Morning Bell: Obama’s Oil Spill To-Do List | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

Some very good food for thought for the Big “O”.  It all seems so sensible, doesn’t it.  It is painful to watch the Big “O” remain unable to respond to this crisis while it worsens each and every day.  I wonder how bad it will have to get for him to take decisive action – in fact, I wonder it he is even capable of it at all.

 

Morning Bell: Obama’s Oil Spill To-Do List | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

Posted June 30th, 2010 at 9:42am

The oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico gets worse by the day. Oil spews from the broken well, further polluting our water and shores. The clean-up efforts drag on with bureaucratic interference, making matters worse. And what is the Obama administration doing? It continues to push for unrelated responses that will have a disastrous effect on our economy, especially the economy of the Gulf states most affected

U.S. agency's action may kill Bucyrus deal, cost 1,000 jobs - JSOnline

Obama destroys 1,000 jobs in Wisconsin – Hope and Change!

 

U.S. agency's action may kill Bucyrus deal, cost 1,000 jobs - JSOnline

Export-Import Bank denies loan guarantees for coal project in India

By Rick Barrett of the Journal Sentinel

Posted: June 26, 2010 |(174) Comments

Wider impact

Bucyrus has 250 suppliers in Wisconsin that employ 15,000 people

Source: Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce

Up to 1,000 jobs at Bucyrus International Inc. and its suppliers could be in jeopardy as the result of a decision by the U.S. Export-Import Bank, funded by Congress, to deny several hundred million dollars in loan guarantees to a coal-fired power plant and mine in India.

About 300 of those jobs are at the Bucyrus plant in South Milwaukee, where the company has 1,410 employees and its headquarters. The remaining jobs are spread across 13 states, including Illinois, Minnesota and Indiana.

On Thursday, the Export-Import Bank denied financing for Reliance Power Ltd., an Indian power plant company, effectively wiping out about $600 million in coal mining equipment sales for Bucyrus, chief executive Tim Sullivan said.

Scientists--carbon dioxide is not causing climate change

Wonder why the MSM isn’t touting this report??

 

Scientists--carbon dioxide is not causing climate change

June 19, 6:45 PMConservative ExaminerAnthony G. Martin

In a major announcement that flies in the face of the erroneous mantra of the world's political elite, a team of scientists has declared that carbon dioxide is NOT causing climate change.   The team, sponsored by the International Climate Science Coalition, issued the following declaration:

We, the undersigned, having assessed the relevant scientific evidence, do not find convincing support for the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing, or will in the foreseeable future cause, dangerous global warming.

THREE CHRISTIANS ARRESTED IN OUTREACH TO MUSLIMS IN DEARBORN, MICHIGAN - TheCypressTimes

First Amendment rights???  We don’t need no stinkin’ First Amendment rights!!  Hope and Change, hope and change.

 

THREE CHRISTIANS ARRESTED IN OUTREACH TO MUSLIMS IN DEARBORN, MICHIGAN - TheCypressTimes

Published 06/19/2010 - 6:55 p.m. CST

Dr. Nabeel Qureshi arrested for distributing Christian materials in Detroit, Michigan

By Mark Ellis
Senior Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

Shouts of 'Allahu Akbar' as Christians arrested

DEARBORN, MICHIGAN -(ANS)-Three Christians were arrested today at the Arab International Festival as they shared their faith with Muslims. The three were arrested by police as they engaged in intense, but respectful dialog in which they proclaimed their faith in Christ.

Senate Dems Again Fail to Pass 'Doc Fix' and Unemployment Extension - The Note

Bad for the doctors, hospitals and the elderly.  But, it was all part of “paying” for the healthcare bill.  I wonder how many doctors will even continue to accept medicare patients?  Few, I suspect.

 

Senate Dems Again Fail to Pass 'Doc Fix' and Unemployment Extension - The Note

June 17, 2010 9:19 PM

ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf reports:

There are going to be a whole lot of angry Medicare doctors banging on lawmakers' doors tomorrow.

Senate Democrats just failed for the second time this week to get the 60 votes they need for a host of expiring social programs and corporate tax credits.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb, voted with Republicans.

The expiring provisions include extending emergency unemployment benefits for the long unemployed and averting a 21 percent pay cut for Medicare doctors. The latter is an ongoing issue in Washington, where deficit reduction laws known as the Sustainable Growth Rate mandate cuts to keep Medicare solvent but lawmakers periodically pass legislation to ignore them. The cuts have piled up over the years.

The IPCC consensus on climate change was phoney, says IPCC insider | Full Comment | National Post

More evidence of the fallacy that has been called “man made global warming”.  Turns out there was no “consensus” – color me shocked.

