Song Of The Day: Boat Drinks

“Cash For Clunkers” Failure Gets Pumped With More Funds

John Boehner (R-OH) posted this on Twitter earlier today:

They can’t run “cash for clunkers” but they want to run our health care?

Too much damn government as it is. Enough is enough.

The House passed a bill that gives the Cash For Clunkers program $2 Billion more, as its first $1 Billion was emptying quickly.

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House Energy and Commerce Committee Passes Health Care Bill 31-28

GOP picked up five Democrats.

The 31-28 vote in the House Energy and Commerce Committee came after several days of intense and often contentious negotiations between Democratic House leaders and an influential group of fiscal conservatives in the party.

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Song Of The Day: Fins

Obama’s Old Doctor Wants Single-Payer Health Care System

David Scheiner was Obama’s old doctor-why he’s in the news right now, I don’t know.

He doesn’t like Obama’s plan for health care reform (Universal Health Care) because, well, those damn annoying private insurers are still in the picture.

“If I had to say the single one thing which is the worst part of it, is that private insurers continue to be a part of the health scheme,” he said. “Everybody keeps saying we don’t want the government getting involved in health care. [But] the government is involved in Medicare, and it works.”

What he doesn’t know is that those pesky private insurers won’t be around for long!

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Alexander The Great Says…

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Song Of The Day: Born Under A Bad Sign

What Passes For Creating A New Job Is Astounding

The average lifetime of a new job in Oregon?

35 hours, or one work week. After that?

Back to unemployment.

How much are politicians straining to convince people that the government is stimulating the economy? In Oregon, where lawmakers are spending $176 million to supplement the federal stimulus, Democrats are taking credit for a remarkable feat: creating 3,236 new jobs in the program’s first three months.

But those jobs lasted on average only 35 hours, or about one work week. After that, those workers were effectively back unemployed, according to an Associated Press analysis of state spending and hiring data. By the state’s accounting, a job is a job, whether it lasts three hours, three days, three months, or a lifetime.

“Sometimes some work for an individual is better than no work,” said Oregon’s Senate president, Peter Courtney.

With the economy in tatters and unemployment rising, Oregon’s inventive math underscores the urgency for politicians across the country to show that spending programs designed to stimulate the economy are working — even if that means stretching the facts.

Wow…some “change”, huh?

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Global Warming: Anthropogenic Or Non-Anthropogenic? (Part I)

0.03%-0.04% of the Earth’s atmosphere is made of Carbon Dioxide, or CO2.

From CDIAC:

Anthropogenic CO2 comes from fossil fuel combustion, changes in land use (e.g., forest clearing), and cement manufacture. Houghton and Hackler have estimated land-use changes from 1850-2000, so it is convenient to use 1850 as our starting point for the following discussion. Atmospheric CO2 concentrations had not changed appreciably over the preceding 850 years (IPCC; The Scientific Basis) so it may be safely assumed that they would not have changed appreciably in the 150 years from 1850 to 2000 in the absence of human intervention.

In the following calculations, we will express atmospheric concentrations of CO2 in units of parts per million by volume (ppmv). Each ppmv represents 2.13 X1015 grams, or 2.13 petagrams of carbon (PgC) in the atmosphere. According to Houghton and Hackler, land-use changes from 1850-2000 resulted in a net transfer of 154 PgC to the atmosphere. During that same period, 282 PgC were released by combustion of fossil fuels, and 5.5 additional PgC were released to the atmosphere from cement manufacture. This adds up to 154 + 282 + 5.5 = 441.5 PgC, of which 282/444.1 = 64% is due to fossil-fuel combustion.

Atmospheric CO2 concentrations rose from 288 ppmv in 1850 to 369.5 ppmv in 2000, for an increase of 81.5 ppmv, or 174 PgC. In other words, about 40% (174/441.5) of the additional carbon has remained in the atmosphere, while the remaining 60% has been transferred to the oceans and terrestrial biosphere.

The 369.5 ppmv of carbon in the atmosphere, in the form of CO2, translates into 787 PgC, of which 174 PgC has been added since 1850. From the second paragraph above, we see that 64% of that 174 PgC, or 111 PgC, can be attributed to fossil-fuel combustion. This represents about 14% (111/787) of the carbon in the atmosphere in the form of CO2.

14%.

Carbon Dioxide didn’t cause global warming then, and it doesn’t now.

Think about it…

So if Carbon Dioxide does not cause Global Warming, what does?

To be continued…

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Says…

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.