Alabama Right News: Dec 29, 2010

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Society of Professional Journalists Launches Illegal Alien Amnesty Campaign

from Big Journalism by Dan Riehl

Society of Professional Journalists Launches Illegal Alien Amnesty Campaign: "

Of course the Society of Professional Journalists would have a “Diversity Committee.” How else could liberals continue on with the thought policing of which they became so fond in college? Now, according to the SPJ’s The Quill, they think the AP style book should be changed to provide amnesty to illegal aliens until they are proven to be in the U.S. illegally.

Frequent use of the phrases “illegal immigrant” and “illegal alien” by our mainstream media is being questioned in order to remain faithful to the principles of our U.S. Constitution.

SPJ’s Diversity Committee met during the 2010 convention in Las Vegas and decided to engage in a yearlong educational campaign designed to inform and sensitize journalists as to the best language to use when writing and reporting on undocumented immigrants.

Megyn Kelly picked up on the topic at Fox News. Now, TPM is taking out after her. Given that so many self-professed journalists so routinely perform journalistic malpractice of the JournoList variety today, in the spirit of being certain, I propose we stop calling all of them journalists. We can just call them something fun, like typing monkeys, until we’re absolutely convinced they are capable of producing something akin to objective journalism, as opposed to the usual liberal spew they regularly regurgitate on cue.

Unfortunately, thanks to foolish constructs like the SPJ’s diversity committee, what was once thought to be a vital, objective and independent force in American democracy – journalism, is very often little more than liberal tripe. Genuine free thinkers need no longer apply.

Plenty of conservatives are pretty upset over a campaign by the Society of Professional Journalists to convince reporters to stop using the terms “illegal aliens” and “illegal immigrants” in favor of “undocumented immigrant.” But none are as livid as perpetually outraged Fox News host Megyn Kelly, who on Wednesday afternoon asked if journalists were going to start calling rapists “non-consensual sex partners” next.

“You could say that a burglar is an unauthorized visitor. You know, you could say that a rapist is a non-consensual sex partner which, obviously, would be considered offensive to the victims of those crimes,” Kelly said. “So how far could you take this?”

China Manufacturing Growth Slows

from WSJ.com: About China

China Manufacturing Growth Slows: "Chinese manufacturing growth and the pace of price increases both slowed in December but were still at relatively high levels, an HSBC Index showed."

Obama Bypasses Senate to Fill Posts

from Business News & Financial News - The Wall Street Journal - WSJ.com

Obama Bypasses Senate to Fill Posts: "Obama, sidestepping Congress, named the first U.S. ambassador to Syria in nearly six years and a deputy attorney general in recess appointments after the nominations ran into trouble among Republicans.

Tom Friedman & NY Times Editors Ambush & Attack Israeli Diplomat

from Gateway Pundit by Jim Hoft

Tom Friedman & NY Times Editors Ambush & Attack Israeli Diplomat: "

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Disgusting. Columnist and communist China supporter Tom Friedman and the anti-Israel editors of The New York Times ambushed a top Israeli diplomat telling him they were sick of his racist country.

Israel Today reported, via Israel Matsav:

The New York Times, flagship of the liberal American media, has never been a friend of the Jewish state. But the newspaper’s aversion to Israel turned to open hostility this month when its top editors ambushed and tore into an unsuspecting senior official from the Israeli Consulate in New York City.

The Israeli official was invited by the Times editors, among them rabid columnist Thomas Friedman, to meet with them at their office. Being a veteran at dealing with the American media, the official assumed the invitation was for a friendly discussion and perhaps an interview regarding the peace process and other matters of importance to Israel.

The Israeli had no idea he was being invited for what he described as a lynch.

As the meeting started, the Times editors – most of them Jews, and one of them a former Israeli – began to attack the Israeli diplomat, and refused to give him even a moment to respond.

They blamed Israel for everything, the diplomat told Israel Today.

The Times editors insisted the breakdown of the peace process was Israel’s fault, that the lack of peace was Israel’s fault, and were adamant that Israel had given nothing to the Palestinians. They accused Israel of being an extremist and racist state, and blasted the diplomat for Israel’s “ill-treatment” of President Barack Obama.

In short, the Times staff informed the Israeli in no uncertain terms that they were sick of his country.

The diplomat told us he was shocked by the attack. He tried to respond, but the Times editors were not interested in hearing his arguments.

