Have You No Decency, Sir?

Bwahahahahahaha.

You simply have to follow that link. Really.

That’s A Nice Senate Seat You Have There….

…It would be a shame if anything happened to it, Squire…..

MoveOn.thug has released – to a compliant media – its latest threat. Now, I have no sympathy whatsoever toward Arlen Specter, the target of this barrage, but one has to put this in perspective.

One of the nation’s largest liberal advocacy organizations, MoveOn.org , is resisting efforts to clear the Democratic primary field for Republican-turned-Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter.

The political arm of MoveOn flexed its muscle Friday by releasing the results of an online poll that showed the vast majority of the group’s roughly 170,000 members in Pennsylvania – 85 percent – would consider supporting a Democratic challenger against Specter.

The group expressed concern over Specter’s vote against President Obama’s $3.4 billion budget just one day after defecting to the Democratic Party. MoveOn also cited comments Specter made in an appearance on “Meet the Press” last weekend suggesting he would oppose a public health insurance option that some Democrats would like to see included in any health care reform proposal.

But there might be a silver lining for the longtime Pennsylvania lawmaker: The MoveOn poll found that 90 percent of its members said they would support Specter if he chooses to align more closely with the president’s agenda.

The extortion is rather obvious. Toe the line and our minions will not be harsh with you come election day.

Their own media-reported figures show that they are 170,000 strong in Pennsylvania.

Which has a population of about 12.5 million.

So now 1.36% of the population is a force to be reckoned with? (If you accept that the “online poll” wasn’t padded up by a huge amount.)

Only with a compliant media reporting this with a straight face.

More Time With His Family

Again as predicted: Louis Caldera, the White House official who approved the buzzing of Manhattan by a backup “Air Force One” and a couple of F-16 fighters has resigned.

The White House aide who authorized the controversial Air Force One photo-op flight last week around the Statue of Liberty is out of a job.

President Obama has accepted the resignation of Louis Caldera, the director of the White House Military Office, the Daily News learned Friday.

A secretary of the Army in the Clinton administration, Caldera took the fall for the public relations fiasco arising from the April 27 flyover, which was designed to replace a publicity photo of Air Force One flying past Mount Rushmore with a similar shot of Obama’s 747 jumbo jet over the Statue of Liberty.

The photo session cost taxpayers $329,000.

The White House is not, apparently, trying to sugar coat this – the press is reporting that Caldera is “taking the fall” for the decision. The White House also quietly handed out the photos that were taken at Caldera’s behest. Another example of Obama Speak – the White House quite firmly said it had no intention of releasing the photos only three days ago.

Questions that come to mind here: Who, exactly, approved Caldera’s ordering of the overflight? If it was someone higher up in the administration, why don’t we see that person also taking a fall for this? If nobody approved Caldera’s actions, what does that say about the way the administration is being run?

Either way, there is a problem here that Caldera’s resignation does not address.

The Fraud Continues, Only More Stupidly

The loose patchwork of carefully selected data, non-testable hypotheses, and non-verifiable computer models known as “Anthropogenic Global Warming” has been coming apart at the seems for awhile now. The ever increasing (near hysterical) attempts to stitch it back together are looking truly pathetic. Being a true believer, the USA Today publishes every last apology for this ideology masquerading as science. The latest:

As our legions of dedicated USA TODAY commenters enjoy pointing out, every year since 1998 — when the Earth’s temperature peaked at a record high — has been cooler than that year. 2008, for example, was the planet’s coolest year since 2000. Could this be evidence against global warming?

No, say two scientists in this week’s issue of Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. The scientists, David Easterling of the National Climatic Data Center and Michael Wehner of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, say that up-and-down temperatures year-to-year don’t undermine the overwhelming evidence for global warming.

“The reality of the climate system is that, due to natural climate variability, it is entirely possible to have a period as long as a decade or two of ‘cooling’ superimposed on the longer-term warming trend due to anthropogenic [human-caused] greenhouse gas forcing,” write the authors.

This would make some sense if we had hundreds of years worth of data showing Anthropogenic Global Warming. We don’t. In fact, AGW was only supposed to have started in the late 1970’s or early 1980’s.

Think about that. Cooling that goes on for up to two decades, so these masters of logic tell us, would not be evidence that could counter an argument based upon warming that lasted at most the two decades up to 1998.

What? No one could be that stupid. They must have said something different.

“Climate scientists pay little attention to these short-term fluctuations as the short term ‘cooling trends’ mentioned above are statistically insignificant and fitting trends to such short periods is not very meaningful in the context of long-term climate change….

“Claims that global warming is not occurring that are derived from a cooling observed over such short time periods ignore this natural variability and are misleading,” Easterling and Wehner conclude.

So, cooling observed over two decades would be statistically invalid, but warming over a similar period is a lead pipe certainty?

Yep, they are that stupid.

Its amazing what people will sign their names to when their research money is at stake.

Cross-posted at The Iconic Midwest