I would hope to see this article would hit our pop news services..

And as a student of the University of Colorado at Boulder, I should note that we are referred to as “CU Boulder,” not “UC Boulder.” Don’t ask why…but that’s the way of it.

Republicans need to seize on. Lawyers call it the logical import of the words used.

see more here

http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/08/14/gibbs-admits-white-house-has-names-on-a-list/

excerpt

In my eight years as a converted conservative Republican, op-ed newspaper columnist and blogger, I have been continually frustrated with my political allies’ seeming blindness to or reluctance to acknowledge the fact of, obvious admissions by our liberal Democrat opponents on matters that we deem crucially important to our case against them.

During the recent Presidential campaign I was frequently beside myself as I witnessed, especially Republican elected officials, but also some TV and Radio talk show hosts and even fellow bloggers that would play audio and video of Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright that left no ambiguity as to their venality or stands on issues, and yet end the conversation by saying that said conclusive proof merely “raised more questions”.

I was reminded of this more recently by some timid Republican senators concerning Sotomayor’s public statements. It is as if all they want to accomplish is for Obama or Sotomayor to tell them a clever lie that somehow erases the obvious previous statements from their minds.

Now comes the exchange between Megan Kelly of Fox News in which White House spokesman Bill Burton initially refuses to answer Kelly’s question as to whether the White House is purging emails they solicited via a website that identify opponents of ObamaDems health care reform plan. Finally, Burton states: “Why would we purge them?”

This is known in the law as an admission! Yet, most stories claim that the White House has not answered the question and that Burton’s responses merely raise more questions. No it does not. We now know that they don’t purge the emails.

Can we please stop being the stupid party?

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During a lengthy exchange with a reporter in the White House Briefing Room in response to a recounting of communications received by said reporter from citizens claiming to have received unsolicited emails touting health care reform legislation from The White House, Obama’s Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stated the following:

MR. GIBBS: I’d be interested to see who you got that e-mail from and whether or not they’re on the list. I don’t –

This admission of the existence of “the list” was not adequately followed up on, as can be seen from the full transcript.

This is what trial lawyers call admissions against interest.

These are the types of statements that get blown up on posters for displays to the jury during closing argument. These are the types of statements that are followed up on with the witness on cross-examination while the cross-examiner looks the jurors in the eye with raised eyebrows.

In short, these are the types of statements that win cases.

The scientists are learning from the politicians and not vice versa.

One of the tenets of valid experimentation is the ability to repeat the experiment.

But there is no source data to use for input into new and improved climate models.

I think a few PHDs need to be revoked.

the data that the AGW advocates use to justify massive society-changing policy presciptions is now just gone and we’re literally just supposed to take their word for it? Am I reading that correctly?

Anyone that can read knows that ocean temps and study of polar ice caps are far more important than adverage air temps. It is a bit scary though, we should be in the beginning stages of a cooling cycle, we shouldn’t be getting warmer at all.

Losing more than a million acres of permanent snow pack in the Artic this year is not exactly reason to celebrate.

We are moving away from the sun and should be in a cooling cycle. We should be gaining permanent snow pack not losing it. From historical records and astrophysics we should be heading into another little iceage, not getting warmer or even staying the same.

Global temperature reports from independent sources say, temps have been on the decline for the past 8 or more years. In addition, CO2 atmosphere accumulation levels are apparently continuing to rise. Again, CO2 “follows” temperature. CO2 does NOT cause temp change.
The Cap & Trade tax plan, will only cost us draconian amounts of money for less than one half of one degree C change by 2050. By then, many millions in Africa will die because the money is spent elsewhere & to trade carbon futures through outfits like Al Gore’s which will make him an extremely rich man. Still, almost NO temperature change for trillions. Just seems like all this does is make the suspiciously influential special interest types, who participated or actually wrote the Cap & Trade legislation, rich.
No, I suspect no collusion or nefarious activist motives. Nope.
There’s no problem here folks, the data is lost. Move along, just buy into the story line that the sky is falling, & shut up!