Oct 31
Perhaps they didn’t get the memo.
NASA released an exhaustive study yesterday (Nov. 30, 2015). See here.
NASA’s study admits that “Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away.”
Antarctic ice is now at the very largest levels ever recorded by satellite. See here.
Oct 31
American weather has apparently gotten slightly milder even as it cools. October 24, 2015 “marked a full ten years since a category 3-5 hurricane last hit the United States. (Hurricane Wilma in 2005; Sandy hit as a Category 2,)” according to climate writer Paul Driessen. See here.
That’s a record dating back at least to 1900. It’s also the first time since 1914 that no hurricanes formed anywhere in the Western Atlantic, Caribbean Sea or Gulf of Mexico through September 22 of any calendar year.
Oct 29
“Underperforming bailout-style programs (expiring after next year) designed to artificially hold down rates, sicker-than-expected risk pools, and stagnating enrollment projections.”
These are, according to columnist Guy Benson, the ways that promoters of Obamacare underestimated costs and unintended consequences of the “Affordable Care Act.” Premiums are rising an average of at least 7 percent annually (despite $5,000 deductibles), and consumers in some states are facing increases of 20 percent or more.
Oct 28
Our masters in government never tire of reminding us that Congress must raise the debt ceiling and keep government growing.
“Conservative” insiders say that voters will punish Republicans if Republicans in Congress ever challenge the President’s spending increases and “shut the government down.”
But new polling shows–OVERWHELMINGLY–that a large majority of voters WOULD PREFER A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN to a continuous raising of the U.S. debt limit without assurances of spending cuts.
73 percent of Republican voters said Congress should raise the debt ceiling only if President Obama accepts substantial spending cuts. A SUPERMAJORITY–74 percent–say it is worth a government shutdown to force spending reductions. See here.
44 percent of DEMOCRATS were also willing to close government to force spending cuts. Overall, A 50 PERCENT MAJORITY SUPPORT conditioning any raising of the federal debt ceiling on drastic spending cuts, and 11 percent OPPOSE BOOSTING THE CEILING UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Oct 28
Trusters of expansive, invasive, intrusive government frequently tout the government’s claims that global temperatures are rising due to human-released carbon dioxide. These claims are used to promote various socialist reforms including higher taxes and more government controls.
But the claim of global warming rests only on theory, computer “modeling” and government (and government-funded) earth temperature records. Satellite and weather balloon temp data SHOW NO WARMING WHATSOEVER IN 18 YEARS, even as rates of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have grown.
Making the government’s claims even more suspicious is the fact that government-supported scientists at NOAA and elsewhere have been routinely caught “adjusting” land temperature records. They claim such adjustments are entirely scientific.
But skeptics point to the fact that the government temperature “adjustments” tend to make the past seem colder than originally measured.
Efforts to see the government scientists’ methods or formula for their “adjustments”–including even Freedom-Of-Information-Act requests–have not produced the records.
Now, a congressional subcommittee is looking into the matter, according to the Washington Post.
Stay tuned!!!
Oct 28
Every government ultimately comes for all freedom, all property, all money, and to kill all who resist. Only the vitality of the private sector stands in their way.
Now two small children in Turkey are being criminally prosecuted for tearing down a poster of their purported government master, Erdogan.
During the past two years, artists, journalists and schoolchildren have all been targeted for allegedly insulting the almighty Erdogan.
The schoolboys face up to 4 years in prison. See here.
Oct 27
Socialists and trusters of central planning are notorious hypocrites.
But here is a story about the AFL-CIO that “takes the cake.” The AFL-CIO loudly promotes raising minimum wages around the country.
(Some 100 peer-reviewed economic studies have established that raising (or imposing) a minimum wage is linked with higher unemployment rates–especially for those at the lowest socioeconomic levels).
In LA, the AFL-CIO successfully lobbied the City to impose a $15-per-hour minimum wage. Then the AFL-CIO (behind the scenes) sought an exemption from the minimum wage for its own workers! See here.
In Seattle, a Socialist group which had been pushing for a $20-per-hour minimum wage law–often claiming that wages lower than $20 were inhuman–recently posted a job offer for an experienced professional web developer. The socialists offered $13 an hour. See here.
Oct 26
Politicians promoting the government’s catastrophic-global-warming-by-manmade-CO2 claims routinely reference a discredited statistic, stating without condition that there is a “97 percent consensus” among scientists that human-released carbon dioxide is causing the earth to warm.
Power-grabbing public officials point to the figure as stated on NASA websites to suggest that governments must have substantially more power over the private sector.
In some cases, the “97 percent” figure is cited by overt socialists seeking an abolition of private business and a banning of capitalism and property rights entirely.
But the Friends of Science point out that the “97 percent” figure is deceptively drawn from three purported studies, whose methods have been widely discredited. See here.
A more accurate figure, according to the Friends of Science, would be around 1 to 4 percent of scientists who believe in the governments’ predictions of global apocalypse or catastrophe.
Indeed, numerous skeptics have pointed out that THEY THEMSELVES would be considered part of the “consensus,” because they would respond, “yes,” to a question of whether they thought humans have ANY effect on global temperature. Numerous skeptics contend that the human impact on temps is actually quite tiny, and that the sun is the primary driver of global warming.
Still other skeptics point to satellite and weather-balloon data that show that THERE HAS BEEN NO GLOBAL WARMING IN 18 YEARS, even if the globe has slightly warmed over the past century. See here.
Oct 25
America’s colleges and universities have become dens of extreme pro-government, socialist sentiment where diverse views critical of the omnipotent state are generally shunned.
Wesleyan University in Connecticut is typical. Although Wesleyan is a private, religiously-affiliated school, federal government dollars flow freely through the institution, and the University’s campus culture exemplifies the extremist and government-supremacist ideology so typical of today’s college liberal-arts curricula.
Recently, the student newspaper printed a moderately “conservative” op-ed piece criticizing some tactics of the “Black Lives Matter” organization.
The campus erupted in hatred and vitriol, and the student body immediately moved to gut funding for the newspaper.
The amazing story, as told in the Washington Post, is here.
Oct 24
Many voices–who believe they are seeking “good government”–are calling for a constitutional amendment to give government the power to control political spending and advertising.
But as the ACLU points out, such an amendment would fundamentally “break the Constitution” and overturn the most basic free-speech and press provisions of the First Amendment. See here.
