will become an increasingly rare event.’
The longer the cold spell lasts, the harder it may be to persuade the public of that assertion.
and I have one last comment
There are 640 something more that you can read. I honestly do not understand how some people can sit and say that there is no global warming, with all the co2 between the cars, factories, burning all the rain forests. We are slowing destroying the planet that God gave us to care for. I am ashamed of people who think that it is the sun, it is the ocean temperatures, it is fabricated to give rich countries more money. Bankrupting cities, countries, regions of the world, lets see there is world hunger, poverty, illness, sanitation, in regions of the world that are already bankrupt, and nobody is helping them, in fact the rest of the world is raping them, especially if they have products for use, forests to cut down, animals for kill, lucrative ways to make the almighty dollar,
my daughter in miami is using her heat for the first time in a decade. Al gore cant explain it but this article can
newtgingrich from web
By David Rose
Last updated at 11:17 AM on 10th January 2010
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in
summer by 2013.
According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.
They say that their research shows that much of the warming was caused by oceanic cycles when they were in a ‘warm mode’ as opposed to the present ‘cold mode’.
This challenge to the widespread view that the planet is on the brink of an irreversible catastrophe is all the greater because the scientists could never be described as global warming ‘deniers’ or sceptics.
However, both main British political parties continue to insist that the world is facing imminent disaster without drastic cuts in CO2. This image of the UK taken from NASA's multi-national Terra satellite on Thursday shows the extent of the freezing weather
Among the most prominent of the scientists is Professor Mojib Latif, a leading member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has been pushing the issue of man-made global warming on to the international political agenda since it was formed 22 years ago.
Prof Latif, who leads a research team at the renowned Leibniz Institute at Germany’s Kiel University, has developed new methods for measuring ocean temperatures 3,000ft beneath the surface, where the cooling and warming cycles start.
He and his colleagues predicted the new cooling trend in a paper published in 2008 and warned of it again at an IPCC conference in Geneva last September.
Last night he told The Mail on Sunday: ‘A significant share of the warming we saw from 1980 to 2000 and at earlier periods in the 20th Century was due to these cycles – perhaps as much as 50 per cent.
'They have now gone into reverse, so winters like this one will become much more likely. Summers will also probably be cooler, and all this may well last two decades or longer.
‘The extreme retreats that we have seen in glaciers and sea ice will come to a halt. For the time being, global warming has paused, and there may well be some cooling.’
As Europe, Asia and North America froze last week, conventional wisdom insisted that this was merely a ‘blip’ of no long-term significance.
Though record lows were experienced as far south as Cuba, where the daily maximum on beaches normally used for winter bathing was just 4.5C, the BBC assured viewers that the big chill was merely short-term ‘weather’ that had nothing to do with ‘climate’, which was still warming.
The work of Prof Latif and the other scientists refutes that view.
On the one hand, it is true that the current freeze is the product of the ‘Arctic oscillation’ – a weather pattern that sees the development of huge ‘blocking’ areas of high pressure in northern latitudes, driving polar winds far to the south.
Meteorologists say that this is at its strongest for at least 60 years.
As a result, the jetstream – the high-altitude wind that circles the globe from west to east and normally pushes a series of wet but mild Atlantic lows across Britain – is currently running not over the English Channel but the Strait of Gibraltar.
A composite photograph released last year to highlight the issue of melting ice and global warming
For Europe, the crucial factor here is the temperature of the water in the middle of the North Atlantic, now several degrees below its average when the world was still warming.
But the effects are not confined to the Northern Hemisphere. Prof Anastasios Tsonis, head of the University of Wisconsin Atmospheric Sciences Group, has recently shown that these MDOs move together in a synchronised way across the globe, abruptly flipping the world’s climate from a ‘warm mode’ to a ‘cold mode’ and back again in 20 to 30-year cycles.
'They amount to massive rearrangements in the dominant patterns of the weather,’ he said yesterday, ‘and their shifts explain all the major changes in world temperatures during the 20th and 21st Centuries.
'We have such a change now and can therefore expect 20 or 30 years of cooler temperatures.’
Prof Tsonis said that the period from 1915 to 1940 saw a strong warm mode, reflected in rising temperatures.
