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[FREEMAN] said the Tea Party's "stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves on term term. What's, what does that, what underlines that? Screw the country. We're going to do whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we're going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here."MAYBE WE SHOULDN'T BE SO SHOCKED FREEMAN IS A JERK: HE'S HAD A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS STEP-GRANDDAUGHTER FOR A LONG TIME.
80 Arrested in Financial District Protest
The police in New York City made scores of arrests as hundreds of people, many of whom had been encamped in a lengthy protest, marched north to Union Square
“Fiasco” was the word chosen by one scientist in an e-mail to the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., alerting his colleagues to erroneous claims made by the publishers of the atlas (whose name derives from The Times of London) about the speed at which ’s glaciers are melting.
He also feared that a map in the atlas, along with news accounts repeating an error in the news release, could pull climate scientists into another vortex of damaging controversy.
The news release, echoed by the news media, claimed that Greenland had lost 15 percent of its permanent ice cover from 1999 to 2011.
That translates to 125,000 cubic miles, according to a rough calculation by Etienne Berthier, a glaciologist with the University of Toulouse, enough melted ice to raise sea levels three to five feet.
The corresponding map in the atlas itself indicated that significant portions of Greenland’s coastline had become ice-free.
Glaciologists, previously bruised by an exaggerated claim about the melting of Himalayan glaciers in a 2007 United Nations report that became fodder for skeptics, mobilized as a truth squad.
On blogs, on radio programs and in newspaper columns, they stated emphatically that Greenland has not lost 15 percent of its ice cover in recent years.
The retreat, they said, is more like one-tenth of 1 percent.
1/1OTH OF 1% VERSUS 15%/
HMMMMMM...... THAT'S A HUGE ERROR - OVERSTATING MELTING BY 15,000%.
YUP: FIFTEEN-THOUSAND PERCENTAGE POINTS OFF.
THEY OVERSTATED MELTING BY 150X!
“I respectfully disagree,” Netanyahu said. “The Palestinians are basically trying to shortcut this. They’re trying to get a state without giving us peace, without giving us security.”All Clinton is doing is distortion, to say nothing of an inability to bring himself to lay any blame at the feet of the PLO.
“President Clinton knows very well [that] in 2000 at Camp David … who really made the generous offer and the Palestinians refused to come,” he said. “I’m sure that President Bush can tell you what happened at Camp David a few years later, when another Israeli prime minister made a generous offer, and the Palestinians refused to come.”
When asked if he had moved the goalposts, Netanyahu said, “Not at all.”
3. Millionaires pay proportionately less income tax than poorer people.Obama will, of course, continue to push his tax-the-rich theme. He is trying to play the populist.
In a speech on Monday, Obama said raising taxes on millionaires isn’t class warfare, but “math.” His math may be off: According to the IRS, those with adjusted gross incomes of more than $1 million paid an average of 23.3 percent in federal income taxes in 2008; those earning between $100,000 and $200,000 paid 12.7 percent; and those earning between $50,000 and $100,000 paid 8.9 percent. Half of American families don’t make enough money to pay income taxes at all....
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5. Obama’s “millionaires’ tax” won’t seriously limit investment.
That’s the line of reasoning that the administration is using. On Monday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told reporters that the president’s plan wouldn’t hurt growth. “I am very confident that the modest changes we’re suggesting in terms of revenues . . . would make the economy stronger in the long term, not weaker in the long term,” he said.
Geithner’s confidence is somewhat misplaced. According to a 2001 congressional study that confirmed a basic tenet of macroeconomics, “each $1 of marginal tax rate cuts would save the private economy at least $1.25 as deadweight losses fall and economic efficiency increases.” Taxes distort investment decisions. Why throw money into productive assets — corporate securities, a rental property or new employees for a small business — if the income they generate will be taxed away?
Taxes on the rich are taxes on people who create jobs. And jobs are an unalloyed good thing for an economy. Excessively taxing the capital that makes the economy go is poor public policy. And we have a recent example of how the opposite works well: Unemployment declined by a third in the four years after the Bush tax cuts were fully implemented in 2003, dropping to 4.2 percent from 6.2 percent. Meanwhile, federal revenue increased 44 percent in those years. If these tax cuts put people to work and generated money for the government, shouldn’t Obama consider the possibility that tax increases should be avoided?
Ten years and two wars after 9/11, America’s struggle against Islamist terrorism is nowhere close to succeeding. And there is no better admission of failure than new airport security procedures to grope and fondle Americans. But if a superpower like America can’t vanquish this scourge, is there any force in the world that can?
There might well be: Bollywood, India’s flamboyant film industry. Just as the Beatles and Rock n’ Roll helped bring down the Kremlin, similarly, Bollywood might yet prove to be the undoing of Osama bin Laden and his noxious brand of Islamic fundamentalism.
--The euro zone has six weeks to resolve its crisis, U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said Friday, warning that regional banks need to be shored up and the euro-zone bailout mechanism may need its firepower boosted.ITEM 2: GREEKS CONTEMPLATING DEFAULT:
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of this week's International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington, Osborne said that international pressure is mounting on the euro zone to act fast and that regional leaders were aware that "time was running out for them."
Greece's finance minister has told lawmakers he sees three scenarios to resolve the debt crisis, including one involving an orderly default with a 50pc haircut for bondholders, two Greek newspapers reported on Friday.I THINK IN A MORAL SENSE, THE POLITICIANS HAVE ALREADY DEFAULTED. AND THAT'S WHY AN ORDERLY DEFAULT IS LIKELY.