CNN Poll: Plurality of Public Thinks Obama's Policies Will Fail; Fewer People Are Even Hoping He Succeeds

from Ace of Spades HQ by Ace

CNN Poll: Plurality of Public Thinks Obama's Policies Will Fail; Fewer People Are Even Hoping He Succeeds: "Four words: We hope he fails? Not really 'we' because 61% of the public says they want Obama's policies to succeed; but that's down a big 10% since the December before last. President Barack Obama enters the new year with..."

Shocker: Fox News Obliterates Cable Competition

from JammieWearingFool by JammieWearingFool

Shocker: Fox News Obliterates Cable Competition: "How bad is it for the Fox News Derangement Syndrome crowd? Even a "rising star" like Rachel Maddow has seen its ratings slip 14%. Um, I think that rising star just crashed somewhere east of Albuquerque.The Nielsen numbers are in for 2010, and in the battle for cable news ratings supremacy, Fox News took the title for the ninth year in a row -- bludgeoning the competition for another year.The"

Europe’s winter set to be the “coldest in 300 years”

from Liberty Pundits Blog by Jennifer Caballero

Europe’s winter set to be the “coldest in 300 years”: "

Global warming excuse isn’t cutting it anymore.

Europe is set to have their worst winter in 300 years, according to several UK meteorologists.

Is the World Peace Council Communist?

from New Zeal: Security Risk? More Evidence of Mary Jo Kilroy's ... by Trevor Loudon

Is the World Peace Council Communist?: " Is the World Peace Council communist?

Check out this video of World Peace council protests against NATO, Lisbon, Portugal, November 20, 2010. Clue:the red flags are a bit of a hint.

Communist Party USA affiliate and Greater New Haven Peace Council activist Henry Lowendorf, attended this event.

12-29-2010 The Weekly Claw

from Red White Blue News by The Crawfish

12-29-2010 The Weekly Claw: "

The staff of The Claw hopes that all of y’all had a blessed Christmas. We (okay…I) wish you a wonderful, happy, prosperous New Year.

John Kerry-Heinz has just brought to our attention one of the reasons that he lost to liberal George W. Bush. The gold-digger thinks that it would be irresponsible and a waste of the Senate’s time to actually read the 1924 page, $1,100,000,000,000.00+ omnibus budget bill. He is an idiot of the First Order. His buddy, Representative (he only represents himself, not the real people) John Conyers (Donkey-Meechiganistan) also doesn’t believe in reading the bill, stating “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?” This kind of arrogance is why the voters overwhelmingly voted for conservatives this year, and why this Congress has the lowest approval ratings in history. If the bill is too complex for a lawmaker to understand it, then it needs to be broken down into small parts and written in simple English, not lawyerese.

Once upon a time, His Majesty King Barack I promised that any bill that came to his desk would be posted online to be read and examined by the public for 5 days before he would sign it. Sooooooooo…why did he sign the tax compromise bill within hours of it being passed by the House? Why hasn’t the bill faced any court challenges, since the Constitution mandates that all tax bills originate in the House, when this one went through the Senate first?

So how extreme was the unholy troika of Obama-Reid-Pelosi? Consider the fact that the 111th Congress added more to our national debt than the first 100 Congresses COMBINED. That is what happens when liberals get unfettered control, and our grandchildren will pay for it if the nation is still in existence.

Glo-Bull Warming has struck Great Britain. They are reporting the coldest December since record keeping began. Has anybody heard any pronouncements from the Prophet Algoracle lately? Just in case any of you out there still believe him, here’s some more evidence of the fraud that is Glo-Bull Warming, and how the media and the leftists (sorry for repeating myself there) have been trying to hoodwink the people.

Meanwhile, Homeland Security Ditz Napolitano has created the Climate Change and Adaptation Task Force as part of her department. Its job is “identifying and assessing the impact that climate change could have on the missions and operations of the Department of Homeland Security.” Here’s some hints, ditz: If it rains, agents wear raincoats. If it snows, agents wear heavier coats. If it is muddy, agents use four-wheel drive vehicles instead of sedans. If it is hot and dry, agents drink all of the water from the jugs liberals put out to help the non-drybacks.

For those out there who still refuse to acknowledge that Barack Obama is a white-hating anti-American activist, take a look at the UN declaration that he has now signed onto. White taxpayers are now going to be forced to pay reparations to tribal Americans, and possibly give up lands which were once tribal lands. That means the ENTIRE nation for those of you who were educated by unionized teachers. Look for His Eminence to get the Useless Nations to put forth a similar declaration regarding slavery and the descendants of slaves in the near future.

