Even More IRS Empoyees Have “Lost” Emails

By William Teach September 6, 2014 – 6:17 am

At this point, even liberals have to admit that this stinks like a 5 day old fish

(Fox News) The IRS said Friday that it has lost emails from five other employees involved in congressional probes into the agency’s targeting of conservative groups, leading one top Republican to declare “this pattern must stop.”

The announcement comes after the agency said in June that it could not locate an untold number of emails to and from Lois Lerner, who headed the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. The revelation set off a new round of investigations and congressional hearings.

On Friday, the IRS issued a report to Congress saying the agency also lost emails from five other employees related to the probe, including two agents who worked in a Cincinnati office processing applications for tax-exempt status.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, whose committee has been investigating the scandal, said the disclosure is yet another example of the Obama administration changing its story on the scandal.

“The IRS’s ever-changing story is practically impossible to follow at this point, as they modify it each time to accommodate new facts,” Issa, R-Calif., said. “This pattern must stop.”

This is a pattern of corruption. To believe this just happens homogeneously, one must be a total fool. Yet, the IRS has no problem going with this story because they fully understand that neither the majority of the news media nor the Obama administration nor elected Democrats will hold the IRS responsible.

In addition to the Cincinnati workers, they include a technical adviser to Lerner, a tax law specialist and a group manager in the tax-exempt division.

In general, the IRS said the workers archived emails on their computer hard drives when their email accounts became too full. When those computers crashed, the emails were lost.

This dovetails nicely with the IRS making backups on tape (seriously? Tape?) and deleting them after six months. Sarbanes-Oxley requires your company to keep email backups for 5 years. Section 802(a) states the punishment for knowingly altering, falsifying or destroying documents as ‘fined, imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both.’ Remember Enron? They were a big driver of the law and data requirements. Yet, here we have a federal agency failing to comply with federal law. A federal agency that deems you guilty till you prove your innocence.

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Is That Darned Democracy Thingy Getting In The Way Of Dealing With Climate Change?

By William Teach September 5, 2014 – 3:21 pm

But don’t you dare say that those pushing “climate change” are fascists or authoritarians or something

Is democracy hurting our climate change response?

“The strongest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter.”

This glib remark supposedly from Winston Churchill encapsulates a scepticism that many people have about democracies and their ability to respond to a crisis. Democracy, according to this view, is an endless meeting that provides everyone (regardless of their expertise or ignorance) an equal say.

The inefficiency of democratic governance in responding to crisis is acknowledged in the wartime practice of increasing executive power and suspending debate and ordinary decision-making mechanisms.

Following this example, a number of climate advocates have begun considering the benefits of greater centralisation in decision-making to mitigate the devastating scenarios offered by climate scientists.

For example, in an interview about her new book The Collapse of Western Civilization, Naomi Oreskes argued: “If anyone will weather this storm it seems likely that it will be the Chinese.” (snip)

Certainly, the climate crisis demands that we ask big questions about the nature and effectiveness of legal and governance structures. My own intervention into this debate asks that we consider whether it is democracy that is blocking progress on climate change or the current limited version of it that pervades Western society.

This is fundemental to most Warmists, who never seem to realize that these same restrictions will apply to themselves. Of course, the article writer, Peter Burden, who is, to be clear, referring primarily to Australia, cops out a bit

I think that the problem is unquestionably the latter. Put more directly, I contend that it is not democracy that stands in the way, but the dominance of money and corporate interests in politics.

And there we go: yet another far left complaint about money and corporate interests, forgetting that Warmists and their groups spend enormous amounts of money, much of it from government, in pushing “climate change”. They are, for all intense purposes, corporate interests.

As long as privileged elites are in control of governance, it will set policy in the special interests that is serves. However, the conditions of survival (let alone flourishing) require rational social planning that takes seriously the needs of the entire community.

Funny part is, this is exactly what Progressive and Warmist doctrine is about: privileged elites telling Everyone Else what to do, while doing everything different themselves. When these same elites passed “climate change” laws, cap and trade and such, in Australia, the people revolted.

