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“French Mathematicians Blast UN’s ‘Costly & Pointless Crusade’ Against Global Warming”
“As the United Nations gears up for its next international conference on climate change in Paris next month (COP 21), a scathing white paper released by a society of French mathematicians calls its fight against global warming ‘absurd’ and “a costly and pointless crusade”
(snip)
The mathematicians harshly criticized a “crusade [that] has invaded every area of activity and everyone’s thinking,” noting that “the battle [against] CO2 has become a national priority.
“How have we reached this point in a country that claims to be rational?” they ask, adding that mathematicians “do not believe in crusades. They look at facts, figures, comments and arguments.”
“There is not a single fact, figure…[or] observation that leads us to conclude the world’s climate is in any way ‘disturbed,” the paper states. “It is variable, as it has always been. … Modern methods are far from being able to accurately measure the planet’s overall temperature even today, so measurements made 50 or 100 years ago are even less reliable.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/french-mathematicians-blast-uns-absurd-crusade-against-global
Mathematicians are not scientists. Science has already settled.
It appears these cheese eating monkeys have already surrendered to Global Warming.
Freedom Fries, you b*****s!
What do you call a French mathematician?
Le Nerd.
The French can’t even solve the “le doggy poo on the sidewalk” problem.
The UN does not appear to have preventing global warming as their agenda. Rather they allow and project it and negotiate wealth transfers to make the world a better place. Just doing the math isn’t going to be useful.
Have these mathematicians’ opinions been Peer Reviewed?
Quick Google search reveals this is not the national mathematical society but a small splinter group. Credibility rates low on this one. Not to mention the mathematicians are working outside of their field of expertise — they are not climatologists.
WPA = Warmist Propaganda Agent.
What if WPA is right?
Even Reagan took action on the Ozone layer hole with less science in agreement.
Geeze, aren’t you working outside your “area of expertise”?
Casual observers like me aren’t bound by professional ethics, which say you shouldn’t use your professional standing in Area A to pretend to have expertise in Area B. Good example is Dr. Willie Soon, the outed climate denier paid by Koch and the American Petroleum Institute. His Phd is not in climate science but wrote climate denial “studies” for oil money anyway. That’s an ethics violation.
I think that argument falls in on itself due to the multi-disciplinary nature of modeling the future climate. Math and statistics are central. A lot of the climate modeling has been discredited after the statistical techniques were show to be bogus. Reference the hockey stick.
If what you are doing breaks the rules of math, you are probably on pretty thin ice.
why not focus on air pollution- something people can see
I think that argument falls in on itself due to the multi-disciplinary nature of modeling the future climate. Math and statistics are central.
That’s like saying aeronautical engineers use math so mathematicians can design airplanes. But for sake of argument I’ll set that aside. Regardless of academic discipline, out of 13,950 peer-reviewed scientific papers on climate change, only 24 of them concluded there is no global warming.
A few French math guys writing a “paper” over lattes in a bistro doesn’t carry much weight.
That is a logical failure. Rocket scientists must get their math correct. That doesn’t mean any math guy can design a rocket.
We would like to know if the rocket guys pass the math smell test before being taken for a ride.
“Modern methods are far from being able to accurately measure the planet’s overall temperature even today, so measurements made 50 or 100 years ago are even less reliable”
The point I always make - if we are discussing fractions of a degree and it is based on instruments from 100+ years ago … how can you verify all those instruments were accurate to a fraction of a degree?
The point I always make - if we are discussing fractions of a degree and it is based on instruments from 100+ years ago … how can you verify all those instruments were accurate to a fraction of a degree?
Given the rapid increases in temperatures in the last 10 years, small inaccuracies in temperature readings 100 years become academic.
You can see the climate is becoming unglued if you just pay attention. The dots are everywhere, but the MSM is not connecting them for us.
