Politics, Religion & Global Warming

Been a while, but this is worth posting

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:01:00 +0000

Anorld Schwarzenner at his best

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:51:00 +0000

So fucking over our allies...

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:47:00 +0000

just to placate the fucking Russians is Obama's view of being a good global citizen???

Is there ANY ally at this point he hasn't thumbed in the eye and any dictator or thug who's cock he hasnt blown yet???

Should someone be held accountable for using the Minotaur to torture prisoners in it's maze?

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:57:00 +0000

Is Using A Minotaur To Gore Detainees A Form Of Torture?

Tango down!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:56:00 +0000

Snipers in the sandbox!!!

Woo Hoo!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:03:00 +0000

Ted Kennedy is finally dead!
Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Worst impact he had on America was helping get the immigration laws changed in the 60s.
Second worst was helping get the financial support of South Vietnam cut off.

Then, we have his majestic slander of Judge Bork:

Burn in hell you fucking piece of shit.

How in the fuck...

noreply@blogger.com (The Sidekick) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:25:00 +0000

does "Squeaky" Fromme get let out of prison? She tried to kill the president! Admittedly, it was Ford, but still!

More taxing shenanigans

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:46:00 +0000

LINK

The Congressional Budget Office projects a total additional deficit of approximately $4.9 trillion dollars during President Obama's first term (2009-2012). Currently, the top 1 percent of taxpayers pay 40 percent of the tax, or $450 billion a year, or approximately $1.8 trillion dollars during the next four years, leaving a $3.1 trillion hole. Increasing the tax rate on those high earners to 100 percent might yield an additional $1.5 trillion the first year, but this will only work for the first year. Most people, after being taxed 100 percent on their income, will quit work and/or put their investments in nontaxable entities, such as tax-free local government bonds.

It is also not mathematically possible to take care of all the new spending by increasing taxes on the top 5 percent of taxpayers (those making $160,000 or more annually) who already pay 61 percent of the federal tax (or $676 billion per year). Most of these people are now paying close to the revenue maximizing rate, which means that any increase in their tax rate is unlikely over the long run to bring in much more tax revenue.

Quite simply, upper-income people have options. History shows that when tax rates are raised, many will choose to work less (leisure is nontaxable), retire earlier than they had planned and save and invest less in taxable, productive activities. Those making more than $160,000 per year would need to have their taxes roughly tripled to take care of just this year's deficit. (One merely has to look at the tax evasion practiced by the chairman of the congressional tax writing committee, the secretary of the Treasury and the former majority leader, et al. at today's tax rates to know that they and their colleagues, as well as most everyone else, will find either legal or illegal ways to avoid paying the tax.)

Damn dirty hippies

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:13:00 +0000

Weather stations give flawed temperature data, meteorologist claims
By: Kevin Mooney
Commentary Staff Writer
08/06/09 12:34 AM EDT

Researchers who have inspected climate monitoring stations across the U.S. have found that almost 90 percent of the weather monitoring stations have failed to meet National Weather Service requirements.
Anthony Watts, a retired meteorologist, and a team of over 650 volunteers, photographically documented 1003 out of 1,221 of the climate monitoring stations managed by the U.S. Weather Service. The results of this survey show that the temperature cited as proof of man-made global warming is laced with false biases in favor of alarmism.

“We found stations located next to exhaust fans of air conditioning units, surrounded by asphalt parking lots and roads, on blistering-hot rooftops, and near sidewalks and buildings that absorb and radiate heat,” Watts said. “We found 68 stations located at wastewater treatment plants, where the process of waste digestion causes temperatures to be higher than in surrounding areas.”

The research team also determined that 89 percent did not measure up to the National Weather Service’s requirement that stations must be 30 meters (about 100 feet) or more away from an artificial heating source. This means almost 9 out of every 10 stations are reporting higher temperatures because they are badly sited.

“The errors in the record exceed by a wide margin the purported rise in temperatures of 0.7 degrees C (about 1.2 degrees F) during the twentieth century,” Watts said.

An analysis of 948 stations rated as of May 31, 2009, Watts estimates that 22 percent of stations have an expected error of 1 degree C, 61 percent have an expected error of 2 degrees C, and 8 percent have an expected error of 5 degrees C.