Pictures of the snow in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, last week show the city is the coldest it has been since 1970
Many of the consequences of the recent warm mode were also observed 90 years ago.
For example, in 1922, the Washington Post reported that Greenland’s glaciers were fast disappearing, while Arctic seals were ‘finding the water too hot’.
It interviewed a Captain Martin Ingebrigsten, who had been sailing the eastern Arctic for 54 years: ‘He says that he first noted warmer conditions in 1918, and since that time it has gotten steadily warmer.
'Where formerly great masses of ice were found, there are now moraines, accumulations of earth and stones. At many points where glaciers formerly extended into the sea they have entirely disappeared.’
As a result, the shoals of fish that used to live in these waters had vanished, while the sea ice beyond the north coast of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean had melted.
Warm Gulf Stream water was still detectable within a few hundred miles of the Pole.
In contrast, Prof Tsonis said, last week 56 per cent of the surface of the United States was covered by snow.
‘That hasn’t happened for several decades,’ he pointed out. ‘It just isn’t true to say this is a blip. We can expect colder winters for quite a while.’
He recalled that towards the end of the last cold mode, the world’s media were preoccupied by fears of freezing.
For example, in 1974, a Time magazine cover story predicted ‘Another Ice Age’, saying: ‘Man may be somewhat responsible – as a result of farming and fuel burning [which is] blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the Earth.’
Prof Tsonis said: ‘Perhaps we will see talk of an ice age again by the early 2030s, just as the MDOs shift once more and temperatures begin to rise.’
Like Prof Latif, Prof Tsonis is not a climate change ‘denier’. There is, he said, a measure of additional ‘background’ warming due to human activity and greenhouse gases that runs across the MDO cycles.
'This isn't just a blip. We can expect colder winters for quite a while'
'These models cannot be trusted to predict the weather for a week, yet they are running them to give readings for 100 years.’
Prof Tsonis said that when he published his work in the highly respected journal Geophysical Research Letters, he was deluged with ‘hate emails’.
He added: ‘People were accusing me of wanting to destroy the climate, yet all I’m interested in is the truth.’
He said he also received hate mail from climate change sceptics, accusing him of not going far enough to attack the theory of man-made warming.
The work of Profs Latif, Tsonis and their teams raises a crucial question: If some of the late 20th Century warming was caused not by carbon dioxide but by MDOs, then how much?
Tsonis did not give a figure; Latif suggested it could be anything between ten and 50 per cent.
Other critics of the warming orthodoxy say the role played by MDOs is even greater.
William Gray, emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University, said that while he believed there had been some background rise caused by greenhouse gases, the computer models used by advocates of man-made warming had hugely exaggerated their effect.
Dr David Viner stands by his claim that snow will become an 'increasingly rare event'
But last week, die-hard warming advocates were refusing to admit that MDOs were having any impact.
In March 2000, Dr David Viner, then a member of the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, the body now being investigated over the notorious ‘Warmergate’ leaked emails, said that within a few years snowfall would become ‘a very rare and exciting event’ in Britain, and that ‘children just aren’t going to know what snow is’.
Now the head of a British Council programme with an annual £10 million budget that raises awareness of global warming among young people abroad, Dr Viner last week said he still stood by that prediction: ‘We’ve had three weeks of relatively cold weather, and that doesn’t change anything.
'This winter is just a little cooler than average, and I still think that snow will become an increasingly rare event.’
The longer the cold spell lasts, the harder it may be to persuade the public of that assertion.
These are some of the comments I found to be funny, stupid, idiotic
The AGW crowds haven't forgotten grade school science classes...they remember them well in fact. The trouble is, they actually despise any real science that contradicts their orthodoxy...so they choose to ignore it. Unfortunately, modern elementary school "science," classes teach global warming nonsense because these same AGW zealots want to indoctrinate children with an agenda rather than actually provide an education. If they actually taught these children HOW to think rather than WHAT to think the AGW's would truly be in over their heads...but in real science, and legitimate inquiry, and not sea water.
My main question is this: When are they going to ask for Al Gore's Nobel Prize back?
My belief is that we are headed into the next Glaciation, which follows in line from the past 20 or more previous Glaciations during the last million years plus of the current Ice Age, as predicted by the Milankovich Cycle.
