Washington, D.C. – Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works commented on President Obama’s State of the Union Address.
“President Obama has clearly received the message that his global warming agenda is gone, dead, done with the American people – that’s why he was touting oil and natural gas so much in his State of the Union address tonight,” Senator Inhofe said. “He understands that especially in a weak economy, Americans want the hundreds of thousands of jobs, the affordable energy prices, and the increased energy security that domestic fossil fuel development brings. But while he talks the talk, he is clearly still determined to achieve his global warming agenda by shutting down oil, gas and coal development so that energy prices will, as he said himself, ‘necessarily skyrocket.’
“President Obama congratulated himself tonight on decreasing imports of oil from the Middle East, but failed to mention that his policies of energy austerity, which have caused gasoline prices nearly to double since he took office, are responsible for it. If he is determined, as his Energy Secretary Steven Chu said, to ‘boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe’ he is well on his way to achieving that goal. He claims to care about energy security, yet he stopped the Keystone pipeline – and the 20,000 American jobs it would have created – which would have done more than any other project to increase our energy security and revive our economy.”
Read the rest at the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
“A union worker, a Teabagger and a corporate CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table
there is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. “The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at
the Tea Partier and says: ‘Look out for that union guy, he wants a piece of your cookie.’ ”
— From BSmasher, by way of Bartcop.com, Feb. 26-28, 2011, Vol. 2656.
Global Warming Deniers claim that Global Warming is a hoax/fraud/scam.
They lie, they are willfully ignorant, and they are wrong.
“Global warming is unequivocal and primarily human-induced.”
http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts/key-findings
Ideologically-driven climate change deniers are impervious to facts and reason. They will not abandon their political tribalism no matter how much evidence is presented.
Hold on there wild Bill, I am sceptical of the theory of AGW for specific reasons and they are not based on lies, or ignorance. It all began for me back when Al Gore said “the world has a fever, and we are the cause. The debate is over, and the science is settled!” Being ever so distrutful of polititians in general, I began to do some research on the subject and I found out that the debate was far from over, and the science was far from settled. It also struck me as somewhat odd that the solution to climate change just so happened to mirror the environmentalist Left’s agenda from the early 70’s. I’m not talking about similarities, I’m saying it is exactly the same.
I am also highly sceptical of any claims from the IPCC because it is not a scientific body, it is a political body of the UN, that has an agenda of establishing a world government with, geuss who leading it, the UN at the helm. And with people like Maurice Strong, and others who are members of the Club of Rome, holding powerful positions in the UN, it does not take a genuis to figure out that they are very willing to use lies and deciet to further their agenda. If none of this sounds familiar to you then I don’t think you have done any research on this subject and are a victim of the fearmongering that is extensively used by these climate thugs.
And as for the study you present above as “proof” of AGW, I would argue that it is not pure science that the various groups and scientists are involed in because there is a certain bias that happens when you enter into an experiment, or study with a predetermined outcome in mind. What makes me say that you might ask? Well, it says it right in the program overview under “who we are”. It says:
“a comprehensive and integrated United States research program which will assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change.”
I’m sorry that just does not smack of objectivity to me. They went into this study with a preconcieved notion that man made climate change is a given. Call me a liar, willfully ignorant, or wrong, but I have researched a lot of things over the years and scientific bias is one of them, and once you know what to look for it’s fairly obvious.
Tell you what, wild Bill, you show me where it has been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that AGW is to blame for most of the warming that we have experienced over the last century, I will show you where the shadow of doubt is.
The CEO of the corporation loses his job and the corporation that bought the cookies goes out of business because the costs of buying cookies all the time for the other guys that never bouight the cookies put him out of business. The union guy says, “where’s my cookies?” The Tea Party guy says. “Now it’s your turn to buy the cookies.” Economics 101. No free lunch in life.
Poor poor CEO… tears falling… those poor people. There should be a special fund for them so they don’t have to sell their summer homes, and their mountain mansions. Oh wait… there already is. Nevermind.
Rob N. Hood – North Korea welcomes you with open arms. Oh, wait…
Wait for what Greta? Maybe you should start your own CEO Assistance Fund. I’m sure they’d welcome that and you with open arms.