 

The IPCC consensus on climate change was phoney, says IPCC insider | Full Comment | National Post

Lawrence Solomon June 13, 2010 – 8:50 am

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider.  The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was “only a few dozen experts,” he states in a paper for Progress in Physical Geography, co-authored with student Martin Mahony.

“Claims such as ‘2,500 of the world’s leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate’ are disingenuous,” the paper states unambiguously, adding that they rendered “the IPCC vulnerable to outside criticism.”

Paris police ban pork street party in Muslim area - Yahoo! News

It is difficult to watch Europe be smothered by Islam – yet it is an on-going process.  Addie and Emily's children will grow up with a European continent ruled by Islam.  Very sad. 

 

Paris police ban pork street party in Muslim area - Yahoo! News

By PIERRE-YVES ROGER, Associated Press Writer Pierre-yves Roger, Associated Press Writer – 46 mins ago

PARIS – French police have banned a street party whose organizers planned to serve alcoholic cocktails and pork sausages in a heavily Muslim neighborhood of Paris, authorities said in a statement Tuesday.

Police said the party, called "Sausage and Booze," could have been viewed as a provocation in the Goutte-d'Or neighborhood of northern Paris, where many Muslims pray on the streets because there are not enough mosques. Alcohol and pork are forbidden by Islam and the party had been slated for just after Friday's main Muslim weekly prayers.

Organizers said they were holding the party to protest Islam's encroachment on traditional French values in the neighborhood. Muslim groups had announced a counterparty serving halal, or religiously approved, food.

Police banned both events.

"Because of the organization, location, day and timing chosen, as well as the counterparty plans, this event ... creates grave risks of public trouble," the police statement said. Police also said they met at length with organizers on Tuesday before announcing the ban.

French rights group SOS Racisme praised the ban on the party, which they called it a "flagrant call for hatred."

Residents get 6 votes each in suburban NY election - Yahoo! News

Wow, how do you elect more Hispanics to office – why it’s easy, allow Hispanic residents to vote 6 times in the election.  Why didn’t I think of that?

 

Residents get 6 votes each in suburban NY election - Yahoo! News

By JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press Writer Jim Fitzgerald, Associated Press Writer – Tue Jun 15, 4:15 am ET

PORT CHESTER, N.Y. – Arthur Furano voted early — five days before Election Day. And he voted often, flipping the lever six times for his favorite candidate.

Furano cast multiple votes on the instructions of a federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a new election system crafted to help boost Hispanic representation.

Voters in Port Chester, 25 miles northeast of New York City, are electing village trustees for the first time since the federal government alleged in 2006 that the existing election system was unfair.

Although the village of about 30,000 residents is nearly half Hispanic, no Latino had ever been elected to any of the six trustee seats, which until now were chosen in a conventional at-large election. Most voters were white, and white candidates always won.

Federal Judge Stephen Robinson said that violated the Voting Rights Act, and he approved a remedy suggested by village officials: a system called cumulative voting, in which residents get six votes each to apportion as they wish among the candidates. He rejected a government proposal to break the village into six districts, including one that took in heavily Hispanic areas.

FuturePundit: Chris Nelder: Replace Offshore Oil With Wind?

When it comes to wind power replacing our use of offshore oil, one little thing continues to get in the way . . . . . facts.

 

FuturePundit: Chris Nelder: Replace Offshore Oil With Wind?

Chris Nelder looks at what it would take to replace US offshore Gulf of Mexico oil with a comparable amount of energy from wind power.

Federal offshore Gulf of Mexico has been our last great hope for domestic oil production against a four-decade declining trend. Offshore oil now accounts for 1.7 million barrels per day (mbpd), or over 30%, of our domestic production of 5.5 mbpd.What would it take to substitute wind for offshore oil? At 5.8 MBtu heat value in a barrel of oil and 3412 BTU in a kWh, 1.7 mbpd is equivalent to 2.9 billion kWh per day, or 1,059 billion kWh a year. By comparison, total 2008 wind generation was 14.23 billion kWh in Texas, and 5.42 billion kWh in California.

Therefore, to replace our offshore oil with wind, you’d need 195 Californias, or 74 Texases of wind, and probably 20 years to build it.

Iowa City woman ordained as a bishop - The Daily Iowan

I support the idea the of ordained women Priests, but this is not the way to go about changing the Vatican’s mind.

 

Iowa City woman ordained as a bishop - The Daily Iowan

BY CATHRYN SLOANE | JUNE 14, 2010 7:30 AM

Mary Kay Kusner was raised as a quite traditional Roman Catholic.

