Photo: Former Lehman Brothers employees arrive at NY unemployment offices

Hat tip: Papa B.

Global warming "crisis" officially canceled

Marc alerts us to the incipient rebellion against the $250 billion global warming scam perpetrated by the UN and Al Gore:

New York conference expected to draw
up to 1,000 scientists and experts
Global warming crisis "cancelled" by new scientific discoveries
The organizers of a March 2008 conference that brought together more than 500 scientists, economists, and other experts on global warming today unveiled plans to hold a second conference on March 8-10, 2009, once again in New York City.

The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change will serve as a platform for scientists and policy analysts from around the world who question the theory of man-made climate change. This year's theme, "Global Warming Crisis: Cancelled," calls attention to new research findings that contradict the conclusions of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.

...The 2008 conference featured presentations by more than 100 prominent scientists and economists from the U.S. and around the world, including Dr. Robert Balling (Arizona State University), Dr. Stanley Goldenberg (NOAA), Dr. William Gray (Colorado State University), Dr. Yuri Izrael (IPCC), Dr. Patrick Michaels (University of Virginia), Dr. Paul Reiter (Institut Pasteur, Paris), Dr. S. Fred Singer (Science and Environmental Policy Project), Dr. Willie Soon (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), and Dr. Roy Spencer (NASA).

The 2008 event attracted extensive media attention in the U.S. and internationally, including news coverage by The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, Reuters, National Geographic, ABC, BBC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, and others.

"Last March we proved that the skeptics in the debate over global warming constitute the center or mainstream of the scientific community, while the alarmists are on the fringe," said Heartland President Joseph Bast. "In the past six months, the science has grown even more convincing that global warming is not a crisis. Opinion polls and political events, including the defeat of 'cap-and-trade' legislation in the U.S. Senate, also suggest this 'crisis' is over. It has been cancelled by sound science and common sense."

Related: Al Gore's testimony before Congress.

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The Obama Campaign's Massive Credit Card Scandal

Yes we can! (Knowingly accept millions in fraudulent donations)
You know how ACORN registered thousands of bogus voters like Mickey Mouse and Daffy Duck? ACORN's handlers at the Obama campaign seem to be accepting contributions from Mickey and Daffy too.

It turns out that the Obama campaign's crack team of fundraisers decided to turn off all security validation for credit-card donations. Want to enter the name Pedro Martinez when the credit-card belongs to Arnold Fizbin? Need to use the ZIP code 99999 when the card owner's ZIP is 02154? No problem! The Obama campaign doesn't care!

In order for this to occur, the "Address Verification System has to be specifically disabled to allow this fraud."

Having worked for companies that process credit cards online, it is necessary to go through and manually disable the safeguards that they put in place to verify a person's address and zip code with the cardholder's bank. But international banks don't currently have the same safeguards that banks in the US have...

So most likely they've disabled the necessary safeguards for US cards which their merchant bank would be angry about if they found out since it exposes them to risk, as well as international cards which is an even greater risk because there's no way to verify the information electronically for most countries, so they could just say they're in the US with phony info and the card will still process online. The One could then just claim that they said they were from America...

It's a pattern.

An earlier analysis of donations revealed millions of dollars in illegal donations from made up characters like "Doodad Pro" and "Good Will". These contributions were conveniently structured to fit in the "under $200" category, which the Obama campaign (unlike McCain) has refused to reveal.

Andy McCarthy described the abuse of the campaign finance laws by the Obama campaign in stark terms:

A... review of the Obama campaign finance filings found that the FEC had asked for the redesignation or refund of 53,828 donations, totaling just under $30 million.

But none involves the donors who never appear in the Obama campaign reports, which the [Center for Responsive Politics] estimates at nearly half the $426.8 million the Obama campaign has raised to date.

Let's see. Half of $426 million is... carry the one... about $200 million! And this isn't headline news?

Just a tad over the limit

But the new revelations of illegal donations appear to be a mixture of stolen (and unvalidated) credit-cards and willful violations of finance law. I'm not a math major, but Mary T. Biskup's contribution of $174,800 would appear to be over the $2,300 limit.

Scott Johnson reports that tests of the Obama website confirm that all security validation is disabled.

I went back to the Obama site and made three additional donations using the names Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Bill Ayers, all with different addresses. All the transactions went through using the same credit card. I saved screenshots of the transactions... I tried the exact same thing at the McCain site and it didn't allow the transaction."

Change!

Obama campaign website accepted foreign campaign donations

In May of this year I noted the fact that the Obama campaign ran the only website that permitted donations from foreign countries without any proof of citizenship.


In contrast, the Hillary and McCain sites both required documentation before accepting a donation from a foreign country.

In summary: the five-year stock price of the New York Times

While the Times' CSI unit probes Joe the Plumber's health records and scrutinizes Sarah Palin's shoe bills, an election is well nigh being stolen right under their very eyes. Although this scandal is a doozy, the Times is silent about this flagrant abuse of election law.

Eleven days remain until the election... hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal and foreign donations appear to have flowed into Obama's coffers... and Manhattan's Pravda can't rustle up a story. Not to worry. I give them six months.

Don't let these criminals steal the election. Vote.

The Giant Slayer

The UK's Auto Express Magazine ran a comparo featuring the Nissan GT-R, the Lamborghini LP-560-4 and the Porsche 911 GT2.

Spoiler: they don't the call the GT-R the "giant slayer" for nothin'.

Simple explanation of Democratic tax policies

Sean sent this one in.

- 50,000 people go to a baseball game, but the game was rained out. A refund was then due. The team was about to mail refunds when Congressional Democrats stopped them and suggested that they send out the ticket refunds based on Obama's interpretation of fairness.

- Originally the refunds were to be paid based on the price each person had paid for the tickets. Unfortunately that meant most of the refund money would be going to the ticket holders who had purchased the most expensive tickets. This, according to the DNC, is considered totally unfair. A decision was then made to pay out the refunds in this manner:

1) People in the $10 seats will get back $15. After all, they have less money to spend on tickets to begin with. Call it an "Earned Income Ticket Credit." Persons "earn" it by having few skills, poor work habits, and low ambition, thus keeping them at entry-level wages.

2) People in the $25 seats will get back $25, because it "seems fair."

3) People in the $50 seats will get back $1 because they already make a lot of money and don't need a refund. After all, if they can afford a $50 ticket, they must not be paying enough taxes.

4) People in the $75 luxury box seats will each have to pay an additional $25 because it's the "right thing to do."

5) People walking past the stadium who couldn't afford to buy a ticket for the game each will get a $10 refund, even though they didn't pay anything for the tickets. They need the most help.

p.s., People soon learned they could make $10/day if they just walked by the stadium.

Now do you understand?

Simple enough.

The new Obama posters are here!

These were rustled up by Probationary Junior Cub Reporter Cadet Biff Spackle (he was temporarily demoted for breaking into the Glenfiddich stash before 6PM).