Himalayas melting only speculation?

Someone said the Himalayas would melt by 2035. But now, it turns out they were speculating. How much more of this report by the IPCC was just speculation?

Watch out for global cooling

Apparently, at least one scientist thinks we're in for 20-30 years of global cooling rather than global warming. According to him there's a "multi-decadal oscillation" in the oceans that correlates to global warming and cooling trends observed over the last century or so that much more closely corresponds to recent changes in climate than the AGW theories do.

Climategate

The Anthropogenic Global Warming theory is coming unraveled it appears. Apparently some sort of hacker broke in to some computer somewhere and stole thousands of e-mails showing the conspiracy to perpetrate this hoax on the rest of us. Here are some stories about it:

The Final Nail
Congressional investigation
Junk Science
The Fix is In

I don't know how this will percolate out but it's definitely a big earthquake in the AGW proponent's world.

Government failures

Comment from a reader on this article:

So non existent jobs were created or saved (a non existent metric) in districts that don't exist using money that hasn't been printed yet that will be collected from children that haven't been born yet.

If they can't get a simple "stimulus bill" right for only 878 billion, how are they going to fix healthcare that costs 1/7th of the economy?

Healthcare insurance ideas that make sense

Here's another opinion piece about a healthcare plan that makes sense. It's unfortunate that the congresscritters currently working on numerous plans haven't figured out that less is better. They're trying to kill a gnat on a glass dish with a sledge hammer without breaking the dish. All we need is to cover the most catastrophic cases of healthcare needs and then let people shop for their own, everyday needs. Then we won't have to worry so much about rationing, death panels, or anything else since the most catastrophic cases will be covered and the marketplace would take care of everything else.

Oddly enough this article came from the New York Times. I hope it becomes a more widespread idea with broader coverage.

They don't get it do they

Arkansas protesters shout down their blue dog congressmen

Well dressed protesters want to "hurt the president"

Carrying swastikas

The Natives Are Getting Restless!

Wow. It seems our nation's congress critters are up against some tough questions out there in the heartland.

Lloyd Doggett D-Texas 25th district (near Austin)

Arlen Specter D-Turncoat senator from Pennsylvania (do it fast?)

Tim Bishop D-New York 1st district (east end of Long Island)

Yes he was!

Anyone who still thinks Barack Hussein Obama wasn't born in the US making him "natural born" should go check the newspapers from August 1961 in Hawaii. A notice of his birth was listed in two different competing papers there.

Some say his birth certificate that has been released was faked and other such nonsense but it's hard to go back in time and place those notices 40-odd years after the fact just to create some sort of conspiracy.

Mythology of the Health Care Crisis

Apparently there are a few things we know that ain't so. Here are a few of them:

• Healthcare costs are soaring
• Canadian drugs are cheaper
• Socialized medicine works in some places
• Public insurance can co-exist with private insurance
• We can have health care without rationing
• Health care is a right
  

Check out American Solutions - Petitions

American Solutions has a petition campaign, Freedom Not Fear, to defeat the Employee "Free Choice" Act. I signed their petition and I think you should sign it too.

It would strip workers of the right to vote by private ballot when deciding to join a union, and it would undermine the right to freely negotiate contracts.

Please take a minute to sign this petition by going to www.AmericanSolutions.com/FreedomNotFear.

I smell a RAT

No, not the little critter that tends to become endangered whenever there's a cat around. I'm talking about the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board. How is this stimulating the economy?

Ready for a worldwide government?

According to this, it could be possible. Is this the reason they're pushing the global climate change nonsense and now this new global financial crisis--to get people to think in terms of a global government? Near the end it uses the European Union as an example and says this:

In general, the Union has progressed fastest when far-reaching deals have been agreed by technocrats and politicians – and then pushed through without direct reference to the voters. International governance tends to be effective, only when it is anti-democratic.

That's all we need. Politicians deciding it's in the best interests of the populace without asking them directly. Hopefully the checks and balances we have in this country will hold the tide long enough to keep this nonsense from happening.

What's your tax cut?

Check this out!

You can find out an estimate of what your tax cut would be under Obama or McCain with the site linked above. I think the intent is to see what your cut would be under Obama but it also shows what it would be under McCain. In my case, I would get nearly twice the tax cut under McCain than I would under Obama.

Obama chose his friends carefully?

Why has no one mentioned this before? This is a quote from Obama's book, Dreams from my Father.
"I chose my friends carefully,... The Marxist professors and structural feminists."

You can read more about it here.

Is bankruptcy the answer?

No, I'm not declaring bankruptcy. I would never encourage any private citizen to do so. However, this article suggests that the current financial crisis would be best solved if those companies who are in trouble did declare bankruptcy.

The other day, the US House voted down the bailout package, which, in my opinion, was the right thing to do. Now, however, our political leaders are all pushing again to get another version of the bill to pass. It appears to me that they're taking a barrel of pork, trying to add enough lipstick to the pigs so that they will look like supermodels.

If they would let the inevitable happen, it might hurt at first but in the end it would be less painful than if they keep messing around and make the problem worse.

The Messiah has Come!

This is the funniest piece I've read in a long time regarding politics. You've got to read it!