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Why Are Obama And The Dems Incompetent? Climate Change!

This is so cute. Reuters allows Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S.-based environmental activist organization, to pen an amusing editorial, which, like so many others from climate alarmists, is long on alarmism, and short on reality and science. The best quote is

Indeed, climate change has begun to affect the ability of government agencies to fulfill their missions, reports the White House Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force.

Of course, there is not one instance of this occurring in the actual article, but, hey, it could explain the pure incompetence of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid. Can’t pass the health care bill? It’s because climate change is causing mental illness problems with the American People. Have to limit debate on legislation? It’s because the Congress critters are suffering from malnutrition and depression. Obama insulting the British leaders, people, press, and the Queen? Alligators in the Thames from climate change.

Continuing

“The Task Force has found that climate change is affecting, and will continue to affect, nearly every aspect of our society and the environment,” the report states. “Some of the impacts are increased severity of floods, droughts, and heat waves, increased wildfires and sea level rise.

“Climate change impacts are pervasive, wide-ranging and affect the core systems of our society: transportation, ecosystems, agriculture, business, infrastructure, water, and energy, among others,” the report continues. “Climate change already is affecting the ability of Federal agencies to fulfill their missions.”

Sounds more like a way to show that the federal government should take over nearly every aspect of our society.

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Media Tries Projection Over 11 Year Old Sob Story

One of the important things to understand about Lefties is that no matter what happens, they think in terms of how they would act/think. They are unable to stretch their sheepled minds out to understand that what happened is something different from what they themselves would do. Therefore, they end up projecting quite a bit. Case in point

State of the health care debate: Talk radio attacks an 11-year old

Conservative talk show hosts and columnists have ridiculed an 11-year-old Washington state boy’s account of his mother’s death as a “sob story” exploited by the White House and congressional Democrats like a “kiddie shield” to defend their health care legislation.

Marcelas Owens, whose mother got sick, lost her job, lost her health insurance and died, said Thursday he’s taking the attacks from Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin in stride.

While Les Blumenthal almost gets it right in the story, that the account was ridiculed, the headline is pure projection, since that is exactly what Liberals would do in that situation: make it personal and attack the messenger, rather than the message. Attacking the message is exactly what Rush, Glenn, and Michelle did.

“These are adults, and he is an 11-year-old boy who lost his mother,” Gina Owens said. “They should be ashamed.”

No, Ma’am, you and the Democrats should be ashamed for using the 11 year old as a kiddie shield. If you put someone up there with a sob story, and something doesn’t jibe, expect the message to be attacked.

“Now this is unseemly, exploitative, an 11-year-old boy being forced to tell his story all over just to benefit the Democrat Party and Barack Obama,” Limbaugh said on March 12, according to a transcript his show. “And, I would say this to Marcelas Owens: ‘Well, your mom would still have died, because Obamacare doesn’t kick in until 2014.’”

Beck, according to a transcript of his March 15 show, pointed out that Owens’ recent trip to Washington was paid for by Healthcare of America, a group that has been lobbying for a health care overhaul.

“That’s the George Soros-funded Obama-approved group fighting for health care,” Beck said. “Since all of the groups are so concerned and involved now, may I ask where were you when Marcelas’ mother was vomiting blood?”

Malkin dismissed Marcelas Owens as “one of Obama’s youngest lobbyists” who has been “goaded by a left-wing activist grandmother,” promoted by Murray and has become a regular on the “pro-Obamacare circuit.”

Did anyone see an attack on on Marcelas? Me neither, because the attacks were on the Democrats use of Marcelas as a prop, a favorite trick of Democrats when they know their POV is complete bunk. The message has been attacked. Democrats, put in the same position as the Republicans, would simply attack the messenger, not the message, as they have done with Joe The Plumber, Sarah Palin, and so many others. But, then, we do not use people, particularly children and the dead, as props.

Awwww, poor Joe Gandelman at the Moderate Voice (snicker) is all upset about this, shows his own projection, writes that he refuses to listen to talk radio, instead, listening to “moderate” stations like NPR, CNN, and the BBC.

If memory serves, there is some other group which uses women and children as human shields. Which one was it?