You can tell, though, that Warmists are not particularly happy with Democracy.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 5, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…are lots of fatty foods which cause obesity and heat to hide in the deep oceans, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Jawa Report, with a post on more peace from the Religion of Peace.

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Pause Now At 17 Years 11 Months

By William Teach September 5, 2014 – 11:14 am

Here’s Lord Monckton posting at Watts Up With That?

The Great Pause has now persisted for 17 years 11 months. Indeed, to three decimal places on a per-decade basis, there has been no global warming for 18 full years. Professor Ross McKitrick, however, has upped the ante with a new statistical paper to say there has been no global warming for 19 years.

Whichever value one adopts, it is becoming harder and harder to maintain that we face a “climate crisis” caused by our past and present sins of emission.

Taking the least-squares linear-regression trend on Remote Sensing Systems’ satellite-based monthly global mean lower-troposphere temperature dataset, there has been no global warming – none at all – for at least 215 months.

This is the longest continuous period without any warming in the global instrumental temperature record since the satellites first watched in 1979. It has endured for half the satellite temperature record. Yet the Great Pause coincides with a continuing, rapid increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration.

I know Warmists love to call this “cherry picking”, and yammer about “why’d you pick that starting point? Huh? Huh? Huh?”, failing to realize (or acknowledge, because of their dogmatic religious fervor and typical dishonesty) that we are working backwards from the current time. So, don’t even go there, Warmists, you’ll just (continue to) beclown yourselves. HADCRUT shows now statistically significant warming for 19 years (that’s surface level). Dr. Ross McKittrick has the pause at 16-26 years looking at lower tropsophere data (see the link in the excerpt above). Matt Ridley notes, in a separate article that references Dr. McKittrick’s study

Two years before Mr. Whitehouse’s article, climate scientists were already admitting in emails among themselves that there had been no warming since the late 1990s. “The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998,” wrote Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia in Britain in 2005. He went on: “Okay it has but it is only seven years of data and it isn’t statistically significant.”

If the pause lasted 15 years, they conceded, then it would be so significant that it would invalidate the climate-change models upon which policy was being built. A report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) written in 2008 made this clear: “The simulations rule out (at the 95% level) zero trends for intervals of 15 yr or more.”

The current Pause most assuredly invalidates Warmist computer models, hence the propaganda that we’re doomed sometime in the next 40-60 years, and warming will start anytime now, as well as all their excuses as to why there has been no statistically significant warming for over 15+ years. When Warmists are not simply proclaiming there is no Pause because their computer models are more important that actual data.

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Guess Who’s Benefited The Most During The Obameconomy?

By William Teach September 5, 2014 – 7:13 am

That would be the top 10% of income earners

(Washington Times) Under President Obama, the richest 10 percent were the only income group of Americans to see their median incomes rise, according to a survey released this week by the Federal Reserve.

The Fed data covered the years 2010-2013, during which period Mr. Obama constantly campaigned against income inequality and won re-election by painting his Republican rival as a tool of Wall Street plutocrats.

“Data from the 2013 [Survey of Consumer Finances] confirm that the shares of income and wealth held by affluent families are at modern historically high levels,” the report said in noting that the median income fell for every 10-percent grouping except the most affluent 10 percent.

“The 2013 SCF reveals substantial disparities in the evolution of income and net worth since the previous time the survey was conducted, in 2010,” the report stated. The SCF is conducted by the Federal reserve triennially and compiles information about family incomes, credit use, net worth and finances.

It’s no wonder Obama and Democrats yammer on about income redistribution and raising the minimum wage and other populist notions, as well as ever rising numbers of people on government assistance: their policies have caused direct harm to the incomes of the bottom 90%, while significantly helping those in the top 10%.

“The wealth share of the top 3 percent climbed from 44.8 percent in 1989 to 51.8 percent in 2007 and 54.4 percent in 2013. … The share of wealth held by the bottom 90 percent fell from 33.2 percent in 1989 to 24.7 percent in 2013,” the report stated.

When’s this “recovery” going to happen?

