Morning all good Dems,

Iam saving this space for DPD. No TROLLLS allowed.

The sun is up in shit-zona Chassie and the shit-zona troll must have passed out drinking rot-gut liquor.

Maybe the troll drinks horse urine. It is a lot cheaper and even looks like beer. That would explain it's nasty disposition.

SO MUCH FOR SILLY STEVIEBOY'S GLOBAL COOLING THEORY. JUST ANOTHER FLAPDOODLE BULLSHIT !

AP IMPACT: Statisticians reject global cooling

WASHINGTON – Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book.

Only one problem: It's not true, according to an analysis of the numbers done by several independent statisticians for The Associated Press.

The case that the Earth might be cooling partly stems from recent weather. Last year was cooler than previous years. It's been a while since the super-hot years of 1998 and 2005. So is this a longer climate trend or just weather's normal ups and downs?

In a blind test, the AP gave temperature data to four independent statisticians and asked them to look for trends, without telling them what the numbers represented. The experts found no true temperature declines over time.

"If you look at the data and sort of cherry-pick a micro-trend within a bigger trend, that technique is particularly suspect," said John Grego, a professor of statistics at the University of South Carolina.

Yet the idea that things are cooling has been repeated in opinion columns, a BBC news story posted on the Drudge Report and in a new book by the authors of the best-seller "Freakonomics." Last week, a poll by the Pew Research Center found that only 57 percent of Americans now believe there is strong scientific evidence for global warming, down from 77 percent in 2006.

Since 1998, temperatures have dipped, soared, fallen again and are now rising once more. Records kept by the British meteorological office and satellite data used by climate skeptics still show 1998 as the hottest year. However, data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA show 2005 has topped 1998. Published peer-reviewed scientific research generally cites temperatures measured by ground sensors, which are from NOAA, NASA and the British, more than the satellite data.

The recent Internet chatter about cooling led NOAA's climate data center to re-examine its temperature data. It found no cooling trend.

"The last 10 years are the warmest 10-year period of the modern record," said NOAA climate monitoring chief Deke Arndt. "Even if you analyze the trend during that 10 years, the trend is actually positive, which means warming."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091026/ap_on_sc/us_sci_global_cooling

08/11/09

GLOBAL WARMING: A THREAT TO U.S. SECURITY
As a recent New York Times piece explained, "The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics."

Operation Free is a coalition of leading veterans and national security organizations who recognize that climate change is a major threat, and support bold action. Their website, launched this week, includes detailed information on how our current ways of energy consumption threaten America's safety.

FACT: Fossil fuels are our Achilles heel when it comes to energy security threats. The U.S. consumes 25% of the world's oil production, but controls less than 3% of the supply.

WILDLIFE SURVIVAL
Wildlife and public lands need help surviving the impacts of global warming. A new report by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) recommends strategies to help wildlife adapt, including providing land corridors and reducing stress from pollution and invasive species.

"The effects of climate change on wildlife are already visible in our national parks. If we don't begin to act, many species may go extinct," said Mark Wenzler, director of clean air and climate programs at NPCA.

As the NPCA report illustrates, climate change is causing shifts in habitat ranges that are challenging species from loons to bighorn sheep and salmon. Download a copy of "Climate Change & National Park Wildlife: A Survival Guide for a Warming World."

FACT: Coral reefs might not survive if we fail to reduce carbon dioxide pollution that is warming the waters and acidifying the ocean.

NEW CLIMATE DEAL: A POCKET GUIDE
With the Kyoto Protocol expiring in 2012, there is an urgent need for a new climate treaty. At the conference in Copenhagen this December the parties of the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) will meet for the last time before the climate agreement needs to be renewed.

Our partner WWF has put together a pocket guide called "The New Climate Deal" to help understand the issues surrounding a new climate treaty. Download the guide (PDF)

FACT: Seven pioneering countries, including Iceland, New Zealand and Norway, have declared their intention to become carbon neutral.

MAKE IT WHITE
"Cool roofs" are catching on as energy cost cutters. As a recent New York Times article detailed, there is a movement afoot for homeowners to paint roofs white, taking advantage of the principle that white objects absorb less heat than dark ones.

As the article explains, "Studies show that white roofs reduce air-conditioning costs by 20 percent or more in hot, sunny weather. Lower energy consumption also means fewer of the carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming."

Click here for more on the story.

Keep Marching,

Laurie David
Founder
StopGlobalWarming.org

Hey NeoCon German Burd, next time you are in Alaska, you might want to check the truth of this!!!!

As Alaskan Village Sinks Into the Sea, GAO Says We Need to Create U.S. Office for Climate Change Refugee Assistance

There are more of them than there are people who contract new cases of malaria each year. There are ten times more of them than people injured in traffic accidents each year.

They are climate change refugees: people forced to flee their homes due to environmental degradation -- generally never to return. According to a recent report from the Global Humanitarian Forum, a worldwide organization headed by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, there are hundreds of millions of climate change refugees already, and that number is rising rapidly.

The environmentally displaced aren't just in Bangladesh, either. U.S. citizens are current being forced to relocate due to climate change, but the lack of federal leadership is emerging as an "impediment" to their plans to reach higher ground, according to a new government report.

In a little-noticed report released Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office suggested Congress create a lead government agency to direct the relief efforts now necessary due to global climate change.

The report (summary here, full text here) notes that because of the lack of recognition of unincorporated Alaskan Native villages as "eligible" by the federal government, the Native American communities there cannot receive affordable housing or relocation assistance from Department of Housing and Urban Development's Block Grant program.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency also serves as a roadblock to assistance, as the communities do not have federally approved disaster mitigation plans in place. The report also recommends that the Army Corps of Engineers study flooding in the same way they looked at erosion problems in the area previously, noting that the government doesn't have the information it needs to identify and combat climate-related problems in Alaska.

But just because these Alaskans don't fit the government's definition of a community in distress doesn't mean they don't urgently need help dealing with the climate change disaster that has come home to roost in their villages. The report identified 31 communities in "imminent" danger. But even the one that is furthest along in its relocation plans is years away from realizing them.

America's first community of climate change refugees is a town occupied by more than 300 Yup'ik Eskimos called Newtok. Their houses are literally sinking into the softening ground or being swept into the eroding banks of the Ninglick River, which empties into the Bering Sea. This writer described how the "vague sense of things being out of kilter forms itself into a vision of imminent disaster" as the permafrost -- which acts as a foundation for the entire village -- melts.

The town of Newtok may be small, but some 90,000 other Alaskans also live on permafrost and may soon find themselves in a situation similar to that of the indigenous people in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region. The residents of Newtok are merely closer to the water than other Alaskans; with seawater gobbling up their land at up to 90 feet a year, all of the village's listing buildings will soon be swallowed up.

The Newtok Planning Group was formed as a public-private partnership in 2006 to help the town move from their current area to an island location to be named Mertarvik. But the Alaskan Native residents have seen this coming for well over a decade. The Yup'ik Eskimos of Newtok have been planning the relocation since 1994.

Back in 2004, a study by the the oversight organization for Alaska's national parks revealed that 27 percent of the state's permafrost had been lost in the last three decades. The organization noted that the loss of permafrost means more than just sinking buildings; severe insect infestations, forest fires and fish die-offs also come with the release of methane and carbon dioxide that comes from the melting process.

According to a report in the Anchorage Daily News, the Mertavik project is years from completion, with the new settlement underfunded and lacking several vital safety features. The state is still busy building a barge landing on which the residents will be able to load housing and construction materials. But the new town, whose name means "getting water from a spring" is no refugee camp. The island has abundant wildlife, and wind turbines are in the works to help power the village with a smaller environmental footprint.

Meanwhile, the residents of Newtok have become internally displaced persons. In April, while Anchorage hosted the first Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change, devastating spring floods caused the entire village of Newtok to flee 9 miles away to higher ground.

This article from the UK's Guardian newspaper last year notes that the federal government may be Alaskan Natives' best bet, considering the "leadership" coming from the governor's office:

At best, Newtok can expect only ambivalent support from the state authorities in Juneau, 1,000 miles away. Alaska's new lipstick-wearing pitbull megastar, Sarah Palin, is intellectually challenged when it comes to global warming. Soon after she was thrown into the spotlight as John McCain's presidential running mate she said: "A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one, though, who would attribute it to being man-made." A few days later she tried to retract her statement, but her sentiments as a global-warming denier were crystal clear.

Palin changed her tune slightly once again back in April when she whined to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar about how Alaska bears the brunt of climate change, admitting that "the dramatic decreases in the extent of summer sea ice, increased coastal erosion, melting of permafrost, decrease in alpine glaciers and overall ecosystem changes are very real to us."

However, she used these "dramatic" changes to appeal for expanded natural gas drilling in her state. She has also recently designated flooded plains, including the delta in which Newtok is nestled, as disaster areas, allowing the Alaskan interior to apply for federal relief funds. It seems the governor of Alaska has not experienced a wholesale conversion to environmentalism, but is more of a green opportunist.

The Guardian article referenced earlier goes on to note the cost of global warming in Alaska, putting the bill for relocating the tiny town of Newtok at a whopping $130 million, and the cost of global warming statewide at $3 billion and rising.

http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102602188424&s=5274&e=001eMnDEqc7r0EH1m-mXVsX6ecI1hmORcv_5c8aSwg3xki3Qn9VAU-pWY4Xy5AqhQTUKQq_9w0dItQhuXc5YCgHGQ1eL0Iw12aNqtso06xA-nPhbhNyrg2Q8Q_Bl6lLEwAwKnHBM_qm4IU

HERE IS WHY THESE REPUG IGNORAMOUSES DO NOT THINK THERE IS GLOBAL WARMING-----BUSH HID IT !!!!

Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hidePhotos from US spy satellites declassified by the Obama White House provide the first graphic images of how the polar ice sheets are retreating in the summer. The effects on the world's weather, environments and wildlife could be devastating

Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hidePhotos from US spy satellites declassified by the Obama White House provide the first graphic images of how the polar ice sheets are retreating in the summer. The effects on the world's weather, environments and wildlife could be devastating
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Suzanne Goldenberg and Damian Carrington The Observer, Sunday 26 July 2009 Article history
Satellite images of polar ice sheets taken in July 2006 and July 2007 showing the retreating ice during the summer. Photograph: Public Domain

Graphic images that reveal the devastating impact of global warming in the Arctic have been released by the US military. The photographs, taken by spy satellites over the past decade, confirm that in recent years vast areas in high latitudes have lost their ice cover in summer months.

The pictures, kept secret by Washington during the presidency of George W Bush, were declassified by the White House last week. President Barack Obama is currently trying to galvanise Congress and the American public to take action to halt catastrophic climate change caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

One particularly striking set of images - selected from the 1,000 photographs released - includes views of the Alaskan port of Barrow. One, taken in July 2006, shows sea ice still nestling close to the shore. A second image shows that by the following July the coastal waters were entirely ice-free.

http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102650995029&s=5274&e=001EO1g_GsjLjLZpLEzZNwicCJfwzHtuueO4CqNNXdUUx6XV-MhNXCzeHg6EIn-cSoy5wsEd1sS5ERhW_yllMc_PnT5Abs7LH5WzLpQPdGLn1Uz4qZN6uv2Nhyhj_990yo5wErS_Ml6ut_OLdy5iFXD3eVGEWdjr1SkSmJkK_J4H2bxJmvL8PrNc_ARSMcUITiRgavXCso21sw

Take a peek, if you dare to challenge your Blind stupidity!

THAT'S ALL THEY ARE TRYING TO DO---CONFUSE THE ISSUE, BECAUSE THAT IS ALL THEY HAVE !
Poor Stevieboy-----just another sheeple that they managed to 'confuse" ! But how hard is that to confuse this old redneck hick who is a loner who lives by himself in the back woods, with not a soul in the world who loves him!

"This climate email-hacking episode is generating more heat than lightAnother skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, and this one is likely to lead to more public confusion

Another skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, with the hacking of email messages between some of the world's leading researchers on global temperature trends. But as usually happens in the blogosphere, this episode is generating more heat than light and is likely to lead to more public confusion over the causes of climate change.

For the past few years, a small group of climate change 'sceptics' have been poring over scientific journal papers that report historical trends in temperatures from around the world, as recorded by directly by thermometers and other instruments, and by 'proxies', such as tree rings. Their primary objective has been to seek out evidence that global warming has been invented by climate researchers who fake their data.

Among their main targets have been papers published by research teams led by Michael Mann at Pennsylvania State University and Phil Jones at the University of East Anglia, and particularly those featuring the famous 'hockey stick' graph, showing that average temperature in the northern hemisphere was relatively stable and constant for most of the last couple of millennia, but rose dramatically upwards in the last 100 years. This graph appeared prominently in the landmark Third Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2001, which concluded that "most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations".

The attacks on the hockey stick graph led the United States National Academy of Sciences to carry out an investigation, concluding in 2006 that although there had been no improper conduct by the researchers, they may have expressed higher levels of confidence in their main conclusions than was warranted by the evidence.

The 'sceptics' believe they have been vindicated and have presented the hockey stick graph as proof that global warming is not occurring. In doing so, they have ignored the academy's other conclusion that "surface temperature reconstructions for periods prior to the industrial era are only one of multiple lines of evidence supporting the conclusion that climatic warming is occurring in response to human activities, and they are not the primary evidence".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/20/climate-sceptics-email-hacking

SHEESH, TAKE A LOOK AT BURD'S COUNTRY OF GERMANY. THEY SURE BELIEVE IN GLOBAL WARMING! I AM SURE YOU DO NOT TALK THERE, LIKE YOU DO ON OUR BLOG, BURDBRAIN, BECAUSE THEY WOULD PROBABLY SEND YOUR ASS OUT OF THEIR COUNTRY, ALONG WITH DUMPLING !

