IWA For Sunday 042510

Second week in a row, where there is NO DOUBT.

Hey folks,

Time to wrap things up today, with the Idiot of the Week. This IS the second week in a row that there should be no doubt whatsoever who the winner is. Yes. You got it. The GEICO guy.

No it's not the little Gecko. I love the Gecko character. I really do. Is it just me, or does he sound EXACTLY like Ed Sanders from Extreme Makeover Home Edition? Anyway, this ain't him. This is the Voice over guy that did a few GEICO Commercials. His name? Lance Baxter, better known as DC Douglas.

So OK. You, drunk, on and dare, or whatever, feel the need to call up a Private Organization and leave this message,



do you then hang up with satisfaction that you sure told them? Do you post it yourself on your website, leaving out the fact it was you? Or do you give your phone number, name, EMPLOYER information, and ask for a call back? Of course, you do the latter. {Laughing}

So after this Moron called and left a Hate Message on an answering service, they call him back. He asked for it. Then, the head of this Organization let the members, a lot of YOU, know that this guy thinks you are a "Retard" and that you are going to snap and kill someone, he asks, why not give this guy a call, since he was so kind to leave his name, number, and employer. He said he is writing a paper, go ahead and help him out. {Laughing} You did. GEICO fired the guy. {Laughing}

Now he wants to sue FreedomWorks. Yes. After harassing THEM, he wants to sue THEM. Truth is, this guy is a nobody. He is nothing. He is only famous in his own mind. He said so. He also said that this was a resume enhancement,,,,well,,,in Lib Land, he might be right. I know I wil not deal with any company that DOES decide to hire this guy. I can not speak for you of course. Oh, he is not spending any money to sue, he wants a Lawyer to take the case Pro bono. {Laughing} Good luck with that. He actually said this.

"We can't let these kinds of tactics become the norm in our country. If we do, then anybody can lose their job just for voicing an opinion."

They ARE the norm in this country. On YOUR SIDE! From the President calling people bitter Clingers, the Obama Media saying that Tea Party Members are White Racist Men. Which couldn't be further from the truth. To personal attacks on ANYONE that speaks out against this Regime. YOU! You, you complete Moron. YOU are the one that decided to pick up the phone. YOU were the one who decided to call people that you do not agree with as Retards. YOU are the one that show your complete stupidity when you say that someone is going to KILL someone. YOU are the problem Mr. Baxter. I understand that you lack the ability to actually THINK. I understand that you are to stupid to apply Logic to what you hear in the Obama State Run Media. I understand you are nothing but a drone. But YOU did it. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Congratulations Lance Baxter, you ARE the Idiot of the Week. Now you have your 15 minutes, how does it feel?
Peter

Media Pushing One Side Of Global Warming

"OK, guess you were right."

Hey folks,

Happy Friday to you. Since it is Friday, TIME to go to the Emails.

"OK, guess you were right."

Why would you ever doubt me? {Smile} I have been telling you about the GWBS Chicken Little Crowd for YEARS.

"I didn't believe you, but now I see it. The 'Chicken Little' Crowd are being exposed."

Here it is. I could spend all day on saying, "I told you so." and "I said that in blah blah blah." But the archives can show you what I have been saying about the SCAM that is Global Warming, the press being bought and paid for, and, well, just check this out.

Media Reality Check:

Twenty Years of Advocacy, Not Journalism, on Global Warming
Even After ClimateGate Scandal, Reporters Have Pushed a One-Sided "Sky Is Falling" Mantra on Climate Change

For more than two decades, the so-called mainstream media have preached the dangers of manmade global warming, insisting American businesses and consumers must make massive economic sacrifices to ward off a global climate catastrophe. Not even last November’s exposure of e-mails from leading scientists on the alarmist side of the debate — showing them conniving to fudge or suppress data, discredit critics and distort the peer review process — has caused journalists to finally take a skeptical approach to radical environmentalists’ doomsaying.

A new study {Special Report: Networks Hide the Decline in Credibility of Climate Change Science} from the MRC’s Business & Media Institute documents how ABC, CBS and NBC have been just as strident in their advocacy in the months following “ClimateGate” as they were in the 20 years that preceded the scandal. At the same time, a review of the Media Research Center’s archives going back to the late 1980s shows just how strongly reporters have pushed the liberal line on global warming. Here are just some of the many examples:

# “Global warming could mean economic upheaval. It could bring suffering. It could bring starvation....The causes of global warming are no mystery. The biggest culprit is carbon dioxide, or CO2, a bi-product when man burns fossil fuels to run cars or generate electricity....If we fail to act, there may be hell to pay in a hotter world....Global warming is not a fact, just a widely-held theory. The problem is, if man waits for proof, it may be too late.”
— Host Don Harrison narrating CNN’s primetime Climate In Crisis special, August 1, 1989.

