WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama called for a major new burst of federal spending Tuesday, perhaps $150 billion or more, aiming to jolt the wobbly economy into a stronger recovery and reduce painfully persistent double-digit unemployment.

Despite Republican criticism concerning record federal deficits, Obama said the U.S. has had to “spend our way out of this recession” with so many people out of work but insisted he was still mindful of a need to confront soaring deficits. More than 7 million Americans have lost their jobs since the recession began two years ago, and the jobless rate stands at 10 percent, statistics Obama called “staggering.”

Congressional approval would be required for the new spending.

“We avoided the depression many feared,” Obama said in a speech at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. But he added, “Our work is far from done.”

It was the third time in a week the president had presided over a high-profile event on jobs, responding to rising pleas in Congress that he spend more time discussing unemployment as midterm election season draws near.

Obama proposed new spending for highway and bridge construction, for small business tax cuts and for retrofitting millions of homes to make them more energy-efficient. He said he wanted to extend economic stimulus programs to keep unemployment insurance from expiring for millions of out-of-work Americans and to help laid-off workers keep their health insurance. He proposed an additional $250 apiece in stimulus spending for seniors and veterans and aid to state and local governments to discourage them from laying off teachers, police officers and firefighters.

On Capitol Hill, estimates of a potential jobs bill range from $75 billion to $150 billion, said Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 Democrat in the House.

For the rest of this article please go here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091209/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_jobs

Face Forward Comments:

It defies all logic.  Other than creating another slush fund for the Democrats to run their pet projects out of, another “Stimulus Package” makes no sense.  Every lawmaker in America took heat from the “tax payers”over the first package.  It was in large part what kicked off the tea parties.  This is just another example of the government not listening to the people that are paying the bill.

Everyone has heard about the jobs saved or created that weren’t not really there.  One of the more famous ones was the Georgia district that claimed (in support of Obama) that it has saved 9 out of 5 jobs.  I guess they forgot to save the math teacher’s job.  So far, the cost of creating a single job is running about $250,000.

The Obama administration has spent around $217 billion of the stimulus funds.  The Republican party, which opposes another stimulus package, points out some of the wasteful pet project that have been funded by the Democratic controlled administration.  The money is still being accounted for but it looks like pure waste could run as high as 25%.  If you add the mismanagement and overspending on needed projects, the waste could run as high as 50 percent.

Here are just a few the more blatantly stupid projects uncovered

$5 million grant from the Department of Energy to create a geothermal energy system for the EMPTY Oak Ridge City Center shopping mall in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Penn State University received $1.57 million to search for fossils in Argentina

A liberal-leaning theater in Minnesota, In the Heart of the Beast, named after a famous quote by communist leader Che Guevara, received $100,000 for socially conscious puppet shows.

$6 million that went to the New York advertising firm Young & Republican to advertise the transition from analog to digital television. GOP lawmakers criticized the project for only creating three jobs.

$4.7 million that Lockheed Martin received to conduct advance research of supersonic jet travel

$2 million in stimulus funds that went to pay for new pipes to pump recycled water to the Sharp Park Golf Course, which the San Francisco City Council considered closing because of the threat it posed to the California red-legged frog.

$2 million in stimulus money went to build a replica railroad as a tourist attraction in Carson City, Nev.

 A dinner cruise company based in Chicago received nearly $1 million in funds to combat terrorism.

 Half a million dollars went to Arizona State University to study the genetic makeup of ants to determine distinctive roles in ant colonies;

$450,000 went to the University of Arizona to study the division of labor in ant colonies.

The State University of New York at Buffalo won $390,000 to study young adults who drink malt liquor and smoke marijuana.

The National Institutes of Health got $219,000 in funds to study whether female college students are more likely to “hook up” after drinking alcohol.

 The University of Hawaii collected $210,000 to study the learning patterns of honeybees

$700,000 went to help crab fishermen in Oregon recover lost crab pots.

If the government wants to create real jobs in America, it’s simple.  Do whatever it takes to get our manufacturing sector back, let us drill for oil and gas on our own lands, build nuclear plants and stop trying to hand over our sovereignty to the UN through the ridiculous cap and trade taxes that are being proposed.

