Going down

Gallup: New Low for the President

President Obama's job approval rating is at a new low, averaging 40% in July 26-28 Gallup Daily tracking. His prior low rating of 41% occurred several times, the last of which was in April. As recently as June 7, Obama had 50% job approval.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/148739/Obama-Approval-Drops-New-Low.aspx

Next stop: the thirties!

Obama, the Debt, and How He Lost the 2012 Election

…WHAT OBAMA WANTED WAS A PERSONAL TRIUMPH, a vindication of his status as the American Augustus. A clear road to 2012 with no more budgetary debates and crises. The utter humiliation of the GOP, which would be forced to swallow new taxes, leaving them with one less issue next year. An under-the-table legitimization of his "policies" (I think that's the word I'm groping for), which could then be touted as successes despite the damage they have left behind. THE REESTABLISHMENT OF BARACK OBAMA AS A POLITICAL DEMIGOD. And before we overlook it, another few hundred billion to toss to his political allies.

What has he got? HE'S GOT AS CLEAR A DEFEAT AS ANY PRESIDENT HAS EVER SUFFERED. A PARTY IN TOTAL DISARRAY. A SET OF EMBARRASSED AND ANGRY SUBORDINATES. AN ECONOMIC POLICY THAT'S GOING DOWN FOR THE THIRD TIME. A GOP heading into 2012 with a momentum comparable to that of Patton tearing into the Palatinate. And one final thing: the long-overdue public revelation of a fatally flawed and inadequate personality.

This is where voting "present" brings you at last. He's tried this before, on the occasion of the September 15 financial crash, right in the middle of the 2008 campaign. It will be recalled that John McCain put his campaign on hold and headed for Washington to do what was necessary. Whatever might be thought of McCain, and however good or poor his reasons at the time, it was the act of a man to whom duty was more important than career. And Obama? Well, Obama always comes first, doesn't he? He just turned his back and kept on going. He knew he couldn't lose, whichever way things broke.
He obviously thought the same thing now. But times have changed. People have seen Barack Obama, have taken in his oddities, his narcissism, his ignorance, his lack of quality. They are unwilling to cut him any more slack. They know what a president looks like, good or bad, popular or not, and THEY NO LONGER SEE A PRESIDENT IN BARACK OBAMA. Is it possible to imagine Reagan, FDR, Truman, or either of the Bushes pulling the kind of tricks that Obama has in recent days?...

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/obama_seems_to_be_taking_his_defeat_in_the_2012_election_rather_well.html

If I were a Hillary supporter, I would be really dismayed.

No One Loves a Loser

….MR. OBAMA SEEMED BRILLIANT AT POLITICS WHEN HE FIRST EMERGED IN 2004. He understood the nation's longing for unity. We're not divided into red states and blue, he said, we're Big Purple, we can solve our problems together. FOUR YEARS LATER HE READ THE LAY OF THE LAND PERFECTLY—REALLY, PERFECTLY. The nation and the Democratic Party were tired of the Clinton machine. He came from nowhere and dismantled it. It was breathtaking. He went into the 2008 general election with a miraculously unified party and took down another machine, bundling up all the accrued resentment of eight years with one message: "YOU KNOW THE TWO LOSING WARS AND THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE WE'VE BEEN DEALING WITH? I WON'T DO THAT. I'M NOT BUSH."

The fact is, HE'S GOOD AT DISMANTLING. HE'S GOOD AT CRITIQUING. He's good at not being the last guy, the one you didn't like. BUT HE'S NOT GOOD AT BUILDING, CREATING, CALLING INTO BEING. HE WAS GOOD AT SUMMONING HOPE, BUT HE'S NOT GOOD AT DIRECTING IT AND TURNING IT INTO SOMETHING CONCRETE THAT ANSWERS A BROAD PUBLIC DESIRE.