# “As the science editor at Time, I would freely admit that on this issue we have crossed the boundary from news reporting to advocacy.”
— Time’s Charles Alexander at a September 16, 1989 global warming conference at the Smithsonian Institute, as quoted in the October 5 Wall Street Journal.

# “If the world is to head off the risk of global warming, with its danger of massive crop failure, or rising sea levels, or spreading starvation in the poorest countries, then America — the largest producer of the gases that cause global warming — is in the spotlight.”
— ABC reporter Ned Potter on World News Tonight, April 7, 1992.

# “Environmentalists see catastrophes of biblical proportions, from droughts to melting ice caps that send sea levels rising.”
— Correspondent Barry Petersen on the CBS Evening News, December 1, 1997.

# Karen Kerrigan, Small Business Survival Committee: “To say that the science is conclusive...is actually bunk.”
Host Ted Koppel: “I was just going to make the observation that there are still some people who believe in the Flat Earth Society, too, but that doesn’t mean they’re right.”
— Exchange on the December 9, 1997 Nightline.

# “After decades of rancorous debate, only a handful of the most doctrinaire die-hards still dispute the idea that human activity is heating up the planet.”
— Time’s Michael Lemonick in a special edition for Earth Day, 2000.

# “Despite the danger that climate change poses, the resources currently devoted to studying this problem — and combating it — are inconsequential compared with the trillions spent during the Cold War. Twenty years from now, we may wonder how we could have miscalculated which threat represented the greater peril.”
— Time contributor Eugene Linden, September 4, 2000.

# “Around the world, the anger runs as deep as the flood waters being blamed on the global warming the Kyoto treaty was supposed to fight. President Bush says he’s putting American economic interests first in rejecting Kyoto, and in Britain, where they’re having their wettest winter ever, they sadly agree....Others point to severe weather conditions around the planet — flooding for the second consecutive year in Mozambique, drought and famine in the Sudan — and they say the U.S. is substantially to blame.”
— Mark Phillips on the March 29, 2001 CBS Evening News.

# “Frankly, this notion that there isn’t enough science, I mean that’s right up there with does smoking cause lung cancer.”
— Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift discussing global warming on the McLaughlin Group, June 16, 2001.

# “Glaciers are receding. Oceans are rising. Alaska is thawing. As officials from nearly 180 nations start to gather Monday in Bonn, Germany, to confront the vexing problem of global warming, the issue is no longer whether it is real, but what should be done about it.”
— Opening of July 16, 2001 USA Today front-page article, “Six ways to combat global warming,” by Traci Watson and Jonathan Weisman.

# Weatherman Mark McEwen: “Up and down the East Coast, it’s coming our way, but we will probably see just rain in the big cities.”
Co-host Bryant Gumbel: “We never get any snow.”
McEwen: “Do you think it’s global warming?”
Gumbel: “Yes, yes.”
McEwen: “Do you, Jane?”
Co-host Jane Clayson: “Yeah.”
McEwen: “We’re unanimous....It’s global warming.”
— Exchange on CBS’s Early Show, February 6, 2002.

# “ExxonMobil — I think this is a real group of bad guys, considering that they have funded all the anti-global-warming propaganda out there in the world. And Bush is just not going to go against guys like that. They are bad, bad guys, because of what they are doing in fighting the science of global warming.”
— New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in an interview published in Rolling Stone, October 17, 2002.

# Peter Jennings: “We’re going to take ‘A Closer Look’ tonight at why the temperature matters to all of us when it is affected by global warming. And just to be clear again, global warming is the gradual increase of the temperature of the Earth’s lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in manmade gases since the industrial revolution....”
Reporter Bill Blakemore: “Severe climate change is accelerating....Polar bears are starving as the ice they hunt on vanishes, along with the seals they eat. Millions of birds are affected as spring comes too early and the fish they eat [have] gone to seek cooler waters.”
— ABC’s World News Tonight, November 8, 2004.

# “The hurricane that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming....Unfortunately, very few people in America know the real name of Hurricane Katrina because the coal and oil industries have spent millions of dollars to keep the public in doubt about the issue....As the pace of climate change accelerates, many researchers fear we have already entered a period of irreversible runaway climate change.”
— Former Washington Post and Boston Globe reporter Ross Gelbspan in an August 30, 2005 Boston Globe op-ed.

