Martha Stewart: Palin Is A ‘Boring, Confused And Dangerous Person’

'SNL' Destroys Obama Over Spending

Not only timely and topical, but genuinely funny. And unlike the last time they hit him hard, this attack comes from the right. Who knew they had it in ‘em?

Actually, spending is only a secondary concern here. The chief target is The One's disintegrating credibility in selling his statist agenda. Never would I have guessed that the great orator's inability to explain cost savings in ObamaCare would be the subject of late-night mockery this late in the game. No wonder his numbers are at new lows nationally and in the swing state that propelled him to the presidency.

Below the Obama clip you'll find last night's obligatory dig at Palin - although even that one's framed as coming from the DNC and Keith Olbermann, which makes it a double-edged gag about the left's Palin Derangement Syndrome. Is SNL trending ... conservative?

Quote of The Day

"it is the economy that will define whether or not Barack Obama is successful and whether conservatives can mount a comeback against him... The current recession is painful, but if the USA goes bankrupt like California, there will be revolt in this country. So it is time to put all the social engineering on hold and get back to sound economic principles. The right wants to do that. The left does not. Therein lies the struggle. At this point, conservative America is regaining momentum and the left is on the defensive."

ClimateGate: Both sides of the pond demand probes into data manipulation scandal

I blogged the ClimateGate scandal last week. It keeps going — and growing. There are calls on both sides of the pond for an investigation into data manipulation. A former British lord is demanding an independent inquiry:
This morning Lord Lawson, who has reinvented himself as a prominent climate change sceptic since leaving front line politics, demanded that the apparent deception be fully investigated.
He claimed that the credibility of the university’s world-renowned Climatic Research Unit – and British science – were under threat. “They should set up a public inquiry under someone who is totally respected and get to the truth,” he told the BBC Radio Four Today programme. “If there’s an explanation for what’s going on they can make that explanation.”

Around 1,000 emails and 3,000 documents were stolen from UEA computers by hackers last week and uploaded on to a Russian server before circulating on websites run by climate change sceptics. Some of the correspondence indicates that the manipulation of data was widespread among global warming researchers.

One of the emails under scrutiny, written by Phil Jones, the centre’s director, in 1999, reads: “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature [the science journal] trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie, from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.” Prof Jones has insisted that he used the word “trick” to mean a “clever thing to do”, rather than to indicate deception. He has denied manipulating data.

Here in the U.S., GOP Sen. Jim Inhofe — a longtime watchdog over the global warming mob — has also called for a probe

Calling corruptocrat eco-czar Carol Browner! She knows all about avoiding sunlight (“Put nothing in writing…ever”) and evading data disclosure.

John Hinderaker at Powerline delves into the damning e-mails here and here.

Michael Goldfarb shines light on the blabbermouth NYTimes’ newfound reluctance to discuss sensitive information.

And such selective blabbermouths they are.

Danny Glover has more on NYT climate change spinner Andrew Revkin.

Follow ClimateAudit and Watts Up With That? for all the latest.

Be sure to stay informed and take the ClimateGate pop quiz from Gavin Atkins.

Contrary To Theory, Atmospheric Carbon Soaring But Global Warming Isn’t

New evidence suggests that the correlation between atmospheric carbon and warming may not be as clear as previously believed

Global warming is an extremely sensitive topic. Some ardently believe that man is pushing our planet towards global ruin, while others believe that proponents of anthropogenic warming theory are pushing the global economy towards financial ruin. Surprisingly, though, the evidence is not as black or white as either group would like you to believe.

A recent study looking at atmospheric carbon when combined with a recent summary of global atmospheric temperatures over the past 30 years sharply illustrates this uncertainty.

Why do I have a feeling Al Gore won’t be happy about this part:

With the international community puzzling over expensive climate change legislation, it is important to consider carefully what landmarks by which to gauge “success” amid the uncertainty of cyclic variation. Furthermore, critics and proponents aside, the wisest approach seems to be to avoid schemes that throw money into the wind, such as carbon trading or carbon sequestration.

The Copenhagen talks are going nowhere.