And so his failures in the debt ceiling fight. He wasn't serious, he was only shrewd—and shrewdness wasn't enough. He demagogued the issue—no Social Security checks—until he was called out, and then went on the hustings spouting inanities. He left conservatives scratching their heads: They could have made a better, more moving case for the liberal ideal as translated into the modern moment, than he did. HE NEVER OFFERED A PLAN. In a crisis he was merely sly. And no one likes sly, no one respects it.

SO HE IS LOSING A BATTLE IN WHICH HE HAD SUPERIOR FORCES—THE PRESIDENCY, THE U.S. SENATE. In the process he revealed that his foes have given him too much mystique. He is not a devil, an alien, a socialist. 

HE IS A LOSER. AND THIS IS AMERICA, WHERE NOBODY LOVES A LOSER.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904800304576474620336602248.html

Peggy Noonan again knocks it out of the park.  There's an old saying, "Any jackass can knock down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one."  Obama is obviously not a carpenter.



Independents sour on President Obama

President Barack Obama is losing independent voters, a new national poll shows.

A majority of independent voters say they disapprove of Mr. Obama’s handing of his job, and far fewer independents say they would vote to re-elect the president, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press reported.

In the Pew survey, taken July 20-24, some 54% of independents said they disapproved of Mr. Obama’s job performance, his highest disapproval rating among those voters so far. Some 36% said they approved of the president’s handling of his job.

Some 31% of independents said they would vote to re-elect the president, a drop from 42% in May. Where Mr. Obama in prior Pew surveys had claimed a plurality of independents, the June poll showed him to be losing independents to a generic GOP candidate, 39% to 31%....

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/07/29/independents-souring-on-president-obama-poll-shows/

While liberals have nowhere else to go but Obama, and conservatives being in the ABO club (anybody but Obama), it is the independents that will decide the election.  And Obama needs a lot of them (conservative make up 40% of the population, liberals 20%) if he wants to win a second term.  It won’t happen.  Obama is no longer the candidate of nonspecific hope and change.  He is the candidate with a record of 9% unemployment, enormous deficits, and divisiveness. 

NYT lets the Cat Out of the Bag

Giddy after the recent legalization of gay marriage in New York, THE EDITORS AT THE NEW YORK TIMES ARE LAYING OUT THE LEFT'S POST-GAY MARRIAGE AGENDA IN THE PAPER'S PAGES FOR ALL TO SEE.

What they clearly want is a country that is sexually unrecognizable from the one we live in today, one WHERE MARITAL INFIDELITY IS ACCEPTED AS A LIFESTYLE CHOICE AND ACTUALLY CELEBRATED, and traditional marriage is legally marginalized and removed from the public square.

Times op-ed columnist Ross Douthat essentially laid out the cultural side of the left's and the Times' post-gay marriage agenda in a July column.

GAY MARRIAGE SUPPORTERS CALLED LIBERATIONISTS "HOPE THAT GAY MARRIAGE WILL HELP KNOCK MARRIAGE OFF ITS CULTURAL PEDESTAL ALTOGETHER," DOUTHAT EXPLAINED.

To liberationists, IF TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE BECOMES THE "GOLD STANDARD" FOR RELATIONSHIPS BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT, THE GAY MARRIAGE MOVEMENT WILL HAVE "FAILED IN ITS DEEPER MISSION," which he describes as introducing a "greater freedom than can be found in the one-size-fits-all rules of marriage."

The apparent hope is that legalized gay marriages will be more openly sexually promiscuous than straight marriage, providing an example that would then influence heterosexual couples to adopt the same open-marriage lifestyle.

IN A JUNE ARTICLE CALLED "MARRIED, WITH INFIDELITIES," THE TIMES USED GAY ACTIVIST AND COLUMNIST DAN SAVAGE'S OPEN MARRIAGE AS THE NEW MODEL FOR STRAIGHT MARRIAGES that should take root culturally from the legalization of gay marriage….

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/the_gray_ladys_sexual_agenda_revealed.html

Well this certainly answers the question of how gay marriage “hurts” traditional marriage.

Atlas Shrugs

I was at a public hearing in an inner-city Birmingham neighborhood for various government officials to get public input on some local environmental issues.