On Sunday, she was ordained as a priest — a role for women that is anything but traditional in the Catholic Church.

Kusner’s ordination was made possible by the Roman Catholic Womenpriests organization, a group loyal to the church in its teachings and rituals but denounced by the church for its belief that women, too, can be priests.

“We’re growing very quickly, and the people are accepting us,” Roman Catholic Woman Bishop, Bridget Mary Meehan said.

Bruce Krasting: Social Security At Mid-Year

Social Security goes negative – 5 years early. 

 

Bruce Krasting: Social Security At Mid-Year

There is enough published information from the SSTF to make some observations for the first six months of 2010. The data on FICA/SECA tax receipts and benefit payments: (all amounts in $billions)

The Other National Debt - Kevin Williamson - National Review Online

I blogged about this back in September.  It is simply an impossible burden for our children.

 

The Other National Debt - Kevin Williamson - National Review Online

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About that $14 trillion national debt: Get ready to tack some zeroes onto it. Taken alone, the amount of debt issued by the federal government — that $14 trillion figure that shows up on the national ledger — is a terrifying, awesome, hellacious number: Fourteen trillion seconds ago, Greenland was covered by lush and verdant forests, and the Neanderthals had not yet been outwitted and driven into extinction by Homo sapiens sapiens, because we did not yet exist. Big number, 14 trillion, and yet it doesn’t even begin to cover the real indebtedness of American governments at the federal, state, and local levels, because governments don’t count up their liabilities the same way businesses do

YouTube - Congressman Assaults Student on Washington Sidewalk

If you were a Congressman walking down the street and were approached by a couple of students – in suits and with camera – what would you do??  Why smack them around a bit – of course.

 

Pajamas Media » Renewable Energy: There Ain’t No Free Lunch

I always enjoy looking deeper.  I love details, perhaps that’s why I became an engineer.  “Green Energy” has been one of my pet peves since the use of Star War characters to promote the first earthday.  (yes, I’m that much of a geek)  This is an excellent article pointing out something our parents taught us in simple language:  “There’s no such thing as a free lunch!” – or free energy.

 

Pajamas Media » Renewable Energy: There Ain’t No Free Lunch

The public's notion of "green energy" — energy production with no pollution and no environmental impact — is a fairy tale, pushed by a legacy media that doesn't understand the underlying issues but knows which side it's on.

June 14, 2010

- by Chris J Kobus

Catch words these days for the favored form of energy include “green,” “clean,” “renewable,” and “sustainable” — among others. Yet nobody can quite quantify what exactly “green” means.

Examples pointed to by proponents include wind and solar, with a few pointing to hydroelectric power, biomass, and fuel cells. But those examples, and the logic behind them, fail the very definition of renewable (or clean, green, or sustainable for that matter). As the logic goes, there will always be wind, and the sun will always shine (I’ll ignore for now that wind, just like hydro power and biomass, is just another form of solar). That logic, however, is short sighted and inaccurate, because to harness that raw energy and convert it to a more useful form, we have to manufacture the means to do so, and that in and of itself is not renewable.

Pajamas Media » China’s Military Threatens America: ‘We Will Hurt You’

I have long been puzzled by the assumptions on the part of our government regarding the future intentions of China.  It has always been clear to me that their primary intent was to rule as much of the globe as possible.  Their military stance during my 21 years in the military and in the 22 years of my retirement has done nothing to change my mind.

What did concern me the most was our government’s looking at them as a friend, a possible ally or as something other than a communist country who uses its military freely to control its populace and influence its neighbors.

Perhaps we are catching on.

 

Pajamas Media » China’s Military Threatens America: ‘We Will Hurt You’

The Pentagon finally takes the hint from China’s openly hostile flag officers.

June 14, 2010

- by Gordon G. Chang

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“Every nation has a right to defend itself and to spend as it sees fit for that purpose, but a gap as wide as what seems to be forming between China’s stated intent and its military programs leaves me more than curious about the end result,” said Admiral Mike Mullen this Wednesday. “Indeed, I have moved from being curious to being genuinely concerned.”

Pajamas Media » A Remarkable Lie, from Your Taxpayer-Funded NOAA

Shoddy science from the government agency being used to promote the Cap and Trade bill and assure to the American people that man made global warming is a reality.  Our tax dollars at work. 

 

Pajamas Media » A Remarkable Lie, from Your Taxpayer-Funded NOAA

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, facing the reality that their temperature readings are hopelessly inaccurate, claims that ... accuracy doesn't matter. Wow.

