Foillowing this saga is even better than watching
a Korean midget tag-team match. The heir apparent
is going down in flames!!
Latest rumors via FoxNews is that her campaign machine is in chaos.

The problem with her campaign is that now people actually have to commit to supporting her at the convention and they can't get over the fact that they simply don't like nor trust her. It's easy to say you support her 3 months ago because then it didn't really matter. I expect a few more crushing primary defeats and she will then be forced to bow out. Too bad for Slick Willy, he was hoping for another oval office tune up.... ;0

With Clinton getting her justice delivered up by Drudge, isn't it time The Goreacle got his.

The Virtues of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
by Dr. Arthur Robinson (more by this author)
Posted 01/04/2008 ET
Updated 01/04/2008 ET

Al Gore’s movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," includes some very remarkable revelations including:

1. A “computer calculated” temperature prediction curve with predictions beginning in 1938 -- when neither Al Gore nor the computer had yet been invented.

2. Photos of South Sea islanders being washed from their islands by rising seas -- sea level having risen 3 inches during the past 50 years.

3. Drawings of species driven to extinction by human use of hydrocarbons -- including the Wooly Mammoth, which has been gone from the Earth for thousands of years.

4. A little girl’s ice cream cone melting before she can eat it -- as a result of the current 0.5 degree centigrade per century increase in temperature.

5. 650,000 years of Earth temperature fluctuations, including 6 ice ages – all caused, according to Al Gore, by carbon dioxide fluctuations of entirely unknown origins.

Al Gore’s other popular offering is his book appropriately entitled The Assault on Reason -- a subject for which he obviously has readily demonstrated expertise.

George Washington was at Valley Forge during the coldest period in 1,500 years, with Earth average temperatures dipping as low as 1 degree centigrade below the 3,000-year average. Since then, temperatures have gradually recovered. If the current rate of increase continues, about 2 centuries from now the temperature of the Earth will be back to that of the medieval period 1,000 years ago -- when Greenland was green and warmer weather brought increased growing seasons and general rises in comfort and prosperity in many cooler climates.

Meanwhile, in the United States, rainfall is increasing, tornados are becoming less frequent, glaciers have been receding for 200 years -- back to their more normal average lengths, and hurricane frequency and severity has been unchanged for the past century.

Standing timber in U.S. forests has, however, increased by 40% since 1950; 2,000-year-old pine trees are growing faster; and animal and plant quantity and diversity are sharply increasing. This is truly alarming! If current trends continue, we will be overrun by squirrels, deer, and foxes and fighting for our lives against aggressively growing orange and apple trees. A dire prediction was even published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences -- I am not making this up -- warning that poison ivy is also growing faster.

The three most important substances that make life possible are water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide. The primary structural and functional element in all living things is carbon. All carbon in protein, fat, carbohydrate, and the other organic molecules in living things is derived from atmospheric carbon dioxide. Without atmospheric carbon dioxide, life as we know it would not be possible. Plants inhale carbon dioxide and are thereby fertilized. When atmospheric carbon dioxide increases -- as it has by about 30% during the past century, plant life and the animal life that thrives upon it are also increased.

The annual increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide attributable to human activities -- primarily the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas -- is about 1 part in 10,000 of that contained in the oceans and biosphere -- a contribution of ultimately negligible consequence. Since, however, this human-released carbon must travel through the atmosphere to reach the ocean and biotic reservoirs, human use, while it continues, has caused a transient rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide from about 0.03% to about 0.04% of atmospheric molecules. The primary environmental result of this rise is plant fertilization. We are moving carbon from below ground into the atmosphere, where it is available to produce more plants and animals -- a wonderful and unexpected gift from the industrial revolution.