…But RONNIE BRYANT WASN’T THERE TO TALK ABOUT THAT PARTICULAR MINE. As a mine operator in a nearby area, HE WAS ATTENDING THE MEETING TO LISTEN TO WHAT RESIDENTS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WERE SAYING. He listened to close TO TWO HOURS OF PEOPLE TRASHING COMPANIES OF ALL TYPES AND BLAMING POLLUTION FOR RANDOM CASES OF CANCER IN THEIR FAMILIES. Several speakers clearly believe that all of the cancer and other deaths they see in their families and communities must be caused by pollution. Why? Who knows? Maybe just because it makes for an emotional story to blame big bad business. It’s hard to say.

After Bryant listened to all of the business-bashing, he finally stood to speak. He sounded a little bit shellshocked, a little bit angry — and a lot frustrated.

My name’s Ronnie Bryant, and I’m a mine operator…. I’ve been issued a [state] permit in the recent past for [waste water] discharge, and after standing in this room today listening to the comments being made by the people…. [pause] Nearly every day without fail — I have a different perspective — men stream to these [mining] operations looking for work in Walker County. THEY CAN’T PAY THEIR MORTGAGE. THEY CAN’T PAY THEIR CAR NOTE. THEY CAN’T FEED THEIR FAMILIES. THEY DON’T HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE. And as I stand here today, I just … you know … WHAT’S THE USE? I GOT A PERMIT TO OPEN UP AN UNDERGROUND COAL MINE THAT WOULD EMPLOY PROBABLY 125 PEOPLE. They’d be paid wages from $50,000 to $150,000 a year. We would consume probably $50 million to $60 million in consumables a year, putting more men to work. And my only idea today is to go home. What’s the use? I don’t know. I mean, I see these guys — I see them with tears in their eyes — looking for work. And IF THERE’S SO MUCH OPPOSITION TO THESE GUYS MAKING A LIVING, I FEEL LIKE THERE’S NO NEED IN ME PUTTING OUT THE EFFORT TO PROVIDE WORK FOR THEM. So as I stood against the wall here today, basically what I’VE DECIDED IS NOT TO OPEN THE MINE. I’m just quitting. Thank you.

http://rightwingnews.com/culture/businessmen-who-are-actually-going-john-galt-their-stories/

More stories follow in the link. 

President Obama Is No Longer Tethered To Reality

Image by AFP via @daylife



President Barack Obama’s speech to the nation Monday night was highly disturbing. Because read carefully, it reveals A PRESIDENT WILDLY DIVORCED FROM THE FUNDAMENTAL REALITIES OF THE NATION HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE LEADING.

President Obama actually told America on national television that it is a nation “WITH A SYSTEM IN WHICH THE DECK SEEMS STACKED AGAINST MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS IN FAVOR OF THE WEALTHIEST FEW.” It is incomprehensible how a man serving as president of these United States could make such a fundamentally false assertion about his own country.

As I explain in my new book, America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb, before Obama was even elected, official IRS data showed that for 2007 THE TOP 1% OF INCOME EARNERS PAID MORE IN FEDERAL INCOME TAXES THAN THE BOTTOM 95% COMBINED. The top 1% paid 40.4% of all federal income taxes that year, almost twice their share of income. THE MIDDLE FIFTH OF INCOME EARNERS, THE ACTUAL MIDDLE CLASS, PAID 4.7% OF FEDERAL INCOME TAXES. Deck stacked against the middle class in favor of the wealthiest few?

Moreover, the BOTTOM 40% OF INCOME EARNERS AS A GROUP PAID NO FEDERAL INCOME taxes that year. They instead received net payments from the IRS equal to 4% of total federal tax revenues. As my book explains, this was actually the result of nearly 30 years of Reaganomics. Today close to 50% of Americans pay no federal income tax….

http://blogs.forbes.com/peterferrara/2011/07/28/president-obama-is-no-longer-tethered-to-reality/

Reality to most liberals is like a twilight zone where strange things happen that they can’t understand.  And they keep trying to terraform the landscape to something otherworldly.  The problem is what they create eventually is poisonous to the workingmen and women of the country. 