Although this Cycle is fact, the time lines are too vague for this day and age, and unerstanding is further hampered by our still embryonic knowlege of weather systems and what drives them.
As a "denier', I'll just wait and watch as today's crop of Chicken Littles continue to adjust their "facts". CO2 = Global Warming ? Ha ha ha.
Although this Cycle is fact, the time lines are too vague for this day and age, and unerstanding is further hampered by our still embryonic knowlege of weather systems and what drives them.
As a "denier', I'll just wait and watch as today's crop of Chicken Littles continue to adjust their "facts". CO2 = Global Warming ? Ha ha ha.
This is one of the best articles I have read on climate issues. It makes sense & emphasizes that the scientists cited are not invested in either end of the global warming continuum. From my Internet research over the last couple of years, I've developed a few theories:
1) World climate change meetings are less about weather and more abouit gaining wealth & power via carbon trading (an envisioned worldwide source of easy revenue for the power brokers of the world).
2) When the scientists are in the politian's pocket and become fear mongers, BEWARE!
3) Developing alternative energy and reducing pollution are good goals, but not at the expense of bankrupting cities/countries/regions of the world.
4) Worldwide warming and cooling trends are still immensely complex. I remember the drought conditions in the late 1980's in the US midwest that were initially blamed on the ozone layer eventually were determined to be caused by underwater volcanoes!
1) World climate change meetings are less about weather and more abouit gaining wealth & power via carbon trading (an envisioned worldwide source of easy revenue for the power brokers of the world).
2) When the scientists are in the politian's pocket and become fear mongers, BEWARE!
3) Developing alternative energy and reducing pollution are good goals, but not at the expense of bankrupting cities/countries/regions of the world.
4) Worldwide warming and cooling trends are still immensely complex. I remember the drought conditions in the late 1980's in the US midwest that were initially blamed on the ozone layer eventually were determined to be caused by underwater volcanoes!
Colbert:
"a consensus is something everyone agrees upon. A fact is something that is NOT subjective to whether everyone agrees or disagrees. A fact is something proven which cannot be disputed. Man Made Global Warming does not meet that test. "
Thank You
and Ill take it one step further...
Man Made Global Warming doesnt even meet to consensus...and the fact that Al Gore has to lie and say it does is enough proof to me that his argument is like swiss cheese> (no offence meant to swiss cheese)
"a consensus is something everyone agrees upon. A fact is something that is NOT subjective to whether everyone agrees or disagrees. A fact is something proven which cannot be disputed. Man Made Global Warming does not meet that test. "
Thank You
and Ill take it one step further...
Man Made Global Warming doesnt even meet to consensus...and the fact that Al Gore has to lie and say it does is enough proof to me that his argument is like swiss cheese> (no offence meant to swiss cheese)
and I have one last comment
Global 'change' (cold/hot..whatever) is caused by the Sun's temperature variations. IT IS NOT CAUSED BY MAN! It's the Sun stupid! I am tired of the stupidity. Global warming is just a fabricated crisis in order for governments to pass tax laws that they could not normal get away with without the fabricated crisis. Give it a rest people. Common sense. IT'S THE SUN STUPID! Now can we go on to something else?
I will be around until 2020 and I want to see what these nay Sayers will say at that point in time.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Meet The Press 1/10/2010
I like what Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had to say about health care, it is not fair that certain congresspeople held back their votes unless they were given something something for their vote. Those votes were bought. Just like certain congresspeople are bought and sold by health insurance companies. And that should be illegal. We are not into slavery anymore. He also talked about education in California. The second clip he says and I am taking directly from what he said " But I think it is much easier when people take party out of the way. And I know it is very hard to do, but you got to be a servant to the people, not to your party."
I love that because that is what I have been saying. And this man is a Republican I love it......
Gov Schwarzenegger
I mean, you know, if you think about that the Senate just voted for a healthcare bill that is saying basically that California should pay for Nebraska so that Nebraska never has to pay any extra money, and we have to...
MR. GREGORY: Working together. As you come to the, the last year of your tenure as governor, where do you fit in the Republican Party of today?
I love that because that is what I have been saying. And this man is a Republican I love it......