Gore Employs Photoshop to Push Warming Agenda… Shrinks Florida

A midget Southern Hemisphere cyclone is off the coast of Florida, another hurricane is sitting on the equator off the coast of Peru — and the Arctic Ice is gone (perhaps it is summer) and the Florida Peninsula is half gone

With the increasingly discredited notion of man-made global warming crashing and burning on a daily basis, climate alarmists are being forced to accelerate their fearmongering to unprecedented levels. With the evidence failing to match up to the doomsday proclamations, Al Gore has turned to photoshop in order to make a CO2-choked earth look scary enough to sell his cap and trade scam.

The latest example of climate cult fakery comes in the form of the front cover of Al Gore’s new book, Our Choice; A Plan To Solve The Climate Crisis.

Shortly after the devastation of Katrina, Al Gore was busy making a correlation between hurricanes and global warming in an effort to drive home his claim that higher global CO2 emissions cause an increase in extreme weather events. The cover art for Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, features an image of a hurricane rising out of a smoke stack.

Seemingly underwhelmed that there have been no major hurricanes since Katrina, along with the fact that global hurricane activity is now at a thirty year low, Gore came up with an ingenious method of solving the problem of the lack of scary depictions of frightening hurricanes to display on his book – simply airbrush them in!

And where the heck is Cuba? Read the article… Warning! It’s from Prison Planet, so if that bothers you more than the content of the article, then there is nothing to see here.

Bill to audit the Fed passes Committee hurdle

In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by the House Finance Committee with an overwhelming and bipartisan 43-26 vote on Thursday afternoon despite harried last-minute lobbying from top Fed officials and the surprise opposition of Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who had previously been a supporter.

The measure, cosponsored by Reps. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), authorizes the Government Accountability Office to conduct a wide-ranging audit of the Fed’s opaque deals with foreign central banks and major U.S. financial institutions. The Fed has never had a real audit in its history and little is known of what it does with the trillions of dollars at its disposal.

You may think Huffington Post is a liberal-wing-nut-newspaper-destroyer-blog, but sometimes they do a good job deconstructing the facts.

Leaked emails may show that man-made climate change is a hoax

These quotes are from the Telegraph. You can download all the emails on Megaupload or have a glance at them on this forum.

"I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.

Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. Very tempted".

Quote of The Day

"...Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will not be on trial in New York City--waterboarding and the CIA will be. The exposition is likely will be a fiasco. It will take years. It will cost tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. Again, why are we doing this? ...President Obama should explain this thoroughly. Instead, the announcement is made while he's in Asia. Does that tell you something? Why didn't he wait until he got back? I'll tell you why: because this is indefensible."

United Nations censors anti-censorship group

At a UN-sponsored Internet Governance Forum in Egypt, anti-censorship group Open Net Initiative was startled by a demand from UN officials to remove a poster mentioning Chinese Net censorship. When ONI refused the request, security personnel arrived and took away the poster. The group was promoting a new book, Access Controlled, a survey of Internet censorship, filtering, and online surveillance. A witness said, “The poster was thrown on the floor and we were told to remove it because of the reference to China and Tibet. We refused, and security guards came and removed it. The incident was witnessed by many.”

Quote of The Day

"...aggressive action must be taken to find out what was known about Hasan and who knew it. The guy [didn't] snap. He was indoctrinated into Muslim fanaticism and people knew it. Political correctness can get people killed. I believe that's part of the Fort Hood massacre story. Hasan was a weird guy. He said inappropriate things. He did inappropriate things. Yet he continued to serve as a major in the Army largely because I believe he's a Muslim."

Is new sci-fi show a veiled criticism of Obama?

ABC's new science-fiction show "V" is about aliens who come to Earth and promise all kinds of things like hope and universal health care. The aliens also try to control the media, and to recruit young people through technology like text messaging and websites. Some are saying that this series is a thinly veiled criticism of Obama. What do you think?

Quote of The Day

"...the voters tonight, I don't believe, voted [based on] foreign policy. I mean, I think it was mostly the health care mess that is hurting Obama. That's my opinion. I can't really back it up, but I think you'll see subsequent interviews saying that it was the health care mess that's hurt Obama most."

Quote of The Day

"...every time over the last century [that] politicians have tried to push through government-managed health care, they've been defeated by the American people. Going back to Teddy Roosevelt, the Americans have been rightly suspicious and frightened of Washington-run health care. As it is, we see Social Security and Medicare moving toward bankruptcy. We see Amtrak losing a billion plus annually. And now, we're going to put the Feds in charge of health care?"