Does Dan Rather Fact Check Hardball?

The other night, Chris Matthews had a feeling about President Obama’s birth certificate. He did not indicate which body part was affected this time, but the feeling apparently resolved itself into a sense of certainty with regard to Mr. Obama’s birthplace. Not surprisingly, President Obama’s explanation was air tight for Mr. Matthews. More objective analysis would suggest that even though the proffered evidence is not air tight, Mr. Matthews may not be getting enough oxygen.

It would hardly be unusual for a baby to born outside of a hospital in Hawaii in 1961. Given that Hawaii is an island chain, births outside of hospitals are probably not unusual even today and issuing birth certificates for those children is most likely a routine matter. It is not hard to imagine how one could obtain a Hawaiian birth certificate for a baby born outside the state.

 The recently issued Certificate of Live Birth and the published birth announcements, while offering irrefutable proof to Mr. Matthews, are not conclusive evidence of where Mr. Obama was born.

Why Can’t President Obama Apologize?

President Obama, let me be clear, incorrectly claimed that Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested on suspicion of burglary. Unfortunately, President Obama lacks the integrity to apologize for his own misdeeds, preferring to limit his apologies to the service of slandering others.

Obama, Gates: Clueless

Professor Gates thought he won lottery -  a police officer, a WHITE police officer, sought to discern if Harvard University Professor Gates was a burglary suspect in Gates own home!

President Obama, always confident and sure, convicted the police officer of misdeeds despite the facts.

Blinded by self regard, both men have embarrassed themselves over this incident.

President Obama Speaks the Truth

Freudian slip? Teleprompter malfunction? Who knows, but President Obama manages to get the truth out on Health Care Reform in this link.

http://www.politico.com/largevideobox.html?bcpid=14146694001&bclid=1201016315&bctid=30084668001

That 70′s Show

In case there wasn’t enough overwhelming evidence of the Obama Administration’s complete lack of new ideas, the AP, through Breibart, reports that President Obama is seeking price controls for medical costs.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99GD8QG2&show_article=1

Ooh! Ooh! Mr. Kotter! I know how this one turns out!

Are the Studios at NPR Too Close to the Transmitters?

On Fox News Sunday today, Mara Liasson of NPR put forth the  idea that all income that is not taxed, is subsidized. The context was a discussion of health insurance benefits provided by employers.

I’d recommend reading the transcripts for some gems of eqaul quality from Juan Williams. I’d list some here, but Mr. Williams was overwhelming with his performance today.

Are the recording studios at NPR too close to the powerful electromagnetic fields of the transmitters? Just wondering.

The Post Sells Access, Part 2 of 2 – The Publisher Stonewalls

Katherine Weymouth Publisher of The Wahington Post, wrote a letter to the readers blaming the  author of a “flyer” with mistating the context of the events. No mention of why money was involved.

The Post “Sells” Access, Part 1 of 2, The News Media Miss the Real Story

Par for the course, the news media have missed the real story of the Washington Post “selling access’.

If an executive were to pay a lobbying firm to get that kind of access, it would cost a lot more than $25,000 in billable hours. $25,000 is the catering bill for a Washington insider dinner/cocktail party. A small party at that. The real story is not that the Post was selling access, but that financial conditions have deteriorated so drastically that the parties could no longer be expensed without a care. What were up to now limited to insider cronies are now available to the public. The Post finally gets a chance to practice the egalitarianism it has always preached.

What Science Tells Us About Thomas Friedman

Thomas L. Friedman is a man of widely recognized talents, however his ability to synthesize a large body of woefully inadequate knowledge to make pronouncements as to what “science tells us” is not one of them. In Mr. Friedman’s June 30, 2009 NYT column he does just that with regard to climate change.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/opinion/01friedman.html

He is accurate when he claims that “science tells us” that climate changes, but that’s about the limit of what science knows. Climate changes on a much larger scale than the history of human scientific observation. What our limited observations have revealed is far from fully understood. Despite billions and billions of dollars spent on “global warming science” simple mechanisms such as the ‘greenhouse effect’ are not understood beyond a theoretical level. Basic laboratory research remains to confirm the theory.

In this article I put forth the scientific theory that a thorough cataloging of Mr. Friedman’s knowledge of global warming will reveal a vast store of anecdotal evidence typified by An Inconvenient Truth and very little understanding of the data and mechanisms of climate change.

Like any other scientist, I am seeking grant money to further my research into this important aspect of global warming. Please contact me through this blog to send money.

Light Bulbs, Windmills, Electric Cars… What’s the Point?

This story had a little factoid that caught my eye. It’s a window into the whole man-made global warming phenomena.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/29/AR2009062902499_pf.html

166,000,000 to 14.

Or

11,857,142 to 1.

 That’s the ration of car emissions to one 500MW coal fired power plant. For the money spent on saving GM we could have built 7GW of nuclear power and then some.