Gov Schwarzenegger
I mean, you know, if you think about that the Senate just voted for a healthcare bill that is saying basically that California should pay for Nebraska so that Nebraska never has to pay any extra money, and we have to...
MR. GREGORY: To expand the Medicaid rolls?
GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: To expand the Medicaid. And so if--we have to pay 3, $4 billion extra for those states?
MR. GREGORY: You said the president should rethink healthcare reform.
GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: Absolutely, because that's not healthcare reform, to go and to put that extra burden, billions of dollars, on other states, especially on California. Just because we're the best state in the world and the best place in the world and we are the most diversified economy and everyone wants to come to California is no reason to beat up on California and to always ask for more money from California.
MR. GREGORY: Do--is that how you...
GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: I think it's time for the federal government to go and do--take care of us.
MR. GREGORY: Is that how you think about healthcare reform as something that ultimately would beat up on California?
GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: Yes, it is. Right now it is. And I just cannot imagine why we would have, like I said, you know, for instance, you know, our senators and congressional people, how they would vote for something like that where they're representing Nebraska and not us. And by the way, as I said in my State of the State, that's the biggest rip-off. I mean, that is against the law to buy a vote. I mean...
MR. GREGORY: You're talking about Senator Nelson, who got...
GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: As Senator Nelson. That's like buying a vote to say, "Hey, it's--I'm going"...
MR. GREGORY: The federal government will pay for their Medicaid expansion.
GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: "I'm holding out my vote unless I get some extra kind of benefits here." I mean, if you do that in Sacramento, you know, you will be sued. It is illegal to do that, to buy votes.
MR. GREGORY: Working together. As you come to the, the last year of your tenure as governor, where do you fit in the Republican Party of today?
GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: I'm a reformer. I'm an independent reformer. I came into this job here saying that I want, want to be the people's governor, not the Republican Party's governor, but the people's governor. I want to represent Democrats and Republicans. I want to do everything that I can to bring Democrats and Republicans together. That's why I've been talking so much about post-partisanship, bipartisanship
or none partisanship. I think it's extremely important, the action is, to bring both of the parties together and to look at what they can do together rather than to just talk about what they want to fight over. Let's do it together. Let's go in the beginning of the year and say, "Here are the things that need to be done," and then get them to work together on those things. So, you know, I think that we have a lot of things we got done, even though Democrats and Republicans fight. But I think it is much easier when people take party out of the way. And I know it is very hard to do, but you got to be a servant to the people, not to your party.
MR. GREGORY: Do you think the, the Republican Party is doing that of today, nationally?
GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER: I think both of the parties are not doing that because it is so political. It's more--they're thinking more about the party than about the people. And I think that as soon as both parties come together and have regular meetings and say, "What can we accomplish together," rather than just worrying about, "How do we get elected?" and "How do we get more people elected for the Republican Party?" and how to get more elected for the Democratic Party, all of this--I know it's part of politics to do that. But I think that we should tone that down and lift up of what is important, really, and for the people. Look, this country need to rebuild itself. We are still living off the Eisenhower era and off the Roosevelt era when they built the thousands of bridges and the thousands of government buildings and the roads, the highway system and all of those things. What's the new thing that we're building? We haven't built anything in decades. We need a high speed rail. We need new infrastructure. We need to think about it because we have countries like China and Europe that are very fast gaining on us and surpassing us. So we got to get our act together and really make this country kind of live in the 21st century, not be with the infrastructure in the 20th century.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Healthcare as inspired by the Tea Party and Michelle Malkin
*****If anyone who reads this blog if you can find me the piece about Humana and the CBO I would really appreciate it. Until I can prove that this is real and not just a smoke screen, I have looked up everywhere and I can not find anything. It is important to understand where the tea partiers are coming from. They seem to be people hell bent on destroying what is left of the republican party. Now I do not love the GOP, but I am not sure the tea party is what the country wants either. If you would like some sites to go check out what the tea party is about here they are:
Michelle Malkin ,
Grassroots Conservative Movement ,
SGP Smart Girl Politics
Smart Girl Politics: Founding Sisters of the Tea Party movement Michelle Malkin touts these women as the starters of the Tea Party Movement.....interesting.
