66% of Americans Believe Obama Doesn't Deserve Nobel Peace Prize

Rare Snow Storms Wallop....California and Arizona?

Saramento, California, received its first snowfall in 33 years. Arizona, Texas and Nevada are also being hammered with snow as tens of thousands lose electricity.

Soda Springs, Nevada received “a whopping 35 inches” of snow. The National Weather Service has issued winter storm and blizzard warnings from California to Nebraska and Kansas.

Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, Denmark, intellectuals in the global warming cult are meeting to discuss the global warming crisis.

"Copenhagen's Political Science" by Sarah Palin

In part:

In his inaugural address, President Obama declared his intention to “restore science to its rightful place.” But instead of staying home from Copenhagen and sending a message that the United States will not be a party to fraudulent scientific practices, the president has upped the ante. He plans to fly in at the climax of the conference in hopes of sealing a “deal.” Whatever deal he gets, it will be no deal for the American people. What Obama really hopes to bring home from Copenhagen is more pressure to pass the Democrats’ cap-and-tax proposal. This is a political move. The last thing America needs is misguided legislation that will raise taxes and cost jobs — particularly when the push for such legislation rests on agenda-driven science.

Well said.  Read the whole op-ed.

Obama Advisor: "Cap and Trade is a Revolution that Will Change U.S. Economy"

Just days before the start of the U.N.’s Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, a BBC reporter followed what he called a “grassroots protest movement” of global warming enthusiasts that met in a darkened hall illuminated only by the glow of their cell phones (matches emit carbon dioxide) to excite themselves into a frenzy at the very thought of the event.

President Barack Obama sent some administration officials to show solidarity with the environmentalist cult members.  Lisa Jackson, the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, was there.  Jackson declared carbon dioxide a “threat to the public health and welfare of the American people” yesterday and called for its regulation under the Clean Air Act. 

Maybe most significantly, John Podesta was there.  Podesta is the founder and president of the liberal Center for American Progress think-tank, as well as the former Chief of Staff for Bill Clinton.  Now, Podesta serves as an advisor to Obama on climate change matters.

 At the pre-conference conference, the BBC reporter had this revealing sidebar with Podesta:

BBC REPORTER (narrating): He believes the Cap and Trade system the President is proposing will transform the entire American economy.

PODESTA: Once the revolution starts…

BBC REPORTER:  Revolution?

PODESTA: Revolution of the way we use and consume and produce energy.

BBC REPORTER:  You think this really is a revolution that is beginning now.

PODESTA:  It’s an economic revolution in our country.  It’ll be as important as the Industrial Revolution was in the 19th century.

BBC REPORTER: So you’re talking about changing the way the economy of America operates. You’re talking about changing price signals throughout the American economy.

PODESTA:  That’s absolutely right.

It’s no question that this is a big struggle, and that’s why these 12,000 young people are so critical, to put pressure directly on the Congress but also to go back and organize in their communities.

BBC REPORTER (narrating):  Is America really on the cusp of monumental change?

This is disturbing on so many levels.  Barack Obama said (if you follow the video to the end you’ll see him saying it) on January 17, 2008:  “If somebody wants to build a coal power plant they can, it’s just that it’ll bankrupt them because they’re gonna be charged a huge some  for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”

This is not just about bankrupting the coal industry, as if that weren’t bad enough.  It’s not even really about saving the environment.  From Barack Obama’s vantage point, it’s about influencing the uninformed masses to promote his Marxist vision for our country. 

Note the radical, monumental changes he’s inflicting on our country:  taking over private industries, censuring e-mails and the media, dismantling the entire healthcare system for an inferior one to make everyone dependent on the government, massive and unsustainable debt and spending, and an effort to enact Cap and Trade legislation that will control what Americans can and cannot do, even with the science behind global warming highly suspect.

Why does Obama seems so unconcerned about the financial stability of America?  He who controls the purse strings controls the world.  Making Americans completely dependent and subservient to government makes them helpless to fight the government.  Obama doesn’t necessarily want to control the world, but he does want to change it.  And change begins at home. 

EPA Wants to Regulate Carbon Dioxide

Just in time for Christmas!

The Environmental Protection Agency has declared carbon dioxide a “threat to the public health and welfare of the American people” and wants it regulated under the Clean Air Act.  Here’s what you can do to help:

1)Eat your children, who emit carbon dioxide, to reduce your carbon footprints. Also, this will make PETA happy.

2) Don’t drive.

3) Don’t heat your homes.

4) Don’t fly.

5) Don’t buy anything made in a factory.

6) PLANT A TREE.

7) Hug a tree….after you eat your children (and don’t breathe heavy). The earth will love you back.

8) Most importantly, stop breathing.

NOW GO LIVE YOUR LIFE! 

Why Doesn't Obama Talk About Victory in Afghanistan?

Bob Schieffer to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Face the Nation:

 (transcript)

BOB SCHIEFFER: Madame Secretary, let me ask you about one thing the president said. In this entire speech he talked about handing over authority to the Afghans. But he never included the words ‘win’ or ‘victory’ as far as I know it in that speech. He just talked about avoiding an open ended commitment. Have we given up trying to win? Do we think that’s no longer possible? Is victory no longer possible?