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High Flying Hillary Clinton Calls “Climate Change” Most Important Issue Facing Nation And World

By William Teach September 5, 2014 – 6:55 am

Former Senator and failed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who used lots and lots of fossil fuels to perform those jobs, is traveling all around the country, nominally to support her book, using lots and lots of fossil fuels, gave her take on “climate change”

(Politico) Hillary Clinton expounded on climate change, energy exports, natural gas drilling and green energy Thursday — all while managing to play it safe.

At Sen. Harry Reid’s National Clean Energy Summit, Clinton called climate change “the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face as a nation and a world.”

She apparently missed the memo that fossil fuels are Bad for “climate change”. And we shouldn’t be surprised that she has ignored the danger from Islamic extremists, Russia, China, and other players.

She also cited the potential benefits of producing and exporting natural gas and oil.

Huh. Strange. She also stated that she’s 100% onboard with Obama’s EPA dictates. As long as they do not affect herself, of course. She also decided to use derogatory language

(MSNBC) Hillary Clinton called out climate change “deniers” at a clean energy conference in Las Vegas Thursday evening, but revealed little new about what her own energy policy platform might look like if she decides to run for president.

Clinton began her remarks at the National Clean Energy Summit by laying out the problems climate change is already causing today, including extreme weather and droughts. “[These are] the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face,” she said. “No matter what deniers say.” (snip)

“Aside from the deniers and the special interests and all the other folks who want to pretend we don’t have a crisis is the fact that we are leaving money and jobs behind,” she said. “For those on the other side, they have to answer to the reality they are denying peoples’ jobs and middle class incomes and upward mobility by their refusal to look to the future.”

Clinton never did anything of consequence in the Senate. No big pieces of legislation sponsored. She was a joke of a Secretary of State. Though some of that can surely be blamed on her boss, Barack Obama. Now she’s out there using derogatory language, equating American citizens with Holocaust deniers, all while using lots and lots of fossil fuels. And doing this in a place that uses massive amounts of power.

(ABC News) If Hillary Clinton has it her way, every casino in Las Vegas would soon be getting a makeover.

During her keynote at the 7th annual National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas today, Clinton called for companies to retrofit buildings to become more energy efficient, and challenged the city’s biggest industry–casinos–to start making the change.

“Imagine if every casino in Las Vegas retrofitted to improve energy efficiency and if they made it possible for all their employees to do the same in their homes,” Clinton said. “It would save on utility bills. It would save on energy. It would save on greenhouse gas emissions.”

If Hillary has her way, they will be forced to do just that, which will result in rolling brownouts and blackouts, along with a loss of jobs. While she still lives the Big Carbon Footprint lifestyle.

Imagine if she took the threats from extremist Islam, Russia, China, and others seriously. Instead of this mostly made up notion of “climate change”.

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You Need To Give Up Burgers To Save The Planet From Getting A Fever

By William Teach September 4, 2014 – 4:58 pm

Yeah, I mean you. Not the article writers. You. Here’s Warmists Alex Rodin

If you really care about climate change you’ll stop eating burgers

Give up meat, save the planet. It really could be that simple, as new research warns that without radical changes to our diets, the food industry alone is likely to cause an 80 per cent increase in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, exceeding the current emissions targets for the entirety of the global economy.

This creates something of a dilemma for steak loving environmentalists, like myself, who have so far managed to skirt around the issue of meat, instead preferring to focus our righteous efforts on recycling yoghurt pots or investing in energy efficient light bulbs.

Burgers, chops and pies are regular winners of the daily contest to satiate my carnivorous cravings. But, every tenderly roasted, lovingly stewed and patiently encrusted bit of flesh, that once made salivary glands froth and bellies expand, are now unambiguous contributors to the climate change problem.

If you guessed that nowhere in the article does Mr. Rodin write that he has given up meat, you’d be entirely correct. Surprise!!!! Well, not really, for those who’ve followed the insane ramblings of Warmists.

Obviously, the Everyone Else needs to give up meat to stop Hotcoldwetdry is not a new meme, though they have circled back to it over the past two weeks. There was a big doomsaying article at Motherboard. Sarah Spickernell hyperventilated over the issue of a meat created hell on earth doom

Bad news, hamburger fans. New research shows that if we are going to have any chance of slowing down climate change, we must eat less meat.