# “No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth....Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us....Something has gone grievously wrong. That something is global warming.”
— Time’s Jeffrey Kluger in the magazine’s April 3, 2006 global warming cover story: “Be Worried. Be Very Worried.”

# “It is getting hot here on Earth. How hot? Well, maybe hotter than it has been in 2,000 years and it is our fault. Humans, that is.”
— Anchor Bob Schieffer on the CBS Evening News, June 22, 2006.

# Tom Brokaw: “About 10 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by ice, most of that in the polar regions. But if enough of that ice melts, the seas will rise dramatically and the results will be calamitous....If this worst-case scenario should occur, in the coming centuries New York could be abandoned, its famous landmarks lost to the sea.”
Dr. James Hansen, Goddard Institute for Space Studies: “Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Miami — they would all be under water.”
— From Brokaw’s two-hour Discovery Channel special, Global Warming: What You Need to Know, excerpt shown on the July 15, 2006 NBC Nightly News.

# “Scientists are more certain than ever that humans are heating the globe very quickly with potentially severe consequences.”
— NBC’s Robert Bazell, Dec. 16, 2006 Nightly News.

# “So I’m running in the park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this [warm weather] is great, but are we all gonna die? You know? I can’t, I can’t figure this out.”
— Co-host Meredith Vieira talking about global warming on NBC’s Today, January 8, 2007.

# “It seems like we’re reaching critical mass when it comes to this issue. And all the experts agree. Well, almost every expert. (There are a handful of scientists — many of them on the payroll of big oil companies — who wonder if global warming is a reality.) But my fervent hope is that Hollywood’s embrace of Al Gore doesn’t give people an excuse to condemn and mock the effort — and oppose taking steps that we as a society need to take to deal with the issue of climate change.”
— Anchor Katie Couric writing about the Oscars on her CBSNews.com blog, “Couric & Co.,” February 26, 2007.

# “I really don’t think climate change is a political issue.... Everyone agrees it’s happening. If it’s a political issue, it’s whether the political will exists to address that change. We know we need to do something, and this is a way to heighten awareness.”
— NBC Senior Vice President Dan Harrison quoted in the July 9, 2007 Washington Post defending NBC Universal’s 75-hour multi-network coverage of Gore’s “Live Earth.”

# “Global Warming is a Hoax* Or so claim well-funded naysayers who still reject the overwhelming evidence of climate change. Inside the denial machine.”
— Cover of the August 13, 2007 Newsweek.

# “Climate experts say whether hired guns or honest dissenters, deniers are confusing the issue and delaying solutions....The scientific debate is no longer over society’s role in global warming. It is now a matter of degrees.”
— NBC’s Anne Thompson on the August 16, 2007 Nightly News.

# “There are a few, I guess you could call them dead enders out there. There are a few that are still holding true to the notion that maybe this is some sort of natural cycle....It is a tiny fraction of a minority of scientists out there. And when you look at those scientists and trace their funding, frequently you are led to the fossil fuel industry. So, really, it’s not a scientific debate anymore.”
— CNN environment correspondent Miles O’Brien talking about scientists who dispute Al Gore’s premise of a coming climate catastrophe, during CNN Newsroom, October 12, 2007.

# “The verdict from the Nobel committee must be sweet vindication....[But] even the Nobel Prize is not going to be enough to silence the naysayers, some of whom still believe that man is not responsible for global warming.”
— ABC’s David Wright on Al Gore’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize, World News, October 12, 2007.

# “The President of the U.S. can better shape the response to climate change than any other person in the world. Given the importance of this issue and the fact that you have emerged as its global spokesman, don’t you have a moral obligation to put yourself forward for the presidency?”
— Time’s Bryan Walsh in an interview with former Vice President Al Gore, who was runner-up in the magazine’s December 31, 2007 “Person of the Year” edition.

# “Could global warming one day force us into space to live?”
— ABC’s Sam Champion, Good Morning America, February 8, 2008.

# “Not doing it [fighting global warming] will be catastrophic. We’ll be eight degrees hotter in 10, not 10 but in 30 or 40 years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals. Civilization will have broken down.”
— CNN founder Ted Turner on PBS’s Charlie Rose, April 1, 2008.

# “Global warming naysayers are claiming that e-mails stolen from this research university show climate scientists discussing how to fudge results to promote the idea that humans are altering the planet....[But] the science is solid, according to a vast majority of researchers, with hotter temperatures, melting glaciers, and rising sea level providing the proof.”
— ABC correspondent Clayton Sandell talking about the ClimateGate scandal on World News, December 6, 2009.

