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Can’t remember the last time I actually wrote a post.

But I am getting tired of fixing everything every time a new version of WordPress comes out. Which seems to be about every seven and a half minutes anymore.

Remember those bogus “disappearing arctic ice” claims?

And the bogus “disappearing Himalayan glaciers” claims?

Well, it turns out the “rainforest threatened by changes in precipitation” claim is also, well, not quite “scientific”…

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100023598/after-climategate-pachaurigate-and-glaciergate-amazongate/

However, the “new record for manatees dying from exposure to cold water in Florida” claim, is real:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DFGVSG0&show_article=1

… and they want to run YOUR life from cradle to grave.

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., is a key climate change player. He went to Copenhagen last year. Last week, we asked him about the $2,200-a-day bill for room and food.

“I can’t believe that,” Rep. Waxman said. “I can’t believe it, but I don’t know.”

But his name is in black and white in the expense reports. The group expense report was filed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. She wouldn’t talk about it when our producer tried to ask.

Pelosi’s office did offer an explanation for the high room charges. Those who stayed just two nights were charged a six-night minimum at the five-star Marriott. One staffer said, they strongly objected to no avail. You may ask how they’ll negotiate a climate treaty, if they can’t get a better deal on hotel rooms.

Total hotel, meeting rooms and “a couple” of $1,000-a-night hospitality suites topped $400,000.

Flights weren’t cheap, either. Fifty-nine House and Senate staff flew commercial during the Copenhagen rush. They paid government rates — $5-10,000 each — totaling $408,064. Add three military jets — $168,351 just for flight time — and the bill tops $1.1 million dollars — not including all the Obama administration officials who attended: well over 60.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/25/cbsnews_investigates/main6140406.shtml

Dealing with global warming ranks at the bottom of the public’s list of priorities; just 28% consider this a top priority, the lowest measure for any issue tested in the survey. Since 2007, when the item was first included on the priorities list, dealing with global warming has consistently ranked at or near the bottom. Even so, the percentage that now says addressing global warming should be a top priority has fallen 10 points from 2007, when 38% considered it a top priority. Such a low ranking is driven in part by indifference among Republicans: just 11% consider global warming a top priority, compared with 43% of Democrats and 25% of independents.

http://people-press.org/report/584/policy-priorities-2010.

This is NOT an example of the Obama administration toying with unemployment figures, this is the way unemployment is calculated. But to suggest that the unemployment rate is “holding steady” and claim that indicates some kind of recovery is utter nonsense. The fact is the economy continues to shed jobs at an alarming pace, and the unemployent rate has stopped climbing simply because we are no longer counting the long-term unemployed at about the same rate we accrue newly unemployed workers. Which means the actual number of unemployed people is growing now at about the same rate it was climbing when those being dropped from the calculation lost their jobs, resulting in the rate holding steady.

In other words, we are losing  jobs now almost exactly as fast as we are dropping the long term unemployed out of the labor force completely.

Unemployment continues to stand at an official 10% for the third month in a row, the worst joblessness in 27 years. The real unemployment rate is far worse. Included in the December economic figures was a shocker – the percentage of adult men who are working has fallen to the lowest level in recorded U.S. history at just 80%. That means that one in five men in this country between 18 and 54 are neither working nor claiming unemployment. They have fallen completely out of the workforce.

That helps explain why December’s unemployment rate remained at November’s 10% rate in spite of an additional 85,000 Americans losing their jobs. At the same time the new jobless claims were added, many of the previously unemployed were simply removed from the workforce numbers altogether.

http://biggovernment.com/2010/01/13/americas-new-years-unemployment-hangover/