“This record should not be cited as evidence of any trend in temperature that may have occurred across the U.S. during the past century,” he said. “Since the U.S. record is thought to be `the best in the world,’ it follows that the global database is likely similarly compromised and unreliable.”

Ca$h for Clunker$

rwilliams1@wcpss.net (H. E. Pennypacker) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:42:00 +0000

I guess that I was out of the country when this thing started but I did see a Dodge commercial that was talking about the program. I guess the program is almost over which sucks because I would like to get a truck and I always buy American. I have heard a little about this program and aside from the fact that you are paying people to buy American cars with what I am guessing is bailout or bailout v2.0 money it seems fairly straight forward. Do you guys think that it was a great success that it only lasted a week or a mismanagement of funds.

Taxing shenanigans.

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:44:00 +0000

IRS data shows that in 2007—the most recent data available—the top 1 percent of taxpayers paid 40.4 percent of the total income taxes collected by the federal government. This is the highest percentage in modern history. By contrast, the top 1 percent paid 24.8 percent of the income tax burden in 1987, the year following the 1986 tax reform act.

Remarkably, the share of the tax burden borne by the top 1 percent now exceeds the share paid by the bottom 95 percent of taxpayers combined. In 2007, the bottom 95 percent paid 39.4 percent of the income tax burden. This is down from the 58 percent of the total income tax burden they paid twenty years ago.

To put this in perspective, the top 1 percent is comprised of just 1.4 million taxpayers and they pay a larger share of the income tax burden now than the bottom 134 million taxpayers combined.

Sign #253 That I'm Getting Old

noreply@blogger.com (The Sidekick) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:26:00 +0000

I think Sarah Palin is HOTTTTTTTTTT! I blame MSNBC and the images they've been running all day.

Tea Baggers

rwilliams1@wcpss.net (H. E. Pennypacker) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:36:00 +0000

You stay classy, BHO.

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:38:00 +0000

He's really becoming Jimmy Carter redux, but while still in office.

To: Jon Favreau [speechwriterman@aol.com]
Subject: Re: some suggestions

Thanks, Jon. I don't think "Consolidation of Challenges" has quite the same ring as "Axis of Evil", do you? I like "Triumvirate of Malfeasance" though - imagine Bush trying to say that one - but that means we have to have three. I was thinking bankers, Afghanistan/Pakistan and pirates. Hillary wanted to stick North Korea in there, but I managed to convince her they'd only be flattered. Barack

Damn dirty hippies!!! Bring back DDT!!

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:24:00 +0000

From DDT to Dursban [Henry Payne]

Detroit, Mich. — Greens can take a bow: Bedbugs are back with a vengeance.

Responding to the biggest bedbug outbreak since World War II, the Environmental Protection Agency hosted its first-ever “bedbug summit” Tuesday outside Washington to address a widening public outcry. Some of the most vulnerable communities are inner cities like Detroit, and the major culprit, as it turns out, was the summit host.

Nine years ago, the zealots at Bill Clinton’s EPA banned the pesticide chlorpyrifos (to widespread media and environmentalist hosannas), the most commonly available household product in the world to address bedbugs, cockroaches, and other nuisances. Better known by its trade name, Dursban, chlorpyrifos had been available for 30 years in some 800 products in 88 countries around the world.

But despite widespread protest in the scientific community, EPA Chief Carol Browner erased Dursban from the shelves. “EPA has gone to great lengths to present a highly conservative, worst case, hypothetical risk based in large part on dubious extrapolations . . . and exaggerated risk estimates,” said Michigan State University toxicologist J. I. Goodman in a typical response.

Even Dr. Alan Hoberman, the principal researcher whose data Browner cited, told the Detroit News he disputed the agency's interpretation of his findings.

Such critics were also ignored by the press — as was evidence that the nation’s urban poor would be most vulnerable to a ban. Children insect-bite allergies and cockroach-induced allergens outnumber pesticide poisoning by 100:1. “Hardest hit will be lower-income families in cities like Detroit, who can ill afford a weekly house call from the Orkin man,” warned News writer Diane Katz, now with the Fraser Institute. “Yet that is precisely what the EPA is recommending as a substitute for a couple squirts from a can of bug spray.”

