Now You Will Pay...

Excellent Republican ad, via my sister-in-law Gina:

ClimateGate: New Zealand Fraud...

New Zealand's National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) issued a report claiming that New Zealand has been warming at the rate of nearly 1° per century.  This result independently supports the IPCC report.

A group of New Zealanders wanted to understand this better, and they knew that all the data used by NIWA was publicly available.  So they requested the data and did their own analysis (well worth reading as yet another debunking of the massive fraud that Hal Lewis cites).  Oops.  No statistically significant warming was evident in the raw data.  So how did NIWA come to the conclusion they did?  Why, they “adjusted” the data, of course!  Quoting the report:

The shocking truth is that the oldest readings have been cranked way down and later readings artificially lifted to give a false impression of warming, as documented below. There is nothing in the station histories to warrant these adjustments and to date Dr Salinger and NIWA have not revealed why they did this.

I'm not shocked. We've seen too much of this from the IPCC folks.

Follow the money, folks.  Evidence of warming in New Zealand translated directly into increased research grants for NIWA.  Follow the money...

Light Blogging Alert...

I'm about to go on another business trip, this time for four days.  I'm not sure what my time and Internet access will be, so there may not be much blogging activity.  I'm visiting the land of “Big Boy” Chris Christie, the first memorably admirable politician I've ever heard of who hails from New Jersey.  After that, I'll be in deep-blue Obama country, in Stamford, Connecticut...

The Unraveling of ObamaCare...

Investor's Business Daily has an excellent piece about ObamaCare posted.  It concludes:

Remember the days of sharing the burden and spreading the wealth? These 30 waivers exempt coverage for around a million workers, teachers, farmers and young people who can now go to the polls with a little less angst. The rest of us working for other companies and small businesses who got no waivers aren't so lucky.

The irony here is that most of these million workers are on the lower end of the income scale, the very people ObamaCare was supposed to help by getting them the insurance they couldn't afford on their own. They nearly got priced out of the market.

We were told everybody had to be unconstitutionally forced to buy health insurance or the plan wouldn't work. We were told health care costs would be lower, rates wouldn't rise and that if we liked our coverage we could keep it. We were lied to. The plan still doesn't work.

What we're seeing is ObamaCare revealed as the fraud that it is. The waivers granted leave us with an "Animal Farm" version of health care in which everyone is equal, but the politically favored in an election year are more equal than others.

Remember this, please, on November 2...

This is What Happens...

...when you continue a little further down the path this country has been on, and that Obama et al would like it to stay on.

I'm feeling hopeful that on November 2nd, the voters will deliver a course correction...

Quote of the Day...

By Claire Berlinski, writing at Ricochet:

God must love the lazy, mendacious socialist nimrods; he made so many of them.

Believe it or not, this is her conclusion of a post (well worth reading) about the blurb on a book about Margaret Thatcher!