Right now: “2nd Strongest Storm in Arabian Sea History: Extraordinary Chapala Hits 155 mph. Tropical Cyclone Chapala took advantage of the the warmest waters ever recorded in the Arabian Sea at this time of year to put on a remarkable burst of rapid intensification overnight.” — TWC
This following Patricia, the hurricane off Mexico that intensified from a tropical storm into a Cat 5 hurricane in 24 hours. Texas is still cleaning up.
“South Africa Sets Earth’s Hottest October Temperature on Record: 119°F. Earth’s hottest temperature ever recorded in the month of October occurred on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 in South Africa, when Vredendal hit a remarkable 48.4°C (119.1°F). ”
This show is just getting started.
As a GOP’r, i want to spend billions in the future to save millions today…
I also love dropping a few million dollar bombs on old Toyotas and rocks.
As a GOP’r, i want to spend billions in the future to save millions today…
I also love dropping a few million dollar bombs on old Toyotas and rocks.
Don’t need a GOP for that. Omaba doing the fine job.
““South Africa Sets Earth’s Hottest October Temperature on Record: 119°F. Earth’s hottest temperature ever recorded in the month of October occurred on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 in South Africa, when Vredendal hit a remarkable 48.4°C (119.1°F). ”
This show is just getting started.”
Why do you keep telling lies?
Why?
Why does Lola pretend to live in Brazil?
Right now: “2nd Strongest Storm in Arabian Sea History: Extraordinary Chapala Hits 155 mph.
Would an Arabian Sea storm even have been MEASURED for wind-speed 200yrs ago?
Answer: nope. So, all of the hyperbole—meaningless.
The count back to 1940. “recorded history”
Say it ain’t so …
“Financial Markets are a Game”
Furthermore …
“Financial Markets are Giant Criminal Playgrounds”
And, most astonishing of all …
“Market Makers Never Risk Anything: They Make Markets Move Directionally”
Yeah? Perhaps this why they are called Market Makers.
Suck ‘em in, shake ‘em out.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-29/financial-markets-are-game
people have made a nice living buying stocks and homes since the crisis was fixed.
There’s a reason that the model of buying SFRs and then renting them out wasn’t considered by anyone other than slumlords who could buy in cruddy areas super cheap.
Ooh, look, I’ll buy a house and rent it out for what my mortgage costs and have someone else make the payments for 15 years. Then after 15 or more years of “breaking even” I’ll own it free and clear.
The financial industry is, to a large degree, a giant game of poker. Poker has a lot of deception. The financial world is about betting and besting your opponents/counterparties/clients to make a profit.
This is why they’re puzzled when they’re called out on deceiving their clients and counterparties. As long as they’re making money for their company and themselves, they consider that everything’s peachy. That’s their job.
They’re arbitrageurs. It’s a different sort of “industry”. Deception is required. It’s an integral part of the sector.
Sum fing wong
From yesterday’s discussion on China energy use and GDP growth:
“I don’t think the reported energy use growth is consistent with the GDP number of 7 percent for the first half,” said Gary Hufbauer, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. “It’s consistent with maybe 4 percent at best. There’s something wrong here,” Hufbauer said.’
What would you think if energy production was up 4% and energy consumption was down 3%?
The 4% would impact GDP (if accurately taken into account) while the 3% would be (properly) ignored.
This shows in a simple example the problems central planners create for themselves in managing to output growth targets, as you will eventually find yourself producing output for which there is no demand.
Sinosteel is bleeding like a stuck pig. It borrows from the CCP to continue operations. The lending is captured in GDP under “service sector”.
Would you call that “growth”?
they should strip gov spending from gdp
BS from Keynesian believers
any central bankers maimed this week?
“any central bankers maimed this week?”
Inchy seemed rather injured yesterday.
A-Dan, we miss you…
How hard is it to become financially secure where you live?
Business
Study: SD worst city in America to build wealth
By Phillip Molnar | 6:01 p.m. Oct. 26, 2015 | Updated, 6:24 p.m.
San Diego’s high home and rent prices compared to salaries leave residents unable to build equity, the study said.
