Isaiah 39: 1-2—“At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered. Hezekiah was pleased, and showed them all his treasure house, the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious oil and his whole armory and all that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.”

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Isaiah 39: 1-2—“At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.  Hezekiah was pleased, and showed them all his treasure house, the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious oil and his whole armory and all that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.”

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This is the rock on which the  Messiah sweated blood. It’s in the Garden of Gethsemane at the base of the Mount of Olives.

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SnyderTalk Editorial: While pressure grows for more stimulus spending, remember how much “stimulus money” has been wasted already and who wasted it


As pressure mounts in DC to ramp up the economy with additional stimulus spending, it’s helpful to reflect on stimulus spending so far.  The sites below provide just a few examples of spending boondoggles that we know about.  There are many more that we don’t know about.

There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that we’ve already spent more than enough money to stimulate the economy, but huge sums have been wasted.  Dole outs to groups that supported candidate Obama in 2008, public and private sector unions for example, and programs that produce little more than government dependence did not stimulate the economy.  They only masked the problem and delayed serious efforts to deal with it, and the Cash for Clunkers program, for instance, rewarded people who were already planning to buy a car anyway.  The taxpayers picked up part of their bill.  That’s not simulative.  It’s just another transfer payment where the masses are taxed to benefit a few.  It’s the quintessential government sleight-of-hand.

Business as usual can’t be allowed to continue.  Saying that our stimulus program was ill-conceived is an understatement.  Keep that in mind as you ponder the next round of “stimulus spending”.  The people running our government have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they don’t, won’t, or can’t put our interests ahead of their own personal, political, and financial interests.  Thankfully, November 2010 is right around the corner.  This time I’m hoping for change, sweeping change.

This is not a partisan political issue.  Republicans AND Democrats created this mess.  Keep in mind that President Bush had a Republican majority in the House and Senate for the first 6 of his 8 years in office. Republicans had complete control while the housing bubble was growing, and the illegal and questionable practices that we’ve learned about since 2008 should have been evident to them.  That’s why I think we need sweeping change.  The message needs to be loud and clear.

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Natural Healthcare Store, Live the Natural Life!TM

If you haven’t been there already, you should take the opportunity to visit Natural Healthcare Store.  Each product selected for sale at Natural Healthcare Store undergoes rigorous research to make sure that it is the highest quality at an affordable price.

Natural Healthcare Store carries skin care, hair care, and oral care products.  Be sure to check out the Dead Sea products imported from Israel and support the Israeli economy with your purchases.  Natural Healthcare Store carries makeup, deodorant, and detoxification products.  It also carries supplements, weight loss products, and loose leaf tea.  Rounding out its product mix, Natural Healthcare Store carries natural household cleaning products.

Katie and I believe strongly in healthy living, and we use the products.  We’re proud to say that our daughter Melanie owns the store.

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Climate Change Update:

SEPP SCIENCE EDITORIAL #23-2010 (July 31, 2010)

by S. Fred Singer, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project

BOOK REVIEW: Climate Cover-up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming, by James Hoggan and Richard Littlemore. Greystone Books, Vancouver, BC. 2009. 250 pp.

Anyone who has seen the smear DeSmogBlog will find more of the same in this hastily-written book which continues to smear on an even larger scale. For example, on page 39 it describes me as a “tobacco-sponsored scientist” which is totally untrue.

Later, on page 80, it mentions me again as a “hard working climate change denier who has done no obvious scientific work in the field for years.” It lists me as an advisor to the organization “TASSC” (The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition)  which is also completely untrue. In fact, I have never been associated with TASSC in any way—although I do commune with many of the other groups listed, all respected conservative think tanks.

I gladly take credit for conducting, in 1992, what may have been the first survey of expert opinions on global warming. It included all of the members of technical committees of the American Meteorological Society and showed, for the first time, the existence of considerable professional skepticism about global warming promotion. The 1995 Leipzig Declaration carries this further; and contrary to Hoggan, all of the signatures are on file. Of course, Leipzig was outdone by the Oregon Petition Project which eventually garnered over 31,000 signatures from American scientists and engineers (p.108).

Not surprisingly, Hoggan puts a great deal of stock in the claims of journalist Ross Gelbspan, who asserts in his book “The Heat is On” that climate skeptics were drawing major financial support from coal and oil interests. While I cannot speak for others, this is simply not true in my case. And would it have mattered?

One whole chapter is devoted to my libel suit against one Justin Lancaster. Of course, Hoggan misrepresents the facts, which are fully laid out in the book “Politicizing Science” (Michael Gough, ed. Published by Hoover Institution, Stanford, 2003). It all started when Al Gore was running for Vice President. He faced great embarrassment since his guru, Professor Roger Revelle, had published a somewhat skeptical article in an obscure journal, together with me and Chauncey Starr. This led to an attack on Singer by Lancaster, a Gore groupie, who first claimed that Revelle was not a coauthor. When this did not work, he then claimed that Singer had taken advantage of Revelle’s advanced age. When this didn’t work either, he was finally forced to retract and apologize in order to avoid a trial that would have cost him a great deal of money and ruined his reputation forever. More recently, however, Lancaster has retracted his retraction and has left himself open to another lawsuit; but it may not be worthwhile to sue him. In any case, there is ample evidence in Revelle’s writings of his skeptical views on the global warming issue—sufficient to undermine any claim that Lancaster might have.

Hoggan has his heroes, people like Gelbspan and Naomi Oreskes, who are fully expert in smearing people. And he also has his enemies, whom he tries to pull down: Freeman Dyson Sallie Baliunas, Tim Ball, Stephen Milloy, and of course me.

But always it’s the same story: accusations of being in the pay of the oil industry or tobacco lobby or worse. Lyndon Larouche makes an appearance, in connection with a story about melting glaciers, traced to Singer’s website and based on a wrong reference. As a result, another Hoggan’s hero, British smear artist George Monbiot, is credited with breaking “one of the all-time-great climate disinformation stories” (p.162). We haven’t heard much from George Monbiot since exaggerations of glacier melt in the Himalayas was exposed.

It’s too bad that Hoggan’s book appeared just before ClimateGate broke. His book title would have fitted perfectly, by changing only a single word: “Climate Cover-up: The Crusade to Hype Global Warming.”

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