Atlas Shrugging?

Home Depot Co-Founder Blasts Obama
IBD: What's the single biggest impediment to job growth today?

Marcus: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. Having built a small business into a big one, I can tell you that TODAY THE IMPEDIMENTS THAT THE GOVERNMENT IMPOSES ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO DEAL WITH. HOME DEPOT WOULD NEVER HAVE SUCCEEDED IF WE'D TRIED TO START IT TODAY. Every day you see rules and regulations from a group of Washington bureaucrats who know nothing about running a business. And I mean every day. It's become stifling.

If you're a small businessman, the only way to deal with it is to work harder, put in more hours, and let people go. When you consider that something like 70% of the American people work for small businesses, you are talking about a big economic impact.

IBD: President Obama has promised to streamline and eliminate regulations. What's your take?

Marcus: HIS SPEECHES ARE WONDERFUL. HIS OUTPUT IS ABSOLUTELY, INCREDIBLY BAD. As he speaks about cutting out regulations, they are now producing thousands of pages of new ones. With just ObamaCare by itself, you have a 2,000 page bill that's probably going end up being 150,000 pages of regulations.

IBD: If you could sit down with Obama and talk to him about job creation, what would you say?

Marcus: I'M NOT SURE OBAMA WOULD UNDERSTAND ANYTHING THAT I'D SAY, because he's never really worked a day outside the political or legal area. HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO MAKE A PAYROLL, HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEMS BUSINESSES FACE. I would try to explain that the plight of the businessman is very reactive to Washington. As Washington piles on regulations and mandates, the impact is tremendous. I don't think he's a bad guy. I just think he has no knowledge of this.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/578920/201107201835/Marcus-Home-Truths-On-Jobs.aspx?src=HPLNews

Second day in a row, Obama gets an F from a business person. You don’t have to be a psychic to tell who won’t win a second term in November 2012.

The Fear based Economy

Finally, someone has publicly said what everyone has long known.

On Monday, during his company’s second quarter earnings call with investors, Wynn Resorts CEO STEPHEN WYNN ENDED THE THREE-YEAR TRUTH EMBARGO OVER WHO IS HOLDING BACK THE U.S. ECONOMY.

In July 2008, yours truly christened the economic conditions America began facing roughly a month earlier as the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) Economy, named after its primary creators: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In a comment at that original post, I noted that the economy’s job and wealth creators were “genuinely frightened by the lack of seriousness and presence of abject irresponsibility in Congress and in Obama.”

THIS FRIGHT WENT VIRAL LONG AGO BUT REMAINED WHISPERED IN CAREFULLY CHOSEN COMPANY UNTIL WYNN BROKE THE SILENCE. When an earnings call participant asked why his firm hasn’t expanded its meeting space in Las Vegas, Wynn responded:

I’M AFRAID TO DO ANYTHING IN THE CURRENT POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE UNITED STATES.

… my customers and the companies that provide the vitality for the hospitality and restaurant industry, in the United States of America, they are frightened of this administration. And it makes you slow down and not invest your money.

… THIS IS OBAMA’S DEAL, AND IT’S OBAMA THAT’S RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS FEAR IN AMERICA.

Why shouldn’t the economy’s key players be afraid? In 2-1/2 years, Barack Obama and his administration have shown that they will do anything in their power — even if not in their constitutional power — to further their far-left redistributionist and science-free environmental goals. IF IT MEANS SUBVERTING THE RULE OF LAW TO FAVOR BANKRUPT UNION-DOMINATED CAR COMPANIES, SO BE IT. IF IT MEANS SHUTTING DOWN OIL DRILLING AND EXPLORATION IN THE GULF OF MEXICO AND RESTORING IT IN SLOW MOTION AT A COST OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS, WELL, THAT’S UNFORTUNATE COLLATERAL DAMAGE. IF IT MEANS REVOKING AN ALREADY-ISSUED PERMIT FOR COAL MINING, TOO BAD, SO SAD….

