ACORN internal investigation finds room for improvement, but no criminal conduct

An internal investigation of the controversial community activist group ACORN found serious management issues at the agency but no criminal conduct by employees secretly videotaped giving advice on how to hide financial assets to a couple posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend-pimp. …

The videos got wide play, particularly on Fox News, and led to a congressional vote to bar ACORN from competing for federal contracts.

Hypocrisy is not a trait of Global Warming Advocates, but you don’t really understand why that is so. What you see as hypocrisy, from Al Gore’s gazillion-watt cooling system to limos belching smoke through the streets of Copenhagen, is an entitlement. It is an entitlement that has been bestowed upon the priesthood of whatever religion man has practiced since he stood upright. The faithful’s deprivation is required so the hierarchy can spread the word.

Only an apostate would claim otherwise. Teach him about carbon credits and tell him to sin no more.

Deception is a not a trait of Global Warming Advocates, but you don’t really understand why that is so. What you see as deception in East Anglia’s leaked emails is a sermon based on an allegory. Whether the Greeks actually believed Zeus threw lightning bolts to the ground is irrelevant. The culture was enriched through mythology and a higher cause was served. Literal truth had to be sacrificed for the greater good. So it is today.

Only an apostate would claim otherwise. Suppress his speech and teachings until his errant thoughts also can be detected and cleansed. Keep him out of the journals until his mind is pure.

Totalitarianism is a not a trait of Global Warming Advocates, but you don’t really understand why that is so. What you see as a naked power grab, from the EPA’s regulation of all aspects of your person to the foreign domination of your domestic politics, is a collective liberty. It requires a strong and firm hand to guide you through life, if not safely, correctly, so you do not infringe the rights of others and Mother Gaia. Slavery is indeed freedom when the planet is in peril. Do not question; only the priesthood needs fossil fuel to heat their homes and to fly to the far corners of the Earth to discuss how terrible cheap energy is.

Only an apostate would claim otherwise. If he speaks such thoughts, go into his home, business, school, place of worship, and anywhere else he can be found and silence him.

Aggression is not a trait of Global Warming advocates, but you don’t really understand why that is so. What you see as intimidation, coercion, and force actually is necessary proselytizing. It is better to suffer than to be unenlightened.

Only an apostate would claim otherwise. If he resists, humiliate him, isolate him, silence him, and destroy him.

Mother Gaia will be pleased and the Gates of Copenhagen will be thrown open to you.

The Climate Scientists at the Hadley CRU may be able to finesse terms of art like “trick” and “hide the decline”, but I’d sure hate to be the guy that had to explain what the programmer’s comments in the following snippet of code really mean, under oath.
;
; Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!
;
yrloc=[1400,findgen(19)*5.+1904]
valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,
2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
if n_elements(yrloc) ne n_elements(valadj) then message,’Oooops!’
yearlyadj=interpol(valadj,yrloc,timey)

That’s a snippet of code written in Interactive Data Language (IDL). This analysis courtesy self-described climate agnostic Robert Greiner at a website called Cube Antics, and covered by wattsupwiththat.com in two articles called Climategate: The Smoking Code and The Smoking Code, part 2.

I’m coming to you today as a scientist and engineer with an agnostic stand on global warming. …

First, let’s get this out of the way: Emails prove nothing. Sure, you can look like an unethical a**hole who may have committed a felony using government funded money; but all email is, is talk, and talk is cheap.

Now, here is some actual proof that the CRU was deliberately tampering with their data. Unfortunately, for readability’s sake, this code was written in Interactive Data Language (IDL) and is a pain to go through.

[emphasis in original]

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Michael Steele and the Republicans have a great opportunity that Harry Reid has handed them on a silver platter. The question is, do they have the moxie to take on the truth in Civil Rights history?

Reid has had a case of de ja vu all over again. But, whether this American history class was an elective or requirement and he bailed for the semester, Reid forgets the truth and rewrites history and hijacks one of the most significant Republican accomplishments: the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

To be exact, Reid stated:

“When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today.”

Again, to be exact, it was currently sitting Senator and former KKK member Robert Byrd (D-WV) who filibustered the Senate for 14 hours and 13 minutes when the Civil Rights Act was on the floor of the Senate.

I can see it now, picture it with me–the latest GOP campaign:

Why Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican

Billboards, large ones in Democrat, poverty ridden strongholds. You gotta start somewhere and sometime. Reid opened the door to educate the electorate. Now is the time.

Michael Steele, do you have the moxie?

Burgermeister Meisterburger’s famous toy proclamation in one of America’s favorite Christmas stories reads:

“Toys are hereby declared illegal, immoral, unlawful AND anyone found with a toy in his possession will be placed under arrest and thrown in the dungeon. No kidding!” 

Sounds very familiar, doesn’t it?

Who knew that Obama and the radical left would be modeling healthcare and climate-change legislation after a 1970s children’s television special? In light of what Congress is trying to shove down our soon-to-be illegal, carbon-emitting smoke stacks, I have to ask:

What’s next? Toys?

Maybe.

Let’s start with the nativity that’s traditionally placed beneath the White House Christmas tree every year.

Darling Desiree Rogers spilled the beans to a group of former social secretaries that:

the Obamas were planning a “non-religious Christmas” … [they] did not intend to put the manger scene on display — a remark that drew an audible gasp from the tight-knit social secretary sisterhood.

