Read this if you want to understand the most expensive mistake in human history--------Climate Science Does Not Support IPCC Conclusions

Articles: Climate Science Does Not Support IPCC Conclusions:
"Since 2008, the Chicago-based, libertarian-leaning Heartland Institute has organized nine ICCCs (International Conferences on Climate Change).
Norman Rogers (American Thinker, Aug 9, 2014) has given a general overview of ICCC-9 (at Las Vegas), which attracted an audience of well over 600 and featured speakers from 12 nations.
Here I present a more detailed and personalized account of the two main science issues that appear to be of general concern.
The first has to do with future temperatures and the second has to do with future sea level rise (SLR)."

In my view, CS may actually be close to zero. This means CO2 has very little influence on climate change -- probably because of negative feedback. There is still debate, however, about what kind of negative feedback to expect. Should it come from water vapor or from clouds?  

1.  IPCC’s ever-changing, non-existing evidence for AGW 

First, I want to critique IPCC reports #1 (1990) to #5 (2013). As a so-called ‘expert reviewer’ I have enjoyed a unique observation platform for successive IPCC drafts. It is rather amusing that the Summaries talk about increasing certainty for AGW (anthropogenic global warming) -- while at the same time modeled temperatures increasingly diverge from those actually observed [S-2]. 

First, we note that each report “Summary” is produced by a political consensus, not like the underlying scientific report.  [Doubting readers can visit the web site]  As Rogers points out, the U.N. mandate is: “understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change…”  There is no mandate to consider any other causations, such as natural ones related to solar change and ocean circulation cycles -- just presumptive human causes, such as fossil fuels. The IPCC sees a human climate-fingerprint everywhere because that is what they are looking for. 

Frustrated Mom Sharon Standifird Creates ‘Ignore No More’ App To Get Teen Kids To Return Calls « CBS New York

Frustrated Mom Sharon Standifird Creates ‘Ignore No More’ App To Get Teen Kids To Return Calls « CBS New York: "As CBS 2’s Alice Gainer reports, Sharon Standifird, was livid the day she called and texted her teenagers and they didn’t respond.
Once she knew they were safe but ignoring her calls, she got an idea, Gainer reported.
“We need to develop an app that just shuts their phone completely down and they can’t even use it,” Standifird said.
“And I started — literally just started researching how to develop an app.”
So after months of design and working with developers, “Ignore No more” was born.
With one tap, a list of only parent-selected contacts come up. 
The child can call, get the password and unlock the phone.
“Bradley needs to call me because I’m the person that has the unlock password,” Standifird said.
“It takes away texting, it takes away the gaming, it takes away calling their friends. 
The child will always be able to call 911,” said Standifird."

Jonathan Chait Is Correct: “This Indictment Of Rick Perry Is Unbelievably Ridiculous” (With Bonus Detailed Legal Analysis!)

Patterico's Pontifications » Jonathan Chait Is Correct: “This Indictment Of Rick Perry Is Unbelievably Ridiculous” (With Bonus Detailed Legal Analysis!):

"Jonathan Chait — lefty leftist Jonathan Chait, I say! — admits today that the indictment of Rick Perry is absurd.
Don’t believe me?
In a post titled This Indictment Of Rick Perry Is Unbelievably Ridiculous (yes, that is really the title), Chait says:
They say a prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, and this always seemed like hyperbole, until Friday night a Texas grand jury announced an indictment of governor Rick Perry. 
The “crime” for which Perry faces a sentence of 5 to 99 years in prison is vetoing funding for a state agency. The conventions of reporting — which treat the fact of an indictment as the primary news, and its merit as a secondary analytic question — make it difficult for people reading the news to grasp just how farfetched this indictment is.
The theory behind the indictment is flexible enough that almost any kind of political conflict could be defined as a “misuse” of power or “coercion” of one’s opponents.
To describe the indictment as “frivolous” gives it far more credence than it deserves. 
Perry may not be much smarter than a ham sandwich, but he is exactly as guilty as one."

and this:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/15/what-the-hell-just-happened-in-texas-and-why-was-rick-perry-just-indicted.html

It's the culture, stupid!--------Dad caught with whiskey in car seat instead of child