Greta, nice come back to this Hood fellow. When I posted just got off a flight with no sleep for 30 hours. Sorry for the lame post. I assume you got my point. I own a corporation that sells a product/service. If there is no profit I go out of business as well as my employees. That’s life. Never ceases to amaze me that employees, as well as others do not understand. (Mine do understand) Without a company to work with/for there is no employment/jobs. What, pray tell, is the misunderstanding or lack of knowledge or hate of making a profit? By the way, I pay my “fair Share,” and more. What else will be asked of from the present administration from me and others in the next few years? Guaranteed lifetime employment like France, guaranteed salary increases forever when a company is attempting to make payroll? The USA’s regulations are becoming a severe burden to employers like me every day, month, year and a business owner has no idea what may be forthcomng. That is why nobody is investing in plant and equipment and employees. Fear or the unknown stops growth. You cannot plan for expansion without knowing what is ahead. Simple logic to a business owner.
Yeah… awesome, except “she” didn’t finish the main statement, and the N. Korea thingy is such an old throw-back response. The communist thing- oh wow, ouch, and soo accurate… not. How silly, even infantile thinking. Grow up people. At least a better thought out insult would be an improvement. Oh wait…
Hood, “Oh wait…” We are waiting….for what? Let me know.
I used that as a (obvious or so I thought) retort to Greta’s hanging and unfinished “oh wait.” C’mon Joe, keep up or get out.
We are all waiting for the old tired and harmful policies of the past to change:
Despite Newt Gingrich’s claim that “supply-side” economic theories have “worked,” the truth is that America’s three-decade experiment with low tax rates on the rich, lax regulation of corporations and “free trade” has been a catastrophic failure, creating massive federal debt, devastating the middle class and off-shoring millions of American jobs.
It has ”worked” almost exclusively for the very rich, yet the former House speaker and the three other Republican presidential hopefuls are urging the country to double-down on this losing gamble, often to the cheers of their audiences — like one Florida woman who said she had lost her job and medical insurance but still applauded the idea of more “free-market” solutions.
All anyone asks is that you vote your convictions. Very simple. I don’t need two paras to make a simple statement. You seem to like the stump don’t you?
This IS a STUMP. Or haven’t you noticed?! And BTW, was Greta just a one time hit and runner? Lame.
Voting has resulted in the mess we are in. There’s no real difference, end results are the same. May he who is blind see.
Voting depends upon if you voted convictions or a pretty face with a simple statement with no substance that never made sense. Vanilla statement that you all bought didn’t you? Called “hope and change.” Hope I’m elected and hope I can change something however have no idea what to do? Know your candidate is all I can say.
“Vanilla”?! Really joe? More like historical chocoloate. And the other main difference between us is that Liberals keep their leaders feet to the fire, as much as possible, whereas the Rightys generally lock-step along with their dear leaders no matter what. That is a strength to be sure, but a fatal one. But of course with corporate power and control over all our leaders, it doesn’t do much good any more (for the Liberals I mean).
This is for Joe (mainly).
Big bucks for the Big Three, by contrast, came with all sorts of ties—mostly around the neck of the United Auto Workers and their members. When the deal was finally worked out, under Obama’s “Car Tsar” (a man with zero manufacturing experience but oodles of admiration from NY developer Steve Rattner and Lawrence Summers), the worker’s concessions amounted to a slash in all-in labor costs from around $76 per worker-hour in 2006 to just over $50. Abandoning decades of principle, the UAW approved a two-tier wage structure in which new hires start at $14 per hour—roughly half the pay and benefits of more senior line workers. To top things off, Treasury demanded—just one more teeny thing—a strike ban. The pièce de no résistance! Under the government’s agreement with the companies, any strike by workers is grounds for forfeiting the loan.
In other words they were over paid. Simple fact when a company is going bankrupt. (58-65%) of a busines expense is salaries do you not understand? One reason concessions were made. If no concession on salaries, no jobs, no company! Very simple economics.
ALWAYS blame the other side, no matter what… never give an inch, ever. It’s a powerful philosophy, and it works to the benefit of the one side… but ultimately to the detriment of the whole. Why oh why can you on the Right not understand that. History is FULL of examples with VERY FEW examples of the other, in fact I cannot even think of one. So who is really the enemy of what we all believe we are fighting for…? A deep question, but a crucial question.
Plus- labor ALWAYS concedes… always in the end. Bankruptcy only serves to crush them even further, to get rid of them if possible. It’s a class war, and Labor has been losing for decades. But it’s not enough for the elite. They will not quit until there is no such thing as any Labor cohesiveness of any kind. They want basically slave labor, for everyone but themselves, that is what it’s all about. Now that is a conspriacy to be concerned about.