Which countries believe in climate change?A new poll shows different attitudes to climate change around the globe

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jul/29/climate-change

The western world is already on its death bed. Europe ruled the world for centuries with all the colonialization and other bullying activities. England shit on Asia and Africa for many years.
The US took over most of the what we know as the United States from the native Americans and we shit on them. In 1898 we fomented a war with Spain and took Cuba, Puerto Rico, the West Indies and the Phillipines.

After WWI, Germany was forced to give up their colonies but the rest of Europe continued colonial rule over much of Asia and Africa. They even ruled parts of South America. Russia took over allt the surrounding countries in Easter Europe.

Then after WWII, Europe was in such bad shape that they had to give up their colonies. England promised to give up their Dominions, India, Burma and Africa after the war because of a promise in exchange for help in WWII. France gave up southeast Asia and Holland, Portugal and Spain gave up the rest of their colonies in southeast Asia, Africa and South America. Russia was finally forced to give up their occupied countries in Eastern Europe not because of asshole reegan but the people were so pissed at the Russians that they broke free.

After WWII, We became the world bullies like the US ruled the roost and we pushed our weight around the world until now these people are getting sick and tired of our bullshit swaggering and suppression that they are taking back what is theirs.

I think what is happening is that the angry bullying white man has finally met his match. There are MANY more minorities in the world than there are white assholes. The white assholes, mostly republicans are pissed that they can't be the angry white man any more and push his weight around. The minorities are taking over and they are going to push back hard because they are pissed at all the centuries of bullying the west has laid on them.

It's Karma. Have you ever heard of Karma.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

So angry white bully republicans can bend over and kiss their asses goodbye. They hate minorities and can't stand that they are outnumbered. They are trying to suppress us but it is too late. They are the ones who will be suppressed from now on. If they don't like it then they can stick it up their bony asses.

It is our day now and we rule.

BACK LATER, dEMS......

I forgot the Middle East. England shit on the Middle East for years taking over when the empire of Austria was broken up. No wonder these people are pissed off at the west.

Then we moved in in the fifties and shit on the Middle East and stole their oil treating them like crap. Under reegan the people of the Middle East were treated like crap even more until now probably every second man and woman is a "terrorist" and hates America because we treated them like shit just like we treated the American Indians. Fortunately they didn't believe in killing the infidel and their weren't enough of them to force the issue and they weren't organized.

Pam,

I think I know what the this "rapture" is about and why Global Warming is occurring.

When the "rapture" happens in 2012, the good people like us will be taken to a place free from asshole, greedy, graspy republicans.

The asshole, greedy, graspy republicans (AKA White Trash) will be left on earth to die a horrible, painful death because of climate change. The planet will be too hot for human life. It will be a slow and painful death until one day the atmosphere will no longer be able to sustain life and people will be running around killing each other. Forest fires will rage using up what is left of the Oxygen. Wild animals will eat the corpses of human beings. I hope someone has sense enough to film the agony of the republicans during these last days of the pig's world.

I can't wait. Beam me up Kirk.

gee golly whiz! evil is giving us a bible lesson...do go on!

you do know that you can't take away nor add to the book of Revelation, don't you?

get it right or forever be banished in hell.

Deuteronomy 28:47-48
Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Good morning, all.

I see the RNC wingnuts are trying to fill up the blogosphere today with useless climate change crap because they can't face the fact that the moment of truth for healthcare reform is at their doorstep.

No matter.

We all know this is going to go down and once it is enacted in some way it will never end. The Founders said life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness....that means affordable medical coverage for all living citizens.

And for those states where there is a current monopoly with one insurance company now controlling over 60% of the market, the Attorney General will be going after them with anti-trust prosecution. That is already on the books.

And it doesn't matter if some of the Southern states decided to opt out of a public option. They will be forced to go to it when the costs of Medicaid get so high it breaks their budgets and the state constitutions kick in mandating an affordable alternative. The states have to balance their budgets. It will be an easy out for the Pugs, but that's the way it's going to be.

There is no way the conservatives can run away from their past greed and mismanagement of the economy. It comes back to bite them no matter how loud they try to shout over reason or divert the debate with make-believe issues.

Reality bites hard for the incompetent. Republicans can't do anything right and voters don't trust them to be anything but that.

don't trash the Earth and Heaven!

"Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours." (1 Chronicles 29:11)

You shall not pollute the land in which you live.... You shall not defile the land in which you live, in which I also dwell; for I the LORD dwell among the Israelites." (Numbers 35:33-34)

"There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land. There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. Because of this the land mourns, and all who live in it waste away; the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the fish of the sea are dying." (Hosea 4:1-3)

"We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time." (Romans 8:22)

johhne on November 21, 2009 at 10:52 AM

Hi, johne.

I believe it's the meek who will inherit this earth and live like they do in heaven? It's the Republicans who will be searching for something more lucrative out in the cold, dark reaches of space. They will find a way to create their own hell.

"The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great-and for destroying those who destroy the earth." (Revelation 11:18)

I'm going to get a reward! woo-hoo! I'll get to hang laundry out FOREVER! and tend gardens, and be in the presence of God Almighty for ETERNITY!!!

break over.

GO BUCKS!!!

wow! all the limpnoodle trools are on board...except for steve urkle, who is taking a little nap.

gotta go! big football game on today!

"Why do cons continue to deny the scientific consensus on man made global warming?
Where is the logic in siding with a handful of invidual scientists who have doubts over well established scientific organizations (each representing tens of thousands of scientists)?

Please cons, don't come here with your youtube videos, editorials from poltical and media websites, copy and pastes from wikipedia, and propaganda. For examply linking to an MIT article about how Pluto is warming (trying to convince people its the sun) without mentioning the fact that the scientist cited in the article says it has nothing to do with the sun.

IF YOU CAN CITE SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS AGAINST MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING, WHEN THEY WERE FOUNDED, AND HOW MANY MEMBERS THEY HAVE, BRING IT ON.

1) THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, FOUNDED IN 1876, OVER 160,000 MEMBERS
"There is now general agreement among scientific experts that the recent warming trend is real (and particularly strong within the past 20 years), that most of the observed warming is likely due to increased atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, and that climate change could have serious adverse effects by the end of this century."
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/resource…

2) THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, FOUNDED IN 1888, OVER 20,500 MEMBERS
"The Geological Society of America (GSA) supports the scientific conclusions that Earth’s climate is changing; the climate changes are due in part to human activities; and the probable consequences of the climate changes will be significant and blind to geopolitical boundaries.
http://www.geosociety.org/aboutus/positi…
3 years ago

3) THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGY SOCIETY, FOUNDED IN 1919, OVER 11,000 MEMBERS
"Despite the uncertainties noted above, there is adequate evidence from observations and interpretations of climate simulations to conclude that the atmosphere, ocean, and land surface are warming; that humans have significantly contributed to this change; and that further climate change will continue to have important impacts on human societies, on economies, on ecosystems, and on wildlife through the 21st century and beyond."
http://www.ametsoc.org/POLICY/2007climat…
3 years ago

4) THE U.S. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE (ALONG WITH THE NAS OF THE G8 NATIONS), FOUNDED IN 1863, OVER 2,000 MEMBERS, OVER 200 NOBEL PRIZE MEMBERS
"There is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring. It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities. The scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action.
http://www.academie-sciences.fr/actualit…

5) THE AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, FOUNDED IN 1919, OVER 45,000 MEMBERS
"Human activities are increasingly altering the Earth's climate. These effects add to natural influences that have been present over Earth's history. Scientific evidence strongly indicates that natural influences cannot explain the rapid increase in global near-surface temperatures observed during the second half of the 20th century.
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/climat…
3 years ago

6) THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE, CREATED IN 1988, HUNDREDS OF SCIENTISTS FROM OVER 130 NATIONS
"Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely (defined in footnotes as greater then 90% likelyhood) due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, including ocean warming, continental-average temperatures, temperature extremes and wind patterns"
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf
3 years ago

7) THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, FOUNDED IN 1848, SERVES 262 AFFILIATED SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES OF SCIENCE FOR A TOTAL OF 10 MILLION INDIVIDUALS
"The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society. Accumulating data from across the globe reveal a wide array of effects: rapidly melting glaciers, destabilization of major ice sheets, increases in extreme weather, rising sea level, shifts in species ranges, and more. The pace of change and the evidence of harm have increased markedly over the last five years. The time to control greenhouse gas emissions is now."
http://www.aaas.org/news/press_room/clim…
3 years ago

8) THE NOAA'S NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER PALEOCLIMATOLOGY PROGRAM, FOUNDED IN 1992, HAS THE LARGEST ARCHIVE OF CLIMATE AND PALEOCLIMATE DATA
"Many scientists have now concluded that global warming can be explained by a human-caused enhancement of the greenhouse effect. It is important to remember both that the greenhouse effect occurs naturally, and that it has been intensified by humankind's input of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere."
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwar…
3 years ago

9) THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH, FOUNDED IN 1960, OVER 120 MEMBERS, SERVES OVER 62 PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH CENTERS
"Together, these data show that Earth's surface air temperature has risen more than 1.1°F (0.7°C) since the late 1800s. This warming of the average temperature around the globe has been especially sharp since the 1970s. Global models at NCAR have simulated 20th century climate and found three main factors at work:
1) Solar activity contributed to a warming trend in global average temperature from the 1910s through 1930s.
2) As industrial activity increased following World War II, sun-blocking sulfates and other aerosol emissions helped lead to a slight global cooling from the 1940s to 1970s.
3) Since 1980, the rise in greenhouse gas emissions from human activity has overwhelmed the aerosol effect to produce overall global warming."
http://www.ucar.edu/research/climate/war…
3 years ago

10) THE NASA'S GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES, FOUNDED IN 1961, SPECIALIZES IN SPACECRAFT OBSERVATIONS AND GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS
"A new NASA-funded study used a computer climate model to simulate the last 50 years of climate changes, projects warming over the next 50 years regardless of whether or not nations curb their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions soon. If no emission reductions are made and they continue to increase at the current rate, global temperatures may increase by 1-2º Celsius (1.8º-3.6º Fahrenheit). But if the growth rate of carbon dioxide does not exceed its current rate and if the growth of true air pollutants (things that are harmful to human health) is reversed, temperatures may rise by only 0.75C (1.35F)."
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/2…
3 years ago

genny,

The scientific consensus is based on the facts:
- temperature records
- balloon measurements
- satellite measurements
- ice core data (going back 1 million years)
- ocean sediment samples
- tree rings
- radiocarbon dating
- advanced climate models using the basical laws of physics run on supercomputers
and

working,

The only views that count are those who are doing the actual science. The vast majority of scientists support the scientific consensus that the earth is warming and that man is the main cause. A small minority has doubts.

Burdbrain:

Thank you for proving me right. You cited opinion articles, editorials, , individual scientists, and political websites. The conservative book club?

AND YOU MUST HAVE MISSED IT WHEN GEORGE W. CHIMP BUSH CAME OUT RECENTLY AND SAID THERE WAS GLOBAL WARMING!!!

Good morning / afternoon, DEMS!

Pam, that burd brain is still wasting thread with that phony previously debunked "Dr." Landshitz and his phony "Institute", which was comprised of exactly ONE "researcher". HIMSELF.

He was an ASTROLOGER by trade before he died, NOT any type of scientist at all.

I wasn't aware that star charts and Zodiak signs were viable scientific tools.

MOST of the citations at the end of that screed are to things HE wrote himself.

Morning Sandy, Essie and Pam,

I am just taking a break. There is a big bad norwester coming your way. It hit the California Sierras yesterday with about two feet of snow and closed the Reno, Nevada airport. I looked at our forecast and there is nothing in sight. We have been dry now for almost a month with humidities about 15%.

It must be that damn Republican Global Warming that everyone talks about.

Morning DPD,

I saved your place for you at the head of the blog.

I'm going back to my chores.

I still like the bumper sticker BUCK FUSH!

Well asswipe, you are the pro at "debinking". I posted articles and links dozens of times, whenever you pull that piece of astrology out of mothballs.

You obviously don't care that the guy gave himself all those titles and he is the ONLY person at that "Institute" (or that he lived in Nova Scotia, regardless of the "Institute" having a P.O. Box in Germany).

So, just stick with your wingnut media while the world moves on, you dope.

West coast storms sweep in from Alaska and the Bering sea. Alaska is northwest of California.

Why don't you just post a link to that years old BS instead of eating up thread? You are as bad as the former prison wife whenever he got mad at Benji and acted like the baby he is.

THERE HE GOES AGAIN----opinions, editorials, individual scientists, and not a legitimate group amongst them.

I think living in German---you lost your Perspective on Facts, Truth, reality. Why don't you go take the dumpling out for a nice sauerbraten dinner, and leave the worry about America to Americans? hmmmm?

When she goes tits up----come on back to our country and then join in!

well, sheesh, Burdbrain, you had better clear that up with thomasss====who has mentioned more times than once, you Live in Germany, you are the troll's 'international' source, etc. Your OWN admissions that you were headed to the local beer gardens for some good german brew, etal.