The Earth’s atmosphere and surface are warmed by solar radiation; the greenhouse effect -- primarily caused by atmospheric water vapor; and other less-understood phenomena. Carbon dioxide and methane are also greenhouse gases, but their physical properties render their greenhouse effects very weak. Neither warms the Earth significantly, and no greenhouse warming caused by these two substances has ever been unequivocally observed. The warming and cooling of the Earth is correlated most closely with fluctuations in solar activity and is entirely uncorrelated with human hydrocarbon use.

This has not, however, troubled Al Gore, the United Nations, and their enviro retainers, who are regaling the body politic with unverified computer projections that purport to predict the weather centuries in the future. These computer models cannot predict the weather next week, nor can they even “predict” the weather last year. In order to make the models conform at least somewhat to past temperature trends, their handlers have introduced 6 and even 7 adjustable parameters into their calculations. As Enrico Fermi famously remarked when quoting his friend, the great mathematician and computer pioneer John von Neumann, “with 3 parameters I can fit an elephant and with 4, I can make him wiggle his trunk.”

Why are these people doing this? Why has Al Gore positioned himself to become a historical laughing stock, and why have a few hundred United Nations climate change-funded “scientists” joined them? The reason surely is not global warming. If they truly were alarmed as they say about imminent climatic peril, they would be clamoring for the Penner-Teller solution. These scientists have shown that slight injections of sun-blocking particulates into the upper atmosphere would immediately erase all Earth warming of the past 200 years. Teller estimated the cost to achieve this cooler temperature at about $1 billion. A similar additional amount would probably be required annually to maintain the cooling.

If Al Gore were truly alarmed about hydrocarbon use, he would be clamoring for nuclear power plants. The construction of just 50 nuclear installations similar to that partially completed at Palo Verde near Phoenix would erase most of the U.S. carbon dioxide output – and would also erase most of the U.S. trade deficit at the same time. Yet, while The Wall Street Journal recently counted 381 nuclear power plants in various stages of planning or construction around the world -- but none being constructed in the United States, Al Gore and his retainers actually oppose nuclear power.

So, why are they doing this? In the words of Indiana Jones -- “fortune and glory, kid, fortune and glory” -- paraphrase that “money and power, madam, money and power.” Al Gore, himself, has already accumulated astonishing personal wealth during his campaign against world energy technology and is now a principal in a new corporation being formed to profit from public fear of global warming. Meanwhile, United Nations bureaucrats are mesmerized by the prospect of taxing and rationing world energy supplies -- a position of virtually unlimited wealth and power that would give them life-and-death control over both world technology and the human race.

And, why do we prefer that Al Gore and his friends not succeed? One reason is that, in the poorer countries of the world, billions of people are using technology to lift themselves from poverty and to gain some of the technological blessings that Americans now enjoy. These people need inexpensive, relatively low technology energy that can, with current methods, only be practically derived from hydrocarbons. World hydrocarbon rationing would deprive them of this energy, destroy their dreams, and cause them to slip backwards into suffering, poverty, and death.

Simultaneously, Americans can only maintain and extend their own technology and prosperity with inexpensive energy -- available now in practical quantities only from hydrocarbon and nuclear sources. Moreover, only people who are prosperous can afford the cost of true environmentalism.

Most people agree that increased quality, quantity, and length of human life and decreased human suffering are worthwhile goals. These goals are best reached by technological advance, and inexpensive energy is the currency of technological progress. The myth of human-caused global warming currently threatens these goals and that technological advance. This is the truth -- inconvenient as it may be to the self-centered aspirations of Al Gore and his United Nations friends.

3w.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24269

Big mistake to underestimate the Klinton funding network....or her influence in NY and the east.

Fred, stay on topic, please. And keep your cut and pastes to a paragraph and a link.

Is Hillary finished? We can only hope.

I'm hoping because I don't want to spend the next four years parsing Hillary's non-answers.

I don't want to spend the next four years writing letters to my Senators and Representatives demanding that they oppose tiny, incremental insults to my freedom.

I don't want to spend the next four years listening to Hillary's hideous cackle on talk radio, or her even more hideous rendition of the national anthem.

