Polling the Occupy Wall Street Mob

Below, I am quoting longtime Democrat Douglas Schoen (former pollster for Bill Clinton). Schoen compares the 1970 violent and destructive protestors to the current Occupy Wall Street protestors. Schoen correctly notes that the 1970 protestors then represented the lunatic fringe of the Democrats. Schoen mistakenly believes the current Occupy Wall Street protestors are the analog of their 1970 counterparts. He’s wrong.

The Occupy Wall Street mob now represents the base of the Democrat Party. Schoen advises the Dims to distance themselves from this mob. They cannot and will not -- this is their base. In 2012, their own base will bring them down.

Today, Dims can only win elections by cleverly disguising who they really are. Obama won by pretending to be a moderate. Does anybody believe that anymore? The Occupy Wall Street mob has forced their hand. They can no longer pretend they are not radical Socialists. They are now forced to admit it. In doing so, the Dims will lose the Independent vote and, thereby, lose the 2012 elections.

For that, the rest of America owes a debt of gratitude to the OWS mob and all the affiliate mobs.

Quoting Douglas Schoen
at The Wall Street Journal:

“President Obama and the Democratic leadership are making a critical error in embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement—and it may cost them the 2012 election…

The protesters have a distinct ideology and are bound by a deep commitment to radical left-wing policies….

nearly one-third (31%) would support violence to advance their agenda.”

Click the image (from Occupy Denver)
& read the rest:

Click here for a more realistic look at the Occupy Mob.
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Debunking Raymond L. Orbach's CAGW Letter

Updated on 10/13/11 at 1:16PM MDT to include more info.
True believers in the catastrophic man made global warming myth seem impressed by a letter to the WSJ editor by one Raymond L. Orbach. So, let’s debunk it:

1) Orbach’s central point is that satellite data show a warming trend over the last 30 years. True enough (thanks to the most recent -- perfectly natural -- AMO warming cycle). Carefully examine that link in it’s entirety and you’ll find all that is necessary to fully debunk Orbach’s letter.

Notable in that debunking is the fact that the longer term trend shows the planet has, for hundreds of years, been naturally warming at “a steady trend rate of 0.5°C per century” -- a full order of magnitude LESS than the (not at all unusual) 30 year AMO driven trend touted by Orbach. What follows is just (some very tasty) icing on the cake.

2) Orbach cites a paper allegedly claiming that a trend of at least 17 years is required “to detect overall trends.”

I have a theory as to how that (odd) number was calculated -- pretty simple really:

A) NOAA is on record stating:

“The trend in the ENSO-related component for 1999–2008 is +0.08±0.07°C decade, fully accounting for the overall observed trend. The trend after removing ENSO (the "ENSO-adjusted" trend) is 0.00°±0.05°C decade.”

2010 was an El Nino driven warm year (part of the ENSO variations). Hence, the satellite data demonstrate that the ENSO-adjusted flat trend continues (making for 13 years without any global warming).

B) Phil Jones (of ClimateGate infamy) is on record stating that there has been no “statistically significant” global warming since 1995 (16 years ago). That assessment, by the way, met NOAA’s 15 year standard for invalidating all the IPCC computer models (see the link for substantiation).

So, is it mere coincidence that 17 years is now determined to be the (revised) magical number? You decide.

3) The nature of climate change is that there are countless natural cycles embedded within other natural cycles (which, in turn, are embedded within still more natural cycles). Human activity has probably contributed some very tiny (and utterly inconsequential) amount of warming. But, the fact is that there is nothing about current temperatures or current trends which is even remotely close to falling outside the bounds of natural variations.

Truth is, the warmists always want us to examine only their carefully cherry picked date ranges (and ignore all others). They are particularly keen on making sure we never look as far back as the previous (perfectly natural) interglacial warming period (much less the 3 very similar warming periods which preceded that one). Yeah, the data from those Vostok ice cores are particularly “inconvenient”, eh?

Click here for some basic climate change science.
Click here to debunk the hysteria topic by topic.

Wall Street Mob - You LIE!

So-called “Progressives” always lie. Their entire ideology is pure mythology. Ergo, their ideology requires them to lie.