In a move that is at least a century overdue, the incoming House leadership has instituted a new rule. All bills being filed with the House clerk must have their Constitutionality specifically cited, or the House clerk will not accept them. This rule would have prevented Obamacare, the GM takeover, multiple bailouts, the Community Reinvestment Act (the root cause of the credit crisis), Social Insecurity, Welfare, the amnesty bills, all of the New Deal and Great Society, and many more liberal programs that have been wrecking our nation.

For the first time in 63 years, there is no Kennedy in elected office in DC. Is there a coincidence that now the Constitution is going to be read and somewhat adhered to in the House? Those 63 years saw that document used as toilet paper by the Democratic Party and the liberal establishment wing of the GOP, including both Presidents Bush.

It is 85 pages worth, but the “Wastebook 2010” presented by Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma is OK) highlights the kind of spending by Congress that We The People have had it with.

Is it acceptable for any group to harass private citizens in their homes? Of course, the answer is no…unless that group of people happens to be a union during the reign of the SEIU and their minion, Barack Obama. Gotta love liberal thugs.

So how did the Religion of Peace observe the Christmas holidays? Well, take a look at the goings on in Nigeria, followed by more in the Philippines and this statement issued by members of that death cult. Religion of Peace my arse!

That same cult had 12 of its virgin-seekers arrested in London on terrorism charges, but Obama’s “consummate DNI” James Clapper knew nothing about it. If the Director of National Intelligence doesn’t know about major developments regarding terrorism, what does that say about the Keystone Kops that The Chosen One has put in charge of national security? Either he has purposely surrounded himself with idiots and morons in order to make HIM look smart, he wants our nation to be destroyed, or all of the above. I’m going with the third option.

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at CrawfishsClaw@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money. Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter’d your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil’d this sacred place, and turn’d the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress’d, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!” Oliver Cromwell, 1653, on dissolving the Long Parliament (fitting for today’s Congress)

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Don’t Buy The Washington Post’s False Choice on Immigration

from The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. by Conn Carroll

Don’t Buy The Washington Post’s False Choice on Immigration: "

The Washington Post editorializes today: “In a handful of Southern and Western states, Republican governors and lawmakers are vowing to replicate Arizona’s harshly nativist law or go even further with bills that would outlaw the presence of undocumented immigrants or require police to screen suspects for immigration status – or both. The assumption underlying such legislation is that the 11 million illegal immigrants in this country, including the 7 million who hold jobs, can and should be deported en masse.”

This is just plain false. Advocates for stronger immigration law enforcement do not believe that illegal immigrants should be deported en masse. Heritage analyst Jena McNeill explains:

Solving illegal immigration is more often than not phrased as a choice between amnesty and mass deportation. … Undoubtedly, this is a great line for an op-ed, but not representative of reality. Most Americans want a solution that does neither. They want an immigration system that enforces the law, helps the economy, betters America’s image, and brings new immigrants into the United States, much like their ancestors did not so long ago. This should be the goal of real immigration reform.

So what should Congress do about our broken immigration system. McNeill writes:

Securing the border. While substantial work has been done to secure the southern border, there are still significant actions that need to be taken in terms of ensuring that the technologies and infrastructure on the ground can work to assist Border Patrol agents in doing their jobs. Deployment of additional key technologies as well as robust cooperation between U.S. and Mexican law enforcement are vital for gaining control of the border.

Enforcement of immigration laws. Enforcement of current immigration laws inside the U.S. would discourage illegal immigration and the employment of illegal labor. Recent actions by the Administration, however, have degraded enforcement policies even further—including the Administration’s recent announcement that it would not enforce the law against “non-criminal” illegal aliens. Congress should insist on robust enforcement of immigration laws.

Emphasize legal immigration. The process by which individuals enter the country legally should be fair, orderly, and efficient—welcoming those who abide by immigration laws and denying entry and advantages to those who violate the law. Reforms in visa services are important for achieving this goal. The U.S. should pilot truly temporary worker programs that allow for a market-driven source of legal labor.