# “Does this controversy change the science? A team of explorers will present findings on Arctic ice melt in Copenhagen, findings that have nothing to do with the e-mails....Beyond just the lack of summer sea ice, scientists also point to some other things happening around the planet. The increased melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, earlier springs....All of those things are certain things that are happening, that they say it doesn’t matter what’s in those e-mails — the Earth is changing.”
— NBC’s Anne Thompson on NBC’s Today, December 7, 2009.

# Correspondent Wyatt Andrews: “To many Republicans, Climategate proves that global warming is a deception....But if that’s true, it’s a fraud adopted by most of the world’s leading scientists, along with NASA, the U.N., the American Medical Association, and the National Academies of Science of 32 countries, including the United States. To most of them, ClimateGate is a sideshow compared to one overwhelming fact:”
Professor Michael Mann: “The last decade is the warmest decade on record.”
— CBS Evening News, December 9, 2009.

END of Media Reality Check

To read it online, posted with five videos: HERE.

Problem is, the "Scientists" that are still out there claiming that Man-Made Global Warming is real, and we are destroying the planet, are starting to be outnumbered by those saying "Uh, no." Even Al Gore's own Scientists are starting to come out and say, "No, wait, we didn't say that."

More and more Scientists are NOW telling you the truth. CO2 is NOT a pollutant. It IS a natural part of the Life Cycle. Warming and cooling are NATURAL CYCLES. We are NOT warming. Haven't since 1998. There is no impending, immediate threat to the Earth.

I know, I know. Some of my more Liberal Friends have bought into the whole thing hook, line, and sinker. As I also pointed out to you before, Global Warming has become a Religion to some. And we all know how hard it is to attempt to persuade a Religious person to question their Religious tenets. Not to forgo them, but merely question them. Look into what they say, and apply logic and reason. Most will NEVER do that. Most just follow blindly along.

When we have the Media reporting only half the story, to push an agenda, they cease being a News Agency, and become an Advocacy Group. Nothing more. Nothing less. But then again, that IS who they are.
Peter

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$10.8 Billion Profit, Tax Bill $0

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- General Electric filed more than 7,000 income tax returns in hundreds of global jurisdictions last year, but when push came to shove, the company owed the U.S. government a whopping bill of $0.

Oh to be GE. Hey folks,

Welcome to the Big Sunday Edition of the OPNTalk Blog. So how did they do this? Well according to CNN Money - GE: 7,000 tax returns, $0 U.S. tax bill By Annalyn Censky, staff reporter April 16, 2010: 11:52 AM ET

GE had plenty of earnings last year -- just not in the United States. For tax purposes, the company's U.S. operations lost $408 million, while its international businesses netted a $10.8 billion profit.

That left GE (GE, Fortune 500) with no U.S. profit left for Uncle Sam to tax. Corporations typically face a 35% federal income tax on their earnings. Thanks to its deductions and adjustments, GE reported an actual U.S. federal income tax rate of negative 10.5%. It got to add a "tax benefit" of $1.1 billion back into its reported earnings.

They are not alone. This is a pretty common practice, and it is completely legal. Yet, YOU sure will pay your taxes.

Coming right up?

The Bubble Factor

The Radicals Have their Own Nuclear Summit

Epilepsy

DLA For 041810

IWA for Sunday 041810

All that in just a second. Told you Cap and Tax was next. According to Reuters - US Senate climate bill to be unveiled April 26

* Backers hope for Senate vote in June or July

* Measure could affect states' climate control activities (Adds reaction from American Petroleum Institute)

Oh it will effect States. It will once again, take authority away from states and gives it to the Federal Government. According to this piece..

On Wednesday, a Senate source told Reuters the legislation would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions. It would also end state and regional carbon-trading programs, such as the one several Northeastern states participate in, to be replaced by a national carbon reduction policy. [N14150360]

It will increase Gas prices also. 27 cents a gallon. That's on top of the already HIGH prices for other reasons. It will be a final nail in our Economic Coffin.

Going to fill my cup. Today is one of my favorites, Folgers Gourmet Selections, Chocolate Truffle. You can find it at your local Grocer, or at their Website, www.folgers.com. Go get your morning Joe, and we shall meet right back here in just a minute.

Oh and do not forget, you can follow us on Twitter - peteropntalk, Facebook - Peter Carlock, Tom Sullivan Radio Listener's Club, and as always, the Email is opntalk@gmail.com. Be right back
Peter

Sources:
CNN Money - GE: 7,000 tax returns, $0 U.S. tax bill
Reuters - US Senate climate bill to be unveiled April 26

The Radicals Have their Own Nuclear Summit

This is to funny.