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU

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Dems Vote For Slaughter, Against Our Constitution (Lilly Allen Provides The Democrat Explanation)

I guess this is what they consider an “up or down vote” (via Michelle Malkin, who has the vote count)

Democrats shot down a Republican effort to force an up-or-down vote on the Senate healthcare bill on Thursday afternoon.

In a 222-203 vote, Democrats beat back a GOP resolution offered by Democrat-turned-Republican Rep. Parker Griffith (Ala.) that would have forced lawmakers to vote on the Senate healthcare bill separately from the series of fixes they hope to make to that legislation.

All Republican lawmakers who voted opposed the measure, which had the effect of ending the GOP’s effort to force a vote. They were joined by 28 Democrats, who broke with party members on the vote.

Remember a time not too long ago when Democrats shrieked daily about Bush and the GOP shredding the Constitution? Yet, here the Dems are on record actually and in reality doing just that.

Ace: “I am getting really worried, because if 222 Democrats voted for this unconstitutional, very-unpopular maneuver, doesn’t that mean that all 222 will also vote for the bill itself? Why vote for this if you’re not going to vote for that?”

Jim Hoft: GOOD-BYE REPUBLIC… HELLO TINPOT DICTATORSHIP…..55% of the country oppose Obamacare - 35% approve of the democratic bill.

Cassy Fiano: Constitution butchers win; Slaughter solution passes

Q&O: If they pass it through “deem and pass”, we’ll essentially have become a Banana Republic. (they did)

The American Pundit: House Democrats have officially abandoned the Constitution and facade of legislative process

The Sundries Shack: Today is a big day, folks. It is, as I tweeted not long ago, the day one of our political parties selected totalitarianism over our Constitution. It is also the day when the message “shut up and take what we give you” became the official motto of the Democratic Party.

John Boehner: “Today, House Democrats voted to protect themselves instead of their constituents, who are fed up with the lack of accountability and transparency in Washington. The ‘Slaughter Solution’ is nothing more than an incumbent protection program for Democrats afraid to stick their necks out because they know how much the American people oppose this bill. Speaker Pelosi, who promised to lead the ‘most open, most honest, and most ethical’ Congress in history, gave rank-and-file Democrats a chance to pass this job-killing monstrosity without actually voting on it and they jumped at the opportunity.

Oh, and regarding the CBO scoring of ObacistCare, R.S. McCain writes: It’s like a fat chick wearing a black skirt because she thinks it makes her look skinny.

Lilly Allen looks inside the Democrats hearts, and provides their response to the American People

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Woah! AP Fact Checks Obama On Health Premiums, Says “Liar!”

I wonder if the White House will now start assaulting the Associated Press for daring to stand up and say “liar!”

Buyers, beware: President Barack Obama says his health care overhaul will lower premiums by double digits, but check the fine print.

Premiums are likely to keep going up even if the health care bill passes, experts say. If cost controls work as advertised, annual increases would level off with time. But don’t look for a rollback. Instead, the main reason premiums would be more affordable is that new government tax credits would help cover the cost for millions of people.

Listening to Obama pitch his plan, you might not realize that’s how it works.

Liar! And where will all that money come from for those tax credits? Oh, right, taxes on the rich, meaning, “you get a paycheck? You’re rich.” Rather than money being spread around the economy through people and companies purchasing items, it will go straight to the government coffers. Then the government can say “hey, you want that tax credit? You have to purchase one of our government approved health insurance plans.”

Simple solutions: cross-state purchasing, nationwide pooling, and health savings accounts (which reduce costs by causing people to think twice about running off to the ER because they have the flu, instead of going to their pharmacy. Yes, a bit more complicated than that. HSAs work best as behavior modifiers.) Personally, I have no problem with legislation that tells insurers that they cannot drop people who get sick and have been paying their premiums.

BTW, the AP settles an issue from the other day, vis a vis Obama’s 3,000% gaffe

A White House press spokesman later said the president misspoke; he had meant to say annual premiums would drop by $3,000.

A report for the Business Roundtable, an association of big company CEOs, was the source for the claim that employers could save $3,000 per worker on health care costs, the White House said.