And you REALLY should find an american server for your computer, instead of using:

Domain Name t-ipconnect.de ? (Germany)

IP Address 84.146.183.# (Deutsche Telekom AG)

ISP Deutsche Telekom AG

Location Continent : Europe

Country : Germany (Facts)

State/Region : Bayern

City : Neutraubling

Lat/Long : 48.9833, 12.2 (Map)

Language German

de

Operating System Microsoft WinXP

Browser Firefox

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

Javascript version 1.5

Monitor Resolution : 1024 x 768

Color Depth : 32 bits

So keep living in your little fantasy that you somehow own anything more than a trailer on the back of your mother's property when you come to the US, and your basement apartment in your in-laws place in Bavaria !

You and pond scum bobby, steal a mans ID to post your crap on the web, KNOWING his wife is dying, and you two P O S's claim to be upset by a remark

AND YOU, DUFUS BOSS HOG, ARE AS INSANE AS THEY COME! A PSYCHIATRIC DISASTER.

WHEN YOUR LITTLE MAMA GOES TITS UP, MAYBE YOU CAN USE HER BURIAL FUND TO GET SOME KIND OF MEDICINE AND COUNSELING TO HELP YOU OUT !

Lurk? On this blog? Not hardly. You see already today, I have gone to a Church holiday fair. Came home and made a huge pot of beef stew and a chocolate cream pie for dinner later. Wrapped about 40 Christmas presents I have purchased thus far. Outside of that, I did not have time to lurk to see what kind of Sick, Hate filled bullshit that you were posting !

How is that part time job coming along? Does it interfere with all the work you have to do on that beautiful ranch you live on???

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Get help, sicko, get help.

bbl, Dems......

Oh, but it sounded good on paper, looked good in the press.
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AZDanTheSockPuppetOnSteroids on November 21, 2009 at 03:24 PM

It didn't "sound" like anything on paper, but it looked good enough for James Madison.

SIXTH AMENDMENT: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district where in the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

It wasn't President Obama's OR AG Holder's "decision", it is THE LAW.

BTW "boob holder"? How juvenile.

LyondellBasell gets buyout offer from Reliance

HOUSTON – LyondellBasell Industries said Saturday Reliance Industries offered to acquire a controlling interest in the beleaguered chemical company, which is under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

LyondellBasell declined to disclose the value of the cash offer. India-based Reliance did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_bi_ge/us_lyondellbasell_buyout

This sounds like it might hurt the American economy to have those Indian billionaires running this company.

I think the correct introductio for this one, is 'nanny, nanny, booboo"? I never was quite sure what that silly expression meant,- but it seems to fit this one !

New Consensus Sees Stimulus Package as Worthy

WASHINGTON — Now that unemployment has topped 10 percent, some liberal-leaning economists see confirmation of their warnings that the $787 billion stimulus package President Obama signed into law last February was way too small. The economy needs a second big infusion, they say.

No, some conservative-leaning economists counter, we were right: The package has been wasteful, ineffectual and even harmful to the extent that it adds to the nation’s debt and crowds out private-sector borrowing.

These long-running arguments have flared now that the White House and Congressional leaders are talking about a new “jobs bill.” But with roughly a quarter of the stimulus money out the door after nine months, the accumulation of hard data and real-life experience has allowed more dispassionate analysts to reach a consensus that the stimulus package, messy as it is, is working.

The legislation, a variety of economists say, is helping an economy in free fall a year ago to grow again and shed fewer jobs than it otherwise would. Mr. Obama’s promise to “save or create” about 3.5 million jobs by the end of 2010 is roughly on track, though far more jobs are being saved than created, especially among states and cities using their money to avoid cutting teachers, police officers and other workers.

“It was worth doing — it’s made a difference,” said Nigel Gault, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, a financial forecasting and analysis group based in Lexington, Mass.

Mr. Gault added: “I don’t think it’s right to look at it by saying, ‘Well, the economy is still doing extremely badly, therefore the stimulus didn’t work.’ I’m afraid the answer is, yes, we did badly but we would have done even worse without the stimulus.”

In interviews, broad range of economists said the White House and Congress were right to structure the package as a mix of tax cuts and spending, rather than just tax cuts as Republicans prefer or just spending as many Democrats do. And it is fortuitous, many say, that the money gets doled out over two years — longer for major construction — considering the probable length of the “jobless recovery” under way as wary employers hold off on new hiring.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/business/economy/21stimulus.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Now this will tick off those Repugs who have their fingers crossed that this country goes bankrupt, and is further destroyed, but they will just have to accept it !

hiya, bold. sounds like you had a fun day. steve urkle is probably singing this song...

Nanny nanny, nanny nanny boo boo.
Nanny nanny, nanny nanny boo boo.
Nanny nanny, nanny nanny boo boo.
Nanny nanny, nanny nanny boo boo.
If you ask us how we want it, we'll say man-to-man. When you go to kiss our cheeks we're gonna
Put out our hands because (all night!) we've been talking to liars. And it's (all right!) just
Not in the style of tigers.

OH, DEMS,,, YOU GOTTA WATCH THIS VIDEO ON THIS SITE. iT IS COLBERT, CONAN, AND OTHER LATE NIGHT HOSTS HOSING PALIN! AND THIS IS JUST OVER A LYING BOOK!!! JUST IMAGINE IF THE BIMBO HAS THE NERVE TO COME OUT AND RUN AGAIN! THERE WILL BE NO MERCY!! I LMAO AT THESE. HAVENT SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT SINCE QUALE ! and then they weren't this bad to him.

Saradise Lost - Book 4 - Chapter 13 -- A Compilation

http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/

GO DOWN FOUR ON THAT PRORESSIVEALASKA LINK ABOVE, AND WATCH THE VIDEO OF THE PEOPLE SCREAMING AT PALIN RUNNING OUT ON BOOK SIGNING !!! HOLY SHIT, PEOPLE WERE PISSED !

Several blogs, including firedoglake, are running this. Also, the blog rumproast is collecting some very rude comments about the Noblesville Disaster from the Crazy Woman's facebook:

Gary Conner Sarah,

You angered and disappointed over 300 families in Noblesville tonight. I attended Mike Huckabee’s book signing yesterday. He had pre-signed book in case he would be unable to sign all the books for people who qualified. His books would be exchange one for one with any one whose book he could not sign

First, you should work to make this right. Second, you need to make sure that it never happens again!

and:

Jordan Harris I just spent 9 hours of my day, $40 of my hard earned money on two of your books, and took the whole day off work to watch you jump on a bus and throw a half-heated wave to the crowd you were avoiding.

I have never felt so disrespected. How can you claim that you are different? You aren’t. You are just as selfish as everyone else in Washington. It breaks my heart. I thought you might be the answer to the turmoil this country is under but you aren’t. You just slapped hundreds of Hoosiers in the face. The hard working type of people that you claim to represent.

and:

Linda Lewey My family (wife, 3year old, and 10 year old) and I waited for 6 hours to get a book signed by Sarah Palin tonight. She left 300 folks standing in the rain and cold without explanation or even an address at exit. That is 1800 hours of voters lives sacrificed for nothing due to lack of concern by another politician for… our time, money and effort to see a cause through. She could have invested 45 minutes and not received the boos, or sign my book chants. I know that the majority of the folks that were chanting go Palin now are returning her books tomorrow morning. What a disappointment.

and:

Greg VandenBoom I spent majority of my day at Border’s in Noblesville, Indiana waiting to get my book signed. After 8 hours in the cold and rain with my wife and 10 month old baby, I was shocked to watch Sarah get on a bus and leave without signing books for at least 400 people. Instead, we were given a sticker that had her signature printed on it! You lost quite a few supporters tonight!

and:

Dawn Hatfield Ament TOO BAD I was “Palienated” today in Noblesville. I waited SEVEN hours and never got my book signed. Only 600 of the 1000 promised wrist bands got in the door. Such a HUGE disappointment!

also (with video link):

“I’m very disappointed. I think it was very rude. She could have at least apologized, and she didn’t even do that,” said Teresa Hedrick.

Many of the unhappy people stood in the rain all day, bought the book from Borders and clutched their wristbands for their opportunity to meet Palin.

“We bought two books from Borders to have our receipt and our wristband to get it signed tonight,” said one woman. “My books are going back to Borders tomorrow.”

“We gave up our entire workday, stayed in the cold. My kids were crying,” said one man. “They went home with my wife. She was out here in the freezing cold all day. I feel like I don’t want to support Sarah.”

also, this comment from rumproast:

They will keep cutting the number in half after every stop on Palin’s book signing tour until it’s down to just one and that person will be John Ziegler. The end.

Good evening fellow Americans.

So what is your point Sock puppet (besides the one on your head).

People get arrested all over the place and are shipped BACK TO THE COURT WITH JURISDICTIONAL AUTHORITY OVER THE CASE.

The crime happened in NYC, so it should be tried in NYC. That is THE LAW. If the Defense wants a change of Venue they can Petition for one during pre-trial motions. That is also THE LAW.

The Military Tribunals BS was just a ploy used by ChimpCo because they KNEW that THEY were committing War Crimes. Chimpy wanted to keep those detainees OUT iof the USA until they die of old age because of that.

They went so far as firing Lawyers from the Justice Department and the OLC until they got compliant yes men and ass kissers like Yoo and Bybee to "invent" terminology like "Unlawful Enemy Combatants".

Just WHO defines the term? Why Chimpy HIMSELF! HE, PERSONALLY, could toss that tag on anyone he wanted to and there was ZERO Legal Definitions of what constituted the term.

Because of that there was ZERO way to bring them to Justice because THERE ARE NO LAWS THAT ADDRESS THAT CHARGE.

AG Holder is just doing what EVERY Prosecutor does, namely "Jurisdiction shopping".

He KNOWS there is a better likelihood of a conviction in NYC than there would be in a Tribunal which hasn't even set up, has no rules or procedural guidelines set up because THERE IS NO WAY TO PROSECUTE AN IMAGINARY TITLE like "unlawful enemy combatant". If there was, why didn't Chimpco ever DO IT?

My knowledge of the Law is far greater than yours, trying out for a job as a cop, getting hauled before a disciplinary hearing when you were still a rookie trainee and being relegated to parking ticket duty, Danny.

And your knowledge of the Constitution is far less than that of an illegal immigrant, you America hating piece of shit.

In December 2004, Levin released the first of two memos, explaining, among other things that torture, including waterboarding, is illegal. This did not sit well with Alberto Gonzales, who forced Levin to add a footnote — the revised memo did not make the administration’s previous opinions illegal. (”Just because we embraced illegal techniques before doesn’t mean we were wrong.”)

Levin was preparing a second Justice Department legal memo, outlining tighter controls on specific interrogation techniques, but never got a chance to finish it. Alberto Gonzales became the Attorney General and Levin was forced out of the Justice Department. He was branded “too independent” and “someone who could (not) be counted on” — Levin was not, in other words, a loyal Bushie, so he had to go.

Meet Daniel Levin

It would be nice to see ALL of ChimpCo hauled off in shackles and shipped to the Hague.

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PamB on November 21, 2009 at 04:58 PM

Pam, Schmo the Dumber says he doesn't want Sorry Failin to run for ANYTHING!

Joe the Plumber Hits Media Coverage, Tells 'E&P' He Hopes Palin Does Not Run in 2012

Get it through your thick head frostorhoid, ksm is a criminal and should be tried as such. he confessed to the so they would hang him and he would become another martyr. Our Constitution is clear about the matter.

The same applies the criminal who blew up the Oklahoma Federal Building. He was hanged and he is not a martyr because he represented no religion.

God, some people are stupid.

The repukes are running scared bec/ause at the trial, the details of his many to/rtures will come out and may very well result in the prosecution and hanging of bush and cheney. They too would not become martyrs because they have no religion except greed and corruption.

cactass has its head up its ass too.

FDR died on April 12, 1945. The Nuremberg Trials were held in 1946. Get your facts straight troll. you have been listening to too much hannity and limpballs.

Sayeth the Prison Wife "It was an act of war".

REALLY??

Post the Declaration of WAR that was Ratified by the Senate, fuckwad.
Hey, Little Stevie, are you going to "hang" with your "Bubba Hubby" Prison Husband this Thanksgiving?

Or are you going to be with your wife and kid?

Or your brother?

Or your sister?

Or your best friend?

OR ANY HUMAN?

Are you going to volunteer to work at a soup kitchen, or will you be a "customer"?

Go fuck yourself, you Federal Felon Prison bitch.

Have a good weekend fellow Americans.

Duh, those were acorn assclowns who cannot tolerate the mass appeal of Sarah.

I know you are a sick man. I know you are a stupid man-----but do you really think ACORN employees, went and stood in lines for hours, bought her books, JUSt SO THEY COULD YELL AT HER WHEN SHE LEFT? Did you listen to them?
Talking about her quitting again, etc. Those were no ACORN employees, numbie.

You think if YOU wrote a book, you go on a tour to communities where you think you can whet up the people there to vote for you in a couple of years, that you see a long line of people still waiting to shake your hand-----that you would get up and leave?????WTF is wrong with you, that you think that was ok for her to do that, you simple shit? She just lost not only those votes, but the rest of the people who saw it happen. She can kiss that state goodbye ! It's all about the money with Palin, only the money !

Pam, Schmo the Dumber says he doesn't want Sorry Failin to run for ANYTHING!
Joe the Plumber Hits Media Coverage, Tells 'E&P' He Hopes Palin Does Not Run in 2012
101Doo-Bee-Doo-Bee-Doo on November 21, 2009 at 05:59 PM

OMG, DooBee, remember how he was pretending how much he admired her, etc? Must be he tried to see if she would help him afterwards, and she said NO. There's another vote gone!