We tend to concentrate on practices such as fracking and emissions from coal-based power stations when we consider the prevention of climate change, but a paper published today in Nature Climate Change suggests that the impact of eating habits is no trivial matter.

Well, bad news for Warmists, because they’ll have to flog themselves mentally for a couple of minutes, bow towards Washington, D.C., say a few Hail Gores, promise to spread awareness and take a drive to an anti-fossil fuel protest, then tuck into a nice juicy piece of cow.

There are plenty of articles dealing with the same issue, and they are all about “we”, but never say “yes, I’ve give up meat to save the planet.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 4, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible carbon pollution created desert, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post noting that Obama is inventing immigration rights.

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Easily Replaceable Fast Food Workers Striking Again Today

By William Teach September 4, 2014 – 11:59 am

I took a little jaunt to McDonald’s this morning for a Big Breakfast, alas, no strikers at the joint near me. Nor at the Wendy’s, Bojangles, or Burger King in the same areas. But

(WRAL) Fast-food workers in parts of the Triangle walked off their jobs Thursday morning as part of the latest national protest to push companies to pay their employees at least $15 an hour.

Workers in Raleigh rallied at a Bojangles on South Wilmington Street at 8:30 a.m. to demand higher pay and union rights. Nationally, workers in about 150 cities are expected to walk off their jobs.

Fortunately, Mr. Obama wants to legalize millions of illegal aliens who will be happy to take these jobs. Let’s move on to the craziness at Salon

Get a clue, McDonald’s! Why I’m walking off my fast food job today

For the twelve years I worked as an elementary school teacher, bake sales were always a source of pride – for my students, their parents, and yes, teachers too. I still participate in them, only now it’s me doing the baking, and not for donation.

When my younger sister’s severe mental health issues worsened, I had to leave teaching to take care of her. The best job I could find that still worked for our family was at a McDonald’s in Kansas City, Kan., where I earn $7.45 an hour.

Along with cutting hair, selling Legal Shield and Avon products online and babysitting, selling baked goods at my church helps pay the bills that my fast-food job won’t. It’s a means of survival for my five children and me.

September used to mean the beginning of the school year and a new incoming class of students. This year, it means getting ready to go on strike.

OK, I’m confused. Why in the heck would you quit a teaching gig for a job that pays lower wages, has fewer benefits, and potentially worse hours, considering you won’t have a night shift as a teacher, and do not have to worry about getting cut to part time?

That’s what fast-food companies like McDonald’s don’t understand. They think they can ignore us; that we’ll get discouraged; that our movement will fizzle out; that somehow the challenges we face will simply go away. They deflect responsibility for an outdated business model, and refuse to accept that we aren’t high schoolers looking for extra money but mothers and fathers trying to put our children through high school.

Oh, no, they know you aren’t teens. They also understand that the job is worth a certain amount of money, and it isn’t meant for adults looking to raise 5 kids. They also know that strikers can be easily replaced.

More: and by easily replaced, not just by other humans.

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Forget That 97% Consensus Meme: Warmists Ramp It Up To 99.999%

By William Teach September 4, 2014 – 10:16 am

Another day, another bit of  derangement from the Cult Of Warming

There is a 99.999 percent chance humans are causing climate change

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But a new paper by Philip Kokic, Steven Crimp, and Mark Howden published in the journal Climate Risk Management and focusing in depth on historical climate records puts the certainty even higher.

Investigating the large rise in temperatures in recent years — July 2014 was the 353rd consecutive month in which global land and ocean average surface temperature exceeded the 20th-century monthly average — the authors of the paper used a statistical model to deduce that there is “less than one chance in 100,000 that global average temperature over the past 60 years would have been as high without human-caused greenhouse gas emissions” warming the climate.

Well, that’s strange, considering that there was a global dip in temps running from the 40’s through the late 70’s, leading to hysteria about a coming ice age. And since there has been an almost 18 year pause. And…oh, why bother with facts and science and stuff. Climate change is about a religious like fervor.

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