Left Begins to Recognize NEPA’s Role in Stimulus Failure

from The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. by Conn Carroll

Left Begins to Recognize NEPA’s Role in Stimulus Failure: "

President Barack Obama’s $814 billion stimulus has been a tremendous objective failure. The White House promised that unemployment would never rise above 8%. But this month the unemployment rose to 9.8 percent, marking the 19th consecutive month that our nation’s unemployment rate topped 9 percent, a post–World War II record. The failure of Obama’s economic stimulus is so evident that now even the left is beginning to ask why. Former Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee member and Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson notes in his op-ed today:

When Democratic senators and representatives voted to approve the $787 billion stimulus package nearly two years ago, the ones who came from swing states and districts knew they were taking a political risk. What they didn’t know was that the economic benefits of the stimulus would become so entangled in red tape that even today, much of that money remains unspent.

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At September’s end, just one-third of the $4.5 billion allocated to California for transportation projects had been spent, the state’s Web site shows. In Texas, just 5 percent of the funds allocated to the largest energy project had been expended, while in New York City, only 27 percent of the funds allocated for infrastructure and 3 percent of those targeted for improving energy efficiency had been spent. Some of this money is for long-term projects, but most of it isn’t.

So why is stimulus money on infrastructure not creating jobs? Meyerson first blames technology, reasoning that the “pick-and-shovel” projects of the New Deal have been replaced by “labor-saving (and job-reducing) machines.” Perhaps Meyerson believes the federal government could better create jobs by banning the use of computers. But next he stumbles upon some truth:

Part of the answer is that big government (the stimulus) was slowed by good-government requirements (environmental impact reports, competitive bidding and the like) that didn’t exist in the ’30s.

This is undeniably true. As we predicted before the stimulus was even signed into law, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) alone is red tape enough to kill the stimulative impact of any governemnt funded infrastructure project. Normally it takes a federal construction projects an average of 4.4 years to complete a NEPA review. Throw in the Clean Water Act’s section 404 requirements, and before a single shovel can hit the earth it usually takes 5.6 years for the average federal project to jump through all the normal environmental hoops.

Conservatives like Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) even offered an amendment that would have exempted federal stimulus projects from NEPA. But the enviro left was frightened that such an exemption might create a precedent for repealing NEPA and defeated it.

Perhaps all those liberals fretting over how to get unemployment below 8% might want to reconsider those priorities.

Boehner taps Alabama Republican to lead ethics committee in GOP House

from TheHill.com by dweaver@thehill.com (Susan Crabtree)

Boehner taps Alabama Republican to lead ethics committee in GOP House: "

Rep. Jo Bonner will assume the chairmanship of the panel amid turmoil over the ethics trials of two veteran Democrats.

Obama continues warming push as solar activity declines and cooling continues

from USACTION NEWS by Editor

Obama continues warming push as solar activity declines and cooling continues: "

By Obama’s own word this guarantees skyrocketing energy costs, which will impact the poor and middle class most as heating bills soar. It’s the political version of the song, “You always hurt the one you claim to love.”

Governments Prepare For Warming as Solar Activity Declines And Cooling Continues

By Dr. Tim Ball

A British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) story links the current weather with that of the Little Ice Age (LIA). They begin as follows; Astronomers have reported that the Sun is at its dimmest for almost a century.

It’s remarkable from the BBC because they’ve consistently pushed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) position that the sun has nothing to do with global warming or climate change.

Solar changes are responsible for most climate variations from cyclical changes in Sun/Earth relationships (the Milankovitch Effect), to changes in electromagnetic radiation (heat and light), to changes in cloud cover caused by varying cosmic radiation controlled by changing solar magnetism.

Solar activity is diminishing as those who questioned the anthropogenic warming (AGW) theory said.

Figure 1 shows sunspot activity slowing.

Source

The article talks about two previous coolings caused by reduced solar activity, the Dalton (1795-1823) and the Maunder (1645-1715) Minimums (Figure 2). Last year skeptics were speculating on conditions similar to the Dalton, but now Maunder is looking more likely.

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Michael Mann and deceivers at the IPCC eliminated the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) but they also removed the LIA in the handle of the “hockey stick”. They overrode extensive research that described conditions of the time with the help Obama’s science czar, John Holdren. Ironically, during the cooling period from 1940 to 1980 those who now exploit global warming were exploiting global cooling. Martin Parry and others were producing reports on the impacts of cooling on agriculture in various marginal regions. They used evidence from the Little Ice Age (LIA) to project expected changes. Parry later jumped on the warming wagon as co-chair of the 2007 IPCC Working Group II Report on Impacts. He dismissed as trivial the deception about melting Himalayan glaciers.

Historic Impacts

Recently a documentary on Scottish history made no mention of the climate changes associated with the LIA and the impact on the Highland Clearances.