— John R. McCutchen
The burden of the Sunshine Tax may be too heavy for the American Dream.
San Diego is the worst city in the United States for building wealth, a study released Monday by Bankrate.com showed.
The Florida-based personal finance website looked at what it felt were the most important factors to save money and earn more, including housing prices, income after taxes, average debt, employment and access to education.
San Diego ranked dead last, behind Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City and Chicago. Houston ranked No. 1.
San Diego’s high home and rent prices compared to salaries leave residents unable to build equity, the study said.
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It’s important to note the top places to save wealth are not necessarily the top places people want to move to. Houston, Washington, D.C., Cleveland and Detroit are the best places to save money, Bankrate said. Extremely low home prices in Detroit do not guarantee a stable job, a safe commute or great schools.
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I was in La Jolla recently, taking little day trips to sights during the day. It’s nice if you’ve already got things set up. If you are retired and don’t have to be on the freeways much or have significant time in a stable long term job and a house bought well before the bubble started going crazy, i.e., late 90s or earlier., it works. But if not. If you have to slog through that traffic to your rat race and are still climbing the hill, forget it. Waaaay to expensive and crowded. And full of stressed out people. Too many rats in the cage. It’s more California bad than it used to be and getting worse, more and more like blown out LA every day.
(For the Lolas who are still asleep, a job is something you do where you exert effort for someone else and they pay you).
(For the Lolas who are still asleep, a job is something you do where you exert effort for someone else and they pay you).
And then whores and swindlers for the Oligopoly, elected by the FSA, extract an ever-growing portion of your paycheck to cover their graft and patronage schemes and networks.
There, fixed it for you.
Hang them also. But the rich oligopoly has always controlled things. Having half the population not working with a significant number of those not willing to work because of government largesse is a societal cancer that has not always been.
“(For the Lolas who are still asleep, a job is something you do where you exert effort for someone else and they pay you).”
Shiftless, lazy Lolas.
Everytime Lola whines about ‘rich people’, I tell her to get a job. That sends her into a fit of rage.
We all love the rich and the successful. We hate the moochers and the cheater ( rich and poor).
Like A CEO of a bailed out bank getting a $5 million bonus.
Or no one on wall st going to jail.
or WalMart getting $6 bill in aid from taxpayers.
or Paulson deciding who lives and who dies
or
Liberace!
That’s not Walmart getting aid from the government, it’s the government getting aid from Walmart. Without Walmart they’d be fully on the dole.
“If you are retired and don’t have to be on the freeways much or have significant time in a stable long term job and a house bought well before the bubble started going crazy, i.e., late 90s or earlier., it works.”
You nailed it. ‘Eat the Young’ economic policies take a heavy toll on San Diego worker bees.
“(For the Lolas who are still asleep, a job is something you do where you exert effort for someone else and they pay you).”
Your profession is who you are. You may not realize it, but the “never been employed” rich kids are envious of the successfully employed who lead exciting full lives, solving problems as they happen, meeting new smart people, etc., while the trust fund babies “might” read one of their unopened investment news letters as they endure another lifeless day as eloi.
Yes, so cal is a mess. too many rates in a small cage for sure. Foreign rats. Many of them do not know how bad it is, as they never leave.
P Bear - this……
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/researchers-asked-1002-chicagoans-about-their-citys-economy-and-heres-what-they-said/
Watch out for vandals.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-the-day-vandals-are-most-likely-to-attack-your-property-2015-10-14?link=MW_latest_news
Do you live in a neighborhood where people can put up Halloween decorations and jack o lanterns in their front yard and the local teen vandals let them be? That’s better than a high walk score.
The teen vandals in my neighborhood are rarely seen outdoors. They also know that I know who they are and where they live.
You don’t see them, you see smashed pumpkins.
The teens where I live go to the sand pits and get drunk but they seem to leave people’s decorations alone.