Hugh Hewitt says Politico has the inside scoop on what's happening inside Team Hillary.

Well the only reason Bill Clinton won the Democratic nomination is because he stuck in til the end - he should be telling Hillary this.

Anything can happen in these races - remember Gary Hart and his bimbo meltdown (famous photo of him on a boat) after he dared the media to catch him out?

Fascinating. My bet is that she most certainly will not drop out but will come back with a new 'surge'.

I think that Obama is filling a void, a void of American depression, exhaustion and anger at being called on by the world to 'Come and Save Us' and screamed at by the world when they do. But I don't think that he has much more to offer than showing the people that there is an 'open road' that isn't filled with hate and recrimation.

The problem with Hillary is that she is an embedded part of that Old Way.

Both of them, however, are utopian socialists, both of them are promoters of Big Government to fix all ills. There's not much difference between them except that Obama is defining himself as walking on a road with no footprints and Hillary Clinton is defining herself as a New Footprint on an Old Road.

I don't think Obama will get the nomination; he's primarily about words - and I wonder if that is enough. They might go for someone else.. John Edwards, a real lightweight who is in between the two of them on all counts. But there's no reason for Hillary to drop out now.

Ross Perot elected Bill Clinton.He split the Republican vote.

Face it, Hillary has never had to venture out of her very comfortable liberal, Big Union and minority vote NY scenario before. It's been very safe and calculated for her up until now. What's happening is that the Dems, who have always known she was toxic to them, have another horse to ride, so does the liberal MSM which has now anointed Obama.

Not being a Democrat I have never understood how they ever thought that trying to put perfume on this pig with all of her past scandals, vicious harpie's personality and lack of vision except for the same old deadbeat liberal memes was going to get them anywhere.

The Dems have two vacuous males left standing - a pathetic failed retread and the other not ready for prime time. Obama is a sensation now, but, scratch the surface and there is nothing there. Time will catch up with that.

The Iraq occupation is winding down. I think domestic issues will be more front and center this election, Obama simply doesn't have the executive or business skills needed.

I have a have a hard time believing these "unexpected" swings in voter intentions are all that unexpected. Including Hillary's fall from "inevitability".

Media polls are a media tool. They can be used to drive voter's intentions --- not just to report on them.

We all like to be associated with the winning side. If the media keeps on saying X will win, many may migrate, reluctantly, to X. Self perpetuating.

It is easy to rig poll results. There are many methods, some subtle, some out right lies.

The poll question can be leading.
Those citizens likely to give "favourable" responses may be chosen by the pollsters.
The data itself can be "adjusted".
Non "favourable" polls may not be made public.
"Favourable" polls will be hyped by the media.

And yes, the ultimate poll will make rigged polls look foolish on election day. But the media uaually has time to "adjust" subsequent polls to suit. (witness Paul Marin "suddenly" falling out of favour with Canadians during Xmas holidays 2005) If the pollsters get caught with their pants down --- "A Dramatic Swing In Voter Intentions, Blah Blah.

Call me cynical, but do we ever get to see the data ?

But how can all media organizations be consistently on the same wave length ? IMO, it is called Reuters and AP.

The only candidate who can see through all this crap and is brave enough to speak out ? Fred Thompson

I believe the Republican machine is setting Obama up. Many conservative pundits have been very easy on him.

The conventional wisdom used to be that Hillary Clinton would be the easiest candidate to defeat in the presidential election, but I sense the Republicans have changed their strategy.

They want to run against Obama in the election.

If my theory is correct, I think the Republicans have made a very smart move by lying in wait for Obama.

The have ripped H. Clinton to shreds and that seems to be paying off.

Of course time will tell. Long way to go between now and the election...

ET: "I think that Obama is filling a void, a void of American depression, exhaustion and anger at being called on by the world to 'Come and Save Us' and screamed at by the world when they do."

