Everything seemed to click for this picture, from the beautiful greens to the rainbow. When I was standing along the trail further downriver, the rainbow looked like it was coming out of the mist of the falls. I’ll post that one soon. But this was my favorite.
Taken on a D70 with my 18mm lens, and as I said, stitched in PS. You can see this photo and the rest of the photos in this series on my Flickr page.
Yes, that good ‘ol “global warming” is getting attention again. This time the silly Democratic congressmen raced a bill through the House faster a speeding bullet. In fact, much of it hadn’t even been written.
Why?
A growing number of scientists are coming out and publicly denouncing the theory of “global warming.”
In April, the Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming. In the Czech Republic, where President Vaclav Klaus remains a leading skeptic, today only 11% of the population believes humans play a role. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to tap Claude Allegre to lead the country’s new ministry of industry and innovation. Twenty years ago Mr. Allegre was among the first to trill about man-made global warming, but the geochemist has since recanted. New Zealand last year elected a new government, which immediately suspended the country’s weeks-old cap-and-trade program.
The collapse of the “consensus” has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth’s temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon.
(Source: Wall Street Journal)
As I’ve reported often here, “global warming” is not about saving the environment. It’s about imposing taxes and restrictions on free-trade.
Now that the facts are becoming so loud that it’s impossible to ignore, Obama want’s to ram this legislation through before too many people realize that all this “global warming” is nonsense.
Recently, with Cheney’s assessment of the current administration’s lack of planning to shut down Gitmo, there has been a lot of coverage over Obama and Cheney.
However, it was Vice President Biden (the gift that keeps on giving) who once again opened his mouth to the dismay of Obama:
Biden continued: “But, look, what the president said is that this is going to be hard. It’s like opening Pandora’s Box. We don’t know what’s inside the box.”
He also said that “to the best of my knowledge” the number of prisoners “who are a real danger who are not able to returned or tried” has “not been established” by the Obama administration.
So he basically just confirmed his predecessor Dick Cheney’s analysis that the decision was taken “with little deliberation, and no plan”. (Souce: UK Telegraph)
It is sad to watch the continuous parade of the kids having they keys with Obama’s recent statements, Speaker Palosi’s accusation that the CIA lied, and everything else going on.
It is refreshing to see a clear analysis of the situation coming from former Vice President Dick Cheney. Bravo, sir.
That’s basically what Obama has become. A man who reads the lines from his teleprompter. He has relied on the teleprompter more than any other president in history… even for Q&A sessions with reporters!
And now, after being called out on this crutch, he got rid of the teleprompter… only to be replaced with a giant flat screen monitor in the back of the room with the same words.
“He read that opening statement from one massive TV monitor from the back and middle of the East Room. White House officials removed the normal glass teleprompters that usually are positioned on both sides of the podium. That change likely a reaction to the focus on the President’s heavy use of teleprompters.” (Source)
If Bush would have done this, they would have hounded on him for being stupid. They would have said he couldn’t think for himself. They would have ridiculed Bush for what Obama is doing.
Here’s a picture of the caricature of a teleprompter:
I’ve been saying this for awhile. And now, today’s Wall Street Journal agrees with me:
President Barack Obama has turned fearmongering into an art form. He has repeatedly raised the specter of another Great Depression. First, he did so to win votes in the November election. He has done so again recently to sway congressional votes for his stimulus package.
In his remarks, every gloomy statistic on the economy becomes a harbinger of doom. As he tells it, today’s economy is the worst since the Great Depression. Without his Recovery and Reinvestment Act, he says, the economy will fall back into that abyss and may never recover.
This fearmongering may be good politics, but it is bad history and bad economics. It is bad history because our current economic woes don’t come close to those of the 1930s. (Source)
Just recently, when speaking about the stimulus pork bill she and the President want to pass, Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “Every month we don’t pass this bill, 500 Million Americans will lose their jobs.”
Um, Speaker Pelosi, there are only 300 million people living in America. Can you imagine the ridicule there would be in the press had President Bush said this? Can we say hypocrisy?
