So, last Thursday it was Earth Day. In fact, it was the 40th anniversary of the 1st Earth Day.
Wanna see some predictions from the leading thinkers of the day?
So, last Thursday it was Earth Day. In fact, it was the 40th anniversary of the 1st Earth Day.
Wanna see some predictions from the leading thinkers of the day?
Surprisingly this isn’t being reported by the media, but that doesn’t make it any less true. After reaching a minimum in 2007, the Arctic has quietly been adding to its volume during all time frames.
Sad consolation I know, but I really think it’s true. I think that most people would say that they want less government in their lives, not more. They would like to have the ability to succeed, even if it means they could suffer failure. I think that American’s feel hard work precedes success or comfort. I really do.
Posted in Politics: National, Uncategorized
Tagged CNN, Conservative, Fox News, Main Stream Media, MSNBC
Do you remember the hurricane that made landfall onto North Carolina beaches this past July? Uh, no? Maybe August then? September-October-November? Yeah, me either. Wanna know why the mainstream media didn’t report any of those storms hammering the Carolina coast? Cause we had the quietest Hurricane season in 10 years.
SAVANNAH, Ga. — The Atlantic hurricane season ended Monday with barely a whimper: Not a single hurricane came ashore in the United States.
Since June, when the season began, just nine named storms developed. Only three of them became hurricanes, and those stayed out at sea or weakened before passing over land.
Two tropical storms made landfall in the U.S., causing little more than rain and some beach erosion.
It would seem that with a vanishing hockey stick, record cold and dampening of the powerful tropical storm season that we should finally be able to make some progress in combating the Climate Alarmists.
Prolly not, see, CO2 changes climate of which can appear all kinds of different symptoms. Including cooling and lessening of storms.
Posted in Global Warming
Tagged Green Jobs, Left, Leftist, Liberal, Main Stream Media, Weather Not Climate, zNorth Carolina
The other day a story broke about the Texas man that requested his Latino employees to Anglicize their names.
The tough-talking former Marine immediately laid down some new rules. Among them, he forbade the Hispanic workers at the run-down, Southwestern adobe-style hotel from speaking Spanish in his presence (he thought they’d be talking about him), and ordered some to Anglicize their names.
No more Martin (Mahr-TEEN). It was plain-old Martin. No more Marcos. Now it would be Mark.
Not sure where I fall on this one. I mean, jeez. On the other hand, he has a point. If a customer can’t understand your name, it makes it hard to relate to that customer. Maybe he should have made it clear that he was going to have the employees change their names when he hired them; I don’t know. But what I DO know is this clip from CNN is awesome.
Just listen to the females reporter’s voice as she “interviews” this guy. Her tone is simply dripping with intent and scorn. Then listen as Rick Sanchez weighs in. I’ll tell ya this much; the Main Stream Media will NEVER play this for you!
Okay, so the Fox News folks are a little defensive because Obama tried to bar them from an interview. It was nice to see Obama lose that by the way. But really, at some point the battle between news source and political theory has to stop. And I think that Fox News may have done that today.
I just don’t think that Fox should be campaigning to “Stop Obamacare”.
Posted in Global Warming, Politics: National
Tagged Main Stream Media, Politics, Single Payer
This morning on the Brad and Britt show the conversation was concerning the continued attack on Fox News from the White House. I only was able to catch a small part of the show, but the general gist was that, in fact, Fox News as an organization is slanted to the Right. I got this impression from the conversation between Brad and Britt regarding the Fox Radio reporters that the show dealt with for the first 3 years of the station’s existence.
Britt commented:
During this time he and Brad often spoke to those reporters and during those conversations, where it was just one on one, the reporters would often come across as genuine and fair, as if they were liberated from the corporate expectations of Fox.
I waited for the comparison to ABC Radio and its reporters. I would expect that if Fox had certain expectations than ABC must also. And if the Fox reporters felt liberated in one on one conversations with peers, it would hold that ABC reporters would feel the same way. I was rewarded with no such point. So I was left with the feeling that:
So I started to wonder. Many folks say that America is a “Center Right” nation. So maybe Fox is just right on the money when they report as a “Center Right” network. Which in turn got me to thinking, how far “right” is Fox?
So I checked. And this is what I found: A report titled: A Report on Media Bias
It turns out that two researchers conducted a study. And a rather clever study at that. The researchers
count the times that a media outlet cites various think tanks and other policy groups. We compare this with the times that members of Congress cite the same think tanks in their speeches on the floor of the House and Senate. By comparing the citation patterns we can construct an ADA score for each media outlet.
Then, by ranking these ADA scores, the report was able to rank not only how liberal or conservative a news outlet is, but also how far from “Center” it is.
The results? Surprising only in the fact that SO many sources are liberal, by how far and even how traditional conservative sources are really liberal:
Sources are listed in the order of the distance they are from center. The lower the number, the more conservative; the higher the more liberal. Average is 50.06. So, where does Fox news sit? 5th. They are the fifth closest to center with a 39.7 ranking. Every other source from 6th through 20 is further from center than Fox and all of them save 1 has a liberal bias.
The report is informative in 2 other aspects:
So I ask you gentle reader; who is really in the tank for who?
Posted in Politics: National
Tagged Brad and Britt, Conservative, Democrat, Left, Liberal, Main Stream Media, Republican