Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Climagte is Far From Over

Have you forgotten about the sham science and outright fraud behind the "science" of the leading man-made global warming crowd? I haven't.

Great article from American Thinker on how the Washington Post has buried and mis-characterized the whole thing. And how the "investigations" into the fraud were essentially all about covering up the story, and not getting to the truth.
But it's far from over...


Full article here.

Another great article from Atmospheric scientist Fred singer.
Quotes:
Then, on May 13, Nature ran an editorial ("Science subpoenaed") attacking Cuccinelli, and in the process labeled those who dared question Mann's science as "climate-change deniers." That term would seem to include all of us who recognize that for the past two million years, the climate has been changing, dominated by ice ages, interrupted only by brief warm periods; that for the past ten thousand years, the earth has been both warmer and colder than today; and that there was a Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and a Little Ice Age (LIA). Who indeed can deny that climate changes?

...
Fortunately for climate alarmists, the upturned "blade" of the hockey stick is still there, showing rapidly rising temperatures over the past thirty years -- thanks to the valiant efforts of Prof. Phil Jones. We are breathlessly waiting for expert scrutiny of his methods of selecting data from thousands of weather stations to arrive at a single number for "global temperature." Perhaps Jones will reveal the algorithms he devised to "adjust and correct" the raw data. But unfortunately, he did not save the original temperature records; as the saying goes, "The dog ate them."





And who are the Palestinians???

Let's see - and from whom did Israel take the "Palestinian Territories"? Trans-Jordan. Which quickly became "Jordan" after they no longer straddled both sides of the Jordan river. That was 1967, when the Arabs surrounding Israel tried to destroy Israel and wipe out the Jews. Think about that - they would have created a second Holocaust if they could have. But Israel prevailed, taking some land in the victory - land that had historically been a part of Israel. After that came the creation of a distinct Palestinian people.

Check this quote out:

"The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism."


More here.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Housing and Bank Crisis - We Had Regulation

Many lame aspersions have been cast at the Republicans and the Bush administration for the housing/banking crisis.

There are lots of factors that went into this crisis. But one of the biggest is how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pumped trillions into the housing market by buying loans from lender originators.

The person put in charge of overseeing Fannie and Freddie did his job. He was shot down by Barnie Frank and the Democrats. Why? Why didn't the Democrats care about all those that would be harmed by the ensuing fallout? Because Fannie and Freddie and their liberal CEO's were powerful, rich donors to the Democrats.

Get what happened? Government-created monsters in Fannie and Freddie owned the government that created them, and their CEO and democrat board members made hundreds of millions in income.





And... here's another one where we can pretty much say Barney Frank is guilty as charged.
Keep in mind the below video quotes Frank at the peak of the housing bubble. And, he's dead wrong - the housing bubble was worse than the dot-com collapse. The bubble involved billions in loads that should have never been made, a radical relaxation of lending standards, and all sorts of shenanigans.





and.. a little more background...

Ooh, Bahney Fwank is Cwanky!!!

From the Boston Herald...

Sorry, Barney Frank, but you can’t be trusted

and...

Testy Barney Frank incensed, even after big win