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-fear-based-economy/

The truth is bubbling to the surface. 2012 may make the 2010 look like a walk in the park for the Democrats.



Other Business Leaders Speaking Out

3M's George Buckley, who blasted Obama last February as anti-business. "WE KNOW WHAT HIS INSTINCTS ARE," BUCKLEY SAID. "We've got a real choice between manufacturing in Canada or Mexico - which tends to be more pro-business - and America," he told the Financial Times.
Boeing's Jim McNerney, who in the Wall Street Journal last May called Obama's handpicked National Labor Relations Board's suit against his company a "FUNDAMENTAL ASSAULT ON THE CAPITALIST PRINCIPLES THAT HAVE SUSTAINED AMERICA'S COMPETITIVENESS SINCE IT BECAME THE WORLD'S LARGEST ECONOMY NEARLY 140 YEARS AGO."

Intel's Paul Otellini, who told CNET last August that the U.S. legal environment has become so hostile to business that there is likely to be "AN INEVITABLE EROSION AND SHIFT OF WEALTH, MUCH LIKE WE'RE SEEING TODAY IN EUROPE - THIS IS THE BITTER TRUTH."
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/07/executive_truth-tellers_about_obamas_disastrous_policies.html

It appears Atlas is awakening. Will he shrug anytime soon?

Obama predicts his record will decide the election

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he'll be re-elected for a second term if voters feel like he's been on their side, working as hard as he can and getting things done.
"IF THEY DON'T," THE PRESIDENT SAID, "THEN I'LL LOSE."

The blunt political assessment from Obama cast next year's presidential contest as a referendum on his leadership rather than a choice between him and whoever his GOP opponent will be…..

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700164678/Obama-says-election-assessment-of-his-leadership.html

At last something I agree with Obama on. I’ve said before, I’d vote for Donald Duck against BHO. But imagine if you are a liberal how this must make you feel. Their strategy depends on making the Republican nominee the issue.

Young Hispanics skeptical of big government

An outfit called Generation Opportunity (which boasts 842,000 friends on its “Being American” Facebook page) commissioned an online poll of adults age 18 to 29 in April from the Polling Company/Woman Trend Inc. THE MOST INTERESTING RESULTS ARE FROM YOUNG HISPANICS. THEY PREFERRED “REDUCING FEDERAL SPENDING” TO “RAISING TAXES ON INDIVIDUALS” IN ORDER TO “BALANCE THE FEDERAL BUDGET” BY 1 69%-27% MARGIN. Of these young Hispanics, 57% agreed that “if taxes on business profits were reduced, companies would be more likely to hire” and 56% agreed that “the economy grows best when individuals are allowed to create businesses without government interference.”…

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/07/young-hispanics-skeptical-big-government#ixzz1SkYg5LFT

Obama appears to be the Jimmy Carter of this age. Carter’s disastrous presidency soured a generation of young people in the 1980s to the Democrat Party. It appears that Obama may be doing that as well to the 2010 generation.



Murdock, Hacking, and Hypocrisy in the News Media

In December 1996, a Florida couple, John and Alice Martin, who sounded suspiciously like union goons, claimed to have inadvertently tapped into a phone conversation between then House Speaker Newt Gingrich and House Republican leadership.

According to these Democratic and union activists, THEY WERE JUST DRIVING AROUND WITH A POLICE SCANNER IN THEIR CAR, PICKED UP A RANDOM PHONE CONVERSATION AND SAID TO THEMSELVES, "WAIT A MINUTE! I COULD SWEAR THAT'S DICK ARMEY'S VOICE!"

LUCKILY, THEY ALSO HAD A TAPE RECORDER AND CASSETTE IN THEIR CAR, so they proceeded to illegally record the intercepted conversation and then turned the tape over to Democratic Rep. James McDermott -- the top Democrat on the Ethics Committee that was at that very moment investigating Gingrich.