Dad caught with whiskey in car seat instead of child | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"MCDONOUGH, GA. — A father was arrested after police say he put his whiskey bottle in the car seat instead of his son.
Henry County Police responded Saturday to a 911 call about a man sitting slumped behind the wheel of his car at a traffic light.
The light had changed several times, but the car hadn’t moved.
When another driver saw a man asleep behind the wheel and a little boy in the front seat, he called police.
According to the police report, the responding officer saw the man passed out with his foot on the brake. 
A 2-year-old boy was in the front passenger seat without a seat belt or car seat.
 Instead, the officer claims he saw the car seat in the back was holding a whiskey bottle. 
He had to knock on the window three times to get the man’s attention.
When he woke up, he took his foot off the brake and it started rolling backward."

Breaking: The DOJ told Ferguson Police to not release big piece of evidence

Breaking: The DOJ told Ferguson Police to not release big piece of evidence

So it sounds like the reason the video of Michael Brown robbing the convenience store was released several days after the event was because the DOJ told them not to. 
I guess Ferguson PD got tired of waiting to provide what they thought was important information to the case.

Allen West Just Leveled A Bombshell Accusation Against Obama That Could Explain A Whole Lot

Allen West Just Leveled A Bombshell Accusation Against Obama That Could Explain A Whole Lot:
"Former Florida Rep. Allen West declared President Obama an Islamist who is intentionally working against the security of the United States.
“The only plausible explanation for many actions taken by President Obama and his administration is that they are working counter to the security of the United States of America,” the former Florida congressman and retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel wrote in the post published Wednesday."

History for August 17

History for August 17 - On-This-Day.com:
Birth anniversaries of Davy Crockett (1786-1836), Francis Gary Powers (1929-77), and Mae West (1893-1980).

Happy Birthday! Belinda Carlisle, Robert De Niro, Maureen O’Hara

1790 - The capital city of the U.S. moved to Philadelphia from New York City. 


1896 - The Klondike gold rush was set off by George Carmack discovering gold on Rabbit Creek in Alaska. 


1903 - Joseph Pulitzer donated a million dollars to Columbia University. This started the Pulitzer Prizes in his name. 


1915 - Charles F. Kettering received a patent for the first electric ignition device. 


1945 - The nationalists of Indonesia declared their independence from the Netherlands. 


1961 - The Communist East German government completed the construction of the Berlin Wall. 


1977 - Florists Transworld Delivery (FTD) reported that in one day the number of orders for flowers to be delivered to Graceland had surpassed the number for any other event in the company's history. 


1982 - The U.S. Senate approved an immigration bill that granted permanent resident status to illegal aliens who had arrived in the United States before 1977. 


1992 - Woody Allen admitted to being romantically involved with Soon-Yi Previn. The girl was the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow, Allen's longtime companion. 


1996 - Ross Perot was announced to be the Reform Party's presidential candidate. It was the party's first-ever candidate. 

1998 - U.S. President Clinton admitted to having an improper relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern. 

Watch: Obama Might Need More Than A Band-Aid To Dress The Wound Rick Perry Just Gave Him

Watch: Obama Might Need More Than A Band-Aid To Dress The Wound Rick Perry Just Gave Him:
"We flagged this issue in 2012.  And have yet to even have a response.  This is a failure of leadership from the administration in Washington D.C.  They either are inept or don’t care.  And that is my position."

Navy Removes All Signs of Christ From Military Hotel Rooms

Navy Removes All Signs of Christ From Military Hotel Rooms:
"The Navy is pushing for the mass removal of Bibles in hotel rooms across the country, yet U.S. soldiers are being encouraged to respect Muslims," said AFA President Tim Wildmon. "Where is the priority here—in a country founded on religious freedom? Take Bibles out of hotel rooms but support an Islamic observance. This is a truest definition of a double standard."
Earlier this summer, soldiers were told to respect the rights of Muslims during Ramadan, which ended July 28, through a directive at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, a Department of Defense medical and graduate school in Bethesda, Md., that urged members of the military to show respect to Muslim colleagues."