When I was a little kid, Halloween was just a kid’s night. It was not an economic driver or major holiday. No adults had anything to do with it other than having a bowl of candy to give out. Most mom’s made up some cheap costume out of old clothes - think Hobo or Ghoul. Now you have entire stores that cater to this with loads of cheap Chinese crap that will be thrown away tomorrow. What a tremendous waste of resources.
Well, if it wasn’t for all those “pop-up” Spirit Halloween stores, what else would the owners do with their empty former Circuit City, etc. buildings?!
Crater….
http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/homebuilders-getting-ripped-lower-again/
It’s a good thing younger generations are devoid of critical thinking skills and have been rendered docile and compliant by our NEA indoctrination mills, because they won’t be happy when they figure out how screwed they are by their elders, especially the boomers.
http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/sorry-young-people-but-your-prospects-are-worse-than-theyve-been-for-generations–Z1dTfVL_dx?utm_source=indy&utm_medium=top5&utm_campaign=i100
Another 10,000 coming every day,
We can be like they are
Come on baby
(Don’t fear the Boomer)
Baby take my hand
(Don’t fear the Boomer)
We’ll be able to fly
(Don’t fear the Boomer)
Baby I’m your man
I’m watching all the PIIGS ten-year bonds for signs the Eurozone financial crisis, papered over with trillions in printing-press bailout money in return for promises of brutal austerity and (ha ha) fiscal rectitude, is about to come roaring back. Portugal looks like a prime candidate to become the next Greece.
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/Bond/TMBMKPT-10Y?countrycode=BX
Martha Moxley: Four decades later, Greenwich murder case still not at rest
By Robert Marchant Updated 11:16 pm, Thursday, October 29, 2015
Forty years ago today, the Greenwich community was stunned by a savage crime committed on that date.
Martha Moxley, a popular 15-year-old Greenwich High School sophomore, was murdered, bludgeoned by a golf club and stabbed in the neck with its broken shaft. The murder weapon, a ladies 6-iron, was traced to the Skakel property across the street from Moxley’s home in the exclusive Belle Haven section of town.
Since that bloody crime scene splashed into public consciousness, a convoluted murder case with unexpected revelations has unfolded, driven by a cast of celebrity authors and commentators, drug addicts, a million-dollar defense lawyer, dogged investigators and members of the extended Kennedy family.
The case made for a troubled legal journey from the start, said a Stamford journalist whose own investigation, published by Greenwich Time and The Advocate in 1991, sparked renewed attention to the murder. Leonard Levitt said the case has been perplexing in its many different stages, never more so than the day on which the body of Martha Moxley was discovered.
“It went bad at the outset because the Greenwich Police Department wasn’t prepared to do a thorough investigation, they were intimidated by the Skakel name,” he said. Not taking statements from the Skakels immediately after the murder was a major impediment to finding the culprit — “the case was corrupted from the beginning,” he said.
His own belief, that members of the Skakel family had complicity in the murder, led him to his own rueful conclusion about a life cut short 40 years ago.
“The most regrettable part is that a rich family was able to walk away from this thing,” Levitt said.
http://www.greenwichtime.com/…/Martha-Moxley-Four-decades-later-Greenwich-6599593.php -
“Forget it, Jake… it’s Chinatown.”
The Oligopoly has always been a law onto itself. And 95% of ‘Muricans have voted to keep it that way.
Muslim truck drivers refuse to deliver beer, win $240,000 lawsuit
By Molly Jackson
October 27, 2015 1:29 PM
An Illinois jury awarded $240,000 in damages and back pay to two former truck drivers who claimed religious discrimination when they were fired in 2009 after refusing to make beer deliveries.
A jury was convened to determine damages after US District Court Judge James E. Shadid ruled in favor of Mahad Abass Mohamed and Abdkiarim Hassan Bulshale when Star Transport admitted liability in March. The men, both of whom are Somali-American Muslims, were represented by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
news.yahoo.com/muslim-truck-drivers-refuse-deliver-beer-win-240-172947936.html -
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“Bakery owners Melissa and Aaron Klein cited their Christian beliefs against same-sex marriage in denying service.”
