Bob Maistros created a list of etiquette rules for future presidents as demonstrated by President Obama.
Obama’s new rules of presidential etiquette
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Al Gore put his scientific brain on display for Conan O’Brien.
From HotAir.com:
Gore tells Conan that geothermal energy is plentiful, because the Earth’s core temperature is millions of degrees (via John Derbyshire):
Conan: Now, what about … you talk in the book about geothermal energy …
Al: Yeah, yeah.
Conan: and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that’s generated from the core of the earth …
Al: Yeah.
Conan: … to create energy, and it sounds to me like an evil plan by Lex Luthor to defeat Superman. Can you, can you tell me, is this a viable solution, geothermal energy?
Al: It definitely is, and it’s a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy — when they think about it at all — in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, ’cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot …
The interior of the Earth is extremely hot … but as Derb notes, it’s estimated to be between 5000 – 9000 degrees Celsius, not “several million degrees.” The surface of the Sun is only estimated to be 6000º C, while its core really is several million degrees Celsius. If the Earth’s core temperature was that hot, we would have had a “global warming” crisis a few billion years ago, and this debate would never have taken place.
Of course, anyone who followed the controversy over Gore’s piece of cinematic fantasy An Inconvenient Truth knows that Gore tells a lot of very convenient untruths in his quest to create a market for his carbon-trading company. However, this is just flat-out ignorance that with any other person in any other context would destroy their credibility. This is worse than Tom Cruise telling Matt Lauer that he can debunk the entire psychiatric field because he’s read a few books. If Gore can’t get this rather basic fact right, why should he be believed on anything else in the energy field?
More ignorance on display from the man who makes millions by promoting a hoax.
Thanks, algore.
Is this a joke?
Washington (AP) – The Obama administration has formed a new task force to target financial fraud – replacing an earlier corporate fraud task force.
Attorney General Eric Holder says the new group will have a broader scope – and incorporate state investigators as well as federal agencies – to investigate and prosecute financial crimes that worsened the market collapse.
The attorney general made the announcement standing with officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Treasury Department, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The task force replaces one created in 2002 by the Bush administration following the corporate scandals surrounding WorldCom, Enron, Adelphia, and other firms.
Wow. So we’re going to trust the government to target financial fraud that made the market collapse when the majority of blame lies at the feet of Washington?
Take a look at the massive su(ck$ a$$)ccess of the $787 billion stimulus in creating (or saving? LOL!) jobs:
Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have beensaved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.
There’s one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.
“The inaccuracies on recovery.gov that have come to light are outrageous and the Administration owes itself, the Congress, and every American a commitment to work night and day to correct the ludicrous mistakes.”
There’s the understatement of the year: “correct the ludicrous mistakes”. The only problem with this statement is that the administration will try to “correct” their mistakes by either firing the people who reported the inaccuracies and replacing them with people who don’t squeal, or they will “correct” their mistakes with new reports that “don’t need to be audited because they have been ‘verified’ already”.
Of course there’s always more:
More than ten percent of the jobs the Obama administration has claimed were “created or saved” by the $787 billion stimulus package are doubtful or imaginary, according to reports compiled from eleven major newspapers and the Associated Press.
Based only on our analysis of stimulus media coverage in the last two weeks, The Examiner has created this interactive map to document exaggerated stimulus claims. The map, which will be updated as new revelations appear, currently reflects an exaggeration by the Obama administration of about 75,000 jobs, out of the 640,000 jobs supposedly “created or saved.”
Ultimately, the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress set up a $787 billion slush fund to create more government jobs and to finance Democrats’ 2010 campaigns, while the taxpayer foots the bill. So much for stimulation.
But hey, bring on that task force to find financial fraud. Just make sure they don’t turn look at the crooks and liars in the White House and Congress – or they may end up unemployed like Gerald Walpin and others.
This comes from PEU Report:
Not on the list?