Guess Who Al Gore Is Suing | TheBlaze.com

Guess Who Al Gore Is Suing | TheBlaze.com:
"David Boies, Gore’s attorney, said in a statement that Al Jazeera America “wants to give itself a discount on the purchase price that was agreed to nearly two years ago.” He said the suit was filed in Delaware Court of Chancery on Friday."

Michigan 9th most expensive state to own a vehicle in, auto insurance driving cost

Michigan 9th most expensive state to own a vehicle in, auto insurance driving cost | MLive.com:
"Michigan has the ninth highest cost of car ownership in the country when you take repairs, insurance and gasoline costs into account, according to financial publisher Bankrate.com.
The average cost of a vehicle’s repairs, insurance and gasoline in Michigan is $2,375 per year.
That’s the ninth highest in the nation.
The highest cost is $2,705 per year in Wyoming and the lowest cost is $1,942 in Iowa.
Michigan is a standout in the Midwest, where car ownership is generally less expensive. 
That’s reflected in the numbers posted by surrounding states Wisconsin ($2,018), Indiana ($2,200) and Ohio ($1,973).
The biggest driver of Michigan’s higher numbers is insurance costs, according to Bankrate.com Data Journalist Stacy Jones."

Building fail sheds light on N. Korean priorities

Building fail sheds light on N. Korean priorities:
"In a country that sorely needs to improve its basic infrastructure, there is no public debate over whether North Korea really needs a new luxury ski resort, or a 105-story pyramid-shaped hotel that has been a Pyongyang landmark for more than 20 years, but has yet to open for business. 
Questioning the value of megaprojects held up as symbols of progress and national pride in North Korea is taboo.
Housing, however, hits closer to home.
"This accident happened because they broke the rules and methods of construction," Pyongyang resident Pak Chol told The Associated Press after the accident was reported by the state media.
"We must make sure that this kind of terrible accident never happens again, by sticking to the proper method of building."
"Symbolically, to have a newer building go down in the heart of the city is quite bad indeed," said Geoffrey See, managing director of the Singapore-based nonprofit Choson Exchange, which conducts training on economic policy, entrepreneurship and law in North Korea.

Top Obamacare Official: ‘Please Delete This Email’ | TheBlaze.com

Top Obamacare Official: ‘Please Delete This Email’ | TheBlaze.com:
"Congressional investigators are demanding answers from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner after she reportedly instructed a subordinate to “delete” an Obamacare-related email conversation involving key White House officials."

Ken Braun: $15 minimum wage protesters will get fast food burger robots hired sooner

Ken Braun: $15 minimum wage protesters will get fast food burger robots hired sooner | MLive.com:
"The fast food of the future will likely be served by one or two high tech workers operating very smart robots. 
It will be science fiction fantasy come true for most of us.
Whether it becomes science fiction horror for the low skill, entry level workers of the future depends on the bad public policy choices we do or don’t make today.
After a convoluted drama involving both a failed ballot initiative and ultimately a new law this spring, Michigan’s minimum wage will be hiked up to $9.25 per hour in 2018.
But this didn’t stop 40 picketers from hitting the streets of Flint at the end of July to protest outside a local McDonald’s.
According to the MLive story, demonstrators were from “D-15,” a coalition of Big Labor and “faith-based” organizations that agitate for a $15 minimum wage and unionization of minimum wage workers."

Store owners guard Ferguson businesses with their own guns

Store owners guard Ferguson businesses with their own guns | FOX2now.com:
"FERGUSON, MO (KTVI) – FOX 2 reporter George Sells interviews store owners that brought their own weapons to guard their store from looters.  
They talked to police who the owners say were in the parking lot at Dominos and would not help.  
The owners are not sure that they’re going to stay in business.
Police will be holding a press conference at 2pm to address the looting that occurred overnight."

Massive (50%-70%?) Faculty Layoffs at Cooley Law School

TaxProf Blog: Massive (50%-70%?) Faculty Layoffs at Cooley Law School:

Lansing City Pulse, Cooley 'Right-Sizing': Large-Scale Layoffs Underway at WMU Cooley Law School:

Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School is delivering pink slips to faculty and staff in all of its Michigan campuses.