June 12, 2010

- by Art Horn

The following remarkable statement now appears on the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) site:

For detecting climate change, the concern is not the absolute temperature — whether a station is reading warmer or cooler than a nearby station placed on grass — but how that temperature changes over time.

The root of the problem? NOAA’s network for measuring temperature in the United States has become corrupted by artificial heat sources and other issues. These problems introduce warm biases into the temperature measurements that are then used by the government and others to support manmade global warming. So as a reaction to criticism about these problems … NOAA now claims that the accuracy of the measured temperature no longer matters!

Administration: 51% Of Companies’ Health Plans Won’t Pass Muster

Massive change coming to corporate health insurance plans – plans that 85% of Americans were happy with prior to the passage of Obamacare.  It appears that the biggest change coming is that the American worker will loose their healthcare plan.  Change you can believe in!

 

Administration: 51% Of Companies’ Health Plans Won’t Pass Muster

By Sean Higgins and David Hogberg

Fri., June 11, 2010 5:05 PM ET

Tags: Health Care - ObamaCare - Obama

Internal White House documents reveal that 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage by 2013 due to ObamaCare. That numbers soars to 66% for small-business employers.

The documents — product of a joint project of the Labor Department, the Health and Human Services Department and the IRS — examine the effects new regulations would have on existing, or “grandfathered,” employer-based health care plans.

Brazil sees silver lining in BP spill: more rigs | Reuters

One way to make sure drilling stops off-shore is to run off the companies that have the technology to do the drilling.  Hope and Change, hope and change.  So once those jobs are gone, what companies will generate the cash to pay the welfare checks??

 

Brazil sees silver lining in BP spill: more rigs | Reuters

 

Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:53pm EDT

 * Brazil may pick up rigs idled on moratorium

 * Could help the country's offshore campaign

 * Deep water rigs in tight supply around the world

 By Brian Ellsworth and Joshua Schneyer

 RIO DE JANEIRO, June 11 (Reuters) - Brazil could benefit

from the BP Gulf of Mexico spill as a U.S. moratorium on
offshore drilling boosts available rigs for the country's deep
water oil exploration program.

 Even as an ecological catastrophe makes the future of U.S.
offshore drilling less certain, Brazil is plowing ahead with a
$220 billion five-year plan to tap oil fields even deeper than
BP's (BP.L) ill-fated Gulf well, which is still leaking crude.

 With an estimated 35 rigs idled in the Gulf of Mexico,
Brazil is already receiving inquiries from companies looking to
move their rigs here, where vast discoveries in recent years
may soon turn the country into a major crude exporter.

American Thinker: A Shrink Asks: What's Wrong with Obama?

The best, most comprehensive evaluation of the Bin “O” I have read to date!

 

American Thinker: A Shrink Asks: What's Wrong with Obama?

By Robin of Berkeley

So what is the matter with Obama? Conservatives have been asking this question for some time. I've written a number of articles trying to solve the mystery.  

Even some liberals are starting to wonder. James Carville railed about Obama's blasé attitude after the catastrophic oil spill. The New York Times' Maureen Dowd revamped Obama's "Yes We Can" motto into "Will We Ever?"

The liberal women of the TV show "The View" have expressed sympathy for Michelle Obama's living with a man so out of touch. Peggy Noonan, hardly a vehement Obama foe,  recently pronounced him disconnected. 

Obama's odd mannerisms intrigue a psychotherapist like me. He also presents a serious diagnostic challenge. 

White House Parties as Gulf Suffers--John Gibson - NYPOST.com

A leader you can party with!  I am fascinated by the apparent fact that the Big “O” is so far above the fray of everyday leadership that he doesn’t even seem to see his disconnect from the American people.

 

President party boy

The wrong kind of leadership

By JOHN GIBSON

Last Updated: 4:15 AM, June 10, 2010

Posted: 11:42 PM, June 9, 2010

Last week's jobs report tanked the stock market; the president took weeks to assert control of the oil spill that threatens doom on the Gulf Coast -- but at the White House the Gatsby-like parties roll on as if happy days were here again.

Just yesterday, President Obama held another fun-filled White House event, a picnic for Congress members, complete with hot dogs, cold beverages and a fire pit.

All told, during the last seven weeks of spewing oil and rampant unemployment, he has frolicked and danced through three major White House music parties:

Steffy: U.S. and BP slow to accept Dutch expertise | Business: Loren Steffy | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

How does Big “O” square his comments that they are doing all they can while rejecting the assistance of an industry expert?  Hope and Change.

 

Steffy: U.S. and BP slow to accept Dutch expertise | Business: Loren Steffy | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

By LOREN STEFFY Copyright 2010 Houston Chronicle

June 8, 2010, 10:13PM

Three days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help.