ALTHOUGH THEY SWORE THEY HAD NO IDEA THAT WHAT THEY WERE DOING WAS A CRIME, IN THEIR COVER LETTER TO MCDERMOTT, THEY REQUESTED IMMUNITY -- just as you probably do whenever you write somebody a letter. (They later pleaded guilty to a crime under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.)

MCDERMOTT PROMPTLY TURNED THE TAPE OVER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES and other newspapers. The Times' headline on the story, "Gingrich Is Heard Urging Tactics in Ethics Case," might as well have been titled: "TAPE SHOWS GINGRICH CONSPIRING TO ACT WITHIN THE LAW."

John Boehner, one of the participants in the Gingrich call, sued McDermott for violating his First Amendment rights, which resulted in A COURT ORDERING MCDERMOTT TO PAY BOEHNER MORE THAN $1 MILLION.

And yet, more than a dozen news organizations, many of the same ones demanding the death penalty for Rupert Murdoch right now, FILED AMICUS BRIEFS DEFENDING MCDERMOTT'S DISTRIBUTION OF THE PIRATED TAPE.

http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2011/07/20/media_mogul_charged_with_first_degree_murdoch

Hypocrisy isn’t confined to one side of the aisle. It happens on both, but the left likes to pretend they don’t do it (kind of hypocritical in itself).


BBC isn’t Bias enough claims Dr. Steve Jones

….Sometimes, in his enthusiasm to put all these evil “deniers” in their place, Dr Jones appears to forget the basic rules of science altogether. For example, HE DESCRIBES HOW MEASURED LEVELS OF ATMOSPHERIC C02 HAVE INCREASED SINCE 1959, AND HOW “BASIC PHYSICS SHOW THAT CARBON DIOXIDE IS A GREENHOUSE GAS” AND HOW “THREE INDEPENDENT SETS OF RECORDS OF GLOBAL TEMPERATURE AGREE THAT 2010 WAS ONE OF THE THREE HOTTEST YEARS SINCE FIGURES WERE FIRST COLLECTED.” Dr Jones might be surprised to learn the “deniers” agree with him on this. Where they differ is over a fundamental scientific concept: “CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION.” We are, remember, emerging from the Little Ice Age. So the rise in global temperatures is perfectly explicable in terms of natural climatic cycles. Furthermore, you could reasonably argue that the theory of anthropogenic CO2 as a driver of catastrophic global warming has already been “falsified” (or, as I prefer to think of it, torpedoed below the waterline, hit in the magazine and blown out of the sea). That’s because, as even THE GREAT DR PHIL JONES OF THE CRU HAS ACKNOWLEDGED, “GLOBAL WARMING” STOPPED IN 1998 (EVEN AS ANTHROPOGENIC CO2 LEVELS, NOTABLY IN CHINA) CONTINUED TO RISE.

Another category error Dr Jones falls into is in his use of the ARGUMENTUM AD VERECUNDIAM, the appeal to authority. He tells us:

The IPCC concluded that it is beyond doubt that the climate is warming and more than 90% likely that this has been driven by human activity.

And he cites an open letter to the journal Science by two hundred and fifty members of the US National Academy of Sciences:

“(T)here is compelling, comprehensive, and consistent objective evidence that humans are changing the climate in ways that threaten our societies and the ecosystems on which we depend.”
But as both Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn could have explained to Dr Jones, SCIENCE DOES NOT ADVANCE THROUGH “CONSENSUS”; and as Einstein could have told him, science is not a numbers game. WHEN HITLER COMMISSIONED THE BOOK 100 AUTHORS AGAINST EINSTEIN, EINSTEIN COOLLY REPLIED THAT IF HE WERE WRONG, ONE AUTHOR WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH….

….AS BIASED BBC NOTES, IT HAS BEEN FIVE YEARS SINCE THE BBC OFFICIALLY ABANDONED ALL PRETENCE THAT IT WAS ADOPTING A NEUTRAL POSITION ON “CLIMATE CHANGE”. In a 2007 BBC Trust policy report, it wrote:

The BBC has held a high level seminar with some of the best scientific experts (on whose and what measurement) and has come to the view that the weight of evidence no longer justifies equal space being given to the opponents of consensus….