This is, I think, part of the allure of Ron Paul. And many prognosticators were anticipating a more inward-looking administration when George W. won in 2000. Many forget the somewhat 'xenophobic' foreign policy that dominated much of American politics, prior to WW2.

Who knew that Americans were paying attention to Danny Williams and his ABC campaign.
Anybody But Clinton.

According to a study by the Centre for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, the media tore Hillary to shreds in the fall (with Fox News being "perfectly balanced" in their coverage).

Refer to "3w.cmpa.com/releases.html".

Fred. Thanks for the comment and the timely article by Art Robinson. You can Google +oism +robinson for more info on him, and "petr beckman" to find out about Robinson's predecessor in re "Access to Energy". Beckman was an electrical engineer and an early foe of the Sierra Club.

Fred. Thanks for the comment and the timely article by Art Robinson. You can Google +oism +robinson for more info on him, and "petr beckman" to find out about Robinson's predecessor in re "Access to Energy". Beckman was an electrical engineer and an early foe of the Sierra Club.

Fred. Thanks for the comment and the timely article by Art Robinson. You can Google +oism +robinson for more info on him, and "petr beckman" to find out about Robinson's predecessor in re "Access to Energy". Beckman was an electrical engineer and an early foe of the Sierra Club.

Ding-dong the witch is dead!

Ron from Kelowna re. Fred Thompson: I agree wholeheartedly.

Fred. Thanks for the comment and the timely article by Art Robinson. You can Google +oism +robinson for more info on him, and "petr beckman" to find out about Robinson's predecessor in re "Access to Energy". Beckman was an electrical engineer and an early foe of the Sierra Club.

Obama is the next president - Republicans and Canadian Conservatives are scared cuz they ain't got nuthin on him.

"Hussein" is tired and worn already.

"Madrassa" was proven to be a falsehood.

"Cigarettes" last about 2 days.

"Cocaine" was an admission in his own book.

What else have you got?

Told you.

Throbbin, you've put out some anecdotal and inconsequential biographical chick scratch on Obama. So what. Unable to list any solid Obama policy initiatives or positions, congressional bills or notable measures with his name on it or anything else of political substance from him, I guess that serves as the best you can do.

You've told us nothing except how vacuous you are. Try harder.

Throbbin, one need not "get something on someone"
to critique them. Obama is simply a neophyte and not ready for a position as important as President of The United States. He has only served 2 years in the Senate, and by all appearances, used most of that time to run for president. His policies are vague at best and his knowledge of foreign affairs is virtually non-existent. No matter what party he was to run under, he simply isn't presidential material.
This has nothing to do with being conservative, it has everything to do with his capabilities.

Does this mean that Billory won't get to be First Lady?

As a bonus, when you take the link to Drudge, then click on "collapse in national polls", you get to vate in an Angus reid poll.

The question is "do you want Justin trudeau to be elected to Parliament?"

Running 75-25 for "no" right now.

I just went there to update and I swear they have changed the question to be "would you vote for Justin Trudeau if you could".

Slimeballs weren't getting the results they wanted.

Unless I'm losing it...did anyone else see the original question?

Sorry for being o.t.

Got carried away there.

Geez, thanks alot Kate. Had to post that video didn't you? Suddenly my leftover Ukrainian Christmas Tupperware lunch (pyrohy & koobassa) are starting to make some strange oratings!

I half expected her to say..."but what about the health care for the children" before sobbing uncontrolably.

This woman spoke out against pizza - she's going down. teehee

Poor Hill-bill-y, she is a woman, and she can't help it. Can you imagine her declaring war? E-gads!

The Anchoress predicted it last week (linked by NRO).

What I dread most in this political season is the “genuine” moment - and it is coming, soon, sometime between today and tomorrow, or tomorrow and New Hampshire - when Mrs. Clinton, in her ongoing effort to turn herself into whatever the polls says she must be, cries in public. It’s going to be genuinely ghastly.

