Day: November 23, 2009

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On the ObUmascare Bill, Shakedowns and Deficits

While Jerry Pournelle eschews such loaded terms as “Obumascare” his observation in today’s Chaos Manor View certainly gives one pause:

If it cost $300 million to get Landrieu to vote to allow the bill to be debated, what in the world will it cost to get her to vote for the bill itself? And now that she has shown how effective shakedown tactics can be, what will others charge? We may not begin to have seen the deficit spending that the health care bill will cost.

Urm. Let’s see, $300 million here, $300 million there, and pretty soon we’d be talking about real money. Hey! Maybe I can sell my vote for enough to retire on… until Crap n Trade, Feddle Gummint-run healthscare and all the other “great ideas nobody has to pay for” eat up everything I have and I have to go on the dole with everyone else (except for political fat cats and their handlers).

Just shoot me, first.

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The Real Source of Anthropogenic “Global Warming”

Liars’ pants on fire. From the UK Times Online, this

” …the scientific basis for global warming projections is now under scrutiny as never before. The principal source of these projections is produced by a small group of scientists at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU), affiliated to the University of East Anglia.

“Last week an apparent hacker obtained access to their computers and published in the blogosphere part of their internal e-mail traffic. And the CRU has conceded that the at least some of the published e-mails are genuine.

“Astonishingly, what appears, at least at first blush, to have emerged is that (a) the scientists have been manipulating the raw temperature figures to show a relentlessly rising global warming trend; (b) they have consistently refused outsiders access to the raw data; (c) the scientists have been trying to avoid freedom of information requests; and (d) they have been discussing ways to prevent papers by dissenting scientists being published in learned journals.”

This has been an “open secret” for years. No news here, folks. Move along. Of course, the usual suspects are circling the wagons (and setting fire to their pants). It should be interesting watching this all shake out. Not in the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind, of course. That organ of lies, half lies and distorted facts will back up the CRU all the way, I’m sure.

h.t., Instapundit

And, Update: This in from one of the Great Minds of the 21st Century:

*heh*

Isn’t it telling when Homer Simpson has better insight into the issue than our own congresscritters and Mass MEdia Podpeople?