My daughter was having a conversation with me the other day, and I was saying I believed that Palin would expect to be chosen to run.
She reminded me---there is a LOT of time to go yet, and it does not take Palin long to hang her own self. Just give her a little time, now that she has chosen the limelight again! The media, TV networks, Republican leaders, night time comediens, all are having a ball with her already. (David Brooks saying she is a joke?)
Let her make a fool of herself again---we all enjoyed it so much last time.

(Dufus hasn't even taken a toilet break today? Hey Dufus, what do you do, sit all day on the toilet with your computer? Or is it just that your ass is blocked up with your head, so you don't need to go?)

Night Fine Dems.

Blog ya in the morning.

please note that the troll promised us that the health care legislation will die in the senate. it is possible that for the first time the troll may be proven wrong......hahahahahahaha

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34080216/ns/health-health_care/

Good evening all. I see the conversation is as lively as ever.

i didn't say it passed asshole, i said it took one step toward that goal and that we need to watch to see if your prediction that it would die in the senate comes true.....you know like all the others....hahahahahahahaha

More interesting is what is not contained in the emails. There is no evidence of any worldwide conspiracy, no mention of George Soros nefariously funding climate research, no grand plan to ‘get rid of the MWP’, no admission that global warming is a hoax, no evidence of the falsifying of data, and no ‘marching orders’ from our socialist/communist/vegetarian overlords. The truly paranoid will put this down to the hackers also being in on the plot though.

Update: The official UEA statement is as follows:

“We are aware that information from a server used for research information
in one area of the university has been made available on public websites,”
the spokesman stated.

“Because of the volume of this information we cannot currently confirm
that all of this material is genuine.”

“This information has been obtained and published without our permission
and we took immediate action to remove the server in question from
operation.”

“We are undertaking a thorough internal investigation and we have involved
the police in this enquiry.

The CRU hack

Just like the low IQ troll you are, jumping on one word (i.e. 'trick', as in "let me show you a little shortcut" or "let me show you a little trick I came up with...") and misinterpreting it.

Didn't you have shop class when you were in Juvie? Or work in the Prison shop when you were a Prison Wife? That's ALL those shop teachers do, is teach "ticks" on how to cut down time and waste in order to speed the production process.

Watch one of those home improvement shows some time, they cram 3 or 4 "tricks" into each half hour. But that is assuming you would 1) EVER want to improve your tar paper shack, and 2) spend 30 minutes away from your very important job of trolling in order to watch a TV show where you might learn something.

You fool.

I did. Just go through the archives, asshole. Or Google some of those names yourself.

Why is that Astrologer Landshit citing himself and his own "writings" more than 40% of the time? Why is he just citing ANY person who even mentioned his name, whether the mention is in the vein of "this guy says..." and then goes on to state that he is full of shit?

Because Landshit was an ego freak who got off seeing his name in pixels, and he KNEW that stupid people like YOU would NEVER fact check ANY of those citations.

You can start here:

More">http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2008/12/more_on_inhofes_alleged_list_o.php">More on Inhofe's alleged list of 650 scientists

What do you have against companies cleaning up their own mess, Stevie?

When you eat your bowl of gruel do you throw the dirty bowl up in the air and then leave it where it lands" And keep repeating the process of spam on a paper plate, tosss plate in the air. Buy more paper plates, repeat the process.

Your shack must be a garbage pit.

There are far greater benefits to cleaning up the planet than to keep on ruining it, you moron.

OMG, talk about a cult of freaks!

Scary Stuff

The Senate made me proud when they overcame a GOP filibuster threat and voted to open debate on The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

This is an important step toward the final part of our Health Reform initiative. Once the Senate ends debate, their bill will be voted on by a simple majority. In the final step, the House bill and the Senate bill will be combined and the President will sign it into law.

Over these last few months, we have been blessed to witness the workings of our government in the way our Founders envisioned. We have heard debate from all sectors, including those opposed to this reform.

We have incorporated as many of these viewpoints as we possible can, through our open and vigorous democratic process. From town halls to the steps of the Capitol, we have studied this reform from every conceivable angle.

This reform will cut the deficit, cover the uninsured, and bring down costs for small businesses. And that's just the start, because once we have a healthy population we will start to see savings in other areas as well.

Its times like this that I admire the principles of our Founders so much more. They constructed a system of Checks and Balances, that at times seems inconvenient, but are wholly necessary in the end.

That is one reason I never could understand the Right's aversion to government and belief that it only hurts the individual and society. That belief could not be further from what our Founders believed. They designed our system with those concerns in mind, because they were escaping previous systems in which the King or the Church had too much power.

Today I am proud to see a functional government once again. Democracy can be messy, but its a beautiful mess - and while it may be imperfect, it still works to produce the best result for the times.

Bless the Founders and bless those representatives who work in government because of civic virtue - From here on out, let's try to put our differences aside as Democrats and stand together in our support, so they can pass Health Reform before the end of the year.

Report: Leaked UK documents show Iraq war chaos
AP

LONDON – A British newspaper claims leaked government documents show plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq were drafted more than a year earlier — calling into question Tony Blair's public statements on the military buildup.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_iraq

Just when where the plans to invade Iraq made up and by whom?

DO OUR DEMOCRATIC LEADERS REALIZE WHAT THEY HAVE ACCOMPLISHED FOR OUR PARTY AND COUNTRY POLITICALLY?

Our Democratic leaders have been waiting so long for any credible challenge from the Republican leaders on health care reform, that Democratic leaders are now coming out to challenge our own party to do better with ideas their selves instead.

Better watch out Republican leaders, apparently, because of your lack of positive ideas on health care Democratic leaders are learning how to run this Democracy with one political party. The Democratic Party leaders are representing every credible negative and positive view around health care, while at the same time, holding onto our party’s own view as one. Nothing proves this more than our Democratic leaders, divided with a few of the issues in the current health care bill, coming together as one last night to move this bill forward. I have never been so proud of my party’s leaders.

The current Republican leaders lag behind in representing their constituents with only one narrow negative view towards health care, without any positive representation for their constituents (businesses or private citizens) or plans of achieving the health care goal.

Democratic leaders with differences are publicly working together bipartisan even though Republican leaders have refused to. Let us not let shallow minded critics use the fact that some of our leaders are not crazy about all of our party’s ideas against us, let us take these leaders willingness to say that in their own party publicly and our willingless to listen as something for our country to be proud of.

THANK YOU ALL, 60 DEMOCRATIC LEADERS: From America’s North, East, South and West

It seems the Republicans work for the Banks, Insurance Companies, Defense Contractors and Wall Street CEO's.

It seems the Chamber of Commerce has become a like Fox News a puppet of the extreme Right Wing. In there charter I thought it was for business not political propaganda.

sarah palin is against the health care bill, so is beck, rush, coulter, etc. etc.....boy are they in for a beating! hahahahahahahaha

ahahahahaha.......Dumbarse Stevieboy, thinks that was ACORN employees who showed up in IN and stole books that they later screamed about no signing !!

Jesus----they couldn't even get enough people to give all those wristbands to in the first place!

book.

"But for all the adoration, there were perhaps some signs that Palin's popularity might be waning in Central Indiana.

The Noblesville stop was one of the first three on a tour that already has landed her on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and on the cover of Newsweek -- but it also was the smallest.

Borders general manager Marty Beck thought as many as 3,000 might show up Thursday morning in search of wristbands.

But it was closer to 1,100 -- fewer than the estimated 1,500 Wednesday in Grand Rapids, Mich., and the 1,300 who came to her book signing Thursday afternoon at a Meijer in Fort Wayne.

I feel nothing but scorn for this woman coming out using that Special Needs child as a Photo Prop! prostituionilizing him at his little age, so that she can make a buck!
That is so disgusting. No REAL Mother would ever do that.

And for Thomasssssss---I told you before----I will tell you again----you don't like seeing the truth posted here about Sarah??? BEAT IT then because you are in for a LONG, LONG time of every little piece of trash on this piece of crap to be shown here.
And the truth it is---whether it comes from Daily Kos, FDL, or whatever, because not one of them would dare a law suit posting a lie.

So every thing you see posted about her is the Truth! Tough luck the only charasmatic fuhrer you have in the Repug Party happens to be a total Fake, isn't it!!! Yet guys like you would still line up and follow the fuhrer through the koolaid line, into the Gas Ovens !! Sick!

WATCH THE ANGRY CROWD IN IN. WHO SHE SNUBBED!
SURE DON'T LOOK LIKE ACORN EMPLOYEES WITH STOLEN BOOKS, DO THEY???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8mAZhOJIfI

The Republican Party did not even come out with a business option to challenge the public option for businesses and taxpayers. Republican leaders do not want to help businesses pay for health care because they do not think businesses even want to and they automatically assume that all businesses are their constituents and that they are their self-appointed lawyers.

However, if there were also a business option, along with a public option, it could ease the cost for businesses that already do pay for health care and for the cost of health care to private taxpayers with the public option or any option. I think we should encourage businesses to share the cost with the taxpayers to cut down the taxpayers cost.

If there is a mandate for private citizens and workers to pay for health care there, I think there ought to be a requirement for small, mid-size and corporate businesses to pay a certain percentage towards health care too or a mandate for employers to pay more wages so workers can afford to pay their own. However, I think it is not right for the government to tax businesses for health care without offering businesses some other kind of option too that they might be able to afford.

However, if you require every business to pay a percentage of premiums, then businesses that already pay 100% would stop doing that and pay the lesser percentage. Therefore, we would need to look at whether allowing businesses to pay the lesser percentage towards any business option would be in the national financial favor for the taxpayers regarding the cost of health care, or if it would cost taxpayers more.

Actually, some businesses who do not offer health care would rather pay a $ 450 yearly tax on each employee like the plan calls for rather than pay for cost of health care their selves. So how would that encourage businesses who do not offer health care to pay for health care their selves to watch out for the taxpayers cost when businesses just paying the tax would be cheaper for them? While I do not understand the details of this health care bill or the regulations around that tax yet, that aspect of it concerns me.

Morning all good Dems,

Now the catholic church is bitching about the separation of church and state. Last week they got stupid (stupak) to stuff an amendment into the house bill outlawing abortions for everyone.

The catholic church has overstepped their bounds and they need to be reminded why we have separation of church and state and stomped into the ground.

The same applies to the freaks who belong to the Mormon cult. They paid to shoot down Proposition 8 in California depriving gays their Constitutional rights.

I think it is time to reexamine the tax exempt status of these churches and make them pay taxxes. If they keep up this bullshit then they need to be banned.

Morning Dems, isn't it amazing that everywhere the She Beast goes how she brings out the WORST in people? It don't make any difference what party they belong to. Or even if they don't belong to a party.

She don't care, she is just in it for the money, and that's all she cares about.

I can only imagine how she would of been stealing the tax payers BLIND. If her and McNuts had of been elected.

She wouldn't make a pimple, on a baboon's ass.

Its about time for Shit-Zona, to get up and start with his non stop ignorance. Until he passes out tonight.

same shrill old German troll, same childish, Radical right wing hate, new day. yawwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnn..........

Maybe when the Germans get sick of you, Burdbrain, and toss you out of their country as a terrorist, we may let you back into our Great country here. Can Dumpling immigrate, or will she have to get in line, behind all those Mexicans? I think you will have to have a house before they let her come, so you won't be able to live behind your Mother's in that trailer !

REMEMBER THIS, BURDBRAIN

WE WON

REPUGS LOST

TOUGH LUCK !!!

It sure is amazing, how many old folks, like Shit-Zona.

That is on Medicare, and drawing a SS. check, that vote for Pugs. They would have none of this, if it were not for SOCIALISM.

Hell most of them couldn't even buy groceries, or pay the light bill, if it weren't for that Socialism, SS check. Little lone afford to go to the doctor.

Yet they vote for the ones that would take it away, in a heart beat if they had half a chance.

If the Democrats, had not put these programs in place. Young people would not even be able to get a job until they was about 30 to 35. Cuz all the old folks would still be working. If these programs were not in place.

How many nations have the technology to shift through all emails? How many nations can track all cell phones locations and conversations? How many nations can track all rental cars?

You have told us many times on here that Hugo Chávez is one of your heroes and that you idolize his form of government.

NOW YOU GO AND FIND THAT THOMASSSSSS, LOSER GIRL, OR YOU TAKE THAT GIANT PIE HOLE OF YOUR'S AND TAKE IT OUT OF YOUR ASS !!!!!!!!!!!!

One thing you Can't argue about Chavez about---have you EVER once seen any American Oil company, making highest profits of any company in the world the last years------sell discounted oil to Poor US states or areas, like Maine, NY city ghetto, like Chavez does?????

hmmmmm?

Why this year----being unemployed, you may even qualify for free Heat, food stamps, free prescriptions, etc. Did you sign up locally for a free Turkey? You suck up all those great Socialist Liberal benefits, there , lard ass, and thank God this country has them !

You're Welcome !!!

"Last week they got stupid (stupak) to stuff an amendment into the house bill outlawing abortions for everyone."

177johhne on November 22, 2009 at 09:49 AM

Perhaps in anticipation of some fine day when the Supremes have a 'come to Papa' moment. Yes, when all else fails give everyone a wedgie. instill fear in all those who doubt their own right to life. When embryos get the vote it will truly be a theocratic heaven on earth.

The Holy See is no stranger to North
American politics, from the days of Conquistidors to intrigue and mayhem at the Jamestown Colony. The Church even held sway in one of the original 13 colonies, perhaps why so many businesses still incorporate in Maryland.

Washington - Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.

