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Bidens "Brilliant" Foreign Policy "Gravitas"

Is wanting to give Iran $200M taxpayer dollars.  After 9/11.  So they won't get mad at us.  Or something.
 
At the Tuesday-morning meeting with committee staffers, Biden launches into a stream-of-consciousness monologue about what his committee should be doing, before he finally admits the obvious: "I'm groping here." Then he hits on an idea: America needs to show the Arab world that we're not bent on its destruction. "Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran," Biden declares. He surveys the table with raised eyebrows, a How do ya like that? look on his face.
 
The staffers sit in silence. Finally somebody ventures a response: "I think they'd send it back." Then another aide speaks up delicately: "The thing I would worry about is that it would almost look like a publicity stunt." Still another reminds Biden that an Iranian delegation is in Moscow that very day to discuss a $300 million arms deal with Vladimir Putin that the United States has strongly condemned. But Joe Biden is barely listening anymore. He's already moved on to something else.
 
This is almost too easy...
 
(H/T: Hot Air)
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NOAA Uses Fake Imagery In Climate Report

The National Climate Data Center who falls under...drum roll please... NOAA (shocka!) placed photoshopped images of climate disasters in their upcoming "scientific" climate report.  (NOAA is reponsible for this monstrosity.  Go to the draft here.  Scroll down to the second page.  A whole lotta people with NOAA after their names...)
 
Here is the image:
 
 
What exactly is wrong with this photo?  The flood waters have been "graphically rendered" into the original image.  The image was purchased from this site which comes with accompanying photographers desciption of the digital "adjustment":
 
 
Here is the photo containd on the accompanying NCDC page:
 
Pink arrow pointintg tho the "shopped" image
 
But the real question is, with so many different photos of real flooded houses available, why did they choose one that was not real? Surely they know such a report will be highly scrutinized?
 
As I said last week, the use of graphics in the report makes it look more like a news article than a scientific paper, and if principal National Climatic Data Center authors Dr.’s  Thomas Karl and Peterson can’t even bother to check if the photos they use are real or not, or even spot such obvious fakes, it makes one wonder just how much fact checking went into the other parts of the report.
 
Do you think our policy makers, for which this report is intended, would be smart enough to catch such things?
 
Of course Al Gore did the same thing in his (I still can't believe this) Academy Award winning "documentary "An Inconvenient Truth".  Link to the video forgery here.
 
This whole exercise begs the question:  If the science is so settled; if the facts are indeed incontrovertable, why is there ANY NEED WHATSOEVER to use subterfuge, faked, or otherwise un-real imagery to make your point?  Shouldn't the "science" be able to stand on it's own merits?
 
These are the people we are "trusting" to brief our legislators and leaders about "climate change".  And they can't even fact check their own report?  They are purposefully using scare tactics and fabricated imagery?  And these are to be the "end all, be all" arbiters of this issue?
 
Until someone can come into these agencies who can be unbiased and honest about the real science and keep the politics out, I will continue to be skeptical of anything they say when it comes to "climate change/global warming".
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Biden's Dumbest Moments

A handy guide compiled by ABC News.
 
Follow the link here.
 
Joe Biden - Probably the biggest gaffe-master since...Barack Obama
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Biden LOVES Lobbyist Money

Biden's love of lobbyists seems to directly contradict Obama's ideas on the subject (cue video):
 
Biden's long tenure in the Senate cuts against Obama’s change message, even as it insulates the first-term Illinois senator from charges that he’s too green for the White House.
 
Biden has accepted $5,133,072 in contributions from lawyers and lobbyists since 2003. Obama does not accept contributions from federally registered lobbyists.
 
And he has one other weakness that hasn't received much attention to date. One of Biden's sons, Hunter, is a registered Washington lobbyist in a year in which Obama has been excoriating lobbyists and the culture of corruption in Washington. The younger Biden is a name partner at the firm Oldaker, Biden & Belair and seems to have specialized in lobbying for just the kind of earmark spending by Congress that Obama has vowed to slash. Republican insiders say the party is likely to make an issue of Biden's family lobbying ties.
 
Also expect to hear more about Biden's close ties with credit card companies. His largest contributor, based on total contributions by employees, over the past five years has been MBNA, the Delaware-based bank aquired in 2005 by Bank of America that, until then, was the world's largest independent credit card issuer and a major supporter of the 2005 bankruptcy bill that Biden crossed the aisle to support.
 
Quite a contrast wouldn't you say? 
 