Tea Party Patriots on Ning
Tea Party Patriots on Twitter
Tea Party Patriots [Offical web Site]
Offical Website Tea Party Patriots
By: Esther Petersen
I am afraid that we have been proven right. I have attended five Tea Party type events this year and the theme, for most of the people I talked to was, “it all about control”. At the very first Tea Party event on April 15th, it was TARP and the Omnibus spending plan that were front and center in the targeted anger. That is interesting to note as TARP was passed under the leadership of the GOP and Omnibus was under the leadership of the Democrats. Healthcare reform (or take over) was still on the “far-off” drawing board with Cap and Trade. Two big, bad, bills looming in, what we hoped, was a very distant future. If only……..
Fast forward to the end of September and look at where we are now. Cap and Trade was rammed through the House of Representatives and the Healthcare legislation has at least four different bills floating around. “We the People” did our job throughout the summer with our phones calls and emails, and we certainly made our position know loudly and clearly through our unprecedented town hall participation. Oh yes, we read up on as much as we could, we made no pretences as to our positions, we fought hard all summer, and ended with a massive march on Capitol Hill. And what has happened since? Have our Representatives decided to actually listen to us and to do what we demanded of them? No, they most certainly have not. In fact, they are now putting a gag order on Humana, a private business, which prevents Humana from passing on information to its customers that is backed up by the CBO! That is correct! Humana is not lying to its customers, they are passing on information that has been verified by the Congressional Budget Office, yet the long and ever far reaching arm of the Federal Government has told them to “shut up”.
If only that were the only thing that was obscene about the moves made since the August recess. Now, what is referred to as the Baucus bill will include not only a substantial fee, but possible JAIL TIME for people who do not purchase insurance. Let us think about that for a moment. It has been shown through interviews and speeches that President Obama, Representatives Pelosi and Frank, and Senators Bernie Sanders and Dennis Kucinich to name a few, are all supportive of a single payer health system. The problem is, the American people do not agree. The American people want healthcare reform not a “government takeover”. So what is the solution? Why that is simple, force the public into a single payer system over a period of time and do it by making the current system so obnoxious that people begin to think there is no other option. Boom, there it is. They gain full control and we are stuck with it. If this is not the case then why would they be opposed to the options such as opening up state borders and tort reform that would cost the American public nothing? Why would they be opposed to free market solutions? Why would they be opposed to breaking the bill down into much smaller, less intrusive, easier to read bills? The answer, I am afraid, is becoming more and more obvious. They do not want to just reform healthcare; they want to completely transform it into something we in this country have never seen before. They ultimately want to control it, therefore they will not listen to us and reform it slowly with common sense moves.
Michelle Malkin ,
Grassroots Conservative Movement ,
SGP Smart Girl Politics
Smart Girl Politics: Founding Sisters of the Tea Party movement Michelle Malkin touts these women as the starters of the Tea Party Movement.....interesting.
Tea Party Patriots on Ning
Tea Party Patriots on Twitter
Tea Party Patriots [Offical web Site]
Offical Website Tea Party Patriots
By: Esther Petersen
I am afraid that we have been proven right. I have attended five Tea Party type events this year and the theme, for most of the people I talked to was, “it all about control”. At the very first Tea Party event on April 15th, it was TARP and the Omnibus spending plan that were front and center in the targeted anger. That is interesting to note as TARP was passed under the leadership of the GOP and Omnibus was under the leadership of the Democrats. Healthcare reform (or take over) was still on the “far-off” drawing board with Cap and Trade. Two big, bad, bills looming in, what we hoped, was a very distant future. If only……..
Fast forward to the end of September and look at where we are now. Cap and Trade was rammed through the House of Representatives and the Healthcare legislation has at least four different bills floating around. “We the People” did our job throughout the summer with our phones calls and emails, and we certainly made our position know loudly and clearly through our unprecedented town hall participation. Oh yes, we read up on as much as we could, we made no pretences as to our positions, we fought hard all summer, and ended with a massive march on Capitol Hill. And what has happened since? Have our Representatives decided to actually listen to us and to do what we demanded of them? No, they most certainly have not. In fact, they are now putting a gag order on Humana, a private business, which prevents Humana from passing on information to its customers that is backed up by the CBO! That is correct! Humana is not lying to its customers, they are passing on information that has been verified by the Congressional Budget Office, yet the long and ever far reaching arm of the Federal Government has told them to “shut up”.
