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Before Apology, Tiger Woods Received Joe Biden Tongue Lashing

Feb 19

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Tiger Woods joined a long list of famous people who have received the famous Joe Biden tongue lashings. The lists include President George W. Bush and President Karzai of Afghanistan. During a dinner featuring hamburgers and fries, Biden and two other American representatives questioned Tiger about his infidelity. Tiger assured Biden that the rumors were untrue and he has no reason to apologize.

The Vice-President gasped in astonishment. After 45 minutes, Biden threw down his napkin and stood up.
“This dinner is over,” Biden announced, according to one of the people in the room at the time (i.e. Joe Biden himself)

At a recent lunch, Joe recounted “When I speak to the Tiger Woods – and I have had plenty of opportunity to be with him, a lot of hours alone with him. ” And Tiger will say things to me, and I’ll literally turn to the Tiger, say: ‘Eldrick Woods, how can you say that, knowing your life is in ruin?’ And he’ll look at me and he’ll say – my word – he’ll look at me and he’ll say: ‘I’m Tiger Woods.’ He said: ‘I don’t need to apologize.’ I said: ‘Eldrick Woods, being Tiger isn’t good enough. You will apologize.’”

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Pakistan Interrogates Captured Taliban Leader as U.S. Doesn’t Use Harsh Techniques

Feb 16

Posted by jason in Foreign Policy, War | 1 Comment

Joint Capture, But Pakistan Leads Interrogation

The New York Times, which first reported the arrest of Mullah Baradar on its Web site late Monday, cited sources as saying that Pakistan was leading the interrogation of Baradar, but that Americans were also involved and had access to the intelligence. One Pakistani officer said Baradar was arrested 10 days ago with the assistance of the United States and “was talking” to his interrogators.

The NY Times said the conditions of the questioning were unclear, noting that the Obama administration has banned harsh interrogations like waterboarding by Americans, but that the Pakistanis have “long been known to subject prisoners to brutal questioning.”

U.S. Has Access to Information from ‘Interrogation’

The source from the U.S. military confirmed U.S. officials have had access to information from Baradar’s interrogation. Senior US officials said Mullah Baradar was “providing intelligence”. “This operation was an enormous success,” one official told ABC News. “It is a very big deal,” the official said. The New York Times, citing US government sources, said the prisoner was the most significant Taliban figure to be detained since the US-led war in Afghanistan began in 2001.

Obama Claims Moral Ground by Banning Waterboarding by U.S.

President Obama had previously acknowledged that the harsh interrogation techniques he has banned might have yielded useful information, but that he was nonetheless willing to rule them out on moral grounds.

He conceded that “it may be harder” to get information, but what “makes us, I think, still a beacon to the world is that we are willing to hold true to our ideals, even when it’s hard, not just when it’s easy.”

Obama Sharp Contrast to Bush-Cheney

In the past week, former Vice-President Cheney has reiterated his support of water boarding for High Value Detainees and Obama has demonstrated a sharp policy difference. Obama maintains a high moral ground by banning the U.S. use of harsh techniques, but then allows other countries to use even harsher techniques and then provide the information to the U.S.



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IPCC Retracts Erectile Dysfunction Global Warming Connection

Feb 13

Posted by jason in Global Warming, science | 1 Comment

Latest IPCC Controversy Regards Unpublished Study

The United Nations climate science panel faces new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to an increase in the number and severity of erectile dysfunction cases.

It based the claims on an unpublished report that had not been subjected to routine scientific scrutiny — and ignored warnings from scientific advisers that the evidence supporting the link too weak. The report’s own authors later withdrew the claim because they felt the evidence was not strong enough.

Viagra and Cialis Users Were Seeking Compensation

The claim by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), that global warming is already affecting the severity and frequency of erectile dysfunctions, has since become embedded in political and public debate. It was central to discussions at last month’s Copenhagen climate summit, including a demand by Viagra and Cialis users for compensation.

Last month Gordon Brown, the prime minister, told the Commons that the financial agreement at Copenhagen “must address the great injustice that . . . those hit first and hardest by climate change are those that have done least harm”.