Henry Ford never had unions and he paid a good days wage for a good days work. You know nothing for which you speak. Typical entitlement statements spew from your mouth which is normal from a left wing liberal. When you get old I assume you want me to buy your “Depends” at no cost to you? You make a mess of things today and I hate to think of paying for your accidents in the future. Our government has done enough of that in the last three years.
What did you say before directed at me? “Keep up or get out!” Can sure tell your liberal bias and I’m being nice. You sound like Obama, “Remember, I’m the President ” Will never forget that statement as well as yours as he dressed down republican Senators three years ago and HE wants to compromise? Yeah right! Typical community organizer. Is that what you do? Sounds like it. Sounds fun if you carry packs of cigarettes for a vote here and there right? Dumpster divers probably love ya, eh?
Re: Ford. I always beleive there are exceptions to the rule. But in that case- it was a long time ago. You guys harp on me for positng some things historically, and now you throw that out there like it’s the holy grail? Well, sorry it ain’t. Remember “I’m the Decider”?! How soon they forget… Obama’s BIGGEST failing is that he has tried too much for consensus (the Right hardly ever does or will). But you are too blinded by bias to see reality. Your reality is half blind. And FYI: a typical community organizer lives and dies compromise. You are soooo blinded it makes you appear dullish. My post above is truth and reality, based on unbiased perception (at least much more unbiased than yours). If you can’t handle the truth, well then…
oh, and I’m being nice too.
Apparently you have never ever dealt with the real world nor guys like me up front and personal. I assume you play computer games and never see sunlight? Sounds like it. What is that they call it they wear? Ah yes, A hoodie? Can visualize you now, pale white face with lap top in hand with a hoodie covering your identity such as your fake name with your blasts about the past and then try to predict the alleged failing future of doom using posts from others called plagarism. Will never change will it… Arrrgh!
Yep, you got me Joe- I’ve never dealth with the real world. I am a bubble boy and you saw right thru me (or my bubble as it is clear plastic). You are a sharp one. My viewpoints are fact based, as mcuh as can be possible, based not only on two college degrees but tons of reading of all sorts. It also comes from a relatively unbiased mind of 50 years of age. Am I ever wrong? Of course. But I admit so, and learn by it. People like you tend to be inflexible, biased (understatement), unable to process information without extreme bias, and as a result have problems with reason and logical thinking.
Last Friday the GOP had a really bad day. It didn’t come in the form of new polling results – or some new political scandal. It was delivered to them by the economic statistics: (they do not want anything good to happen while BO is in the White House)
* Private sector jobs up 243,000 – almost 100,000 more than expected.
* Unemployment rate down to 8.3%.
* Twenty-three straight months of private sector jobs growth.
1.2 million gave up looking and taken off the books. The MSM does not reflect those numbers from the CBO, do they. Unemployment would be in excess of 10 plus percent, if not more. Did you forget that fact? Seems you did. Wonder why? Inform me. Have a good day.
Ohhh, mmmm, ok there Hawkeye. We all realize games can be played with those numbers- Bush did it all the time. But to simply negate any good news re: the economy is borderline evil. Are you evil Joe?
Why do you hate America Joe?
Cannot argue a negative with a negative. I assume you hate America, or should I say why do you hate conservatives? that’s your America, correct? Finally, why do you hate freedom as strongly as you do?
Nothing I’ve posted would indicate that I hate freedom. that is an absurd statement. It’s just another assumption on your part to paint me as something I’m not. You, however, dodged my point about being negative only because we have a Democrat for President. Again- that’s hypocrisy; and perhaps a hatred for the positive regardless of its effect on others, i.e. a wish for America to do poorly just because you don’t like a temporary Prez. I could even stretch that to a hatred of freedom, on your part, but I won’t.
Here’s another score for “freedom” lovers: CBS News program, 60 Minutes, aired a fawning look at the thousands of surveillance cameras affixed to buildings and lampposts throughout New York City. The cameras feed live images of people going about their everyday lives to a $150 million computer center equipped with artificial intelligence to integrate and analyze the daily habits of what are, for the most part, law-abiding Americans. And it is paid for by State and Federal taxes, on those same people. While you people are pointed this way, the elite are shredding your freedoms that way. And it’s not a Repub vs. Demo thing anymore, it’s both. I cannot emphasize that enough.
And “Voter ID” laws are another very serious example. They are wrong and evil in many ways. And if you cannot see that then perhaps you yourself may wrong and/or evil.