My 20 year old niece broke down in tears in front of a used car salesman when the final total for the car she wanted was $1500 over her budget.

Yep, you guessed it. The salesman dropped the price $1500 and she drove away...laughing.

I hope Huckabee wins. He's a better bass player than Hillary is a flautist.

Nice links, Kate. So true about the comments.

The race is not over yet, folks. The knives are out, and the secret files are getting dusted off.

Hillary and Obama are both Oppportunist. My question is will Hillary turn over her Vote-Harvesting Machine to Obama.
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I still say she is the best candidate for the Democrats.

Could you see Margaret Thatcher behaving like this in her heyday?

I thought not.

Besides the as phoney MSM and her emotionally edgy feminist hag syncophants, who could possibly be buying into this crap?

I'm trying to picture Margaret Thatcher in tears.

I'm hoping Hillary exits the national stage soon with a televised rendition of the Exorcist, spinning her head around and vomiting pea soup; stripping naked while screaming how much she hates all of us that never loved her would be fun too.

Bring it on!

PLEASE, Margaret Thatcher and Hillary Clinton have Nothing in common aside from gender.

Hillary will have a long hard grind to get anywhere near the accomplishments of the Iron Lady, that is assuming she makes it through to even have the opportunity.

not terribly Presidential... if you think the world is a dangerous place now, just try to imagine Hillary calling the shots

Forgot to add, she's a better pick than Obama and most of the others if you're a Democrat. That is if experience in politics is a factor anymore. She's lived it from being the wife of a President as well.

As a woman, I give her credit for being out there and fighting a good fight. They ALL have their motives beyond those stated, it's hard to believe the smarmy stuff as the only reasons they're in the race.

I was rooting for Tancredo anyway. I liked the idea of campaign stops where you got to shoot with a straight shooter.

Hey thanks for the shout out! Linking right back at ya!

Re: Divorce prediction

I can just picture Hillary. Immediately after "Bobbitting" Slimy Willie, she says, in her best Arnold Schwarzenegger impression, "Consider that a divorce!"

As a US citizen (and registered Republican voter) in Saskatchewan, I have as much reason to celebrate Hillary's demise as anyone else here. And yet... If the alternative to President Hillary is President Obama, perhaps we should stop and take a breath. Is Obama really an improvement over Hillary? He's charming and charismatic, but from his limited record, it appears he's even more liberal than Hillary.

Let's imagine the next major international crisis facing the US. Let's say it's ... oh I don't know ... a naval confrontation with Iran in the Gulf. When the sh** hits the fan, it gives me little comfort to know that President Obama is charming and articulate. Hillary, with all her flaws, might be the better president, particularly in a crisis.

The real tragedy in all of this is how none of the Republican contenders have a hope in hell of becoming president. Unless the Dems do something really stupid (always a possibility), it will take the GOP many years to bounce back.

Earth to Fred -- FOCUS and breath deeply! Toto is alright...take your meds, take a deeeeeep breath and go back to sleep now and ... Happy Dreams...:)

But then, Clinton began getting emotional: "It's not easy, and I couldn't do it if I didn't passionately believe it was the right thing to do. You know, I have so many opportunities from this country just don't want to see us fall backwards,"



Missy Clinton, Missy Clinton...I'm falling backwards !!! OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bwwaahahahahahahah....!!!!

What else have you got?
Told you.
Posted by: Throbbin at January 7, 2008 1:37 PM

Check out Barrack Hussein Obama's hard left racist anti-semitic black Christian church.

9/11 was revenge for American White Power. Seriously. To say nothing of Israel being racist like S Africa and that "middleclassness" is evil.

Carville is right HC should stay in. the infatuation with Obama may soon pass as it is revealed that he is an even more empty suit than edwards is (and that is saying alot). What may be more interesting is what do Big Al and Bloomberg do if BO wins NH and SC?

Hillary has clearly demonstrated that she does NOT have what it takes to be a democratic President. She was in the Whitehouse for 8 years and not once did she have sex with an intern.

