Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Raw temperature data have all been changed, 20% of it 16 times in the last 2.5 years

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So says Marcia Glaze Wyatt here : "Raw data is adjusted, sometimes justifiably (yet still injecting uncertainty), yet sometimes...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Debt ceiling follies: The total public debt hit $18.152 trillion in mid March, but somehow the Treasury Dept. kept paying the bills for eight months without defaulting

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March 2015 November 2015

Still waiting for Real Clear Politics to add the Reuters poll released over two hours ago

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As usual Paul Krugman is full of crap about Republicans and jobs

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Here : "[P]rivate-sector employment is eight million higher than it was when Barack Obama took office, twice the job gains achiev...

Give 'em hell, Harry: The South China Sea is no more China's than the Gulf of Mexico is Mexico's

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Admiral Harry Binkley Harris, Jr., Commander, USPACOM, quoted here : Harris has been a forceful advocate within the military for cha...
Monday, November 2, 2015

Carson beats Trump in another national poll, this time NBC/WSJ (last time CBS/NYT -- when ABC/WaPo flip you'll know it's a conspiracy)

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Just 2 extreme heat events in Grand Rapids in the last 50 years, but 14 in the 70 years before that

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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Of course Ben Carson wants the debates taken off television

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Television is Donald Trump's home turf.

An El Nino forecast for winter in Grand Rapids Michigan July 2015 - June 2016

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Mean snowfall 66.7, predicting 47.85 inches Mean heating degree days 6719, predicting 6148

Grand Rapids Michigan was warmer on average in October 2015 by 1.1 degrees F

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The cumulative anomaly for 2015 thus declines from -18.2 to -17.1 degrees F. That's now two months in a row with above average t...

It is amazing . . .

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(seen here ) "Elixor" at the beginning was the tell.
Saturday, October 31, 2015

China's nine-dash-line claim in the South China Sea will finally get its day in court

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But China won't be there to defend it. From the story here in The Diplomat: On Thursday, October 29, the Permanent Court of...

The New York Times criticizes Republican tax plans, pretending revenues are needed to cover spending

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Here : "All of these candidates deny fiscal reality. In the next 10 years, revenues will need to increase by 40 percent simply ...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Latest IBD poll reverses Trump to up 11 points to 28% from 17% last time, Fiorina down 6, Kasich down 3, Bush down 2

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US Senate passes House sequester buster, budget and debt ceiling package this morning at 3:00 AM

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They do nothing most "weeks", which run from Tuesday to Thursday, and then ram utter crap through in hours. Bunch of goose poo...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Just 79 Republicans voted for new budget, blowing sequestration caps, lifting the debt ceiling to March 2017, and attempting to decide all spending for two years, a complete rout of the conservatives

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The Roll Call vote is here , taken at 5:21 PM yesterday, before today's activities electing Ryan. Boehner voted for it after engin...

Ryan did not vote for Speaker this morning, nor did Webster, but Nancy Pelosi voted . . . for herself!

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Outgoing Speaker Boehner voted for Ryan. The Roll Call is here . The only Democrat not voting was Meeks. The Blue Dog Democrat...

Freedom Caucus caves, Paul Ryan elected Speaker of the House

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Ryan received 236 votes for the Speakership on the floor of the House this morning, Nancy Pelosi 184. 432 votes out of 435 were cast. I...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Rand Paul's warped view of unfunded liabilities

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"Your grandparents had too many kids." No Rand, we didn't have enough. Libertarian moron.

Huge flip-flop tonight by Ben Carson on oil subsidies and ethanol

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Said he was wrong to propose taking away oil subsidies to support others, never mentioning he originally meant Iowans and their ethanol ba...