Now let's play "What is more Likely":
 
Is it more likely Senator Biden will forego his lobbysist donations and the influnece they give him (an influence/funding machine he has amassed over his 35 year career) all for the sake of "Hope-N-Change"?
 
Or is it more likely Senator Obama will suddenly see the need and importance of lobbyists in Washington?  (BTW - It's already pretty much happened).
 
How's that "Change" looking now Lefties?
 
(H/T: Hot Air)
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Bidens' Racism "One of his strengths"

The MSM spin is already in overdrive.  This is unbelieveable:
 
JOHN HARWOOD: He is not somebody who is infused with political correctness, the verbal equivalent of putting his pinky up when he opens his mouth. So this is what, the way ordinary voters are as well. They're not always worried about sort of calibrating every single word by "ooh, is this racially insensitive?"  That's something that Joe Biden brings as an asset to the ticket.  The gaffes actually show one of his strengths.
 
View video here.
 
Just to refresh your memory, remember the indignation and the accusations of racism against McCain in his "Britney" and other ads?
 
The MSM is spinning so hard on this they're turning into human margatrita machines!
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Racism Only Reason For Obama Loss

You older white crackers, clinging to your guns and bibles may be just racist enough to keep "The One" from his Holy Temple, er, The White House.
 
Another Lefty throwing race into the campaign.  They aren't even trying to be subtle about it anymore:  If you break the numbers down, the reason Obama isn't ahead right now is that he trails badly among one group, older white voters. He does so for a simple reason: the color of his skin.
 
If you follow the link to the article, have your duct tape and paramedics on standby.
 
Exit Question:  If Obama does win, wouldn't the "White" House have to be renamed - just because? 
 
I'm only using the Lefties logic...
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Joseph Bidens Racism - Video

Since the 7-11's or Dunkin Donuts are just chock full of Indian-Americans.  Well, at least according to the Apostle Biden:
 
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Obama Picked Biden Because He's Scared

The Mighty, Most Beneficent Obamamessiah picks a 35 year Washington insider as his running mate?  What happened to the politics of "Change"?  The AP tells us:
 
DENVER - The candidate of change went with the status quo.
 
In picking Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate, Barack Obama sought to shore up his weakness — inexperience in office and on foreign policy — rather than underscore his strength as a new-generation candidate defying political conventions.
 
He picked a 35-year veteran of the Senate — the ultimate insider — rather than a candidate from outside Washington, such as Govs. Tim Kaine of Virginia or Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas; or from outside his party, such as Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska; or from outside the mostly white male club of vice presidential candidates. Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't even make his short list.
 
The picks say something profound about Obama: For all his self-confidence, the 47-year-old Illinois senator worried that he couldn't beat Republican John McCain without help from a seasoned politician willing to attack. The Biden pick is the next logistical step in an Obama campaign that has become more negative — a strategic decision that may be necessary but threatens to run counter to his image.
 
Ed Morrissey from Hot Air adds this:
 
It’s an admission that Obama’s inexperience has finally begun worrying voters, and not just Democratic power brokers.  There really is no other way to see an addition of Biden to the ticket.  Obama can’t be worried about carrying Delaware, after all; it’s as safe a state that Democrats have.  Nor does Biden have a natural national constituency, as his own flop of a presidential campaign proved this cycle.
 
The Biden choice is an act of desperation borne of a summer-long catastrophe.  There isn’t any other reason for Obama to choose a 35-year veteran of the Senate with as long a history of gaffes and flat-out dishonesty as his second on the campaign for Hope and Change. 
 
After all of Obama's bluster, arrogance and supposed confidence he demonstrates he can't make a tough decision.  He has to make a safe, comfortable choice which proves Obama doesn't believe his own rhetoric about him being ready to be President.
 
Heh.
 
Addendum:
 
It seems the McCain Campaign was ready for this pick and is chomping at the bit to show the public stuff like this:
 
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The Problem With NOAA

Why aren't NOAA, NASA and other government agencies (and NGO's like the IPCC) trustworthy when it comes to climate science?
 
The answer is really very simple - they have a dog in the hunt.  What do I mean by that?  It's part politics, part funding, part ideological bias.  It's really that simple.  Of course you don't need to read it from me.  Read it from others - scientists, climatologists, meteorologists.
 