The Occupy Wall Street mob claims to represent 99% of Americans. That is a GIANT lie. It would be extremely generous to say that this mob represents the least productive 10% of Americans. It’s probably more like 1%.

The Occupy Wall Street mob claims the top 1% do not pay their “fair share”. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Click the image & debunk the lies:

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A Dispatch from Inside Occupy DC

The entire Occupy _____ (fill in the blank) movement is hopelessly ill-informed.

As I extensively documented in a prior post, the financial sector was guilty only of doing exactly what Big Government enabled and encouraged them to do. The protestors are right to be angry. But, their anger is misdirected. They should be protesting the Corruptocrats in the Democrat Party who undeniably created this mess (and then -- by pursuing policies long ago proven to consistently fail -- proceeded to make it far, FAR worse).

Below, find a sampling of the Occupy DC mob:

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Johnny Cashless Sings 'Obama's Prison Blues'

Johnny Cashless sings
“Obama’s Prison Blues”:

Click here for the September edition of Obama’s Epic Failure.

Foster The People - Pumped up Kicks

On balance, I detest SNL. In general, SNL substantiates the case that the so-called “Progressive” ideology is a mental disorder (with Manhattan being ground zero for the most severe manifestation of said mental disorder).

Never the less, there are three reasons why I DVR every new episode of SNL (and then watch, at most, about 15 to 20 minutes of the program).

1) The opening skit is occasionally amusing (this week was not).

2) Weekend Update is usually amusing (even when spewing Leftist propaganda).

3) SNL is my one remaining connection to the world of pop music. Usually, this segment only causes me to shake my head at what passes for talent these days. But, on very rare occasions, I find something at least marginally impressive (or, if not impressive, at least fresh, original, creative, unique or otherwise intriguing).

Last week, the country music group Lady Antebellum was enjoyable. One thing I appreciated was a very attractive female performer who -- unlike most these days -- was NOT dressed like a $2 hooker. Their song -- Just a Kiss -- was sweet, innocent and charming. Their other song -- We Owned the Night -- was also a good one.

This week, the musical guest was “Foster the People”. The name was familiar. But, I had never sampled their music. They performed their most popular song - “Pumped up Kicks”.

The music -- composed before the lyrics -- is catchy, upbeat dance music (with a carefree whistling interlude). The lyrics are dark as hell -- getting inside the mind of a homicidal Columbine style perp. It makes for an intriguing contradiction (and style point #1).

SNL being SNL, my expectation was that there was some gun control message lurking in there somewhere -- apparently not.

Mark Foster is quoted to say:

“To me the epidemic isn’t gun violence; the epidemic is lack of family, lack of love, and isolation.”

That sounds like a family values assessment any Conservative could agree with.

Foster the People
perform “Pumped up Kicks” on SNL:

Click here for the official music video.
Click here for another live version (Austin City Limits).
Is the ACL audience a little too into the chorus? Disturbing?
Do they all get it? Is it a massive display of irony in action?
Or, just dumb kids mindlessly regurgitating a catchy chorus?
The second song from Foster the People -- Houdini -- featured a nice soprano sax solo from Kenny G, but did not grab me as much. That said, the lyrics seemed to me to address free speech principles (apparently, trampled upon by MTV), property rights and the virtue of striving to be your best -- again, Conservative values. But, that’s just my interpretation.

September 2011 Update - USA Temperature Trend

1) This post deals with USA temperatures.
2) Click here to address global temperature trends.
3) Click here to reproduce each NOAA graph below.
4) Note the warming bias (about 30%) in NOAA data.

81 Year USA Trend for September.
A warming of 0.03F per decade?
OMG! Is it time to panic yet?

With the 30% warming bias,
is this actually a cooling trend?

Click the image to enlarge it:

Please! Tell me again who thinks it is a good idea to utterly waste $76 TRILLION in order to pretend we can micromanage climate change. Kyoto has already PROVEN that we can waste all the money we want and we will not even come CLOSE to changing the global temperature in any way which could even be measured.

Furthermore, history tells us that the estimate of $76 TRILLION would balloon into at LEAST a full order of magnitude above that figure.

Click here for some basic climate change science.
Click here to debunk the hysteria topic by topic.