There was not a vote to spare.

The 60-39 vote cleared the way for a bruising, full-scale debate beginning after Thanksgiving on the legislation, which is designed to extend coverage to roughly 31 million who lack it, crack down on insurance company practices that deny or dilute benefits and curtail the growth of spending on medical care nationally.

The spectator galleries were full for the unusual Saturday night showdown, and applause broke out briefly when the vote was announced. In a measure of the significance of the moment, senators sat quietly in their seats, standing only when they were called upon to vote.

In the final minutes of a daylong session, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., accused Republicans of trying to stifle a historic debate the nation needed.

"Imagine if, instead of debating whether to abolish slavery, instead of debating whether giving women and minorities the right to vote, those who disagreed had muted discussion and killed any vote," he said.

The Republican leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said the vote was anything but procedural -- casting it as a referendum on the bill itself, which he said would raise taxes, cut Medicare and create a "massive and unsustainable debt."

For all the drama, the result of the Saturday night showdown had been sealed a few hours earlier, when two final Democratic holdouts, Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, announced they would join in clearing the way for a full debate.

"It is clear to me that doing nothing is not an option," said Landrieu, who won $100 million in the legislation to help her state pay the costs of health care for the poor.

Lincoln, who faces a tough re-election next year, said the evening vote will "mark the beginning of consideration of this bill by the U.S. Senate, not the end."

Both stressed they were not committing in advance to vote for the bill that ultimately emerges from next month's debate.

Of particular contentiousness to moderates is a provision for the government to sell insurance in competition with private companies, subject to state approval -- a part of Reid's bill expected to come under significant pressure as the debate unfolds.

Even so, their announcements marked a major victory for Reid and the White House in a year-end drive to enact the most sweeping changes to the nation's health care system in a half-century or more.

At the White House, press secretary Robert Gibbs issued a statement saying the president was gratified by the vote, which he says "brings us one step closer to ending insurance company abuses, reining in spiraling health care costs, providing stability and security to those with health insurance, and extending quality health coverage to those who lack it."

The legislation would require most Americans to carry insurance and provide subsidies to those who couldn't afford it. Large companies could incur costs if they did not provide coverage to their workforce. The insurance industry would come under significant new regulation under the bill, which would first ease and then ban the practice of denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions.

Congressional budget analysts put the legislation's cost at $979 billion over a decade and said it would reduce deficits over the same period while extending coverage to 94 percent of the eligible population.

At its core, the legislation would create insurance exchanges beginning in 2014 where individuals, most of them lower income and uninsured, would shop for coverage. The bill sets aside hundreds of billions of dollars in tax credits to help those earning up to 400 percent of poverty, $88,200 for a family of four.

The House approved its version of the bill earlier this month on a near party line vote of 220-215, and Reid has said he wants the Senate to follow suit by year's end. Timing on any final compromise was unclear.

All 58 Senate Democrats and two independents voted to advance the bill. All 39 votes in opposition were cast by Republicans. GOP Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio was the only senator not to vote. Montana Sen. Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee who has labored on health care for more than a year, flew in from his home state on a government plane for the vote and was returning afterward to be with his ailing mother.

While timing made Landrieu and Lincoln the final two Democrats to announce their intentions, Sen. Paul Kirk of Massachusetts had a clear claim as the 60th vote.

Appointed to office this fall after the death of Kennedy, who championed health care issues for decades, Kirk said he spoke for those "who for so many years revered and loved and elected and re-elected (him) ... that I think they're all -- they all, as we do, have him in our minds and our hearts tonight. ..."

Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., echoed those sentiments later in the evening when he referred to Kennedy's "lifelong quest" for national health care and said "tonight and in the days to come we will pay him the highest compliment by fulfilling that" goal.

At a post-vote news conference, Reid said he had telephoned Kennedy's widow, Vicki, with the news.

In hours of debate before the Saturday evening vote, a few Republicans piled copies of the 2,0974-page bill on their desks while others criticized it as a government takeover of health care and worse.

"Move over, Bernie Madoff. Tip your hat to a trillion-dollar scam," said Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., likening the bill's supporters to the imprisoned investor who fleeced millions.

In her remarks, Landrieu said, "I've decided that there are enough significant reforms and safeguards in this bill to move forward, but much more work needs to be done." She also touted the $100 million included in the legislation to help her state cover its costs under Medicaid, the state-federal health care program for the poor.

Lincoln referred repeatedly to the political controversy surrounding the issue. She said $3.3 million has already been spent by outside groups advertising either for or against health care legislation, and said, "these outside groups seem to think that this is all about my re-election. I simply think they don't know me very well."

To finance the expanded coverage, Reid proposed higher taxes as well as cuts totaling hundreds of billions of dollars in projected Medicare payments. Hardest hit would be the private insurance Medicare plans, although providers such as home health agencies would also receive significantly less in future years than now estimated.

The bill raises payroll taxes on incomes over $200,000 for individuals and $250,000 for couples. Reid eased the impact of an earlier proposal to tax high-value insurance plans, which has emerged as one of the principal methods for restraining the growth in health costs.

The bill includes tax increases on insurance companies, medical device makers, patients electing to undergo cosmetic surgery and drugmakers.

© 2009 The Associated Press.

Toss him out on what grounds Pammy? Poking fun of you? Hardly old fool.

Radical Right Wing Anti Government talk against Climate control, Terrorism, etc.

Old Burdie doesn't have a ball to his name. He is one of those who would have pretended they did not smell the burning flesh from the smoke of the Gas chambers had he been there 50 years ago, during the Holocaust. He, Like YOU, is a poor excuse for a man---not a Man's Man by any means ! All mouth---no substance, no morals.

Morality is not determined by the church you attend nor the faith you embrace. It is determined by the quality of your character and the positive impact you have on those you meet along your journey

Some positive impact you two have had, huh??????

bbl, Dems........

"How many nations have the technology to shift through all emails? How many nations can track all cell phones locations and conversations? How many nations can track all rental cars?"
187YoungPoet on November 22, 2009 at 11:08 AM

Trick questions. They all do. via the WWW. All that's required are a few alpha level hackers to breach the repositories of data already collected and an army of data miners to process the booty.

Thank God we have Chavez to give discounted oil to poor states like Maine and parts of NYC, etc. PamB on August 15, 2008 at 07:13 PM

OH Yeah, asshole, that is really hero worship and loving his government. Get real, jerko

and the other one, if I did say it?????

Try and find a sense of humor in that big hateful pus gut of your's ! It makes you look like a simple idiot.

Now bye again, Dems....

From Leader to Laggard in Just Over a Decade
Published: Saturday, 21 Nov 2009 | 8:53 AM ET Floyd Norris
The New York Times

The American stock market has soared 64 percent since it hit bottom eight months ago.

And that leaves it just where it was more than 11 years ago.

The United States stock market was the world leader in the great bull market of the late 1990s, but more recently it has been a laggard, in large part because of the weakness of the dollar. As the accompanying charts show, a stock investor looking for a part of the world to invest in back in 1998 — and to hold onto until now — could not have done worse than to choose the United States.

The charts show the movement of the Standard &Poor’s 500 and the S.& P. International 700 in the period since the American index first reached 1,100 on March 24, 1998. The International 700, which encompasses the non-American stocks in the S.& P. Global 1,200, rose much faster in the middle of this decade, then fell faster in the global recession. But since prices bottomed, it has leaped more than 80 percent.

For the entire period, an investor was better off in emerging markets than in the developed world. The segments of the global index representing Latin America, Australia and emerging Asian countries have soared. The Canadian index also more than doubled, thanks largely to natural resources stocks.

But prices, as measured in local currencies, are lower now than in 1998 for both the S.& P. Europe 350 and the S.& P./Topix 150, covering Japan. Measured in American dollars, as shown in the charts, those markets posted gains of 20 percent and 7 percent, respectively, because of currency movements.

On a sector basis, the best place to be over that period, both in the United States and globally, was in energy stocks. Oil prices fell to just above $10 a barrel in late 1998, and few investors saw value in the area. More recently, oil company profits set records as crude soared well above $100 a barrel, and even after the global downturn the price is more than $70.

Financial stocks have suffered more in the United States than in the rest of the world, but the credit crisis brought down many banks in other regions as well.

The charts also show 15 well-known companies from around the globe whose share prices are at least 300 percent higher than they were in 1998, and 15 such companies whose prices are less than half what they were then.

This story originally appeared in the The New York Times

It’s a pity that Republicans, don’t share the President's, commitment to American leadership.

Hello fine Dems.

The old crook, is on his way OUT !!!

Crook? Did you see some trial and indictment the rest of us did not? Nothing ethically wrong with what he did---The Senate Ethics committee said so.

That article ALSO said 61% still approve of Dodd's Leadership ! Nothing in his qualifications say he will not continue to be a great Senator for this State.

I wrote a really good LTE today to the courant in response to their column.

You don't like him? Then don't vote for him! OOOPS, I forgot -----you don't get a chance to vote for him at all ! Maybe you should be out campaigning for McCain, instead!

How was Church this morning Dufus? Surely that was where you were. But alas, Thomasss and German Burd did not go----instead of paying respect to their God, they decided to do what they think Jesus would do----and come in and plant some hate. Funny how Burd must not like to be told he is shrill-----he sure copies me a lot ! He is shriller than an 8 year old girl, who is throwing a temper tantrum! Bet he is stomping his dainty little feet under his table, too ! hahaha....Poor little trolls. If it were not for copying our posts----they would have nothing at all to say---Because there is not ONE SINGLE good thing they can say about Republican, including Palin, who got booed yesterday big time. Boy they would have stoned her if they could have, but she was hiding on her bus after screwing all those people.

"Jesus----they couldn't even get enough people to give all those wristbands to in the first place!

"But for all the adoration, there were perhaps some signs that Palin's popularity might be waning in Central Indiana.

The Noblesville stop was one of the first three on a tour that already has landed her on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and on the cover of Newsweek -- but it also was the smallest.

Borders general manager Marty Beck thought as many as 3,000 might show up Thursday morning in search of wristbands.

But it was closer to 1,100 -- fewer than the estimated 1,500 Wednesday in Grand Rapids, Mich., and the 1,300 who came to her book signing Thursday afternoon at a Meijer in Fort Wayne.

I feel nothing but scorn for this woman coming out using that Special Needs child as a Photo Prop! prostituionilizing him at his little age, so that she can make a buck!
That is so disgusting. No REAL Mother would ever do that.

Gee, I seem to remember Stevieboy saying how hundreds of thousands were going to be coming out to see the bimbo ! ?????? Another wrong prediction, I guess !! heehee.

Red-Dog, was you throwing Water Bottles, last night, its about your speed, you sore hate filled person.

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Updated: November 22, 2009, 1:14 AM ET
Oregon cheerleader hurtComment

TUCSON, Ariz. -- An Oregon cheerleader was carted off the field and taken to a hospital after being hit in the head by a water bottle at the end of Oregon's 44-41 double-overtime over Arizona on Saturday night.

Oregon officials identified the cheerleader as Katelynn Johnson, a senior. There was no immediate word on her condition or whether she had lost consciousness.

Oregon athletic director Mike Bellotti told The Associated Press that Johnson had been hit with a full water bottle.

Witnesses said Johnson was hit near the entrance to the Oregon locker room in the southwest corner of Arizona Stadium, where the Ducks and their personnel were celebrating a dramatic victory that kept them in control of the Pac-10 title race. Technicians tended to Johnson for several minutes on the field before she was taken away.

"There were many things -- water and other things -- being thrown down there," Bellotti said.

Arizona officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

"That's just unacceptable behavior from fans, whether it was an Arizona fan or any fan across the nation," said Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli, who scored the winning touchdown in overtime.

Don't forget to call out bitch mcconnell. He is a peckerhead.

Afternoon Chassie,

How can we officially change the name of arizona to shitzona?

We should change the name of south carolina to south shitonya.

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chassie321 on November 22, 2009 at 01:22 PM

shitzona should be banned from participating in any sports events anywhere in the civilized world until they grow up. That includes professional and college sports.

Health care: VOTE NO !
My opinion: VOTE NO!

Government takeover of health care is insane – it is being forced on us by a dictatorship administration who does not care. We Americans are not being listened to. This is a great country going downhill, losing our freedoms, at a fast rate and high cost.

Why isn’t Congress and the president included in this monstrosity? They are better than we are? I don’t think so, and Democrats have worked hard to prove it. Respect for them? NO. Reid, NO, Pelosi, NO! Obama, NO! That entire bill should be shredded. FIX Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security FIRST. I am 76, and scared. What I worked 46 years for will be totally lost. I WILL lose my company health insurance.

Obama needs to change; not require others to change! He has racked up an obscene amount of travel mileage at our expense for no good. Babbling and bowing around the world instead of working. I promise, I promise, make sure, make sure – empty words repeated endlessly. China will own us and we will be 50% Muslims and Mexicans. Scary.

I absolutely believe the radial Islamic terrorists, the mastermind of 9/11 and his cohorts and Major Hasan of the Ft Hood massacre should go before a MILITARY TRIBUNAL, SENTENCED, AND SHOT BY A FIRING SQUAD in front of Americans. They committed acts of war on American soil; it was the same as Pearl Harbor, no less. Islam needs to receive a clear message this behavior will not be tolerated. WAR! They have no rights.

“Trying” them in civilian court is a sick joke. They committed premeditated murder. A mockery “trial”. Wasted money. Another 9/11 waiting and New York at great risk?

Anything less is a disservice and disgrace to the American people who made this country great. Our great founding fathers must be turning over in their graves. We the people now consider it an insult. It is an insult to all those who immigrated legally before.