I assume you drive? Go to a State park on occasion? Write a check? Get SS? Apply for a job? By a six pack? Purchase cigs? Get stopped by a cop? Purchase a home? Apply for a loan? et al. What do they always ask for? AN I.D, Idiot!!! If this is “Evil,” Man, you live in a different surreal world called left wing liberal La La Land! No wonder we have problems like we have today. With people like you and your mind set I’m seriously concerned about my children in the next 10-20 years. Dumbing down of America. You just proved it. Go back to your basement looking at your monitor spewing jibberish with no sunlight upon you Troll. Oh that’s right, I’m evil for being legal! Correct???
This isn’t the place for a debate on Voter ID. Please take it over to http://www.wewantvoterid.com.
Funny how you folks on the Right are the first in line to curtail freedoms. That is not only hypocrisy it truly is idiocy. Your “argument” above is merely a conflation and a rant besides. Lacked in logic and reasoning, but I know you can’t see that. This country is in a slow fascist creep towards totalitarianism, something you Rightys are always talking about, and yet you happily aid and abet its insidious steps. You may want to reconsider who is being an idiot. But I know you won’t. You appear to be inable to approach certain subjects objectively and logically not to mention intelligently.
Two thousand years ago, there was a prophet who warned against trickle-down-economics: Gospel of Luke (Luke 16:19–31).
You mentioned it first… I just happen to consider it a HUGE potential and very serious infringement on Americans and what this country has allegedly stood for since it’s inception.
The above was supposed to be indirect response to Dan above. Voter ID a politically manufactured “problem” that really wasn’t a problem and is being used by the Right to reduce Democratic votes. It is just that simple, and anyone who thinks otherwise either hasn’t researched the subject or plain doesn’t care if America and a democracy weakened significantly. Wake up people, this is your country, your freedoms and your rights that are slowly being stripped from you!
Sorry Dan, I agree. Let’s now hope that the voter decide.
I’m shocked that Joe agrees with Dan!! Joseph, do you EVER disagree with the right-wing talking points and policy about ANYTHING? If so I’d love to hear about it.
I agree with Dan and the Minnesota Majority. Is that a problem? We believe in the same agenda. Apparently not yours.
Oh. Well, then you must have been Der Fuher’s apprentice. How else could you possibly agree with my cocaine-induced rants and all the hundreds of news organizations I’ve posted here? Fire up the ovens… Oh, wait. We don’t have to because pretty soon, our SUVs will roast every living person on the planet! Heil!
That doesn’t answer the question Joe, as usual. You want to try again?
By the by, ROBot has taken me up on moving his arguments to http://www.WeWantVoterID.com and he’d even less cohesive there. Tune in if you want some entertainment. I’ve been researching election integrity much more intensly than global warming of late – since global warming is unraveling itself at a rapid pace. This breathless but feeble attack on election integrity measures from ROBot is nothing short of priceless. Very revealing.
Oh so smug. Gee, that’s a change for you Dan. Not. Afraid I’m on to something are you? Pretending to let a fool rant and rave? That is smart, but you cannot respond to my main argument there, now or ever. (Re: electronic voting and other related MACHINES). You can and do fool a lot of people Dan, but they aren’t a majority as they like to believe. Nor are they all that moral either. Oh and so much for anonymity- gee is that unethical or not?? I’m sure it is just fine since it was Dan’s decision. Enjoy your few followers Dan. I’m sure is has nothing to do with egomania.
Oh, and what a cute nickname you gave me. About time for a new one! I at least offer the respect here by using people’s names as given on the site. Is that a moral thing for you to do Dan? I realize it’s a minor thing, but where do you draw the line for your morality?
Nothing? Really? How come?
You guys are hit and run. Can’t say the same of me.
No, we cannot say the same for you. There is no reason to discuss anything with a “plant” going forward. I assume Soros and Obama pay you well? Have a good evening in your dark basement. Bye, troll.
Another hit and run by the elder statesman… I am not being paid- simply performing a needed civic duty for the truth, reason, logic and the American way. If you people utlitized such skills I would not have even made one post.
Insults come naturally to you do they? Pretty cheap way of avoidance. But not surprising coming from the Right.
Boy, Joe is taking a long sunny vacation… (or so I assume). That is unless he’s ill (I hope not- for the record). There can be no other real options for a CEO.
Have a good time Joe?
Sore winner…