Hey folks,

So Obama has this Nuclear Summit, and we learned that Canada will not attack us with Nukes. Whew! Glad that was resolved. We also learned that Russia will get rid of some of their old Nukes. and they promise not to Nuke us. {Laughing} OK. We also learned that some in the State Run Obama Media, are not so sure that any thing was actually accomplished at this great accomplishment. They were locked out of actually seeing or hearing anything. Just told what to report after. Who was not their? Our enemies that say they WILL Nuke us.

So the Radicals had their OWN Nuclear Summit. Yup. That's right. Iran, Lebanon, Syria, all decided that the US was evil and Israel had to disarm. {Laughing} BIG Surprise. According to the AFP - Iran derides US as 'world's only atomic criminal' by Farhad Pouladi

TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran slammed the United States as an "atomic criminal" which should be suspended from the UN nuclear watchdog on Saturday, while urging changes to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

At a two-day nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran, the foreign ministers of Lebanon, Syria and Iraq voiced support for Iran's "peaceful" atomic programme and demanded that Israel join the nuclear NPT "without conditions."

At the start of the meeting, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ruled out any use of nuclear weaponry as "haram," meaning religiously banned under Islam.

He branded the United States an "atomic criminal" in his message which was read out by an aide at the conference, Tehran's answer to a nuclear summit held in Washington earlier this week.

Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad went a step further and called for Washington's suspension from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) along with all other nations which possess nuclear arms.

"Only the US government has committed an atomic crime," said the message of the all-powerful Khamenei who formulates Tehran's foreign policy, including its nuclear strategy.

"The world's only atomic criminal lies and presents itself as being against nuclear weapons proliferation, while it has not taken any serious measures in this regard," he said.

Sounds like something Obama would say. Oh wait, Obama did, in other words. He also just said we would start to disarm. Little Hitler should be happy.

Ahmadinejad, under whose presidency Iran has aggressively pushed ahead with a controversial nuclear programme despite three sets of UN sanctions, attacked the present structure of the UN Security Council, the IAEA and the NPT.

"An independent international group which plans and oversees nuclear disarmament and prevents proliferation should be set up," he told the conference attended by several foreign ministers and UN officials.

He said those countries which "possess, have used or threatened to use nuclear weapons should be suspended from the IAEA and its board of governors, especially the US."

Well, then that would include Iran. Also Russia. North Korea. China.

Ahmadinejad's remark was expected to irk allies Russia and China, two nuclear states with veto powers in the Security Council that have so far hesitated to back a fourth set of sanctions against Tehran.

"The right to veto, which is undemocratic, inhumane and unfair, should either be annulled, or if some insist on having this right, then some countries from Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe should also have the right to veto in order to reduce its negative outcomes," he said.

Khamenei and Ahmadinejad have been angered by Washington's new nuclear policy unveiled last week.

The policy limits the countries against which Washington might use its nuclear arsenal but singles out Iran and North Korea as exceptions for flouting Security Council resolutions over their nuclear programmes.

Because they have BOTH said they want to attack US. With Nukes.

Fraser Cameron, an analyst with the think-tank EU-Russia Centre who was attending the conference, said the Iranian nuclear issue has been aggravated by "misunderstandings from both sides" -- the West and Iran.

Idiot. How would Iran, misunderstand Iranian Nuclear issues?

Ahmadinejad also called upon "independent countries" to review the NPT, of which Iran is a signatory and as such considers it has the right to enrich uranium, the most controversial part of its nuclear programme.

"The presence of those possessing weapons, especially the US, prevents the drawing up of a fair treaty," he argued.

The foreign ministers of Lebanon, Syria and Iraq jointly blasted Israel, Middle East's sole but undeclared nuclear weapons power.

"The major threat in the region is Israel which has nuclear warheads. Israel must join this treaty and take quick steps to destroy its nuclear weapons," Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said in a speech.

So we can attack them more eaily without fear of reprisals.

His Lebanese counterpart Ali al-Shami said Israel should be "stripped" of its arsenal "since the atomic weapons of the Zionist regime are not inspected, there is a danger of these weapons being used in the future."

"This regime must join the NPT without any conditions."

And Hoshyar Zebari, the foreign minister of Iran's former foe Iraq, said: "We reject any threat against Iran and insist on Iran's rights to use peaceful nuclear energy."

The Jewish state, which has never publicly acknowledged having atomic weapons while maintaining a policy of deliberate ambiguity, has not ruled out a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities to halt its atomic programme.

Because they are SMART. They understand the threat Iran posses. Even if our Fearless Leader doesn't.
Peter

Sources:
AFP - Iran derides US as 'world's only atomic criminal'