Climate scientist William Sprigg delivered a bold challenge to his fellow climate scientists in a blockbuster address to EUEC 2010 in Phoenix, Arizona on February 2. He warned of a growing perception that “the IPCC is biased, conflicted, [and] pushing political agendas.”

by steamroller, guest writer

If you overspend your way INTO DEBT, how can you continue to overspend and expect to get out of debt? And if the current administration promises “transparency” in order to inspire CONFIDENCE, then why do the lies and subterfuge continue about the severity of problems and foolish, hapless, ineffective measures to correct them, producing negative results DIMINISHING CONFIDENCE? What makes any reasoning person think there will be any different conclusion when the same factors are repeated? If you put a pan of water on a hot stove, one can not rationally deduce that water will freeze, and if you repeat the experiment, will there be any other result?

There will be no improvement in the American economy until some incentive for gain is possible for those investing for profit. But when the investment is a political one, and increased and widening power is the motive, only the parasites who produce nothing, but consume the major share of what is produced will prosper. All the rest will indeed share. SHARE THE MISERY!

CBS news has an online poll on President Obama’s job performance. not scientific, but here’s the results:

to take the poll

The Economy

A: 3.52% B: 5.46% C: 5.75% D: 17.82% F: 67.45%

Foreign Policy

A: 7.08% B: 4.94% C: 8.63% D: 21.92% F: 57.43%

Health Care

A: 3.88% B: 4.13% C: 4.46% D: 9.45% F: 78.08%

Afghanistan

A: 4.76% B: 13.96% C: 26.80% D: 23.85% F: 30.64%

Iraq

A: 5.80% B: 11.18% C: 26.25% D: 23.39% F: 33.37%

Threat of Terrorism

A: 5.42% B: 5.73% C: 7.92% D: 18.39% F: 62.54%

Energy and the Environment

A: 5.07% B: 6.30% C: 12.98% D: 19.83% F: 55.82%

Social Issues

A: 5.80% B: 6.40% C: 14.18% D: 20.01% F: 53.61%

Bipartisanship

A: 5.31% B: 3.95% C: 4.92% D: 7.59% F: 78.23%

Obama’s Overall Job as President

A: 4.80% B: 5.45% C: 4.74% D: 25.42% F: 59.58%

Democratic Representative John Spratt has held onto South Carolina’s 5th District since 1982, and he hasn’t faced a strong challenger since 1996. Challenging him this time around, however, is Republican state senator Mick Mulvaney, yet another small-business owner clamoring to give an insider a run for his money. Mulvaney, a fiscal conservative who wants to rein in spending and opposes what his website calls “Obama’s health care takeover,” has claimed that he can emulate Scott Brown’s success. He decided to challenge Spratt, he says, when he sat in on a town-hall meeting last year and was disgusted to hear Spratt claim that the new health care bill would offer a “quantum leap” in efficiency and costs. Mulvaney paints himself as an approachable candidate, asking visitors to his website to call — at his actual cell-phone number — or e-mail him at the first sign that he is using spi

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S. 971: TO AMEND SECTION 7-5-110 OF THE 1976 CODE, RELATING TO THE REQUIREMENT OF REGISTRATION IN ORDER TO VOTE, TO PROVIDE THAT A PERSON IS NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE IN A PARTISAN PRIMARY ELECTION OR PARTISAN ADVISORY REFERENDUM UNLESS THE PERSON HAS REGISTERED AS BEING A MEMBER OF THAT PARTY