Sweet Cakes final order: Gresham bakery must pay $135,000 for denying service to same-sex couple
By George Rede | The Oregonian/OregonLive
July 02, 2015 at 12:32 PM,
Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian on Thursday ordered the owners of a former Gresham bakery to pay $135,000 in damages to a lesbian couple for refusing to make them a wedding cake.
Avakian’s ruling upheld a preliminary finding earlier this year that the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa had discriminated against the women on the basis of their sexual orientation.
Bakery owners Melissa and Aaron Klein cited their Christian beliefs against same-sex marriage in denying service. The case ignited a long-running skirmish in the nation’s culture wars, pitting civil rights advocates against religious freedom proponents who argued business owners should have the right to refuse services for gay and lesbian weddings.
Avakian’s final order makes clear that serving potential customers equally trumps the Kleins’ religious beliefs. Under Oregon law, businesses cannot discriminate or refuse service based on sexual orientation, just as they cannot turn customers away because of race, sex, disability, age or religion, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries said in a news release.
http://www.oregonlive.com/…/index.ssf/2015/07/sweet_cakes_final_order_gresha.html - 390k -
The unfortunate result of the narrative being scripted by these articles is that it will rally the base to vote for the candidate that Sheldon Adelson purchased.
P.S. Sheldon Adelson is not a Christian.
It sure makes you scratch your head. Which is really a more vital necessity, lesbians or beer?
It depends on if you are a lesbian or not?
“Which is really a more vital necessity, lesbians or beer?”
Maybe this will help.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nehhH9rfnaw - 183k -
Very helpful. Thanks!
“Maybe this will help.”
Indeed.
Island is the only country on the planet where the banksters actually are held accountable for their crimes. Then again, Icelanders have an aware, engaged, intelligence electorate - the exact opposite of ours, where 95% bend over election after election for Wall Street water carriers.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-30/first-they-jailed-bankers-now-every-icelander-get-paid-back-bank-sale
How much further can Yellen the Felon extend the Ponzi scheme without bringing on a dollar collapse and taxpayer revolt?
http://www.businessinsider.com/ubs-stocks-bull-market-signs-of-the-top-2015-10
More hope ‘n change Goldman Sachs can believe in.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-30/recovery-wrecked-american-employee-compensation-dropped-september-first-time-july-20
When you speak truth to power, power has a way of speaking back. The outspoken Hungarian PM, a standout among the globalist dissemblers in the Eurozone, better stay out of airplanes and helicopters for the rest of his tenure.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-30/orban-accuses-soros-of-stoking-refugee-wave-to-weaken-europe
FoxNewsHate rallies the base.
Headlining with “hail of bullets ends manhunt, fugitive cop-shooter killed by police” and then underneath that “US airstrike reportedly kills rapper turned ISIS fighter.”
They also have an article titled “Iran does it again: nuke deal in hand, Tehran detains another American.”
So for all the badge lickers and neocon hypocrites, know that the narrative of these articles will never result in smaller government, less regulations, or lower taxes.
More neocon trash to rally the base.
Breitbart has articles titled “Iranian general: Israel may collapse in less than 25 years” and “State official: Iran has ’stepped up’ nefarious activities after nuclear deal.”
As an American taxpayer and voter, why is any of this your responsibility?
Student with $90K college fund falls $20K short
Sarah Whitten | @sarahwhit10
Wednesday, 28 Oct 2015 | 12:02 PM ET
CNBC.com
A 22-year-old college junior named Kim is making people scratch their heads.
Appearing on “The Bert Show,” an Atlanta radio show, in July, Kim, who did not provide her last name and used auto-tune to disguise her voice, said that she had been given a $90,000 college fund by her grandparents, but had spent most of the money before her senior year.