If only that were the only thing that was obscene about the moves made since the August recess. Now, what is referred to as the Baucus bill will include not only a substantial fee, but possible JAIL TIME for people who do not purchase insurance. Let us think about that for a moment. It has been shown through interviews and speeches that President Obama, Representatives Pelosi and Frank, and Senators Bernie Sanders and Dennis Kucinich to name a few, are all supportive of a single payer health system. The problem is, the American people do not agree. The American people want healthcare reform not a “government takeover”. So what is the solution? Why that is simple, force the public into a single payer system over a period of time and do it by making the current system so obnoxious that people begin to think there is no other option. Boom, there it is. They gain full control and we are stuck with it. If this is not the case then why would they be opposed to the options such as opening up state borders and tort reform that would cost the American public nothing? Why would they be opposed to free market solutions? Why would they be opposed to breaking the bill down into much smaller, less intrusive, easier to read bills? The answer, I am afraid, is becoming more and more obvious. They do not want to just reform healthcare; they want to completely transform it into something we in this country have never seen before. They ultimately want to control it, therefore they will not listen to us and reform it slowly with common sense moves.
GOP spreads Terror Falsehood
Lawrence O'Donnell Who is subbing for Keith did this commentary the night of the debauched interview with Rudy Giuliani by George Stephanopoulos listing some of the terrorist attacks that took place under the Presidency Of George W Bush, I find this enlightening and kinda scarey that the esteemed ex-Mayor who builds his reputation on knowing about terrorist and how they work, who I expect would like to run in the 2012 race, has now just about cut his own throat. I do not see his candidacy coming to full flower-hood. I believe he is done, well done.
Rudy Giuliani Criticizes Terror Trial
Check out this video:
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=9510257
I must say I was a little disappointed in you George, I watch you all the time, and with the death of Tim Russert, I looked to you to be as hard nosed as He was. But boy you really just let that whole remark slip by what the hell were you thinking, how to get out of there without much conflict. I know that your time is limited but you should have stopped that egotistical hog wash in his hypocritical lie be4 another sentence was uttered. I mean after listening to him in the primaries talking about 9/11 until you wanted to put tape over his mouth. Trying to take all the glory from people [the police, firemen, emt's] who gave their lives trying to save us regular Americans. It got to the point that is where he lost alot of support if he had any. Please promise that since you are giving up "This week with" that your stint with GMA will be alot better than this last muddled mess because I believe that you are one of the best morning political commentators with an eye for the truth. Please do not let us down again.
Posted by: Peggy | Jan 10,2010 2:03:14 PM ME!!!!!!!!!
Georgie, Georgie, Georgie......what were you thinking not challenging Rudy on GMA??????
Posted by: Mary | Jan 8, 2010 2:56:44 PM
Very convenient lapse there George, isn't it?
The elite of our media consists of shills and sycophants, especially when it comes to calling on the politicians of the right when they try to bamboozle. Why should anyone expect you to be too much different?
Too late to apologize George. You are now, and shall forever be in my mind, indicative of a cowardly and greedy media that would be content to sacrifice the future of our society for a year or two of profits. Resign.
Posted by: adam payson | Jan 8, 2010 3:07:17 PM
I too miss Tim Russert!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Michelle | Jan 8, 2010 3:21:10 PM
And we assume you will be making your corrections and apologies on air tomorrow morning. You knew he was wrong when he said it, you owe your viewers an apology and pledge to not be a stenographer in the future.
Posted by: EdrieI | Jan 8, 2010 3:23:50 PM
I have to agree with Isis. There were SEVERAL attacks after 911.
tainted with anthrax kill five across the United States, with politicians and media officials as the apparent targets. On July 31, 2008 Bruce E. Ivins a top biodefense researcher committed suicide.[31] On August 6, 2008 the FBI concluded that Ivins was solely responsible for the attacks and suggested that Ivins wanted to bolster support for a vaccine he helped create and that he targeted two lawmakers because they were Catholics who held pro choice views.