Of course, this jives with the Obama’s no-gift Christmas tradition. They probably don’t use the word “Christmas” which would explain the idea of eighty-sixing the nativity.

This would not be Obama’s first “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation“ moment. There’s the black crepe he had thrown over Catholic symbols at Georgetown University.

Lucky for him, those pesky holiday trees won’t serve as a backdrop at Copenhagen, either. 

This is what we’ve come to expect from a President who forgets that the Office of the President of the United States is a public institution and that the White House he occupies is The People’s House. During Christmas, the White House should have Christian symbols that represent American Christians – all roughly 80% of the American population. The Obama’s can skip the Christmas frou-frou in their private residence if they prefer.

But there’s a nice, very hopeful ending to this story.

Thanks to those gasping secretaries (heroes in my book), the Baby Jesus scene has been safely placed among the White House Christmas decorations, with the First Lady remarking in an email about the incident:

The story of a child born far from home to parents guided only by faith, but who would ultimately spread a message that has endured for more than 2,000 years – that no matter who we are or where we are from, we are each called to love one another as brother and sister. 

While this story may be a Christian one, its lesson is universal. 

It speaks to the hope we share as a people.  And it represents a tradition that we celebrate as a country – a tradition that has come to represent more than any one holiday or religion, but a season of brotherhood and generosity to our fellow citizens.”

It’s lesson is universal. It represents a tradition that we celebrate as a country more than any one holiday or religion.

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency fired a fusillade at productive industry across the United States, and particularly several key industries in Louisiana:

Endangerment Finding: The Administrator finds that the current and projected concentrations of the six key well-mixed greenhouse gases–carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6)–in the atmosphere threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations.

Cause or Contribute Finding: The Administrator finds that the combined emissions of these well-mixed greenhouse gases from new motor vehicles and new motor vehicle engines contribute to the greenhouse gas pollution which threatens public health and welfare.

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Thus far all efforts made by the White House this year to “create or save” jobs has left Obama scratching his head. The Stimulus didn’t work; the Bailouts didn’t work; lying to the American people about saving or creating 1 million jobs didn’t work.

Now, apparently, the job Obama is most concerned about saving is his own.

This bogus “Jobs Summit” is reminiscent of the good-old-days back in February (when unemployment was a paltry 8 percent), when Obama held his “Fiscal Discipline Summit” five days after the largest pork-laden, crony-paying, dysfunctional bill in American history was signed into law. Obama at a fiscal discipline summit is the equivalent of an alcoholic promising to never drink again.

During the “Fiscal Discipline Summit” (I seriously chuckle every time I type that) the POTUS made a couple wild assertions — wild assertions for a free-spending liberal, that is.

The first assertion was that he was going to cut the deficit in half (!) by the end of his first term. Fabulous goal. The second wild assertion was that he would release a budget that’s “sober in its assessments, honest in its accounting…and [restores] fiscal discipline.”

A mere three days later the President killed two promises with one stone when he unveiled the largest budget in U.S. history (intriguingly entitled “A New Era of Responsibility”). According to ABC News most of the spending in Obama’s bloated budget would be done with “money the government does not have, creating a $1.75 trillion deficit next year alone.”

Fiscal discipline? I don’t think so.

It will be interesting, if not scary, to see if the policy changes that spring forth from last week’s “Jobs Summit” work as well as those policies which followed the “Fiscal Discipline Summit.”

Let’s hope not.

Cross posted at The Daily Dose.

Actually, I unfairly malign emos by comparing them to Al Gore.  He’s like an emo wannabe.

Ace of Spades HQ has the full text of this poem, for those who can’t quite make out my deliberately overwrought screeching. Suffice it to say, this has been one heck of a midlife crisis for Mister Gore.

Open thread.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

THE SNOWMAN…AND MODERN LIBERALISM
“The Factor” of December 7, 2009 showed a CBS program clip. The clip featured “Frosty the Snowman” trashing the whole concept of the figure being a moral happy symbol of the Christmas (aka winter) season. Frosty had a porn collection and made other inappropriate offensive comments. What viewers must understand is that the modern liberal is a strident member of the secular socialist church. This sort of ugly distortion is wholly intentional.
The modern liberal (aka secular socialist) detests morals, detests people of faith, detests even the intact moral family. Their game is NO boundaries (moral or ethical)…that is how they speak, they act, they vote, they believe. Truth is not a goal and morality simply an obstacle to their total control of your life. They are happiest when they can drain the shame and respect from a culture. Its what they always do.
We, of course, are the low life contented people of faith trying to raise our children away from the harsh secular poison (at least till senior high). The modern liberal prefers vivid sex programs for pre-teens and now this.
We, of course, “just don’t understand”. We are just “way too rigid, way too judgmental” they say.
We understand perfectly and must continue to reject the angry secular socialists (aka democrats, liberals, progressives, yada yada).
Yes, modern liberalism is a mental disorder.

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=BW&date=20091207&id=10842991

Kevin Parker of Deutsche Bank Asset Management was on Bloomberg radio today.  He was very dismissive of the recent revelations from East Anglia.

Call him at 212 250-2500.

Tell him to stop the lies.

http://www.db.com/presse/en/content/press_releases_2009_4299.htm