You know how they can save that money? They dump their health insurance offers, pay the fine, and tell their employees to have fun in the Exchange. Companies, per the Senate bill, could save $4k-$10k per year per employee.

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Exotic Vacation Spot Of Cancun Will Host Next UN Climate Alarmist Meeting

If you thought “hey, maybe they will do it in someplace boring, which could use an economic lift, and wouldn’t show that the UN uses these conferences as taxpayer funded vacations,” well, no Thirsty Thursday for you!

Government negotiators are already writing off chances for a global treaty to fight climate change, nine months before the annual talks begin in Cancun, Mexico.

Yes, the big UN conference will be in the exotic vacation spot of Cancun. Oh, and did you catch that part about it already being written off?

Kunihiko Shimada, principal international negotiator at the Japanese Ministry of the Environment, said a deal this year is “almost impossible.” Jos Delbeke, who spearheads European Union climate policy at the European Commission, ruled out a “comprehensive legal agreement” in 2010.

Their remarks call into question whether efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions are progressing after failing in Copenhagen in December. President Barack Obama’s energy proposal is bogged down in the U.S. Congress. Without a U.S. commitment, China and India, two of the fastest-growing polluters, may be reluctant to limit greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.

So, question: if it is already set up for failure, why have it? Oh, that’s right: exotic vacation spot of Cancun. The alarmist conference was originally meant to be held in Mexico City. Mexico City’s mayor also points out that Cancun is “nice and warm, but not very green.”

Elsewhere:

  • The Hockey Schtick: Arctic has still not received the memo on AGW – Arctic temperatures stable since 1958
  • Telegraph: Climategate: two more bricks fall out of the IPCC wall of deceit – rainforests and polar bears
  • Yid With Lid: Latest Global Warming Fear, Massive Build-up of Microbe Flatulence
  • Tom Nelson: Rasmussen: 72% of American voter don’t believe global warming is a “very serious problem”
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Drone Wacks Key AQ Operative: Will ACLU Complain?

So, earlier we had the ACLU suing the federal government for wacking terrorists with drones. This must have sent them into apoplexy when they read it

A Central Intelligence Agency drone strike last week killed a top al Qaeda trainer suspected of being involved in December’s suicide bombing that killed seven CIA officers at a base in Afghanistan, U.S. officials say.

The March 8 strike on a suspected bomb-making facility in Miran Shah, Pakistan, killed as many as 15 people, including Hussein al-Yemeni, a rising star in the al Qaeda network led by Osama bin Laden, according to people familiar with the strike.

A whole bunch of others were sent up to see if there were actually 72 virgins waiting for them, per the Long War Journal. That makes it a very good day.

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AGW Today: What Say We Kill The Oceans To Stop AGW?

Just like so many other issues the enviro-extremists get their dirty claws in, such as refusing to allow clearing of brush, which then causes more massive wildfires, climate alarmist fixes are worse than the actual “problem”

Fertilising the oceans with iron to absorb carbon dioxide could increase concentrations of a chemical that can kill marine mammals, a study has found.

Iron stimulates growth of marine algae that absorb CO2 from the air, and has been touted as a “climate fix”.

Now researchers have shown that the algae increase production of a nerve poison that can kill mammals and birds.

Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they say this raises “serious concern” over the idea.

The toxin – domoic acid – first came to notice in the late 1980s as the cause of amnesiac shellfish poisoning.

Hey, great frakkin’ idea, alarmists! You should be proud, you have truly outdone yourself in the “hey, y’all, watch this!” competition.

Elsewhere:

  • Master Resource: What Real Scientists Do: Global Warming Science vs. Global Whining Scientists
  • C3: 2010 Peer-Reviewed Research: Greenland Ice Cores Confirm Arctic Areas Warmer During Medieval Period
  • Planet Gore: Melting polar ice likely responsible for devastating landslide! Human impact is the most likely culp- . .Oh, wait, it’s on Mars
  • Climate Quotes: IPCC coordinating lead author’s own paper falsely cited in AR4
  • Roy Spencer: Direct Evidence that Most U.S. Warming Since 1973 Could Be Spurious
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