The college junior says she used some of the cash to pay for three years of tuition, but she also copped to buying school clothes and a trip to Europe.
“The first payment for my senior year just arrived, and I don’t have the money, basically,” she said on the radio show. “I’ve just been avoiding it. I knew the bill was coming.”
Kim told the radio station that she is shy $20,000 to cover the tuition bill for her final year of school.
Kim’s appearance on “The Bert Show,” and the strong reaction she got from callers, went viral and inspired a lengthy Reddit thread.
“I didn’t blow it. I just spent it in other places.” -Kim, 22-year-old college student
“It’s not my fault,” Kim said on air during one of her four interviews with the station. “Maybe [my parents] should have taught me to budget or something. They never sat me down and had a real serious talk about it.”
While the show’s hosts aren’t financial experts, they did offer some sound advice, ranging from asking her parents for a loan to getting a part-time job that would subsidize what was left in her college fund.
Kim didn’t go for either fix.
“[My parents] said there was nothing they could do for me,” she said. “I know they have the money…They’re not being honest with me, saying they don’t have [money] because my dad has worked for like a million years, and they have a retirement account.”
The struggling junior’s situation is in no way unique; the majority of college students seek some kind of financial aid.
Of course, there are many ways for Kim to fund her final year of college. Scholarships, grants, traditional student loans, bank loans and even online loan funding sites. However, Kim wasn’t terribly keen on those options, either.
“Then my parents suggested I go take out a loan at a credit union, and I’m, like, how am I supposed to do that?”
About 66 percent of full-time students pay for college with the help of financial aid, according to The College Board. While student-loan companies will usually allow college students to delay the start of repayment until six months after graduation, a bank loan needs to be paid back monthly, starting almost immediately. Not to mention, it requires a credit check or a cosigner.
“My job is being a student right now. I never planned on working through college.” -Kim, 22-year-old college student
As for the part-time job suggestion?
“That’s embarrassing,” Kim said.”I know [my parents are] trying to teach me a lesson and blah blah blah and character building but, like, I hope they realize [working part-time] could have such a negative effect on my grades and as a person.”
Yes, but is she hot?
No doubt she could burn a hole in your wallet.
“…but, like, I hope they realize [working part-time] could have such a negative effect on my grades and as a person.”
Yes, because learning to support yourself via work would be detrimental to…what? Becoming a perpetual victim? Joining the FSA?
Kim is a victim. The DNC will surely find or start a taxpayer-funded program to compensate her for her exploitation and victimhood, in exchange for her lifelong vote for Democrats.
Very long article about food:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/02/freedom-from-fries
Immigrants Caught at Border Believe Families Can Stay in US
Immigrants spoke of “permisos,” or a pass to come into the United States
by Alicia A. Caldwell | Associated Press | October 30, 2015
Hundreds of immigrant families caught illegally crossing the Mexican border told U.S. immigration agents they made the dangerous journey in part because they believed they would be permitted to stay in the United States and collect public benefits, according to internal intelligence files from the Homeland Security Department.
The interviews with immigrants by federal agents were intended to help the Obama administration understand what might be driving a puzzling surge in the numbers of border crossings that started over the summer. The explanations suggest the U.S. government’s efforts to discourage illegal crossings may have been unsuccessful. Its efforts have included public service campaigns in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to highlight the dangers and consequences of making the trek across Mexico to cross illegally into the United States.
The Associated Press obtained copies of the interview summaries, which were compiled in reports by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Intelligence. They said hundreds of people traveling as part of families consistently cited opportunities to obtain permission to stay in the U.S., claim asylum and receive unspecified benefits. Immigrants spoke of “permisos,” or a pass to come into the United States.
I see alot of parents with neck tattoos speaking Spanish with their young children under age 10 while shopping at Walmart. But you never see them in the public library (which is free, btw) or in bookstores.
But for some reason, my progressive betters assure that every single one of these kidz will grow up to be doctors and astronauts.