Climatologist: Where did the Global Warming go?

Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.

At least the weather in Copenhagen is likely to be cooperating. The Danish Meteorological Institute predicts that temperatures in December, when the city will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be one degree above the long-term average.

Otherwise, however, not much is happening with global warming at the moment. The Earth’s average temperatures have stopped climbing since the beginning of the millennium, and it even looks as though global warming could come to a standstill this year.

Ironically, climate change appears to have stalled in the run-up to the upcoming world summit in the Danish capital, where thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, business leaders and environmental activists plan to negotiate a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Billions of euros are at stake in the negotiations.

The planet’s temperature curve rose sharply for almost 30 years, as global temperatures increased by an average of 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.25 degrees Fahrenheit) from the 1970s to the late 1990s. “At present, however, the warming is taking a break,” confirms meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. Latif, one of Germany’s best-known climatologists, says that the temperature curve has reached a plateau. “There can be no argument about that,” he says. “We have to face that fact.”

Even though the temperature standstill probably has no effect on the long-term warming trend, it does raise doubts about the predictive value of climate models, and it is also a political issue. For months, climate change skeptics have been gloating over the findings on their Internet forums. This has prompted many a climatologist to treat the temperature data in public with a sense of shame, thereby damaging their own credibility.

“It cannot be denied that this is one of the hottest issues in the scientific community,” says Jochem Marotzke, director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. “We don’t really know why this stagnation is taking place at this point.”

Just a few weeks ago, Britain’s Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research added more fuel to the fire with its latest calculations of global average temperatures. According to the Hadley figures, the world grew warmer by 0.07 degrees Celsius from 1999 to 2008 and not by the 0.2 degrees Celsius assumed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And, say the British experts, when their figure is adjusted for two naturally occurring climate phenomena, El Niño and La Niña, the resulting temperature trend is reduced to 0.0 degrees Celsius — in other words, a standstill.

For Rest of this article please go here:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,662092,00.html

Face Forward Comments:

If you really want to get a “Global Warming” fanatic going ask them if they know what  the Holcene Maximum is.  it was the hottest period in human history. The interesting thing is this period occurred approximately 7500 to 4000 years B.P. (before present)– long before we humans invented industrial pollution.

Just keep repeating; Al Gore is a Democrat and therefore looking for ways to tax me.  I will not allow anyone to tax me to exhale.

WASHINGTON – The number of Americans who believe there is solid evidence the Earth is warming because of pollution is at its lowest point in three years, according to a survey released Thursday. The poll of 1,500 adults by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that only 57 percent believe there is strong scientific evidence the Earth has gotten hotter over the past few decades, and as a result, people are viewing the situation as less serious. That’s down from 77 percent in 2006, and 71 percent in April 2008.

The steepest drop occurred during the past year, as Congress and the Obama administration have taken steps to control heat-trapping emissions for the first time and international negotiations for a new treaty to slow global warming have been under way. At the same time, there has been mounting scientific evidence of climate change — from melting ice caps to the world’s oceans hitting the highest monthly recorded temperatures this summer.

The poll was released a day after 18 scientific organizations wrote Congress to reaffirm the consensus behind global warming. A federal government report Thursday found that global warming is upsetting the Arctic’s thermostat.

But while the evidence appears clear, only about a third, or 36 percent of the poll respondents feel that human activities — such as pollution from power plants, factories and automobiles — are behind a temperature increase. That’s the first decline since 2006.

“The priority that people give to pollution and environmental concerns and a whole host of other issues is down because of the economy and because of the focus on other things,” said Andrew Kohut, the director of the research center, which conducted the poll from Sept. 30 to Oct. 4. “When the focus is on other things, people forget and see these issues as less grave.”

For the rest of the story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091022/ap_on_re_us/us_climate_poll

Face Fwd Comments:

Another fluff piece from AP.  Even in the face of droping in world tempretures, this news organization is still doing the Lefties bidding by reporting this kind of bad research. 

They do write that 18 scientific organizations wrote congress to reafirm the consensus behind global warming.  I guess that means the 450 that wrote to say it was incorrect, doesn’t matter.