…..DR JONES NOTES WITH CONCERN BRITAIN’S GROWING SKEPTICISM:
A poll carried out by the Cardiff University Understanding Risk Group in early 2010 showed in contrast that one in seven among the British public said that the climate is not changing and one in five that any climate change was not due to human activity. Fewer than half considered that scientists agree that humans are causing climate change.

THE CONCLUSION, HOWEVER, HE DRAWS FROM THIS IS NOT THAT THIS IS A FAIR REFLECTION OF THE LACK OF EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT CAGW THEORY – BUT THAT MEDIA ORGANISATIONS LIKE THE BBC AREN’T DOING ENOUGH TO PROMOTE THE “CORRECT” VERSION OF REALITY. “The divergence between the views of professionals versus the public may be seen as evidence of a failure by the media to balance views of very different credibility. The BBC is just one voice but so many in Britain gain their understanding of science from its output that its approach to this question must be considered.”

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100098066/bbcs-biased-climate-science-reporting-isnt-biased-enough-claims-report/


A well written article but with a couple of flaws. While scientists talk about 2010 being the warmest year on record, even by their numbers it was .05 degrees warmer than 1998 which is beyond the accuracy of the readings making up the number. And that temperature is very much questionable.

James Hansen is the director of GISS. Hansen is an outspoken advocate of man-made global warming. Hansen recently stated that “THE 12 MONTH RUNNING MEAN GLOBAL TEMPERATURE IN THE GISS ANALYSIS HAS REACHED A NEW RECORD IN 2010. THE MAIN FACTOR IS OUR ESTIMATED TEMPERATURE CHANGE FOR THE ARCTIC REGION.”

There is a MAJOR PROBLEM WITH HOW GISS MEASURES TEMPERATURE IN THE ARCTIC. THEY DON’T HAVE ANY THERMOMETERS THERE! Despite this complete lack of accurate information, GISS shows that the ARCTIC NORTH OF EIGHTY DEGREES LATITUDE WAS UP TO FOUR DEGREES WARMER THAN THE LONG TERM AVERAGE.
Science

New hope for heart disease

The revolutionary technique could transform the lives of ¬many thousands of people in Britain with ailing hearts.

Scientists have found a way to make hearts beat stronger and to even overcome the damage caused by previous heart attacks. The gene injection takes just 12 weeks to start working….

….It works by raising levels of a calcium-controlling protein in the diseased heart muscle cell to normal. A gene – called S100A1 – makes the protein which is vital for regulating the heart’s contraction. Research has shown that, in heart failure patients, the protein is massively depleted.

In the new study, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, US, injected the gene into pigs with heart failure. Twelve weeks later, the protein created by S100A1 had improved their heart function….

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/260168/Simple-jab-that-can-cure-heart-disease

We live in an exciting age.


Liberal insanity

First we have this

WITH AN OPPRESSIVE HEAT COMES THE IMMEDIATE DEMAND FOR RELIEF — and Con Edison, the electrical utility for the New York City area, is the first one to hear those pleas from the humid masses.

A sustained heat wave means the utility sees a marked spike in electricity usage from homes and businesses. With no relief in sight — Friday’s temperatures will feel worse than Thursdays — CON EDISON OFFICIALS ARE BRACING FOR WHAT IS LIKELY TO BE A SERIES OF OUTAGES AROUND THE CITY.

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/07/21/con-ed-braces-for-outages-as-heat-wave-continues/?mod=google_news_blog


Then we have this story

NEW YORK CITY MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG SAID HE WILL DONATE $50 MILLION TO THE SIERRA CLUB, AN ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY GROUP, TO PROMOTE THE ORGANIZATION’S FIGHT AGAINST COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/07/21/bloomberg-gives-sierra-club-50-million-to-fight-coal-plants/

So we have NYC facing rolling blackout even while it’s mayor funds an organization lobbying to stop the building of power plants that could avoid the blackouts. Don’t let anyone tell you that liberals are on your side. They’re there to do what they consider is best for you.