Goon be rolling some coal…..
http://www.yeahmotor.com/trucks/duramax-diesel-truck-takes-the-venom-out-of-a-cobra/?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Yahoo%20Extreme%20Duramax%20Truck%20Vs%20Sn%20Cobra%20M5
“Japan’s Consumer Prices Fall”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-29/japan-s-consumer-prices-fall-0-1-before-boj-policy-decision
japan renamed new keynesland
our 26th year w no real growth
what are we doing that’s different?
Not sure but here’s what we all know intuitively….
Nothing accelerates the economy like falling prices to dramatically lower and more affordable levels. Nothing.
Jared the Subway pedophile secret audio tapes revealed:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jared-fogles-secret-audio-tapes_5631af1be4b063179910f976
Seven years of Obama, and this is what you get.
Forward.
So you’re saying there were no pedophiles around before the Obama administration?
Jeb! leaks an internal memo, based on earlier Romney research, that Rubio has some skeletons in his closet
https://twitter.com/SabrinaSiddiqui/status/659858213291061248/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
Romney rejected Rubio as a potential VP pick because “Mitt’s spokeswoman has called Rubio ‘a wheeling and dealing Miami lobbyist and politician, always trying to scam the system for his personal benefit.’ ” GOP internal fighting getting nasty…
Globalist progressive cultists will vote for the Hildabeast regardless.
Forward.
95% of the electorate are stupid. That makes President HillaryJeb inevitable. Enjoy your serfdom.
From yesterday:
<em.Comment by MightyMike
2015-10-29 16:21:54
The repair costs are going to be included someone’s electric bills, showing how uncompetitive wind is.”
So if someone were to vandalize a coal fired power plant, the repair costs would somehow magically be free? Why didn’t anyone tell me that?
The Exxon spill was free.
That was a little joke. I was making fun of the fossil fuel fans.
Rich white hipsters bewail being priced out of Brooklyn, migrate to rich white suburb to be surrounded by other rich white former Brooklyn hipsters:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/realestate/escape-from-brooklyn.html?referer=
And don’t let that Feel The Bern sticker on their Volvo fool you, they’ll be voting for Hillary. Every single one of them.
Forward.
Volvo? What is this 1988?
They drive Mini’s and AWD small SUVs.
They vote anti neo-con. No other choice.
So who’s buying new Volvos then?
Ford lovers
CRATER!!!
ALL rapes in Oslo, Norway are by Muslim Asylum Seekers - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiVVvJIM5UI - 241k -
Norway: Immigrants Brutally Gang Rape 14-Year-Old Girl, One Gets Off With Community Service
Culprits sodomized girl to the point of her wanting to commit suicide
by Paul Joseph Watson | October 30, 2015
Three African immigrants who brutally raped a 14-year-old girl to the point where she wanted to kill herself were given extremely light sentences by a court in Norway, with one receiving community service and avoiding prison altogether.
That 14 year old girl probably needed to “check her privilege” anyway.
Forward.
What did you expect from socialist globalists? The girl’s white privilege was clearly at fault here.
ALL rapes in Oslo, Norway are by Muslim Asylum Seekers
So the solution must be to grant asylum to all of the asylum seekers.
WoW. Obama’s GDP to deficit ration is 1/3 of what it was in 2009 after Bush. not bad.
deficit fell from 10 percent of GDP to 3 percent on his watch
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.html
Today’s quote of the day from the marvelous Jesse’s Cafe Americain…..
“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand.
So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost. All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.
The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken pegged the coming ‘Murica. We truly live in the IDIOCRACY he saw coming.
If this doesn’t describe George W. Bush and Obama, and the morons who voted for them, I don’t know what does.
The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
If he were alive today, Fox News would hire him. He’d help with their distraction by getting people to focus on the personalities of politicians so that they pay no attention to issues.
Whoa….more bad news in the oil patch…
http://wwwtheworldandeverythinginit.blogspot.com/2015/10/chevron-fires-another-7000-after-laying.html
HER: “Why are you home early?”
