[Bret L]

David Axelrod’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

"I’ve got to bet that David Axelrod’s blood pressure is high at the moment, what with his prize pupil slipping the leash at yesterday’s news conference and letting everybody know what’s really on his mind. And now, Obama’s getting a second day of headlines over GatesGate.

From ABC News:

President Obama today stood by his comments that the Cambridge,
Mass., police department acted “stupidly” in its arrest of Henry Louis
Gates, telling ABC News that the Harvard University professor should
not have been arrested.

President says he doesn’t regret his criticism of Cambridge police
department.

“I have to say I am surprised by the controversy surrounding my
statement, because I think it was a pretty straightforward commentary
that you probably don’t need to handcuff a guy, a middle-aged man who
uses a cane, who’s in his own home,” Obama said.

In an exclusive interview with ABC’s Terry Moran to air on
“Nightline” tonight, Obama said it doesn’t make sense to him that the
situation escalated to the point that Gates was arrested.

“I think that I have extraordinary respect for the difficulties of
the job that police officers do,” the president told Moran. “And my
suspicion is that words were exchanged between the police officer and
Mr. Gates and that everybody should have just settled down and cooler
heads should have prevailed. That’s my suspicion.”

At this point, Axelrod must have been feeling a bit better about Obama
getting back on script.

The president said he understands the sergeant who arrested Gates
is an “outstanding police officer.”

Good, thinks the President’s handler, Now just wrap it up, get back to
health care, and you can go smoke a whole pack of Lucky Strikes.

But he added that with all that’s going on in the country with
health care and the economy and the wars abroad, “it doesn’t make
sense to arrest a guy in his own home if he’s not causing a serious
disturbance.”

Oh, noooooooo! What with all that’s going on in the country with
health care and the economy and the wars abroad, what doesn’t make any
sense is for my client, the President of the United States of America,
to get publicly obsessed over a local police incident!

Cambridge Police Department Commissioner Robert C. Haas said in a
press conference late Thursday that his department was “deeply pained”
by the president’s comments yesterday.

Watch “Nightline” Tonight at 11:35 p.m. ET for Terry Moran’s full
interview with President Obama

By the way, if you want to understand why Obama slips loose from
Axelrod’s master plan and does these kind of self-destructive things
every now and then, please buy my reader’s guide to the President’s
memoir, America’s Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama’s “Story of Race and
Inheritance.”

http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2009/...-very-bad-day/

[Trevor Wilson]

"Bret L" wrote in message
...
In other words, AGW is horse****.

**Well, no. Feel free to submit your evidence. Make certain it comes from a
reputable scientific source. Those whacko religious/right wing political
sources don't count. In your evidence, please explain how the glaciers in
Greenland are moving towards the sea at a rate which is much faster than a
few decades ago. Here's some cites that you need to refute:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0527121055.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_ice_sheet

http://images.google.com.au/images?h...title&resnum=4

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=3606

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/0...sea-level.html

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science...ing/index.html

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...glaciers-melti

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...aciers-melting

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...el-predicts-gr

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...ise-sea-levels


OTOH, we may be in for an ice age,

**********. Complete ********, in fact. There is zero evidence of such a
thing. The TREND in world temepatures is clearly up. Year to year variations
are to be expected, but the TREND is up.

no matter what we do. In fact, doing nothing may be far better than
the wrong thing.

**More ********. Here's some stuff that we know (beyond any doubt):

* Since the dawn of the industrial revolution, CO2 levels have risen by more
than 30%.
* CO2 is a known greehouse gas (GHG).
* Ice core data tells us that the rise in temperatures is faster than at any
time in the last 600,000 years.
* Ice core data tells us that the rise in CO2 levels is faster than at any
time in the last 600,000 years.
* Ice core data tells us that CO2 levels and temperatures are closely
linked. Sometimes CO2 leads temperature rise and sometimes it lags.

The real concern is that we *may* be approaching a 'tipping point', beyond
which there is nothing humans can do to stave off disaster. Most scientists
feel that this level is around 500ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. A handful of
scientists believe it is already too late. Either way, we need to address
the issue right now. There is deep concern that the release of methane from
permafrost areas will cause global warming to become unmanageable. Methane
is a more powerful GHG than CO2.



--
Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au