Anthropogenic Global Warming Revisited. In the comments section of one of Rick’s posts, a debate about global warming was started. One person claimed that those who deny anthropogenic global warming are using faith over reason. Who is using faith over reason? The climate models used by the IPCC predicted that there would be less snow cover in North America as a result of AGW, as stated in a report published by Columbia University. So, what happened when snow amounts in North America increased?
Answer: On December 25, 2010 the New York Times published an op-ed piece titled “Bundle Up, It’s Global Warming” written by AGW proponent Judah Cohen. The earth continues to get warmer, yet it’s feeling a lot colder outside. So, according to the Church of AGW, less snow will be the result of AGW, unless there is actually more snow, which will also be the result of AGW. Here is more. Are the researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics using faith or reason? Also, in 2006 geophysicist Dr.
Deming also said . . . Shortlink: Mysterious paper sculptures - Central Station Blog post. Those of you who don’t keep up with Edinburgh’s literary world through Twitter may have missed the recent spate of mysterious paper sculptures appearing around the city. Guardian article, 3rd March 2011. One day in March, staff at the Scottish Poetry Library came across a wonderful creation, left anonymously on a table in the library. Carved from paper, mounted on a book and with a tag addressed to @byleaveswelive – the library’s Twitter account – reading: It started with your name @byleaveswelive and became a tree.… … We know that a library is so much more than a building full of books… a book is so much more than pages full of words.… This is for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas….. a gesture (poetic maybe?)
Next to the ‘poetree’ sat a paper egg lined with gold and a scatter of words which, when put together, make “A Trace of Wings” by Edwin Morgan. It looked like this was a one-off, a beautiful and delicate piece of art created by a fan of the Poetry Library. The tag? No Country Leans on Upper-Income Households as Much as U.S. During my recent testimony before the Senate Budget Committee (found here), I cited an OECD statistic that the U.S. has the most progressive income tax system among industrialized nations.[1] This prompted one Senator to point out that if the richest 10% of taxpayers earn the most of any OECD country, shouldn't it make sense that they bear the largest tax burden of any country? The answer can be found in the OECD table below. This table shows the share of taxes paid by the richest 10 percent of households, the share of all market income earned by that group, and the ratio of what that 10 percent of households pays in taxes versus what they earn as a share of the nation's income.
The first column shows that the top 10 percent of households in the U.S. pays 45.1 percent of all income taxes (both personal income and payroll taxes combined) in the country. Italy is the only other country in which the top 10 percent of households pays more than 40 percent of the income tax burden (42.2%). Follow the Money: What the Wisconsin Education Association Isn’t Talking About. As Americans, we’re often taught that trusts and monopolies are the product of big business and are bad.
However, if trusts and monopolies are bad when Big Business engages in monopolistic ways, why isn’t it bad when Big Labor engages in the same sort of behaviors that are condemned when committed by Big Business? For over a week now, the nation has watched tens of thousands march in protest to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s budget plan. Democrat lawmakers (aka Fleebaggers) have fled the state in order to avoid doing their duty, while Obama’s OFA has bussed in the astroturf from out of state.
While the union meme has been that Walker’s plan is “union-busting,” perhaps a more apt description would be “trust-busting.” One of the most vocal opponents of Scott Walker’s budget plan has been the Wisconsin Education Association Council [WEAC]. As a union affiliated with the NEA, WEAC (according to its website) represents 98,000 “educators” in the State of Wisconsin. The Long Reach of Teachers Unions. When the Florida legislature, on April 8th, passed a bill that sought to replace teacher tenure with merit pay, the Florida Education Association (FEA) sprang into action, organizing members and community activists to lobby Governor Charlie Crist to veto the measure.
FEA, with the help of its parent union, the National Education Association (NEA), generated thousands of e-mails, letters, phone calls, and Internet posts in opposition to the legislation. When Governor Crist delivered his veto on April 15th, the union ran television and Internet ads, thanking him. A few weeks later, FEA gave a much-needed boost to Crist’s independent bid for a U.S.
Senate seat by endorsing both Crist and Democratic candidate Kendrick Meek. If you think it’s far-fetched to suggest that a teachers union could play the role of political kingmaker, think again. The teachers unions outspent their union peers by a large margin. A Long Arm NEA contributed $1.1 million to air TV ads against the measure.
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