May 2002 Mailbox Pipe Bomber: Lucas John Helder rigged pipe bombs in private mailboxes to explode when the boxes were opened. He injured 6 people in Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, and Iowa. His motivation was to garner media attention so that he could spread a message denouncing government control over daily lives and the illegality of marijuana as well as promoting astral projection.
2002 July 4: 2002 Los Angeles Airport shooting Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, a 41-year-old Egyptian national, kills two Israelis and wounds four others at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport. The FBI concluded this was terrorism, although they found no evidence linking Hadayet to any terrorist group.
October 2002 Beltway Sniper Attacks: During three weeks in October 2002 John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo killed 10 people and critically injured three others in Washington D.C, Baltimore, and Virginia. An earlier spree by the pair had resulted in 3 deaths in Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, California, Arizona, and Texas to bring the total to 16 deaths. No motivation was given at the trial but evidence presented showed an affinity to the cause of the Islamic jihad.
March 2003 23: Sgt. Hasan Akbarwas charged in a hand grenade and shooting attack that killed Army Captain Christopher Seifert and Air Force Major Gregory Stone, while wounding 14 other soldiers on 23 March 2003. The attack took place at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait, a rear base camp for the invasion.
2006 March 5: Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar injured 6 when he drove an SUV into a group of pedestrians at UNC-Chapel Hill to "avenge the deaths or murders of Muslims around the world".
2006 Seattle Jewish Federation shooting, Egyptian shoots six Jewish women
2007 October 26: A pair of improvised explosive devices were thrown at the Mexican Consulate in New York City. The fake grenades were filled with black powder and detonated by fuses causing very minor damage. Police were investigating the connection between this and a similar attack against the British Consulate in New York in 2005.
2008 February: In the first reported incident of animal-rights extremists physically assaulting the family members of animal researchers, six masked activists attempted to force their way into the home of a University of California, Santa Cruz, researcher and injured the researcher's husband.
2008 March 3: Four multimillion-dollar show homes place in Woodinville, Washington are torched. The Earth Liberation Front is suspected in the fires.
2008 May 4 Multiple nail laden pipe bombs exploded at a Federal Courthouse in San Diego at 1:40 AM causing "considerable damage" to the entrance and lobby and sending shrapnel two blocks away. The F.B.I. is investigating links between this attack and an April 25 explosion at the FedEx building also in San Diego.
2008 July 27 Jim D. Adkisson opened fire in the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville,Tennessee killing two and injuring seven before being tackled to the ground by congregation members. A note found in his SUV indicated this was intended as a suicide attack and said the church was apparently targeted because of its support of liberal social policies.
Posted by: Pete | Jan 8, 2010 3:25:31 PM
Posted by: Matt | Jan 8, 2010 3:40:05 PM
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=9510257
I must say I was a little disappointed in you George, I watch you all the time, and with the death of Tim Russert, I looked to you to be as hard nosed as He was. But boy you really just let that whole remark slip by what the hell were you thinking, how to get out of there without much conflict. I know that your time is limited but you should have stopped that egotistical hog wash in his hypocritical lie be4 another sentence was uttered. I mean after listening to him in the primaries talking about 9/11 until you wanted to put tape over his mouth. Trying to take all the glory from people [the police, firemen, emt's] who gave their lives trying to save us regular Americans. It got to the point that is where he lost alot of support if he had any. Please promise that since you are giving up "This week with" that your stint with GMA will be alot better than this last muddled mess because I believe that you are one of the best morning political commentators with an eye for the truth. Please do not let us down again.
Posted by: Peggy | Jan 10,2010 2:03:14 PM ME!!!!!!!!!
Georgie, Georgie, Georgie......what were you thinking not challenging Rudy on GMA??????
Posted by: Mary | Jan 8, 2010 2:56:44 PM
Very convenient lapse there George, isn't it?
The elite of our media consists of shills and sycophants, especially when it comes to calling on the politicians of the right when they try to bamboozle. Why should anyone expect you to be too much different?
Posted by: gregor | Jan 8, 2010 3:01:02 PM
Too late to apologize George. You are now, and shall forever be in my mind, indicative of a cowardly and greedy media that would be content to sacrifice the future of our society for a year or two of profits. Resign.