All illegals should be rounded up and sent back. Eisenhower did it. All questionable Muslims must be rounded up and sent back. They are a threat to our safety on American soil. No one in this administration has the guts to do it. It is a sick way to garner more votes for Obama. The United States as we knew it is doomed; and the world is watching.

You know, Fruitface Burd, you guys just don't know a joke when you see it-------unless it is a 3rd grade level immature, childish stupid one.

Ask Stevie boy what a taunt is-----he has argued for over 6 years now, that anything he says is Taunts.

The comment on the McCain button, was just that---a taunt at election time.

The Cyber stalking was in retaliation to Stevieboy and his constant remarks that TROLLING here is his hobby.

NOW YA GOT IT, STUPE???

Isn't it almost time to go to bed there in Germany? Where's the dumpling anyways?

Go do something useful for a change.

OH AND TO THOMASS' REMARK ABOUT SATURDAY NIGHT SERVICE-------well, I guess that makes you a Catholic, huhjThomass?

Inquiring minds would like to know-----DID YOU GO TO CONFESSION??? Did you mention to the priest all of the filth, the racism, the homophobia you post in the name of politic sore loser-ism? hmmmmmmm? How you are addicted to HATE? I think one of the commandements is something about loving thy neighbor as theyself!

I think Stevieboy is down at the local Bathhouse getting fumigated for his big meeting with Palin. I Hope he remembers to have those nose hairs cut, as the will be standing right over the top of where Sarah will be looking up his dirty nose ! And maybe get that old grey pony tail of his trimmed up a little. Biggest thing to happen to Stevieboy in years and years. Ever since the State told him he was eligible for State assistance on his Property tax! And then some kind of Homestead credit too. Wowzer, Stevieboy pays almost nothing in taxes period. Lucky ole Stevieboy.

almost as lucky as Dirty Dufus, with his FREE Medicare Part A, his $95 Part B, his Social Security Check, his Vets benefits, and of course----all his wife's too! Wonder if he gives the old lady enough to get a perm once in a while? probably not.

ttyl, Dems.....

Another photo op, I am sick of them......is he EVER at his desk? That would be a refreshing photo as long as it NOT signing the insane health care? bill into law.

LadySwede? says:

"Government takeover of health care is insane – it is being forced on us by a dictatorship administration who does not care. We Americans are not being listened to. This is a great country going downhill, losing our freedoms, at a fast rate and high cost.

Were you in a coma the last 8 years there, bimbo?
Forced on us????-----70% of Americans WANT the public option---what part did you miss? Losing our freedoms? What freedoms we have left after Bush, you mean?

What makes you think Hassen is a Terrorist? OH, because YOU tried him. You are a judge now?
I guess the fact that the rest of the world looks at this country as bad, because we just caged up thousands of rounded up men and pretended they were big bad terrorists doesn't faze you. They have let most of them go, because they did not have any evidence on any of them. Something else you must have missed.

Hey Dems...... I think this is Stevieboy the Swede, showing his feminine side again. Or is it just another dumb Swede?

gotta go.

Dufus, oh Dufus-----that IP of the German's was not cyber stalking at all ! HE used his google search to try and search for my name, and it came up on that search----SO YOU SEE DUFUS, THE GERMAN WAS CYBER STALKING ME ! That is how he got caught. Same thing that Thomassss did, first searching for me at work, and from home. Have both IPs now, didn't have to do a thing.

Let me tell you a little something, Boss Hog, about cyber stalking.

You see-----I AM WHERE I AM SUPPOSED TO BE. On a Democratic blog, with people of like minds. I am registered under my own name. No proxy server---using my own internet server and email address.

YOU AND YOUR ILK now, on the other hand, are breaking and entering, stalking on a blog you have no business on. Just like breaking into a house where you do not belong. Afraid to death to use your own name even in the registering on the blog, or even your own Server for your email addy.

Now do you see, old hog, why You are wrong, and I am right?? Why you are a hypocrite to say anything about me stalking? YOU LITTLE MEN ARE THE STALKERS. YOU ARE THE YELLOW COWARDS. YOU ARE NOT REAL MEN AT ALL. got it now?

Maybe you would like to prove me wrong----and post your name and your real email address???

"Because of his pro-abortion stand the church banned Kennedy from receiving the sacrament."

Like banning John Kerry from communion in '84 after which the Swift Boat Veterans (for truth?) lies were able to scuttle his bid for the White House. Yes the Church meddles in US politics big time. And it protects the un-conceived from family planning as cynically as it protects the centuries old priviledge of priestly pederasty. They just close as many diocese's as necessary to pay the lawuits and carry on as usual, while geographically denying communion to all those neighborhood parishioners.

Well, I hate to break your old stupid heart, Stevieboy, but apparently the authorities just Laughted their asses off, and threw your crap in the basket cause I am still here, aren't I!!

I DID send on your comments on my "porker" mayor you mentioned so many times, plus a few other comments,---so they could see YOUR cyber stalking of even the Mayor in my town, and your filthy disrespect of her showed you even were stalking her website. Let the authorities sort it out is right ! Wonder how YOUR Mayor would like an up to date brochure of YOUR sick sick droppings? Any crimes within 100 miles , you are the first suspect !

"Because of his pro-abortion stand the church banned Kennedy from receiving the sacrament."

The Catholic Church should be the LAST ones to open their mouths . Yeah, they sure don;t want any babies aborted----all those little boys---so little time to molest them all !!!!

Bunch of hypocritcal sick bastards.

Dufus, your babyish attacks merely make you look Insane ! Go back and read just how crazy you appear. Or better still, call Mama over and let her see what YOUR hobby is. Got the nerve? nahhhhh, You are not man enough. You KNOW what you do here is sick.

"They don't work that fast Mrs Dumbshit. Lieberman will forward his copy of the letter and your cyber stalking confession to the US Attorney it takes a long long time - maybe 18 months or so."

HAHAHAHA. nice try. Liberman doesn't even tough a piece of email or mail. his aides do, I know. And you think when they saw your crazed piece of crap, they did anything more than toss it? YOU SURE SEEM TO KNOW A LOT ABOUT CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES. fUNNY, the Secret Service knew all about you in a matter of minutes when they added Timcey's accusations to your file.

"And how many times must I tell you that I do not have a mayor because I do not live in a town ya knucklehead" Maybe not----but the Mayor sure keeps tabs on what is living around the woods, you can bet, and is happy to get a headsup on the real loner sickos. Keeps you in mind when any crimes are committed anywhere in the state.

Go get the Bible, Dufus , and put your hand on it, and swear to me on Mama's soul, that you use your name, and your email address while signing into the DNC blog!

run along now, go get it, I am waiting !

Let's prove once and for all, what a moral, honest, REAL man you really are.

Now don't just ignore this, like you are so prone to do, when the questions get too hard for you.

DO YOU SWEAR ON YOUR WIFE'S SOUL, MAY SHE ROT IN HELL IF YOU ARE NOT TELLING THE TRUTH----THAT WHEN ENTERING THIS BLOG, YOU USE YOUR OWN NAME, YOUR OWN SERVER AND YOUR OWN EMAIL ADDRESS??

ADLIB2,

These Repugs KNOW there is warming happening. They just refuse to admit it, because to do so means that all of those corporate companies pouring out their pollutents, not wanting to pay any of those carbon fines, would not be able to donate as much money to the Repugs anymore.

Here are just a few of the many many pictures out there, that show proof with one's own eyes, that this planet is warming up. One can deny science if one wishes, but one cannot ignore their own eyes.

http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/pages/glaciers.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/photogalleries/global_warming/

http://www.effectofglobalwarming.com/global-warming-pictures.html

http://www.alaskastock.com/Global-Warming-Pictures.asp

http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/intro01.jsp

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=global+warming+in+pictures&fr=yfp-t-809&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8

DON'T BOTHER, DUFUS, I KNOW YOU DO NOT HAVE THE GUTS TO USE YOUR OWN NAME, OR EMAIL !!!!

YOU , THE BIGGEST CYBER ABUSER OF THEM ALL-----USING GOOGLE EARTH TO SEARCH PEOPLE'S HOMES?????

WHAT A SICK, SICK, OLD MAN

HEADING OUT DEMS, puke comes up in the back of my throat from these lying, small, dirty little men.

Asshole repukes hate American and Americans.

Good evening, all.

Report: Leaked UK documents detail Iraq war chaos
AP

David Stringer, Associated Press Writer
Nov 22

LONDON – Leaked British government documents call into question ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair's public statements on the buildup to the Iraq war and show plans for the U.S.-led 2003 invasion were being made more than a year earlier, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Britain's Sunday Telegraph published details of private statements made by senior British military figures claiming plans were in place months before the March 2003 invasion, but were so badly drafted they left troops poorly equipped and ill-prepared for the conflict.

The documents — transcripts of interviews from an internal defense ministry review of the conflict — disclose that some planning for the Iraq war had begun in February 2002. Maj. Gen. Graeme Lamb, then head of Britain's special forces, was quoted as saying he had been "working the war up since early 2002," according to the newspaper.

In July 2002, Blair told lawmakers at a House of Commons committee session that there were no preparations to invade Iraq.

Critics of the war have long insisted that Blair offered then-President George W. Bush an assurance as early as mid-2002 — before British lawmakers voted in 2003 to approve U.K. involvement — that Britain would join the war...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_iraq

You have to wonder what they thought they would get from the invasion. We now know it had nothing to do with WMD or Al Queada. Was it all about the strategic position of the country relative to Iran and Syrian or was it just the oil?

Or were they just scared? Panic and cold calculating greed is probably what most wars are about. But why did Blair buy into it so fast after 911? Will he ever admit he was played by Cheney?

Andy Ronney is as crazy of an old bird as they come. He thinks we (women I suppose) should cook Thanksgiving dinner completely from scratch...and then use a dishwasher because he figures the Pilgrims and Indians would understand?

This country has gone stark raving mad.

We have allowed the public airways to overrun by the senile media personalities who think they know better than Julia Child...or worst yet greedy conservative media whores who would eat their own to get ahead. None of them make any sense and get paid outlandish amounts of money to act that way.

I'm not sure how much more ridiculous the Far Right can get...

Glenn Beck Stakes Out Activist Role in Politics

By BRIAN STELTER
Published: November 21, 2009

Glenn Beck, the popular and outspoken Fox News host, says he wants to go beyond broadcasting his opinions and start rallying his political base — formerly known as his audience — to take action.

To do so, Mr. Beck is styling himself as a political organizer. In an interview, he said he would promote voter registration drives and sponsor a series of seven conventions across the country featuring what he described as libertarian speakers...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/business/media/22beck.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

Is it going to be the Battle of the Conservative All Star Media Whores? Beck vs. Dobbs. Dobbs vs. Limbaugh. Hannity vs. Godzila?

What credibility or experience do any of these doorknobs have? They can't even get their video feeds right. They have to rely on a comedian to tell them their zipper is down.

After the Palin candidacy, do any of them think that Mainstream America would bite? Do they even really care as long as they can rally their small contingency of adoring fans and hero worshipers?

Don't they realize that Joe the Plumber is their target audience and he's currently out of a job and thinking about running, too? He wouldn't even vote for Palin last year. Why would any libertarian vote for these Faux News rejects when they have Ron Paul?

Is this all about the Me Generation Conservatives finally trying to catch up with their narcissistic rock stars counterparts from the 1960's? Are they all having mid life crises? I can understand Palin having a menopausal moment, but these guys are acting stranger than the dudes on those prostrate drug commercials.

I guess they're all taking steriods like the major league sports celebrities they're trying to emulate? Or maybe it's female fertility drugs like Manny was taking?

Talk about making a complete fool of yourself as you reach your Golden Years. Nobody's going to love you, baby, more than you love yourself. What fan base you have now is all you'll ever have. The middle class is concerned about the state of the economy and their own future not Beck's ego.

But he doesn't have a clue. None of the conservatives divas have a clue. Displaying such vain and self-important behavior when so many workers are hurting is disgusting. There will be a backlash against all of them if they keep it up.

You saw how fast the Religious Right leadership faded when they became more important than their cause.

Republicans, should all get buried in FIREPROOF UNDERWEAR, because most of 'em are gonna need it where they're going after they check out. They deserve to end up in the same wing of Hell as politicians, lawyers and used-car salesmen.

This is the Reagan Legacy:

In recession, one road led back home

After hitting dead end in job search, new graduate rethinks her path

By Eli Saslow
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 22, 2009

Her parents redecorated her bedroom soon after she left for college, as sure as everyone else in this town that Melissa Meyer would not be moving back. They took down the photos of Melissa meeting the Dalai Lama and laughing alongside Joe Biden, placing them in the closet. They packed away dozens of high school honor certificates -- valedictorian, class president, outstanding chemistry student -- and stored them in plastic boxes under the bed.

Melissa had always been too big for this town, her father liked to say. She was editor of the school newspaper, an intern in the U.S. Senate and the only student from Sentinel High School's Class of 2005 to attend college on the East Coast. On her rare visits home from George Washington University, longtime friends liked to tease her: "Hey, Melissa, are you president yet?"

So, how to explain this? Each morning, Melissa wakes up in her old bedroom, scans the foreign decor and thinks: This is the guest room now. I am the guest. I am not supposed to be here.