The latest criticism of the IPCC comes a week after reports in The Sunday Times forced it to retract claims in its benchmark 2007 report that the Himalayan glaciers would be largely melted by 2035. It turned out that the bogus claim had been lifted from a news report published in 1999 by New Scientist magazine.

The new controversy also goes back to the IPCC’s 2007 report in which a separate section warned that the world had “suffered rapidly increasing erectile dysfunction costs due to Global Warming”.

Link Based Upon Explosion of Reported ED Cases in Past Decade

It suggested a part of this increase was due to global warming and cited the unpublished report, saying: “The years 2000-2009 were both the warmest decade on record as well as the highest reported number of erectile dysfunction cases. Prior to 1950, the number of reported erectile dysfunction cases was near zero and global warming was non-existent.”

The Sunday Times has since found that the scientific paper on which the IPCC based its claim had not been peer reviewed, nor published, at the time the climate body issued its report.

When the paper was eventually published, in 2008, it had a new caveat. It said: “We find insufficient evidence to claim a statistical relationship between global temperature increase and erectile dysfunction.”

IPCC Ignored Reviewers Warning

Despite this change the IPCC did not issue a clarification ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit last month. It has also emerged that at least two scientific reviewers who checked drafts of the IPCC report urged greater caution in proposing a link between climate change and erectile dysfunction — but were ignored.

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Berkeley Study Confirms Middle America is Stupid

Feb 12

Posted by jason in science | 8 Comments

Social scientists from Berkeley who study Middle America have long debated the relative importance of Middle America’s basic intelligence (“after all an unusual number of them go to church”) in the decision of which political party to support.

Many university political scientists lean toward the view that most intelligent people will vote for Democrats, given their superior understanding of the issues and exposure to professors at Ivy League schools.

In an ingenious study published in June, a Columbia University economist and an University of California at Berkeley professor argued that intelligence plays a powerful role. The two scholars studied a number of obvious political issues such as Health Care Reform and Global Warming.

In a situation in which every issue had an obviously correct answer, individuals from New York City or San Francisco picked the right answer 80% of the time. However, individuals located in non-coastal states picked the right political answer only 40% of the time. In fact, the farther inland you went, the worst the answers became with such states as Oklahoma correct a record low 25% of the time.

Some of the most shocking revelations were:

  • 65% of Middle America believe private companies could provide better health care than the government
  • 70% of Middle America were unsure about global warming
  • 60% of Middle America believe that the world is a better place without Saddam Hussein

The study was commissioned as part of the Stimulus Package passed last year. This was the first study in a string of studies about Middle America. Berkeley plans on releasing a study tentatively titled “Is Middle America Racist or Just Stupid?” this summer.


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Chavez “Venezuela to Hold Breath to Curb Carbon Emissions”

Feb 10

Posted by admin in Foreign Policy, Global Warming | No Comments

Chavez Links Global Warming to Current Problems

In the wake of his announcement to personally save the world from global warming caused by the devil (referring to President George W. Bush), President Hugo Chavez on Sunday said that all of Venezuela will hold their breath on Thursday preventing approximately 5 million tons of carbon to enter the atmosphere.

We have many things to report,” he said, and kept listeners’ attention with a dramatic announcement. “I call on the whole country: ‘Hold Your Breath.’ As a result of U.S. caused global warming, We are facing the worst drought Venezuela has had in almost 100 years.”

Critics Believe Ploy to Claim Carbon Credits Worth Millions

Critics of Chavez point out that this may be just a gimmick so that Chavez can claim hundreds of millions of dollars in carbon credits related to the prevention of carbon emissions. Additionally, Critics claim that the lack of water in Venezuala is primarily due to the mismanagement of resources by the government.

National Guard to Enforce No Breathing on Thursday

Speaking on his weekly television program, “Alo Presidente,” Chavez railed against those who openly refuse to stop breathing. “I want the national guard in the streets, with the people, to prevent breathing,” Chavez said, calling exhaling carbon dioxide a form of robbery.

According to the EPA, each human exhales 2.3 lbs of carbon each day through breathing.

Chavez showed a photograph in a newspaper of breathers in long lines over the weekend to buy coffins, fearing that inability to breathe could cause death. The president blamed such lines on “teleterror,” saying that opposition media outlets were fueling a panic.