Posted by: adam payson | Jan 8, 2010 3:07:17 PM
I too miss Tim Russert!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Michelle | Jan 8, 2010 3:21:10 PM
And we assume you will be making your corrections and apologies on air tomorrow morning. You knew he was wrong when he said it, you owe your viewers an apology and pledge to not be a stenographer in the future.
Posted by: EdrieI | Jan 8, 2010 3:23:50 PM
So Guiliani "clarifies" by suggesting there were no attacks on US soil AFTER 9-11. That's still incorrect!!! When will you call him on THAT lie?
Posted by: Isis | Jan 8, 2010 3:22:32 PM
I have to agree with Isis. There were SEVERAL attacks after 911.
tainted with anthrax kill five across the United States, with politicians and media officials as the apparent targets. On July 31, 2008 Bruce E. Ivins a top biodefense researcher committed suicide.[31] On August 6, 2008 the FBI concluded that Ivins was solely responsible for the attacks and suggested that Ivins wanted to bolster support for a vaccine he helped create and that he targeted two lawmakers because they were Catholics who held pro choice views.
May 2002 Mailbox Pipe Bomber: Lucas John Helder rigged pipe bombs in private mailboxes to explode when the boxes were opened. He injured 6 people in Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, and Iowa. His motivation was to garner media attention so that he could spread a message denouncing government control over daily lives and the illegality of marijuana as well as promoting astral projection.
2002 July 4: 2002 Los Angeles Airport shooting Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, a 41-year-old Egyptian national, kills two Israelis and wounds four others at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport. The FBI concluded this was terrorism, although they found no evidence linking Hadayet to any terrorist group.
October 2002 Beltway Sniper Attacks: During three weeks in October 2002 John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo killed 10 people and critically injured three others in Washington D.C, Baltimore, and Virginia. An earlier spree by the pair had resulted in 3 deaths in Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, California, Arizona, and Texas to bring the total to 16 deaths. No motivation was given at the trial but evidence presented showed an affinity to the cause of the Islamic jihad.
March 2003 23: Sgt. Hasan Akbarwas charged in a hand grenade and shooting attack that killed Army Captain Christopher Seifert and Air Force Major Gregory Stone, while wounding 14 other soldiers on 23 March 2003. The attack took place at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait, a rear base camp for the invasion.
2006 March 5: Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar injured 6 when he drove an SUV into a group of pedestrians at UNC-Chapel Hill to "avenge the deaths or murders of Muslims around the world".
2006 Seattle Jewish Federation shooting, Egyptian shoots six Jewish women
2007 October 26: A pair of improvised explosive devices were thrown at the Mexican Consulate in New York City. The fake grenades were filled with black powder and detonated by fuses causing very minor damage. Police were investigating the connection between this and a similar attack against the British Consulate in New York in 2005.
2008 February: In the first reported incident of animal-rights extremists physically assaulting the family members of animal researchers, six masked activists attempted to force their way into the home of a University of California, Santa Cruz, researcher and injured the researcher's husband.
2008 March 3: Four multimillion-dollar show homes place in Woodinville, Washington are torched. The Earth Liberation Front is suspected in the fires.
2008 May 4 Multiple nail laden pipe bombs exploded at a Federal Courthouse in San Diego at 1:40 AM causing "considerable damage" to the entrance and lobby and sending shrapnel two blocks away. The F.B.I. is investigating links between this attack and an April 25 explosion at the FedEx building also in San Diego.
2008 July 27 Jim D. Adkisson opened fire in the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville,Tennessee killing two and injuring seven before being tackled to the ground by congregation members. A note found in his SUV indicated this was intended as a suicide attack and said the church was apparently targeted because of its support of liberal social policies.
Posted by: Pete | Jan 8, 2010 3:25:31 PM
Mr. Stephanopolous: You do realize that the mayor's clarification is obfuscation, right? His spokesman says that Giuliani was "clearly talking post-9/11". Huh?? He's not taking the position that there were no attacks post-9/11 under Bush but this is an attack under Obama? How is the Christmas attempt different from the Richard Reid attempt - which happened post 9-11 while Bush was president? Giuliani was not telling the truth, just repeating the latest GOP talking point without challenge.
Posted by: Matt | Jan 8, 2010 3:40:05 PM
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