Sources in Lansing who are being laid off say the cuts are deep, upwards of 50 percent, according to one. 
Another said the impact could be as high as 70 percent. 

A Cooley spokesman disputed the amount, but said he did not have numbers.

“We have non-disparagement and confidentiality clauses upon which our severance packages hinge so I cannot say anything on the record and very little off the record other than to confirm that the cuts to faculty and staff are significant and I am among those in that category,” shared one faculty member, who spoke under condition of anonymity. 

“Plus I am really, really pissed.” 

... Cooley, the country’s largest law school by enrollment, boasted a faculty of 271, full time and part time, according to its website.James Robb, associate dean of external affairs and senior counsel to the school, confirmed the layoffs are underway. 

They are a “painful but necessary” process to help “right-size the organization,” he said. 

... WMU Cooley Law School has seen more than a 40 percent drop in enrollment over the past few years. 
Cooley has raised tuition by 9 percent. 
S&P gave it a negative rating at the end of last year. 

...When asked if the cuts were as deep as 50 percent Robb said, “I think you’re hearing wrong.” ... Robb said he expects the layoff process to be completed by the end of August.

• Above the Law, Large-Scale Layoffs Come to Cooley Law School
• Detroit Free Press, Cooley Law School Cutting Faculty, Staff Positions
• Michigan Live, Cooley Law School Mum on Number of Grand Rapids Faculty Impacted by Layoffs
• Michian Live, Faculty, Staff Let Go at WMU Cooley Law School Campuses Across Michigan

If Obama had a son........[Video] Florida Couple Both Grab Handguns and Open Fire on Home Invader, Killing Him

[Video] Florida Couple Both Grab Handguns and Open Fire on Home Invader, Killing Him:
"A would be home invader in Florida found out the hard way that you don’t want to mess with an armed couple.
Marquise Trevel Yates broke into a home in Jacksonville, Florida around 6:30am.
Yates became involved in a physical altercation with a male homeowner after threatening him.
At some point during the altercation, the homeowner was able to access a personal firearm.
He exchanged fire with Yates, who was also armed.
During the same time, the homeowner’s wife grabbed a second handgun and also opened fire on the suspect.
Yates was found deceased inside of the home he broke into, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
According to News4Jax,
The Cokers [the homeowners] were taken to UF Health with non-life-threatening injuries consistent with blunt force trauma, according to JSO.
“If we had not had a gun in our home, we would be dead,” Pam Coker said from the hospital Friday. 
“I’m convinced of that. 
That guy was strong and he was not going to stop. 
Nothing was going to stop him.” 
Pam Coker said she was getting ready for work when Yates kicked in the deadbolted wooden back door and burst into the home. 
“He came at me, was chasing me,” Pam Coker said. 
“Had a gun in his hand.”"

Guess who was missing at funeral of highest ranking officer killed in combat since Vietnam War

Guess who was missing at funeral of highest ranking officer killed in combat since Vietnam War:
"General Greene, 55, became the highest-ranking fatality in the war in Afghanistan after an Afghan military police officer opened fire on Aug. 5th, 2014."

Teachers lounge vending machines exempt from new federal snack rules

Teachers lounge vending machines exempt from new federal snack rules - EAGnews.org powered by Education Action Group Foundation, Inc.:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The school teachers lounge is a respite from more than just bratty kids. 

It’s a safe zone from the long arm of Michelle Obama’s food police.

Students are already revolting against the newly-implemented school snack regulations that affect what is sold in vending machines.

They will probably be equally upset to learn the vending machine just across the hall – in the teachers lounge – is exempt from the regulations.

.....Actionforhealthykids.org provides more details:

The nutrition guidelines cover all foods and beverages SOLD on the school campus in student areas. This includes vending machines, school stores, snack shops, coffee carts, and a la carte lines – basically anything sold outside of the school lunch and breakfast programs. Fundraisers that take place throughout the school day are also part of the rule. Teachers’ lounges are exempt from the regulations.

Jesse, Al, Barry on the way...... I'm sure----------Pregnant woman punched in Brooklyn knockout game: 'I was worried about the baby'

Pregnant woman punched in Brooklyn knockout game: 'I was worried about the baby' - NY Daily News
It may be the most cold-hearted case of the knockout game yet.