Chamber Renounces Cap and Trade Statements as  a Hoax

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday said that a press release declaring the group had dropped its opposition to climate change legislation was a hoax. The fake press release, which declared the Chamber had done an “about-face on climate policy” following the defection of prominent members, was briefly picked up by Reuters and several other media organizations.

But the Chamber sent out a counter-release setting the record straight.

“Public relations hoaxes undermine the genuine effort to find solutions on the challenge of climate change,” spokesman Thomas Collamore said. “These irresponsible tactics are a foolish distraction from the serious effort by our nation to reduce greenhouse gases.”

He said the group would call for law enforcement to investigate.

But Politico.com reported that the liberal activist group The Yes Men took responsibility for the hoax — apparently part of a broader effort to undermine the Chamber in its opposition to cap-and-trade legislation and other Obama administration priorities.  Politico.com reported Monday that Democrats in Congress and the White House are doing an end run around the Chamber of Commerce to weaken their political influence by dealing directly with individual CEOs.

For the rest of the article please go here:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/19/chamber-statement-announcing-support-climate-hoax/

Here is a second headline

U.S. hunters, anglers lobby for climate bill

A nationwide survey the NWF commissioned in 2006 found that half of all licensed hunters and anglers counted themselves as “evangelical Christians,” a heavily Republican group.  A 2008 NWF poll of over 1,000 hunters and fishers found that over half classified themselves as “politically conservative.” The respondents were mostly white, male and middle-aged — classic Republican demographic.

Even so, 85 percent agreed with the statement: “We can improve the environment and strengthen the economy by investing in renewable energy technologies that create jobs while reducing global warming.” Lindsey Graham, a conservative Republican senator from South Carolina, broke ranks with his party and outlined a compromise to limit carbon emissions in a New York Times opinion piece he co-wrote with Democratic Senator John Kerry.

That won him praise from national hunting groups and local ones in South Carolina, which has a robust outdoor sports culture woven into its rural fabric

For the Rest of this article please go here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE59H0VY20091018?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=11621

Face Fwd Comments:

This is what we call propaganda.  The first one has been caught and refuted the second will soon be.

The statement that the Cap and Trade spin masters use, “we can improve the environment and strengthen the economy by investing in renewable energy technologies that create jobs while reducing global warming” is such a set up statement.  Which part of the confusing question are you answering?  Are you answering that you believe in the American spirit that we can create new technologies?  Are you agreeing that we can improve the environment?  Or are you endorsing a claim of global warming?

Notice how the first part of the question says, “We can improve the environment”.  Every outdoorsman believes that the environment can be improved and should be.  In Hypnotism that is called an agreement statement.  When working to put an individual in a trance, you lead them with two absolutes then adding a third part that may be plausible (but not necessarily true). “While setting  in the chair (1) with your hands in your lap (2) your eyes are getting heavy (3)”.  Carefully crafted questions can lead the person being asked the question to answer in the manner desired. 

Here is an excerpt on hypnotism you may find interesting found at www.inducetrance.com:

Agreement tactics in conversational hypnosis are very functional. You will learn to use these for two different reasons. The first reason to use agreement tactics is to put the critical factor in your subject’s mind to sleep.

The critical factor which tells people whether or not something is believable needs to be turned off in order to induce a good trance and to make suggestions that will hold true when the person is not under hypnosis.

This is the second reason you will use agreement tactics. Once the critical factor is turned off you will want your suggestions to seem realistic, agreement tactics do just that. They get the listener in the habit of agreeing with you and lend you the authority in their altered state of mind.

The hunting question is just one of many examples.  Listen to Obama’s speeches.  He (or whomever is crafting the questions) is a master at asking agreement statements then leading the listener to agree to statements that when asked by themselves would have never be agreed to on their own.

Between the hoaxes, propaganda, hypnotic tactics, and false surveys we are under attack like never before.  It make sense now when you hear that the White House is trying to take down Fox news, the opposition news.  Read and research to discover what is real.  Listen not only to what is being said, but to how it is being said, and you may discover the hidden “lies” in the information being released from the Obama Administration.