She graduated magna cum laude from the GW Business School in May, applied for 30 jobs at some of the nation's best-known companies, and it went nowhere. After visiting the campus career center and redesigning her résumé, she applied for 10 more jobs. Still nothing. The lease on her Foggy Bottom apartment expired in June. There was no place to go but home, with a collection of rejection letters and a haunting sense of betrayal. For 23 years, she had advanced down America's path to success -- perfect grades, a $200,000 college degree, a folder overstuffed with business cards -- only to have it dead-end back where she started...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/21/AR2009112102372.html?wpisrc=newsletter

We are right back to where the Great Reagan Recession of 1982 started along with the Savings and Loan scandal which first robbed the middle class of their nest eggs, standard of living, and pride. Only this time they have us digging off a bigger hole with two unresolved, a TARP and accompanying deficit to match, and loads of unfair trade deals.

Old conservative Republicans don't like the next generation...any of them. They have tried everything they can to destroy our nation's future from outsourcing to deregulation to borrowing from the Communist Chinese to give welfare to the rich. Worst of all, they are trying to shoot down the dreams of this country's youth.

From the IED's blowing up the hopes of our children fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq to the over-achievers just out of school ready to take on the world, Bush and the Congressional Republicans left them at the curb and rode away in their limos leaving them in the dust.

The conservatives have now barricaded and are trying to block the road to recovery.

Our best and brightest are drifting. When will the Old Boys Club of the Senate let go of their prejudices and failed ideology? It's no longer about preserving their past glories which were nothing more than fraud and corruption. It's about making life better for the next generation.

There are far too few conservatives holding onto way too much power in proportion to their numbers. It's time for them to let go or we will have to yank the rug right out from under them for our childrens' sake.

These rich bastards and fundamentalist religious zealots must learn to sacrifice...just like the rest of us have for the past 35 years while they wallowed in their enormous greed, fake piety and patriotism, inflated egos, and treasonous collaborations with foreign interests.

This country can no longer drift. We are going no where with the status quo standing in the way of real change. Either the Republicans become part of the solution or you will become the one problem we solve for good.

Don't say you were not warned. The Founders sent King George such a warning once.

So the only reason we bailed out these stock brokerages was so they could outsource more middle class jobs?

India may get $1 billion in IT outsourcing contracts: report

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Leading Indian outsourcers such as Tata Consultancy (TCS.BO), Infosys (INFY.BO) and Wipro (WIPR.BO) stand to gain contracts worth about $1 billion in the next one or two years as U.S. banks emerge from the troubled asset relief program, the Economic Times reported on Monday.

The newspaper said JPMorgan (JPM.N), Goldman Sachs (GS.N) and Morgan Stanley (MS.N) that received approval to buy back government stake worth $68 billion earlier this year are among the firms seeking operational efficiencies by outsourcing non-core IT and back-office projects to India.

American Express (AXP.N), Bank of New York Mellon (BK.N) and Capital One, which have started repaying government debt, were also considering outsourcing, it said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091123/bs_nm/us_india_outsourcing_usbanks

Customer service went first. Now IT. How long will it be before their accounting and legal work is outsourced to India, too? Why don't they just list themselves as Indian companies on the stock exchange?

Why are we allowing any of their directors or executives to live in this country? Why are we allowing them to do business here? They obviously feel that they owe their future allegiance to the India people and government.

But we still have Dobbs, Beck, and Hanity squawking about illegal aliens? We have unofficial illegal aliens operating out of Wall Street, but Faux News is cheering them on. Beck is going to hold seven regional pep rallies for these bastards.

Why do the Republicans hate this country so much? They aren't to big to fail either.

and this one for widdle, litty bitty Stevie:

Now where is your proof that rising CO2 levels cause snow to melt? You don't have any proof because there is none.

Posted by the ever stupid, Stevieboy. Better call NASA right away, and tell them they are full of crap, Stevie, that you KNOW more than they do !

World Book at NASA

Global Warming

Global warming is an increase in the average temperature of Earth's surface. Since the late 1800's, the global average temperature has increased about 0.7 to 1.4 degrees F (0.4 to 0.8 degrees C). Many experts estimate that the average temperature will rise an additional 2.5 to 10.4 degrees F (1.4 to 5.8 degrees C) by 2100. That rate of increase would be much larger than most past rates of increase.

Scientists worry that human societies and natural ecosystems might not adapt to rapid climate changes. An ecosystem consists of the living organisms and physical environment in a particular area. Global warming could cause much harm, so countries throughout the world drafted an agreement called the Kyoto Protocol to help limit it.

Causes of global warming

Climatologists (scientists who study climate) have analyzed the global warming that has occurred since the late 1800's. A majority of climatologists have concluded that human activities are responsible for most of the warming. Human activities contribute to global warming by enhancing Earth's natural greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect warms Earth's surface through a complex process involving sunlight, gases, and particles in the atmosphere. Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere are known as greenhouse gases.

The main human activities that contribute to global warming are the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) and the clearing of land. Most of the burning occurs in automobiles, in factories, and in electric power plants that provide energy for houses and office buildings. The burning of fossil fuels creates carbon dioxide, whose chemical formula is CO2. CO2 is a greenhouse gas that slows the escape of heat into space. Trees and other plants remove CO2 from the air during photosynthesis, the process they use to produce food. The clearing of land contributes to the buildup of CO2 by reducing the rate at which the gas is removed from the atmosphere or by the decomposition of dead vegetation.

A small number of scientists argue that the increase in greenhouse gases has not made a measurable difference in the temperature. They say that natural processes could have caused global warming. Those processes include increases in the energy emitted (given off) by the sun. But the vast majority of climatologists believe that increases in the sun's energy have contributed only slightly to recent warming.

The impact of global warming

Thousands of icebergs float off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula after 1,250 square miles (3,240 square kilometers) of the Larsen B ice shelf disintegrated in 2002. The area of the ice was larger than the state of Rhode Island or the nation of Luxembourg. Antarctic ice shelves have been shrinking since the early 1970's because of climate warming in the region. Image credit: NASA/Earth Observatory

Continued global warming could have many damaging effects. It might harm plants and animals that live in the sea. It could also force animals and plants on land to move to new habitats. Weather patterns could change, causing flooding, drought, and an increase in damaging storms. Global warming could melt enough polar ice to raise the sea level. In certain parts of the world, human disease could spread, and crop yields could decline.

Harm to ocean life

Through global warming, the surface waters of the oceans could become warmer, increasing the stress on ocean ecosystems, such as coral reefs. High water temperatures can cause a damaging process called coral bleaching. When corals bleach, they expel the algae that give them their color and nourishment. The corals turn white and, unless the water temperature cools, they die. Added warmth also helps spread diseases that affect sea creatures.

Changes of habitat

Widespread shifts might occur in the natural habitats of animals and plants. Many species would have difficulty surviving in the regions they now inhabit. For example, many flowering plants will not bloom without a sufficient period of winter cold. And human occupation has altered the landscape in ways that would make new habitats hard to reach or unavailable altogether.

Weather damage

Extreme weather conditions might become more frequent and therefore more damaging. Changes in rainfall patterns could increase both flooding and drought in some areas. More hurricanes and other tropical storms might occur, and they could become more powerful.

Rising sea level

Continued global warming might, over centuries, melt large amounts of ice from a vast sheet that covers most of West Antarctica. As a result, the sea level would rise throughout the world. Many coastal areas would experience flooding, erosion, a loss of wetlands, and an entry of seawater into freshwater areas. High sea levels would submerge some coastal cities, small island nations, and other inhabited regions.

Threats to human health

Tropical diseases, such as malaria and dengue, might spread to larger regions. Longer-lasting and more intense heat waves could cause more deaths and illnesses. Floods and droughts could increase hunger and malnutrition.

Changes in crop yields

Canada and parts of Russia might benefit from an increase in crop yields. But any increases in yields could be more than offset by decreases caused by drought and higher temperatures -- particularly if the amount of warming were more than a few degrees Celsius. Yields in the tropics might fall disastrously because temperatures there are already almost as high as many crop plants can tolerate.

Limited global warming

Climatologists are studying ways to limit global warming. Two key methods would be (1) limiting CO2 emissions and (2) carbon sequestration -- either preventing carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere or removing CO2 already there.

Limiting CO2 emissions

Two effective techniques for limiting CO2 emissions would be (1) to replace fossil fuels with energy sources that do not emit CO2, and (2) to use fossil fuels more efficiently.

Alternative energy sources that do not emit CO2 include the wind, sunlight, nuclear energy, and underground steam. Devices known as wind turbines can convert wind energy to electric energy. Solar cells can convert sunlight to electric energy, and various devices can convert solar energy to useful heat. Geothermal power plants convert energy in underground steam to electric energy.

Alternative sources of energy are more expensive to use than fossil fuels. However, increased research into their use would almost certainly reduce their cost.

Carbon sequestration could take two forms: (1) underground or underwater storage and (2) storage in living plants.

Underground or underwater storage would involve injecting industrial emissions of CO2 into underground geologic formations or the ocean. Suitable underground formations include natural reservoirs of oil and gas from which most of the oil or gas has been removed. Pumping CO2 into a reservoir would have the added benefit of making it easier to remove the remaining oil or gas. The value of that product could offset the cost of sequestration. Deep deposits of salt or coal could also be suitable.

The oceans could store much CO2. However, scientists have not yet determined the environmental impacts of using the ocean for carbon sequestration.

Storage in living plants

Green plants absorb CO2 from the atmosphere as they grow. They combine carbon from CO2 with hydrogen to make simple sugars, which they store in their tissues. After plants die, their bodies decay and release CO2. Ecosystems with abundant plant life, such as forests and even cropland, could tie up much carbon. However, future generations of people would have to keep the ecosystems intact. Otherwise, the sequestered carbon would re-enter the atmosphere as CO2.

Agreement on global warming

Delegates from more than 160 countries met in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997 to draft the agreement that became known as the Kyoto Protocol. That agreement calls for decreases in the emissions of greenhouse gases.

Emissions targets

Thirty-eight industrialized nations would have to restrict their emissions of CO2 and five other greenhouse gases. The restrictions would occur from 2008 through 2012. Different countries would have different emissions targets. As a whole, the 38 countries would restrict their emissions to a yearly average of about 95 percent of their 1990 emissions. The agreement does not place restrictions on developing countries. But it encourages the industrialized nations to cooperate in helping developing countries limit emissions voluntarily.

Industrialized nations could also buy or sell emission reduction units. Suppose an industrialized nation cut its emissions more than was required by the agreement. That country could sell other industrialized nations emission reduction units allowing those nations to emit the amount equal to the excess it had cut.

Several other programs could also help an industrialized nation earn credit toward its target. For example, the nation might help a developing country reduce emissions by replacing fossil fuels in some applications.

Approving the agreement

The protocol would take effect as a treaty if (1) at least 55 countries ratified (formally approved) it, and (2) the industrialized countries ratifying the protocol had CO2 emissions in 1990 that equaled at least 55 percent of the emissions of all 38 industrialized countries in 1990.

In 2001, the United States rejected the Kyoto Protocol. President George W. Bush said that the agreement could harm the U.S. economy. But he declared that the United States would work with other countries to limit global warming. Other countries, most notably the members of the European Union, agreed to continue with the agreement without United States participation.

By 2004, more than 100 countries, including nearly all the countries classified as industrialized under the protocol, had ratified the agreement. However, the agreement required ratification by Russia or the United States to go into effect. Russia ratified the protocol in November 2004. The treaty was to come into force in February 2005.

Analyzing global warming

Scientists use information from several sources to analyze global warming that occurred before people began to use thermometers. Those sources include tree rings, cores (cylindrical samples) of ice drilled from Antarctica and Greenland, and cores drilled out of sediments in oceans. Information from these sources indicates that the temperature increase of the 1900's was probably the largest in the last 1,000 years.

Computers help climatologists analyze past climate changes and predict future changes. First, a scientist programs a computer with a set of mathematical equations known as a climate model. The equations describe how various factors, such as the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, affect the temperature of Earth's surface. Next, the scientist enters data representing the values of those factors at a certain time. He or she then runs the program, and the computer describes how the temperature would vary. A computer's representation of changing climatic conditions is known as a climate simulation.

In 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group sponsored by the United Nations (UN), published results of climate simulations in a report on global warming. Climatologists used three simulations to determine whether natural variations in climate produced the warming of the past 100 years. The first simulation took into account both natural processes and human activities that affect the climate. The second simulation took into account only the natural processes, and the third only the human activities.

The climatologists then compared the temperatures predicted by the three simulations with the actual temperatures recorded by thermometers. Only the first simulation, which took into account both natural processes and human activities, produced results that corresponded closely to the recorded temperatures.

The IPCC also published results of simulations that predicted temperatures until 2100. The different simulations took into account the same natural processes but different patterns of human activity. For example, scenarios differed in the amounts of CO2 that would enter the atmosphere due to human activities.

The simulations showed that there can be no "quick fix" to the problem of global warming. Even if all emissions of greenhouse gases were to cease immediately, the temperature would continue to increase after 2100 because of the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere.

http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/global_warming_worldbook.html

NOW SHOVE THAT ONE UP YOUR BUTT, UNLESS YOUR HEAD IS TAKING UP TOO MUCH ROOM!

The lousy bastard MSM is spewing the same bullshit. On the ABC radio news this morning they were saying that the President's health care bill is dead. They played a bunch of lies by mcconnell (flaming asshole) and they said that half the Democrats are going to vote it down.

How's that for encouragement. The MSM should be severely punished for their lies and greed. Most of these people probably make seven figures a year (at our expense) and aren't about to pay more taxes to give every American a chance at health care.