Nine years on, Greg Baumann — Senior Scientist at the National Test Management Association — confirms that the Dursban void has been largely unfilled, leaving millions to fight pests with less convenient preventative measures. Extermination, for example, costs between $400 and $900 — out of reach for low-income Detroit families.

And those accountable for this predictable disaster? The very media outlets who were cheerleading the EPA ban now feign ignorance. “Out of concern for the environment and the effects on public health, the EPA has banned many of the chemicals that were most effective in eradicating the bugs in the U.S.,” shrugs the AP in graph ten of its story.

And the EPA Administrator who approved the ban? Browner has been promoted to “climate czar” in the Obama administration.

He's a goddamn commie!

noreply@blogger.com (The Sidekick) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:51:00 +0000

I'll let you figure out which one I'm talking about.

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noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:29:00 +0000

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Geebus.

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:16:00 +0000

Now let me just preface this by saying that I'm a convincable believer in deficit spending IF interest rates are less than GDP -- its basically free money. Running a 2-3% deficit when GDP was 4-6% never really bugged me. Granted, thats really all I've known in my life BUT... this is shocking.

A trillion here, a trillion there and soon we're talking about some real money.

I know I don't normally post here, but...

noreply@blogger.com (The Sidekick) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:27:00 +0000

is it safe to say that Bev Perdue has already established herself as one of the worst governor's in the history of our fair state?

Just reading the article about our Superintendent of Public Schools, and wow. That's a very Nixonian play by Mrs. Perdue there; the old "I know you're the elected official, but I've created this appointed position with the exact same powers as yours, so you can just go along now" play.

I'm not even sure I understand all of the financial stuff she's doing right now (the taking of cash from various coffers to pay for different governmental programs), but she sure seems to have pissed a lot of people off really early in her tenure.

Muhahahahah part 1/0

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:39:00 +0000

Biofools.

Hmmm.... not sure how to feel about this

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:23:00 +0000

Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies

From MY limited experience, the reason I doubt the veracity of this is that most of the SCADA networks are not physically connected to even the private networks.
Maybe I'm wrong.

Expiration date politics

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:41:00 +0000

Last week:

"Today, we've learned the lessons of history," President Obama said yesterday in London, sounding like the staunchest free-marketer denouncing the government's protectionist response in 1930, which deeply worsened the Great Depression.

"We have rejected the protectionism that could deepen this crisis," he said. "History tells us that turning inward can help turn a downturn into a depression."

Today:

United States Imposes Tariffs on Softwood Lumber from Four Canadian Provinces Due to Canada’s Failure to Comply with the Softwood Lumber Agreement

Oldie but a goodie

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:42:00 +0000

and I cannot agree more than 100%

I cannot fathom what kind of idiots we have in charge of our lives.

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:21:00 +0000

The idea that we can get 100% of our energy from wind is such lunacy I dont even know where to start.
How would the power get transmitted efficiently from tens of thousands of windmills to individual homes?
How would the power get generated when its needed? There is currently NO way to efficiently store electricity, thats why its so expensive to produce "peak" energy.
How would damn dirty hippies react to the idea of tens of thousands of windmills out in the ocean or solar panels in the desert killing wildlife???

We are so fucked.

Everything he says should come with an expiration date

noreply@blogger.com (Rear Admir0l) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:44:00 +0000

Barack Obama goes ahead with missile defence shield despite disarmament pledge
Telegraph [UK], by Toby Harnden & Bruno Waterfield

The United States would continue to develop a missile defence shield until Iran abandoned its nuclear ambitions, President Barack Obama said in the Czech Republic. "As long as the threat from Iran persists, we will go forward with a missile defence system that is cost-effective and proven," he told a crowd of about 20,000 gathered in Hradcany Square, next to Prague Castle.

Just days before the expected launch of a North Korean missile in violation of the spirit if not the letter of every agreement Pyongyang has ever signed with the international community, Barack Obama's Pentagon will release a budget that guts the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.