I will provide a series of links.  These links will take you to various articles.  All of the articles are heavily referenced and re-enforced with data.  Many come with comparitive graphs.  Most of these links will deal with biases from some specific agencies - NOAA and NASA in particular.  But I offer this information for you, the reader, to make up your own mind about these agencies.  After reading these various articles, ask yourself a simple question:
 
Are these government agencies unbiased and are they being honest, scientific arbiters of fact.  I believe you will agree with me that showing a healthy dose of skepticism when it comes to climate information released from these agencies is a good thing.
 
Start with this article here:
 
Now read these articles.  They deal with the same subject, but from varying perspectives (in no particular order)
 
 
 
 
 
This article dealing with climate models (mentioning NOAA, IPCC, NASA, and the much vanted - by alarmists - James Hansen)
 
 
Problems with NOAA's Climate Data integrity
 
 
Problems with NOAA's ground temperature stations and measurement
 
 
NOAA's data in Press Release disagrees with it's own satellites
 
 
Problems with NASA and GISS (this used to be a favorite of the Townhall Troll.  Funny how facts tend to make alarmist liberals change their source material.)
 
 
Problems with NOAA's new climate Service
 
 
NOAA cherry picking data
 
 
There are many more articles and resources here.  What I find interesting is that if you follow the last link try this:  go all the way to the bottom of the page and take a look at the referenced material and work your way up.  The closer you get to the most recent articles, the more extreme the governments biases become.  Now in the interest of fairness I suppose it is possible that the site contributors could be showing a bias, but if you read the material I don't believe that to be the case.
 
The material is right there.  Read it.  Research it yourself.  Make up your own mind.
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Townhall Troll Has Sold His Soul

Why?  Because he politicizes the deaths of American Servicemen.
 
Perhaps I should rephrase my title:  Townhall Troll doesn't deserve the Honor of either calling himself or being called a Vet.
 
A real veteran, an honorable veteran, should be saddened by the loss of American soldiers in battle.  Any time a comrade in arms makes the ultimate sacrifice, it is a sad event.  When a soldier dies in battle it is not celebrated.  Their death and sacrifice should be REVERED - NOT mocked to make cheap political points.  And a vet knows that, although losing a fellow soldier is painful it is sometimes necessary. 
 
You, RAT, DISHONOR the sacrifice of your fellow countryman.  You have sold out your own Honor for a cheap thrill; a "quick buck" as it were.  If you did serve in the military you have sacrificed your Honor, your very soul, on the altar of a politically expedient soundbite.  You are the worst among men, not because of what you do to yourself, but what you do to the Honor and Spirit of soldiers who have died in battle. 
 
I have seen RAT's posts about American servicemens deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq.  They disgust me. 
 
The Townhall Troll is a disgrace.  If he is indeed a "vet" he is not an Honorable one.  He is most definately NOT a MAN OF HONOR!
 
His politicization of the deaths of American Servicemen shows him to be the smarmy, self-loathing Troll he is.  RAT, you should be ashamed of yourself.  Of course for a person to feel shame they must first have a conscious.  By your continued politicization of troops deaths you show you have neither.
 
I however will show you the respect you fail to show those who have fallen.  That respect doesn't come easy as this post shows, but I appeal to you - please stop writing posts politicizing the deaths of our comrades in arms.  If you once did serve, please honor the request of a fellow serviceman.  You can make a mockery of whatever you will, but please STOP making a mockery of the deaths of our fallen.
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Pot calling Kettle RAT?

You call ME a liar?
 
With all the drivel you vomit out of your "blog"?
 
That is the funniest thing I've read all day!  (Not really, but still...)
 
: )
 
I know it's useless, but refute my sources - you're fond of using that excuse yourself aren't you?
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You're right RAT! I am wrong!

James Hansen is at NASA, not NOAA.  My bad.
 
See?  This is what a person does when they are wrong...
 
They admit it.
 
Too bad you never had that lesson in life...
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Department of Education is Gov agency too...

So is the IRS.  See where this is going?
 
Of course to a libtard like RAT, anything "GOVERNMENT" automatically means good.
 
You're a good little govenment dependent aren't you RAT?
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Dishonesty, Conceit , Stupidity and Barack Obama

57 States?  "The One"?  I never heard that stuff when I was at church?
 
Yeah, let's get into this discussion...
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NOAA Used by Activists/Alarmists; Run by Soros shill

NOAA Chief Climatologist James Hansen is a noted George Soros shill and advises Al Gore.
 
Instead of praising the fact that "all government agencies use NOAA" perhaps someone in those same angencies should exercise a little bit of fortitude and ask whether they should be using NOAA.
 
At least in the area of climate legislation and policy/research.
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