CLINTON: Well Bob, I think he talked about success and that’s what we’re looking toward. We do believe we can be successful.

Pathetic.  We wouldn’t want anyone thinking al-Qaeda is like Emperor Hirohito….er….or something.

Biogeographer Reponds to British PM's Claim Global Warming Skeptics are "Flat-Earthers", "Anti-Science"

“Science does not function by consensus.”  -Philip Stott

Answering Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon’s claim that global warming skeptics are “flat-earthers” and “anti-science”, British Professor of Biogeography says that science can not be led by consensus and that the PM’s insult is one of the worst comments he’s heard coming from a Prime Minister.

Here are Gordon Brown’s comments, the rebuttal by Philip Stott, followed by a comment from a green activist leading up to the climate summit in Copenhagen on those leaked e-mails in which climate researchers falsified their data to keep the temperature decline secret:

GORDON BROWN, Prime Minister of Britain: “There’s an anti-change group, there’s an anti-reform group, there’s an anti-science group, there’s a flat-earth group, if I may say so…offer the evidence that exists about climate change… we’ve got to show them that the scientific evidence is strong.”

PHILIP STOTT, Biogeographer:  “I think that is one of the disgraceful statements from a Prime Minister I’ve ever heard, and I’ll be quite blunt about it.  And I think actually, even many scientists who support global warming agree with me on that. 

“Science does not function by consensus, and most certainly not by politically driven consensus.  In fact, the history of consensus of the time is terrible, from Gallileo right away to the beginning of the 20th century when 95% of scientists, for goodness sakes, believed in eugenics. Science by its very nature be skeptical.”

ENVIRONMENTALIST WACKO CHICK, pre-Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen: I think it’s very unfortunate, whatever the truth is, that these e-mails are now muddying the water, but the science and the cultural, societal imputus that we now have to build low-carbon economies and to rethink everything from the ground up should not be spoiled by what I hope in a historical sense is a very, very minor blip.”

 I wonder how many toxins are in that green face paint?  Comments by the green chick are very revealing; whatever the truth is, we still have the opportunity to rebuild economies based on the “science” of environmentalism.    She, along with the Obama administration, doesn’t seem to grasp that the “science” is false because the data is false. 

Economists Expect Economic Rebound to be Short Lived

Many economists believe that while the recession that began in December 2007 is history, the third-quarter spurt was largely fueled by government incentives and industry trends that will fade, leaving a wobbly economy.

“Don’t get carried away by the really strong number,” says economist Patrick Newport of IHS Global Insight. “The economy is still losing jobs and it’s still fundamentally weak in a lot of places.”

Newport says almost half the growth stemmed from a rise in consumer spending that was juiced by the government’s expired cash-for-clunkers program, which ended in August.

Brisk spending by the federal government certainly played into the third-quarter turnaround. Federal government spending rose at a rate of 7.9% in the third quarter, on top of an 11.4% growth rate in the second quarter.

 Temporary boosts from temporary government spending isn’t exactly a long-term solution to ending this recession, particularly with the amount of water (debt) we’re bucketing into our boat.

U.S. Envoy Goes to Pyongyang, North Korea for One on One Talks

And so it begins….

The U.S. envoy for North Korea arrived in South Korea Sunday on the way to a meeting in Pyongyang to convince the North to end its boycott of six-party nuclear disarmament talks.

Episcopal Church Elects First Openly Lesbian Bishop

Six years after the Episcopal Church elected its first openly gay bishop to the Diocese of New Hampshire, a scandal that spilt the church in two, the second openly practicing gay bishop was elected yesterday, this time a lesbian to the Diocese of Los Angeles. 

Mary D. Glasspool of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland was elected bishop on Saturday in a close race against a Los Angeles-area Hispanic cleric, making her the Episcopal Church’s first openly lesbian bishop.

The 2.1-million-member denomination paved the way for her election last summer when it lifted a moratorium on electing gay bishops after the election of New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson six years ago caused a split in the 70-million-member Anglican Communion.

The majority of world Anglicanism opposes openly homosexual clergy, and a majority of Anglican bishops voted against allowing them at the 1998 Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops in Canterbury, England.

But the U.S. Episcopal Church ignored that sanction, selecting Bishop Robinson in 2003, causing an estimated 100,000 Episcopalians to flee the denomination to more conservative churches. Four dioceses also have pulled out of the denomination in protest. They and an estimated 60 churches are entangled in lawsuits with the Episcopal Church in a fight to keep millions of dollars’ worth of property and real estate.

It seems the clergy of the Episcopal church is more interested in social policies and liberal agendas rather than shepherding its people, and even less interested in being vicars of Christ, let alone his disciples. 

The saddest part of this ongoing development in the apostate Episcopalian church is that these clergy actually believe that God is on their side when in reality they are willingly walking blindly down a wide path to hell dragging ignorant people with them. The unseemly courting of the world and its ways, which are at odds with God’s, is particularly sad, too.

Christianity never has been a matter of following our own convictions; it is precisely a matter of submitting oneself to the sovereignty of a Triune God and obeying his commands, and laying down our lives to pick up a cross instead.  There is simply no way the openly gay lifestyle can be compatible with Christianity.