It was willing to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms, and it proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands.

The response from the Obama administration and BP, which are coordinating the cleanup: “The embassy got a nice letter from the administration that said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,'” said Geert Visser, consul general for the Netherlands in Houston.

3 Forgotten Fears of a Reignited Korean War - Popularmechanics.com

Dark thoughts of how a new Korean War would unfold.  Doesn’t the Big “O” give you a nice warm and secure feeling in your tummy?  Surly the NoKos wouldn’t dare to start anything with such a man in office - - - right?

3 Forgotten Fears of a Reignited Korean War - Popularmechanics.com

As tensions continue to escalate between North and South Korea, we look at the worst-case scenarios that could result from an all-out war between the two.

By Joe Pappalardo

South Korean soldiers take a position during a drill at a guard post near the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas in Yanggu, 130 km northeast of Seoul, on May 24, 2010.

(Photo by Yonhap/AFP/Getty Images)

Tensions in the Korean Peninsula are at their worst point in decades after a North Korean submarine ambushed a South Korean warship, killing scores of sailors. Although North Korea has made violent provocation a cornerstone of its foreign and domestic policy for years, there is always the chance that this kind of brinksmanship will spark a major war.

Iran Red Crescent to send two aid ships to Gaza

Iranian aid to Gaza, what could possible go wrong????  I’m sure, with the big “O”’s close relationship with the Iranian leadership, a gentle word will make the reconsider – right??

 

Iran Red Crescent to send two aid ships to Gaza

June 7, 2010 - 3:44PM

Hazmat or Basic Tags available. Prices as low as 40 cents each.

The Iranian Red Crescent has decided to send two aid ships to Gaza this week and has called for volunteers to act as relief workers and accompany the vessels, the state IRNA news agency reported.

Iranian Red Crescent director Abdolrauf Adibzadeh told IRNA late on Sunday that the decision to send the ships was taken after a meeting with the foreign ministry.

"One ship will carry donations made by the people and the other will carry relief workers. The ships will be sent to Gaza by end of this week," Adibzadeh said.

Three deepwater drilling rigs to be moved from sites south of Cameron Parish | NOLA.com

Hope and Change, hope and change!

Three deepwater drilling rigs to be moved from sites south of Cameron Parish | NOLA.com

By David Hammer, The Times-Picayune

June 07, 2010, 10:30PM

The Associated PressThe Deepwater Horizon drilling rig was photographed April 22, engulfed in flames after the explosion that killed 11 workers on April 20.

As Louisiana's maritime industry continues to reel from President Barack Obama's deepwater drilling moratorium, a leading oil production company has announced it's looking to move some of its fleet to foreign waters.
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. announced that it is shutting down three exploratory drilling rigs in the deepwater Gulf, all off the Louisiana coast, and assured shareholders that it would move its operations "from the Gulf to other areas of our global portfolio" so it could meet annual production goals.

Prepare NOW: They "Get It" - The Market Ticker ®

There’s a market correction coming.  It’s not going to be pretty!!!!!

 

Prepare NOW: They "Get It"

Anyone who doesn't believe that "they" (the powers that be) "get it" at this point needs to remove their head from their ass:

G-20 central bankers and finance ministers agreed in a joint statement today that “within their capacity, countries will expand domestic sources of growth.” At the same time, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet told reporters that Europe’s best contribution to the global rebound is to achieve fiscal sustainability.

Those two are polar opposites.  You just heard Trichet admit that what everyone wants they cannot have.

Opposing Views: Firearms Industry Offers Rebuttal to Anti-Gun Columnist Susan Estrich

A few facts about all those guns that seem to find their way from the US to Mexico – the facts clearly show they are a fraction of the amount claimed by the left.

 

Opposing Views: Firearms Industry Offers Rebuttal to Anti-Gun Columnist Susan Estrich

Opinion by National Shooting Sports Foundation

In her column last week (“The responsibility is ours,” May 25, 2010), Susan Estrich claimed that crime in Mexico was attributable to “American assault rifles bought at gun stores on the border” and that “Eighty percent of the 75,000 assault weapons seized by Mexican authorities were traced back to the United States.” To set the record straight, NSSF President Steve Sanetti submitted his own op-ed piece for publication.

In her op-ed last week (“The responsibility is ours,” May 25, 2010), Susan Estrich claimed that crime in Mexico was attributable to “American assault rifles, bought at gun stores on the border” and that “Eighty percent of the 75,000 assault weapons seized by Mexican authorities were traced back to the United States.” Let’s clear this up right now.