A 33-year-old punk punched a pregnant woman in the face so hard that she lost consciousness. 
But the creep was quickly arrested, just blocks away, cops said Friday.Jannatul Ferdous — two months from her due date — told the Daily News she was horrified for her unborn child.“I was scared and worried about the baby,” the 34-year-old victim said at her home in Brooklyn.
The suspect, Willie Stephens, doled out the unprovoked smack at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, as Ferdous strolled down Monroe St. near Ralph Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police said.
The brazen haymaker to the victim’s eye left her out cold.
“She was walking with my mom and a man slapped her and she fell down,” said a neighbor, who wouldn’t give her name.
“He just did it for no good reason!”

Minister Who Called Out Black Community Following Ferguson Riots Has a Message for Al Sharpton

Minister Who Called Out Black Community Following Ferguson Riots Has a Message for Al Sharpton | Video | TheBlaze.com:
The leader of the Blame Game
"On Tuesday, Johnathan Gentry became an Internet sensation when he went on rant against the black community following the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, and the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Friday, he doubled down in a passionate appearance on Fox News, calling out everyone from President Obama to the NAACP and Al Sharpton."

Enemy in New ‘Visceral Single Player’ Video Game Resembles Racist Tea Partiers — and Part of the Mission Is to Physically Disable or Kill Them | Video | TheBlaze.com

Enemy in New ‘Visceral Single Player’ Video Game Resembles Racist Tea Partiers — and Part of the Mission Is to Physically Disable or Kill Them | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"A new first-person shooter from Electronic Arts allows individuals to physically harm and kill an enemy that resembles a group of racist Tea Partiers."

More Harsh Winters Could Spell Disaster For Electrical Grid

More Harsh Winters Could Spell Disaster For Electrical Grid | The Daily Caller:

If you thought last winter was bad, get ready for a potentially worse winter in parts of the country this year. But another record-setting winter could mean more than higher heating bills and snow fights.

Harsh winter weather combined with coal-fired power plant closings could spell trouble for many households across the country who will desperately need to keep the lights and heat on this winter.

Joe Bastardi, chief meteorologist at WeatherBELL Analytics,told the Wall Street Journal Live that current weather patterns are “flowing along right now into the type of El Niño situation that is notorious for giving the United States cold, snowy winters, especially in the southern and eastern part of the United States, relative to the averages.”

Temperatures last winter set new record lows for huge swaths of the U.S. The stretch from December 2013 to February 2014 was the “34th coldest such period for the contiguous 48 states as a whole since modern records began in 1895,” reports the Weather Channel.

But the harsh winter did more than just chill the air, it sent demand for heat and power surging and brought the electrical grid to near its breaking point. Natural gas power plants lacked the supplies and infrastructure to keep the lights on and green energy was unable to generate power in fierce winter weather.

Bastardi noted that another harsh winter “would be significant because we were within one power plant last year of having the grid overload.”

“This year, if you get the kind of winter that we had in 2009-2010 or 2002-2003 with the nation’s grid on the ropes the way it is and some of these regulations that I hear about coming down that are supposed to close plants on January 1st… this could be a very, very big economic impact on the winter,” Bastardi continued. “And we’re very concerned about that.”

....“We’re closing an enormous amount of coal generation, through a variety of rules, and a good number of those plants are set to retire next April,” Philip Moeller, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, told Platts Energy Week. “But most people would say about 90% of that capacity was running and used and necessary during the polar vortex events.”

“So the question is: Are we going to have mild weather for the next 2-3 years? If so, we can probably get through it,” Moeller said. “But if we have more extreme weather events, like we had this winter, and that power is no longer available, we could be in a real situation that’s not good for consumers.”

Moeller added that blackouts were a “possibility” for parts of the country where large amounts of coal retirements are taking place or that rely too heavily on natural gas for electricity generation — like New England.

....“The question we should be asking is, what happens when that capacity is gone? Hoping for a mild winter isn’t a viable strategy. We can’t have a-hope-and-a-prayer policy,” she added.

USAF Thunderbirds at Oshkosh 2014