SCREWUM. Let me say this. If this health bill doesn't pass, there will be big time trouble in river city. Every decent American will get out and demonstrate against these selfish pig bastard republicans. They will be removed from office permanently next election.

OMG, YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS ONE: It would be really funny, except it is close to the truth! She will have her witch Doctor praying for all of this. It is starting already, Pugs, hang on it is going to be a long, long ride for you girlies.

SNL: Palin 2012 presidential disaster movie

Global destruction breaks out as Sarah Palin is elected president in 2012, in a new mashup presented on Saturday Night Live.

News coverage purportedly revealing a Sarah Palin presidential victory and cataclysmic scenes from the new Roland Emmerich film draw familiar fake tears from new Vice President Glenn Beck on Fox News.

"All the signs were there, we were warned this day would come," the titles state as water levels rise to a bursting point.

Brian Williams looks into the NBC News cameras. "The nation has a new president," he says. A massive shroud of birds covers the screen.

"People are scared," Hillary Clinton tells an interviewer.
A fireball hits a fleeing RV covered in Obama signs.

Palin is seen on a small television. "Thanks but no thanks on the bridge to nowhere," she says. A bridge full of cars crumbles to the ground.

Will this apocalyptic vision of the future come true one day?

This video is from NBC's Saturday Night Live, broadcast Nov. 21, 2009.

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Here is Stevieboy's source for his global warming piece above------just another wacko in the pocket of the Oil industry. and a nanny nanny boo boo to YOU, Stevieboy

Timothy F. Ball
Ball and the oil industry
Ball is listed as a "consultant" of a Calgary-based global warming skeptic organization called the "Friends of Science" (FOS).

Ball is also listed as an "Executive" for a Canadian group called the "Natural Resource Stewardship Project," (NRSP) a lobby organization that refuses to disclose its funding sources.

DeSmog recently uncovered information showing that two of the founding directors of the NRSP are lobbyists for the energy sector.

Ball and the oil industry
In a January 28, 2007 article in the Toronto Star, the President of the Friends of Science admitted that about one-third of the funding for the FOS is provided by the oil industry. In an August 2006 Globe and Mail feature, FOS was exposed as being funded in part by the oil and gas sector and hiding this fact. According to the Globe and Mail, the oil industry money was funnelled through the Calgary Foundation charity to the University of Calgary and then put into an education trust for the FOS.

Ball inflates credentials
Ball and the organizations he is affiliated with have repeatedly made the claim that he is the "first Canadian PhD in climatology." Even further, Ball once claimed he was "one of the first climatology PhD's in the world." As many people have pointed out, there have been many PhD's in the field prior to Ball.

Ball and the NRSP
Ball is listed as an "Executive" for a Canadian group called the "Natural Resource Stewardship Project," (NRSP) a lobby organization that refuses to disclose its funding sources. The NRSP is led by executive director Tom Harris and Dr. Tim Ball. An October 16, 2006 CanWest Global news article on who funds the NRSP, it states that "a confidentiality agreement doesn't allow him [Tom Harris] to say whether energy companies are funding his group."

DeSmog recently uncovered information that two of the three directors on the board of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project are senior executives of the High Park Advocacy Group, a Toronto-based lobby firm that specializes in “energy, environment and ethics.”

Ball's research history
Ball retired from the University of Winnipeg in 1996. A search of 22,000 academic journals shows that over the course of his career Ball published four pieces of original research in peer-reviewed journals on the subject of climate change. Ball has not published any new research in the last 11 years.

Ball sues researcher and Calgary Herald newspaper
On September 1st, Ball launched a libel suit against Dr. Dan Johnson, a current Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Lethbridge and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Grassland Ecosystems. Here are the original Statements of Claim and Defence

feel free to contact this Wacko, Dems. Another case of Follow the Money, and sure enough, he is in bed with Oil !!!

btw, Stevie boy, I know the first thing out of your mouth is going to be I am attacking your Source! YOU BET YOUR BUTT I AM !

Maybe next time we post something from Al Gore, you had better keep YOUR mouth shut??????

So until you come up with a bonafide source, a legitimate one not tied to any bias, better try and save face (? uhg), and keep still! You look more foolish and insane every year!

Here is an interesting obituary.

"The memory of the dead is sacred in the eyes of the gentle, the generous, the good and manly. None of us are "free from sin", and those most guilty generally take most pains to condemn in others what they secretly practice themselves."

This guy sounded like a selfish, greedy, grasping, I got mine, present day republican.

Morning Johne

Remember this, when the smoke all dies down, whether the public option is included or not. NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE US, HAS THIS COUNTRY COME THIS CLOSE TO DOING SOMETHING ABOUT HEALTH REFORM, HEALTH CARE IN THIS COUNTRY.

This has pointed out to Americans, that Democrats want to try and fix this country and help Americans, and Republicans are fighting them every step of the way. This will be used for years to come, as an example of what each party stands for.

That was a Victory passing the House, and now getting it to the floor of the Senate, where C-Span will show each one of those mealy mouth, lying Repugs standing there parotting the same lies over and over.

You now have the Catholic Bishops thinking they can have a say in this! You know, it pisses me off that Muslims are all profiled as being evil, yet the Catholic Church can try and muscle in and make laws in this country, and we are supposed to sit back and let One Religion tell us what we can or can't do?

I know many a Catholic woman, who not only uses birth control pills, but have had abortions. Women are not as subservient as these men like to believe, and they will continue to do what they think is right for their bodies till the end of time.

I am glad you are amused, thomassss. Telling lies is becoming your specialty lately, isn't it? Sad, such a prideful person as yourself had to fall into that.

Hopefully, before your liberal unemployment benefits run out, and before your Christmas is bleak because you are broke, you will find some gainful employment, and THIS time, not cheat your employer out of paid time, sitting on the computer posting filth and hate all day.

How is Michelle these days???? Well, I hope. Too bad the same arrogance came through on that personality you created, because you really thought you were so so smart, didn't you? I don't think the HR people at TORO thought so, though.

So as you reflect back on the couple of years since you broke and entered into here, what do you think of yourself these days? Pride? Self respect? esteem? moral?

me thinks you are an empty shell now, because of the hatred that consumes you.

Pitiful, really. now run along and try and find a job. somewhere. Anything. Your poor wife having to keep up with the bills?

Right on Pam. "Don't Tread on Me" was an old American saying with a picture of a snake. It is true now as it ever was. We will prevail one way or the other and the republican party will go down in history as the Fascist Party of the United States. They may as well change their name now for all to see for they have truly beocome the party of Hitler, the party of hate, perversion and corruption just like the Nazi party in Germany in 1933. History repeats itself in interesting ways. The Catholic church also supported Hitler in his quest for world domination.

The nuts are trying to take over the asylum.

When I get to Heaven, I am going to ask to be on the greeting party of republicans and other perverts who die.

I will see to it that they are all sent straight to hell without any "hearing", "trial" or "Miranda Rights".

Off to work. Our major flood prevention project starts next week in earnest. We are going for the Gold. I heard on the news this morning that the economy will bounce back early next spring. I pray that not one single republican gets any benefit from the recovery even though they will take credit for it.

Now this will be good news. And then, maybe we can turn around. (Maybe even old time Thomass can find some employment)

Economists Predict Job Losses Will Stop In Early 2010

Economists expect the joblessness that has weighed down the nation's economic recovery will start to slowly abate in 2010, but they predict consumers will continue to keep a tight rein on spending, according to a new survey.

While signs have pointed to the end of the recession, joblessness remains rampant. The national unemployment rate jumped to 10.2 percent in October, the highest in 26 years. About 9 million people currently receive unemployment benefits.

The November outlook by the National Association for Business Economics, which is set to be released Monday, shows economists expect net employment losses to bottom out in the first quarter of next year. Employers are seen starting to add to their payrolls after that.

"While the recovery has been jobless so far, that should soon change," said Lynn Reaser, NABE's president and chief economist at Point Loma Nazarene University. "Within the next few months, companies should be adding instead of cutting jobs."

I don't know. I only know one Michelle, we called her Shelly. But that was a long time ago. We went to high school together.

ahahahahahaha.....now THAT made me LOL. Nice try, Thomasssss, but I have Michelle and TORO IP on record. And seems TORO must have researched it back to your computer, because your ass is out on the street.

There is no one here, that does not believe you are the original MN Thomass, then to Harpo. That you did not work at TORO, and use your computer for stealing from your employer. That you did not lose your job because of that.

That you will not go and get a Bible, put your hand on it, swear on your Mother's soul that you are not lying.

So save your bad breath, Thomassss. It is unflattering !

back later, Dems.........

"DEMS, SAYS SCREW YOU PUGS". WE DON"T NEED YOU.

WASHINGTON - A leading Senate Democrat said Monday his party is determined to push through a health care overhaul bill with or without Republican support because the "system is broken."

"We prefer to go at it with Republicans if we can reach compromises in some areas," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. "But we're not going to not pass a bill."

Schumer dueled with Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison on a network morning news show in the wake of a key Senate vote Saturday night that advanced a 10-year, $959 billion health bill to full debate. Hutchison argued that "you're going to put taxes and mandates on business" that would be a drag on an economy still struggling to recover from recession.

Congressional Democrats are trying to resolve differences within their rank and file over abortion, taxes and letting the government sell health insurance as a competitor with private insurers. Those are all crucial policy questions, and House and Senate Democrats have taken conflicting approaches.

Appearing on NBC's "Today" show Monday, Schumer said, "We all know we have to give a little. ... If we don't do anything, that is the worst situation, and we have a good bill." He said lawmakers must come together because "the health care system is broken."

Schumer argued that Republican critics "haven't put any alternative on the floor."

Hutchison called it "a terrible idea at this time." She said that Republicans "have put alternatives on the floor," including individual tax credits that would not include cutting Medicare and permitting a government takeover of the health care system.

The Democratic measures would leave 12 million or more eligible Americans uninsured. Many middle-class families who'd now be required to buy coverage would still find the premiums a stretch, even with government aid. A new federal fund to provide temporary coverage for people with health problems would quickly run out of cash.

For now, these bread-and-butter concerns take a back seat to more pressing issues for Democratic lawmakers trying to deliver on President Barack Obama's signature issue.

The House passed its health care bill 220-215 earlier this month. The Senate cleared the way Saturday for debate on legislation unveiled by Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. The bill, a compromise between two committee-passed versions, could undergo significant changes as senators amend it during weeks of arduous debate ahead.

Both bills would require all Americans to carry health insurance, with government help to make premiums more affordable. They would ban insurance companies from denying coverage or charging more to people with health problems. They would set up new insurance markets for those who now have the hardest time finding and keeping coverage _ self-employed people and small businesses. Americans insured through big employer plans would gain new consumer protections but wouldn't face major changes. Seniors would get better prescription coverage.

"For the first time, we're going to allow American consumers to be involved in a buyers' market for health insurance," said Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., one of the authors of the Senate bill. "This Congress is going to pass, and this president is going to sign, a national health care program for all Americans."

Before any signing ceremony, lawmakers must clear some tall hurdles.

On abortion funding, the House adopted strict limitations as the price for getting anti-abortion Democrats to vote for the final bill. Abortion rights supporters are backing Reid's approach in the Senate bill, which tries to preserve coverage for abortion while stipulating that federal dollars may not be used except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.

In the end, Reid may have to bend. Catholic bishops say they can't accept his approach because it would let federally subsidized plans cover abortion. They vow to oppose the health care bill unless, like the House, the Senate enacts stronger language. Democratic senators opposed to abortion are already threatening a battle.

On financing, the House relies mainly on an income tax hike for upper-earners to pay for expanded coverage. The Senate opted for a tax on high-cost insurance plans, a Medicare payroll tax hike on the wealthy and fees on medical industries. In polls, the House approach is more popular. The Obama administration has signaled it likes the Senate's insurance tax.

That leaves the controversy over a creating a government health plan to compete with the insurance industry. It has dominated the debate and remains unresolved.

Both House and Senate bills now provide for a government insurance plan, but Reid's bill would let states opt out. It's not clear that Reid has the votes. He may be able to get a compromise to allow a government plan only if, after a reasonable time, insurance companies fail to deliver lower premiums.

Resolving these policy issues would be a historic accomplishment for Democrats. But the bill could still leave consumers feeling a little

unfortunetly, Stupid people often Spawn stupid
Little people: already brainwashed.

"It's nice to see that even after the election, conservatives are still playing the "liberal gotcha media" card every time they expose themselves as being shamefully ignorant regarding the issues they care about most.

Last Wednesday, a media firestorm erupted after a seventeen-year-old girl named Jackie was interviewed by MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell while standing in line during Sarah Palin's Michigan book signing. Jackie, wearing a shirt that read, "The US government handed out $700 billion in Wall Street bailouts and all I got was this lousy t-shirt," was caught off-guard when O'Donnell informed her that Sarah Palin was on record as supporting the bailout.

In her piece for Red White & Conservative, she feels the need to drive home the fact that she's only seventeen four separate times, as if that were some sort of defense.

Now, I understand that much of the electorate is made up of low information voters who don't closely follow politics. That's fine -- it's not ideal, but it's perfectly understandable.

But according to her school profile, Jackie is very politically involved. She is an intern with the Michigan Republican Party and is clearly excited and passionate about what her political "role model," Former-Governor Palin, represents. And yet, when she cannot correctly identify one of Palin's most basic political positions, she plays the victim and blames everybody but herself.

Then, conservative members of the media take the bait and praise her as some sort of Republican hero. They are more than happy to glorify this culture of ignorance and hide behind the veil of "elitism" and "media bias" when anyone approaches them with facts.