Interesting Items by Alex Gimarc
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy –
In this issue:
1. Whores
2. HadCRUT
3. Palin
4. Boy Scouts
1. Whores. Many years ago one of my favorite authors, P.J. O’Rourke wrote a
book about the dealings inside Washington DC entitled Parliament of Whores.
Saturday night in the US Senate, we got to see real live, old fashioned
prostitution using our tax dollars and the tax dollars of our children and
grandchildren in action as the democrat majority in the Senate voted 60-39 to
bring the Harry Reid (D, NV) version of ObamaCare to the floor for debate.
This was the first opportunity for the collective body to kill the malodorous
piece of legislation. Michelle Malkin over the weekend listed the initial
round of bribes for votes. They include a special provision worth $300 million
to secure Mary Landreau’s (D, LA) vote; Barbara Boxer (D, CA) got $300 million
for increased Medicare reimbursement rates; AARP got $18 million in stimulus
money and stands to benefit hugely by the elimination of Medicare Advantage;
Planned parenthood got public funded
abortions; the unions got at a minimum $10 billion to cover unfunded pension
and health care liabilities, they get a seat at the table to help set health
care policy, and they get union membership forced on the entire health care
industry. The legislation effectively guts Medicare. It covers all illegals.
Better still; the increased taxes that kick in instantly do not apply to
illegals. Great deal, that. As of this writing, 56% of the public opposes the
legislation. Public reaction to this fascist assault on our liberty and our
pocketbooks may impact the elections next year, with 18 democrat seats in the
Senate up for reelection or open for various reasons. That is enough to turn
the majority in the senate should things go well next year. Remember that the
vote Saturday needed 60 democrats plus the two independents that caucus with
them. This means that any single democrat had the ability to stop this
monstrosity. Not a single one
chose to do so.
Unfortunately, as I mentioned last week, the $500 billion slush fund available
to the democrat majority in congress and to the Obama administration will be
heavily used to ensure those elections go to the democrat candidates. It is up
to an enraged and outraged citizenry to ensure the elections are outside the
margin of corruption so that ACORN / SEIU / democrat vote manufacturing
operation cannot steal them after the fact.
2. HadCRUT. The keepers of historical climatological data is the Climate
Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, Norwich UK. They have over the
years provided the scientific foundation for the UN IPCC manmade global warming
effort. As the debate progressed over the years, publications by CRU
scientists and data analysis like the Mann Hockey Stick and the Hockey Stick
Team have taken real heat, with skeptics demanding to see underlying data – not
an unreasonable request in the world of actual science. The scientists at the
CRU have refused to release much of the original, non-massaged data in recent
years. All that changed late Wednesday night last week when a zip file with
around 176 meg of e-mail traffic, spreadsheets, programs, and other data was
dumped on a Russian hacker site with the claim that someone hacked the CRU.
Since Thursday, skeptics of manmade climate change have carefully started
working their way through the data
dump. You want to be extremely careful with stuff you find on hacker sites
for many reasons; chief among them the possibility that there will be
unpleasant Trojans, worms, malware and other nasties lurking in the zip file.
There is also the very real possibility that the manmade global warming crowd
intentionally crafted and released the data dump as a honey pot intended to
discredit manmade climate change skeptics. As of this writing, neither of
these appear to be the case. Instead the package appears to be something
prepared in response to a Freedom of Information Act request for CRU data that
was turned down at the last minute. The best current guess is that someone at
CRU dumped it on the net or inadvertently left it exposed on an outward facing
ftp server where it was grabbed. If it was an intentional release, that person
ought to be given a medal. Because of the sheer volume of the data contained,
it will be months before everything
has been analyzed. However, what has been seen so far ought to move climate
science as practiced at CRU and pushed by the UN and democrats in Congress into
the realm of scientific hoaxes like the Piltdown Man, the Crystal Skulls,
phrenology, and the Hale Bopp cults.
There are lines programmed in the code for analyzing data and constructing
graphs of that data that intentionally stitch together disparate datasets so
the results match pre-existing conclusions. There are comments in the actual
programming language that document what they are doing. There is e-mail
traffic that documents their ongoing fights with the skeptic community and
demonstrates how the refereed scientific journals are bullied into refusing to
publish skeptical papers on the subject. There is a spreadsheet documenting
the millions of dollars that one of the scientists has made over nearly two
decades from government grants pushing the notion of manmade global warming.
In short the entire community has been painted as a conniving, grasping,
political organization more interested in getting the next grant than in
finding the truth. Their e-mails discuss the “problem” of globally cooling
temperatures over the last decade and wonder how
they can continue to hide the trends. This is really, really bad. Analysis
will continue over the next several months. The best place I have found to
watch the festivities is Andrew Watts’ Watts Up With That site. Enjoy.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
3. Palin. We were treated to yet another round of Sarah Palin last week with
the release of her book Going Rogue. It sold over 300,000 copies the first
day. The publisher bumped up the printing run to 2.5 million. Palin made the
rounds of conservative media throughout the week, spending nearly a half hour
with Limbaugh and a full hour with Hannity. She did a pretty good job. Her
rock star treatment and passionate following led me to wonder if she might end
up filling the Ross Perot square during the next couple election cycles. By
this, I do not mean she will do what Perot did and use a third party candidacy
to intentionally throw an election to the democrats. Rather I mean that she may
use her rock star treatment and appeal to non-traditional conservatives to turn
them out to vote for conservatives in 2010 and 2012. Whether or not she runs
for anything again as long as she lives, should she successfully do this, she
will have done a
historically good and decent thing, by turning out the conservative vote in
large numbers. And when conservatives turn out in large numbers, the libs
always lose.
4. Boy Scouts. Michelle Malkin Friday wrote about the head of the SEIU Local
in Allentown, PA, taking on an Eagle Scout who restored a public trail in the
town as his Eagle Scout project. A group of scouts spent over 250 hours in
community service cleaning up a trail system, restoring the trail, cutting
underbrush, and carting off trash. Afterwards, the city administration was
pleased and grateful. The head of the SEIU Local was not, and threatened to
legally go after the Boy Scouts for doing volunteer work in the town. In an
appearance before the local Assembly, the SEIU head adamantly pushed the notion
that there ought not to be any volunteer work in Allentown, as they were taking
away union jobs and work. The union head then went on to publicly threaten the
Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts that were doing volunteer work in Allentown as long
as any of his union brothers were out of work. After public outrage at these
threats and complaints hit
the fan, the union head and the leadership of the SEIU local in Allentown
quietly “retired” from their positions. This sort of behavior is quickly
becoming the norm as public employee unions nationwide have been going after
volunteers in communities nationwide. Last year, a Wisconsin public works
union complained about volunteer firefighters that built sandbag levees to
protect the city from flooding. An award winning Vermont teacher was run off
by the local teachers’ union for teaching an elective course because he refused
to accept compensation for teaching the course. Students and their parents
loved the course. California public employee unions have sued environmental
non-profits to keep their volunteers from doing trail improvements and cleanups
in the state. While union membership craters nationwide in the private sector,
public employee unions continue to expand their monopoly position for labor
using every means in the book.
And under this fascist, democrat majority government in Washington DC, expect
them to expend their power and intrusiveness without limitation.
More later -
- AG
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better
than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not
your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your
chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our
countrymen."
- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia
State House, August 1, 1776.
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