HIM: “I got a pink slip this morning… along with 6,999 others.”
HER: “Hmm… now we have more time to look at bigger houses.”
with much sadness I am laughing and crying at your post at the same time. This economy is not ending well.
What the DC advisory class wants, the DC advisory class gets.
Syria: Obama authorizes boots on ground to fight ISIS
Fri October 30, 2015
CNN
The United States is set to deploy troops on the ground in Syria for the first time to advise and assist rebel forces combating ISIS, the White House said Friday.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that the U.S. would be deploying “less than 50″ Special Operations forces, who will be sent to Kurdish-controlled territory in northern Syria. The American troops will help local Kurdish and Arab forces fighting ISIS with logistics and are planning to bolster their efforts.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/30/politics/syria-troops-special-operations-forces/index.html
Advisors always go in before heavy infantry.
Maybe when Atzlan breaks away, the Syrians will send military advisors to repay the favor.
Poor, poor Brazil. The exchange rate is down about 60% against the USD. With the Olympics only 9 months away there are already teams down there training. The ones doing water sports are getting sick swimming in untreated sewage. Vaccinations recommended for anyone going down for the games. This is going to be an epoch disaster, and a lasting embarrassment.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/dirty-rio-water-threat-2016-olympics-report-article-1.2308967
Sure hope they didn’t borrow those 10s of billions to build the venue in USD.
Lola is still sleeping it off.
Sure hope they didn’t borrow those 10s of billions to build the venue in USD.
“Privatize the profits, socialize the losses” - if the debtor won’t pay, taxpayers will.
“RNC pulls out of NBC debate”
The Republican National Committee on Friday pulled out of a planned Feb. 26 debate with NBC News amidst a revolt by candidates after Wednesday’s CNBC debate. “… CNBC’s moderators engaged in a series of ‘gotcha’ questions, petty and mean-spirited in tone, and designed to embarrass our candidates,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus wrote.
Wah wah wah. Liberals ask tough questions! They hurt our feelings!
Repubs, it’s time to make a change. Rename yourselves the Fox Party. Everybody knows that’s what the party is anyway. No sense hiding it any longer.
When are the rich, old & all white candidates doing the FauxNews debate?
Thought so.
CA: Drought cost agriculture $2.7 billion, 10,000 jobs
how much would it cost to build a pipeline to Canada for water? We have the good dirt and the sun.
1,800 Protected Wild Horses Sent to their Deaths in Mexican Slaughterhouses
Critics say BLM favors for-profit cattle ranchers that graze their livestock on the public land
by John M. Glionna | Los Angeles Times | October 30, 2015
Wild-horse activists are furious now that a government report has confirmed their suspicions: The Bureau of Land Management sold 1,794 federally protected wild horses to a Colorado rancher who sent them to slaughter.
The report by the U.S. Interior Department Office of Inspector General, horse advocates say, shows “a picture of government incompetence and a willful evasion of the law.”
Now they’re collecting petition signatures to pressure Western legislatures to overhaul the government program that removes wild horses from the range.
“The only thing standing between mustangs and certain doom is the American public, which opposes horse slaughter,” said Suzanne Roy, director of the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign. “We are putting a lot of effort to building a grass-roots army of activism.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_PZPpWTRTU - 285k -
If Nancy Pelosi could she would play this version for all the kids she can’t bring home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp9gY0iOsm4 - 167k -
How’s that hope ‘n change working out for ya, ‘Murica?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-30/obamacare-disaster-co-op-insurers-across-america-are-collapsing-and-now-there-fraud
Why do we have wars?
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2015/10/29/why-do-we-have-wars/
No surprise that a CNBC-moderated Republicrat debate would focus on fantasy football rather than the role of the Fed or Wall Street reform.
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/10/29/the-american-banana-republic-gop-debate-spent-more-time-discussing-fantasy-sports-than-wall-street-reform/