In fact, history makes little sense unless you know the climate changes that triggered most change. Figure 3 shows the marginal and submarginal land throughout the British Isles. As temperatures declined from the MWP the height on the sides of the hills above which agriculture was not possible, lowered. An estimated 200 meter drop occurred, which doesn’t sound like much, but when converted to a gradient, expands into all the submarginal area. Impact on the County of Berwick (Figure 4) shows the dramatic decrease in agricultural area. Apparently wheat went out of production and wasn’t reintroduced until the latter part of the 19th century.

Highland clans were forced into the lowlands, which triggered clan warfare at the end of the 16th century. By 1600 an estimated 100,000 people were shipped to the Ulster Plantation (Northern Ireland). Countless others went to North America. Landowners reacted by pushing out most who tried to remain, replacing them with sheep and Highland Cattle.

Figure 3: Marginal and submarginal agricultural land

Source: Parry, Martin, et al. 1996. Report of the UK Climate Change Impacts Review Group. UK Department of the Environment, London. 2 July 1996.

Figure 4: County of Berwickshire, Scotland. Decreasing agricultural area

Figure 5: Agricultural and social impact

Philippine volcano Pinatubo erupted in 1991 and caused global temperatures to drop by 1°C in 1992. It was an opportunity to analyze the impact, but most of that focused on the weather and climate or the agriculture around the volcano. I saw the impact on Canada as corn failed to ripen and farmers used a desiccant to harvest grains. Figure 6 shows the estimated changes in Canadian agricultural potential of a 1°C drop.

Figure 6: Speculative Map of a 1°C temperature decline in Canada.

Warm Bias

Clearly the ability to adapt and adjust is better than it was in the 18th century, but some of that advantage is lost because the government is preparing for warming. Another problem is the IPCC focus on only the negative impacts of warming. This bias was a measure of the scientific disgrace and political bias of the their work. Among the most nasty attacks on anything I have written was for an article published in Canada, identifying the positive effects, which among others, includes a larger agricultural area, longer frost free growing seasons, reduced fuel consumption for home heating and vehicles, reduced road repairs because of less frost damage. People are only aware of the negative impacts of warming so they are unaware that the impacts of cooling are much more severe. For example, they warn of increased loss of life due to warming, but many more people die every year from cold even now. That would increase in a colder world.

Parry brushed aside criticisms of the 2007 Impact Report saying, “It is easy to forget the big picture, which is that the WG2 volume represents a sound and reliable statement of our knowledge.”

This is a totally false statement and only valid as it speaks to the massive deceptions Parry and the IPCC foist on the world. Beyond the multitude of errors there is the complete bias to warming. This type of bias has dominated everything they’ve done. “The Stern Review on the economics of climate change, which was commissioned by the Treasury, was greeted with headlines worldwide when it was published in October 2006. It contained dire predictions about the impact of climate change in different parts of the world. But it can be revealed that when the report was printed by Cambridge University Press in January 2007, some of these predictions had been watered down because the scientific evidence on which they were based could not be verified.”

They adjusted the Review because of false science from the IPCC Reports. What they ignored was that the Review only looked at the cost of warming. No reputable economist does such a single-sided study – a cost/benefit analysis is the standard approach.

They conned governments with one deception after another and precluded any chance of a logical and reasonable approach. Beyond the fact that doing nothing is the best policy, if you want to prepare you prepare for cooling because if you are wrong the adjustment to a warmer world is so much easier. Meanwhile the record colds continue. Hans Jelbring brought the following to my attention. The December 26, 2010 Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter the headlne reads Kallaste vintern sedan 1700-talet (Coldest winter since the 18th century). Atlanta, Georgia had the first white Christmas since 1882.

The denials and deceptions also continue. Included is corruption of the global temperature record to prove 2010 was the warmest on record. The Obama administration compounds the problems by not challenging the falsehoods and corruption but continues his plan to bankrupt the coal industry by imposing heavy restrictions on energy through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

By his word this guarantees skyrocketing energy costs, which will impact the poor and middle class most as heating bills soar. It’s the political version of the song, “You always hurt the one you claim to love.”

Dr. Tim Ball is a renowned environmental consultant and former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg. Dr. Ball employs his extensive background in climatology and other fields as an advisor to the International Climate Science Coalition, Friends of Science and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.” This article originally posted at Canada Free Press. Used by permission.

Dr. Ball can be reached at: Letters@canadafreepress.com

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