I did see H. Clinton's announcement of her candidacy on YouTube, and my thought was that it was not the sort of thing you would see from a real leader. Now this latest session is more of the same. Interesting how there is hardly ever any real content. She says we are going in a bad direction, but where specifically are the problems?

"just don't want to see us fall backwards"

Does she mean that in a Shakespearian way???

I have heard that Bill's zipper spends more time down south than Bill but I never heard that Hillary has round heels.

She is Toast.. Dissed ML king and Suggested LBJ
was the the REAL leader of Civil Rights...

Bye! Bye! Phoney liberal

Did anyone see the National Post this morning? On page A11, the left hand side of the page has an article saying Hillary leads Obama by a point, and Romney leads McCain by a point. Then, two columns over on the *same* page, another article trumpets Obama's 7-pt lead over Hillary, and McCain's lead over Romney. Two articles on the same page, giving directly contradictory information. I like the Post, but geez - doesn't anybody proofread or edit anything these days?

If she doesn't get crushed at the ballot box - and right soon - then there is something very wrong with American voters.

Leaders don't cry in public. Emotion clouds judgment and public displays of emotion make you lose the confidence of those you intend to lead.

It's gotta be over.

I liked this comment:

I think she is crying because she realizes she is not being taken seriously right now. I mean, how must she feel that someone asked her who does her hair? How did her message collapse to this?

"Hillary has clearly demonstrated that she does NOT have what it takes to be a democratic President. She was in the Whitehouse for 8 years and not once did she have sex with an intern."

It would probably be more accurate to say that in 8 years she couldn't find an intern that could get it up for her.

The real tragedy in all of this is how none of the Republican contenders have a hope in hell of becoming president. Unless the Dems do something really stupid (always a possibility), it will take the GOP many years to bounce back.

Posted by: MarcM at January 7, 2008 5:58 PM

Marc, maybe you're right, but I have a hard time believing, at the end of the campaign, that American voters would choose Obama over, say, McCain, or Giuliani. If that really is the case, then Mark Steyn is going to have to re-title his last book to something like "No One Left Standing"

I think the prediction is wrong. re: Bill divorcing Hill. Hill will divorce Bill. I think she put up with his cheating just to get the chance ascend to the throne. When defeated she will have no use for him.

If you go to the Drudge main page, there's a hilarious video from the Washington Post called "All fired up and ready to bore" which shows a Hillary rally in NH. It's totally unfair, and totally funny.

[quote]Did anyone see the National Post this morning? On page A11, the left hand side of the page has an article saying Hillary leads Obama by a point, and Romney leads McCain by a point. Then, two columns over on the *same* page, another article trumpets Obama's 7-pt lead over Hillary, and McCain's lead over Romney. Two articles on the same page, giving directly contradictory information. I like the Post, but geez - doesn't anybody proofread or edit anything these days? [/quote]

The poll have always been flagrant but today FOX was running the U of NH (elite) poll that had low Numbers (FOX is staying Neutral)

MSNBC was showing All 4 polls (2ea 8+ & 1ea 13+)

CNN was averaging all polls

The University poll was the one Hillary Fixed

She will lose in the double digits >13

I can't imagine that McCain will tolerate Obama's
wishful & naive dreams. Yes Obama will just walk into GM and demand changes. Whoa! Stock Market

Obama gets away with it because its Hillary's experience that doesn't measure up, not because her argument is invalid.

Sorry Eskimo - no meat in the Christmas supper! Even Scarbourgh on MSNBC - hardly a left winger - seems to think Obama will carry the day although one more comparision to Bobby Kennedy will be two to many! People are looking for a change and Bush Clinton Bush Clinton is not going to work.Russert made an interesting point this morning - Bill Clinton is revered in California and they will be hard to beat there.

This thread proves blog punditry has a long way to go.
Clinton took New Hampshire.