“For one day, there is absolutely no reason for anyone to exhale carbon dioxide,” Chavez said.

Chavez May Expropriate Businesses That Resist

He encouraged people to publicly denounce relatives who breathe freely and threatened to expropriate businesses and foreigners who demand to breathe.

The government would transfer ownership of such businesses to the workers, Chavez said.
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December 2009 Record Snow, Proof of Global Warming

Feb 8

Posted by admin in Global Warming | 2 Comments

NOAA Reports Record Snowfall for December 2009

The NOAA reported that December 2009 set a record for the greatest snow extent over North America in the 44-year history of snow cover maps produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. While climate change skeptics who are funded by oil companies point to the colder weather; in fact, climate change experts tells us that the colder weather is actually proof of global warming.

Scientists Explain Its Too Complicated for Most Americans

Stephen Dorling, of the University of East Anglia’s school of environmental sciences, said it was not surprising the cold period raised questions over climate change – but the snowy weather should not be used as evidence against it.

He said: ”It’s no surprise that people look out of their window at the snow and find it hard to rationalize what’s going on with the longer term trend.”

Difference Between Weather and Global Warming

Another climate change expert describes the phenomenon as “For the average lay person, basically, whenever it is cold outside, they should realize that this is just normal weather variations and whenever it is hot outside that is global warming caused by humans.” For example, 2009 was the 5th warmest year since 1880. 2009 thus is evidence of global warming while the greatest snow fall of the century is just a normal weather variation. Unfortunately, big business, particularly the U.S. Chamber of Commerce continues to poor millions of dollars into fighting the ‘Hot=Global Warming; Cold=Normal Weather‘ science universally acknowledge by any scientists not in the employ of Exxon Mobile.

Less than 10 People In World Trained to Separate Weather from Global Warming

Global Climate scientists have been working overtime and battling valiantly the climate change skeptics who often point to historically warm or cold periods during human history as proof that the current global warming issue is overblown. To battle these industry paid skeptics, global climate scientists have wisely withheld and deleted the raw data from all but a handful of global warming believers. These dedicated scientists have even ignored the Freedom of Information Act in their relentless pursuit of convincing the world of global warming.

Global Climate scientists carefully comb through their historical data to remove any periods of ‘weather’ which is defined as colder weather since 1950 and any warmer weather prior to 1900. By removing all ‘weather’ variations, the Global Climate Scientists were able to develop the famous Hockey Stick curve used as proof of man-made global warming. Without these ingenious ‘tricks’ from these scientists honored by the United Nations, the world may have continued to be confused in the difference in global warming vs. weather.

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Groundhog Sees Shadow, Obama Points To Bush Policy

Feb 6

Posted by admin in Weather | 2 Comments

Source: “Ground Hog Intentionally Saw Shadow as Guantanamo Bay Protest.”

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama renewed his pledge on Saturday of shortening winter by 6 weeks as his top priority in 2010 but said it was also critical to rein in a record budget deficit that threatened warmer weather throughout the country.

The ground hog seeing his shadow is a political hot potato in an election year, with Republicans seeking to paint Obama as a fan of colder weather giving his cap-and-trade proposals and the White House countering that he inherited an angry ground hog when he took office.

Sources close to the groundhog speculate that the ground hog, who had been very critical of the Bush Administration concerning Guantanamo Bay, was upset that Obama has failed to close the detention center as he promised repeatedly during his campaign.

Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address to remind Americans of the various proposals he put forward in the last week to spur spring and while taming a $1.4 trillion deficit.

But before the release on Monday of his proposed budget for fiscal 2011, which begins on October 1, he put a clear emphasis on addressing the difficult weather.

“As we work to warm up the country, it is critical that we rein in the budget deficits we’ve been accumulating for far too long — deficits that won’t just burden our children and grandchildren, but could damage our markets, drive up our interest rates, and jeopardize our < spring > right now,” he said.

Democrats face a tough time in holding on to their majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives in the mid-term congressional elections in November. Snow storms throughout the southern and mid Atlantic states could hurt them, analysts say.

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