Hennessy's View

Watts Up With That has a graph illustrating the ridiculous extent to which James Hansen has gone to perpetuate his global warming myth. Hansen has rewritten US temperature data of the past 2 centuries–as if he was there.

It’s time for NASA to fire Hansen. The DOJ should open a fraud investigation.

Link: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/28/nasa-giss-adjustments-galore-rewriting-climate-history/

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In Honduras, the military overthrew a democratically elected president who used his election to seize dictatorial powers. Good for the military, which acted on a Supreme Court order. Let’s hope the SCOTUS will have the berries to shut down TheOne’s continuing slide into despotism.

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As a candidate, Barack Obama swore he would throw open the activities of government to light of public scrutiny.  In his inauguration, he swore to disclose everything.  As President, he has instituted strict rules of secrecy on White House actions–except those of his predecessors.

Now, Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff, no friend of the right, notices the incongruity between Obama’s promises and his actual openess.

He finds that Obama’s openess executive order contains loopholes that the media have ignored until now.  For example, the memo requires transparency only “if practicable.”  More limiting, transparency applies only to “pending legislation,” not to the White House’s continuing practice legislating by presidential decree.

But Isikoff failed to point out that the White House routine violates the legislation rules.  Meetings, memos, and the legislation itself was intentionally hidden from public inspection.

Kudos to Isikoff for having the courage to point out this continuing act of hypocrisy by Obama.  Let’s hope he keeps it up after the White House revokes Newsweek’s press passes.

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You should be, too.

The tally of continuing claims, or benefits drawn by workers for more than one week, fell 148,000 to 6,687,000, the first weekly decline since the week ended Jan. 3 and largest since Nov. 24, 2001. (wsj.com)

That would be good news, but only if a) it’s true, and b) 148,000 more people found jobs than lost them last month.

Frankly, I think the government’s lying to us.

Obama had been claiming he would add 600,000 new jobs by the end of the summer.  Conveniently, these numbers come out one week later.  Hmmm.

I’ll wait to see if there’s an adjustment down the road.  Obama is a statist, like Stalin and Mussolini.  I simply don’t believe a word coming out of the White House.

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I told you so.

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