From the "every cloud has a silver lining" department, via WSJ.com:
Brígido de Jesús González lived in Queens, N.Y., for the past 20 years, working as a landscaper to support his wife and kids back in El Salvador. But with the recession clobbering his business, the illegal immigrant decided to pack up and return to his native country -- for good.
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The developed world, which for decades has offered a difficult but promising path to upward mobility, appears to be losing its allure. Unemployment is rising, and backlashes against foreign workers are mounting. The result is potentially the biggest turnaround in migration flows since the Great Depression, economists say.
I guess this means that Americans are now willing to do those jobs Americans won't do?
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On the father of the global warming climate change movement, NASA's James Hansen, from the Weekly Standard:
William Gray, a professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University, also describes Hansen's belief in a man-made global-warming catastrophe as "almost religious" and says he "never understood how [Hansen] got such a strong voice" in the debate. Gray's efforts to predict hurricanes also lead him to question Hansen's computer models. "He doesn't have the clouds in right, and he doesn't have the deep ocean circulation," Gray says. "It's a giant scam in my view."
Yet Hansen has been well rewarded by the scientific community for his efforts, winning the American Meteorological Society's highest award for atmospheric science earlier this year. Gray says he was "appalled at that," particularly in light of the fact that Hansen wasn't even trained as a -meteorologist. Gray distributed a paper describing the choice as a "hijacking" of the AMS: "By presenting Hansen with its highest award, the AMS implies it agrees with his faulty global temperature projections and irresponsible alarmist rhetoric," Gray wrote.
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Hansen's "testimony is not working out" anyway. There's been a "slight cooling since 2001. . . . They're scrambling," he says. And indeed Hansen got caught with his hand in the cookie jar in 2007, when Stephen McIntyre, the man who debunked the infamous "hockey stick" graph showing stable Northern Hemisphere surface temperatures for most of the last millennia before a sharp upturn, found a flaw in Hansen's numbers. McIntyre analyzed NASA's temperature records for the last century and found that, contrary to Hansen's charts, 1998 was not the hottest year on record. That honor belongs to 1934, and five of the ten hottest years on record are now found prior to World War II.
Theon says the same kind of models that now predict runaway warming were predicting runaway cooling prior to 1975, when the popular fear was not melting ice caps but a new ice age, and "not one model predicted the cooling we've had since 1998." Spencer insists "it's all make believe--if you took one look at the assumptions that go into this, you'd laugh." But none of that seems to matter too much.
"Gore was in his corner and now the president is in his corner," Theon says. "They don't understand what the hell is going on."
Not only does this really suck, it's downright scary what these people have been able to do to our modern American society in the name of junk science. No doubt the June snowfall being reported today on Drudge is due to global warming... Just ask Jim Hansen.
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Notable quote from RightWingNews' John Hawkins, on Facebook:
European nations had problems with Bush because his policies were too pro-American. With Obama, issues crop up because he's arrogant & rude.
It makes me angry because, not only is he ruining the country, but he's so damned priggish while doing it...
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True love means never having to say you're sorry. Unfortunately, our current President feels no great love for America, and, instead, feels the need to tell everyone, "We're so sorry..." Writing at the American Daily Review, Robert Garding asks,
Where in the campaign process, did we let the candidates know, that we wanted a President, who would run around the world to our enemies, and apologize to them for what America has done?
Of course, he's reacting to the Magic Obama's latest apology tour, this time in the Islamic world.
Obama conceded at the beginning of his remarks yesterday, that tension “has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.”
“And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear,” said the president, who recalled hearing prayer calls of “azaan” at dawn and dusk while living in Indonesia as a boy.
“Islam is not part of the problem in combatting violent extremism — it is an important part of promoting peace,” he said.
And I always thought that part of the responsibility of the President of the United States was to defend and protect the Constitution. Silly me, I had no idea. Gardin further notes
he is again, apologizing for America to a people, who do not like America in the first place. He is showing weakness to these people, by apologizing to them for something America had nothing to do with.
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I may be wrong here, but isn’t the President of the United States supposed to be overseas when he is there, showing the world what America does for other people, rather than apologizing for everything America has done, conveniently leaving out all the good that America has done over the years?
Come on Obama. America is not as bad as you make her out to be. Sure, there are flaws in her…….but for crying out loud, do we have to wait until the next president to hear something good about America come from the lips of an American president? I certainly hope not, but I am beginning to believe that we will have to ……. wait that is. Because Mr. Obama is nothing more than a powerful man, with a huge chip on his shoulder, that shows in everything the man says.
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I'm so sorry. Yes, so very sorry I am. But I'm NOT sorry HAHAHA!
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David Horowitz: Been there. Done that. This guy knows the American left, and the danger it poses to America's well being. And now, one of them occupies the Oval Office...
My parents were members of the American Communist Party and I was part of the progressive left, which was the communist left, and which has grown ominously large today, and has seen its candidate elected to the White House. I was the editor of the largest magazine of the New Left, which was organized by the children of communists, so-called red diaper babies like myself. We regarded America as the enemy. We began as an isolated political minority, but the hate America crowd has grown alarmingly in size since then. Today, nobody is embarrassed about slandering his own country even in time of war — and this includes our current president, who recently apologized for the actions of his country to Latin American communists, Jew-haters and self-declared enemies, such as Venezuela’s Chavez and Nicaraguan jefe Daniel Ortega, a degenerate who molested his own daughter.
In Obama’s presence Ortega went into a rant against America claiming that our government conducted a “terrorist” war against Nicaragua in the 1980s, when in fact American pressure forced an end to the Sandinista dictatorship and the re-institution of a free press and open elections. What was President Obama’s response to the Ortega attack? “Well, I was only six years old at the time.” In other words, an apology for our “terrorist” acts against the Marxist dictatorship. This is disgraceful and also dangerous.
On so-called "progressives:
Anybody who has ever encountered a progressive up close in any kind of political disagreement knows that this is a hate movement. They hate conservatives; they hate Republicans; they hate white males, and increasingly they hate Christians and Jews.
Indeed. All in the name of "tolerance"
Now, LIGHTEN UP! Take the Sykes comment for what it's meant: a retort to HER crudeness. Sometimes you gotta fight fire with fire...]
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