1. Fraud that led to the financial crisis.
2. Insider trading by New York Fed Chairman Stephen Friedman (purchase of GS stock)
3. Insider trading by Senator Dick Durbin (purchase of Berkshire Hathaway)Wall Street doesn’t play by the same rules as Main Street. Neither do the Beltway Boys. As long as the Beltway’s revolving door is greased and spinning, neither group ever will.
From the Institute for Energy Research:
Senator John Kerry, the lead author of the legislation, told the Senate Finance Committee that “the reason” we need to pass his cap-and-trade energy tax is that “over the last eight years, emissions in the United States of America in greenhouse gases went up four times faster than in the 1990s.” Also not true. In fact, he’s off by a factor of 32.
As the video shows, greenhouse gas emissions increased far slower in the 2000s than the 1990s. According todata from the Energy Information Administration,[1] U.S. carbon dioxide emissions increased by 15.14% between 1990 and 1999, but from 2001 to 2008 carbon dioxide emissions only increased by 1.88%. If Senator Kerry were correct, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions would have increased by 60.5% over the last 8 years, but they only increased by 1.88%. Senator Kerry overestimated U.S. emissions by a factor of 32.
These are the authors of the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade energy tax legislation. If our leaders can’t stick to the basic facts to support their argument for a national energy tax, and the lead author of the bill is this far off the mark on “the reason” Congress needs to pass it, Americans might reasonably question the validity of their estimates on how much the bill will cost them and our nation’s already-struggling economy.
Even more troubling, Senator Lindsey Graham is now working with Senator Kerry on a “compromise” in which Senators’ would accept the cap-and-trade plan in exchange for “opening new areas for offshore drilling.” This would have been a bad compromise last year, but given the fact that the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) is now open—and has been since Congress allowed its ban on offshore drilling to expire on October 1, 2008—it appears to be an even worse compromise this year.
If the compromise is anything like the “Gang of 10” plan offered last year in the months before the Congressional ban on drilling in 85 percent of the OCS was set to expire, the only thing we’d be compromising is the progress we’ve already made. That’s because the Gang of 10 plan would have created a permanent ban on drilling in 78 percent of our offshore areas—areas that are now open.
But at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what the compromise may be. The long-term costs cap-and-trade legislation would inflict on our economy and our way of life would be so devastating, that no compromise – offshore drilling or anything else – would justify its passage.
How can Kerry and Boxer come up with the “bunk” that our current batch of representatives create and expect Americans to swallow it?
What guarantee do we have that other nations will conform to any degree of reductions of carbon emmissions (specifically China and India)?
If we can’t depend on worldwide support then the only people who will bear the brunt of this self-imposed, economy destroying tax burden is America.
No thank you.
May as well be that many since many of the jobs claimed to have been created are just plain bogus or they come from non-existent districts from our 57 states.
From Campaign Spot on National Review:
In fact, Recovery.gov lists hundreds of millions spent and hundreds of jobs created in Congressional districts that don’t exist.
In Oklahoma, for example, the site lists more than $19 million in spending — and 15 jobs created — on Congressional districts that don’t exist. In Iowa, it shows $10.6 million spent – and 39 jobs created — in non-existent districts.
In Connecticut’s 42nd District (which also does not exist), the website claims 25 jobs created with zero stimulus dollars.
We should have caught on quicker when we saw listings for jobs created in Bloom County, Gotham City, San Andreas, Sunnydale, and Sodor.
From Baseball Crank reports about the Washington Examiner interactive map of bogus jobs created or saved:
The Washington Examiner spots the pattern from multiple news reports:
More than ten percent of the jobs the Obama administration has claimed were “created or saved” by the $787 billion stimulus package are doubtful or imaginary, according to reports compiled from eleven major newspapers and the Associated Press.Based only on our analysis of stimulus media coverage in the last two weeks, The Examiner has created this interactive map to document exaggerated stimulus claims. The map, which will be updated as new revelations appear, currently reflects an exaggeration by the Obama administration of about 75,000 jobs, out of the 640,000 jobs supposedly “created or saved.”
