Israel, What Really Happened.

On this Christmas Day its is important to look back at the history of the holy land and thanks to Doug Ross for complining an excellent post summarizing its recent history and who modern day Israel came about. Thanks for Gateway Pundit: The History of Israel for pointing me to Doug Ross's post "What Really Happened"

It puts a whole different perspective to the argument that Palestine was taken from the Palestinians. If the Jews were the majority population then sounds what happened was really just a former colony organizing a new government.

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400 Scientists doubt Gore's global warming peril theory

It was bound to come sooner or later, since Gore and IPCC cannot justify their conclusions over time, especially when we are told that the Ice Sheet over Antarctica has now reached record depths and the shrinkage of the Northern Ice Sheet has slowed or even reversed.

Now more that 400 scientists are questioning the threat of global warming, 4 times the number cited in the IPCC report Al Gore uses as proof of his global warming peril theory.

No doubt a majority of those 400 scientists, look at the data and realize that yes the Earth is warming as it has since the last Ice Age, but no the earth is not in peril as this is just part of a climate process that has repeated itself over and over again during the earths history, and since humans have been around for a very short period of time in comparison to the earth, humans have had little or no effect over these climate cycles.

Claims that the sea level will rise 18 to 20 feet as Gore has predicted are ridiculous, when we only have seen a 3 inch rise to date. One can only conclude that Mr. Gore has allowed his desire for profit cloud his judgment. But that hasn't stopped him from complaining that a few (25 or 30 out of the 400) scientists have received funding from the Oil Companies, just how many of his 100 IPCC scientists has Mr. Gore allowed in on his sweet global warming venture capital deal.

For more on the latest report check out The Washington Times - Scientists doubt climate change:

By S.A. Miller - More than 400 scientists challenge claims by former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations about the threat of man-made global warming, a new Senate minority report says.

The scientists — many of whom are current or former members of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Mr. Gore for publicizing a climate crisis — cast doubt on the "scientific consensus" that man-made global warming imperils the planet.

"I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting — a six-meter sea level rise, 15 times the IPCC number — entirely without merit," said Dutch atmospheric scientist Hendrik Tennekes, one of the researchers quoted in the report by Republican staff of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

"I protest vigorously the idea that the climate reacts like a home heating system to a changed setting of the thermostat: just turn the dial, and the desired temperature will soon be reached," Mr. Tennekes said in the report.

Sen. James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, said the report debunks Mr. Gore's claim that the "debate is over."

"The endless claims of a 'consensus' about man-made global warming grow less-and-less credible every day," he said.

After a quick review of the report, Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said 25 or 30 of the scientists may have received funding from Exxon Mobil Corp.

Exxon Mobil spokesman Gantt H. Walton dismissed the accusation, saying the company is concerned about climate-change issues and does not pay scientists to bash global-warming theories.

"Recycling of that kind of discredited conspiracy theory is nothing more than a distraction from the real challenge facing society and the energy industry," he said. "And that challenge is how are we going to provide the energy needed to support economic and social development while reducing greenhouse-gas emissions."

The Republican report comes on the heels of Saturday's United Nations climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, where conferees adopted a plan to negotiate a new pact to create verifiable measurements to fight global warming in two years.

In the Senate report, environmental scientist David W. Schnare of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said he was skeptical because "conclusions about the cause of the apparent warming stand on the shoulders of incredibly uncertain data and models. ... As a policy matter, one has to be less willing to take extreme actions when data are highly uncertain."

The hundreds of others in the report — climatologists, oceanographers, geologists, glaciologists, physicists and paleoclimatologists — voice varying degrees of criticism of the popular global-warming theory. Their testimony challenges the idea that the climate-change debate is "settled" and runs counter to the claim that the number of skeptical scientists is dwindling.

The report's authors expect some of the scientists will recant their remarks under intense pressure from the public and from within professional circles to conform to the global-warming theory, a committee staffer said.

Several scientists in the report said many colleagues share their skepticism about man-made climate change but don't speak out publicly for fear of retribution, according to the report.

"Many of my colleagues with whom I spoke share these views and report on their inability to publish their skepticism in the scientific or public media," atmospheric scientist Nathan Paldor, professor of Dynamical Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said in the report.

The IPCC has about 2,500 members.

HEATED DEBATE

The following are comments from some of the more than 400 scientists in a Republican report on global warming:

•"Even if the concentration of 'greenhouse gases' double, man would not perceive the temperature impact."

Oleg Sorochtin of the Institute of Oceanology at the Russian Academy of Sciences

•"I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting — a six-meter sea level rise, 15 times the [U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] number — entirely without merit. ... I protest vigorously the idea that the climate reacts like a home heating system to a changed setting of the thermostat: just turn the dial, and the desired temperature will soon be reached."

Atmospheric scientist Hendrik Tennekes, former research director at the Netherlands' Royal National Meteorological Institute

•"The hypothesis that solar variability and not human activity is warming the oceans goes a long way to explain the puzzling idea that the Earth's surface may be warming while the atmosphere is not. The [greenhouse-gas] hypothesis does not do this. ... The public is not well served by this constant drumbeat of false alarms fed by computer models manipulated by advocates."

David Wojick, expert reviewer for U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

•"The media is promoting an unprecedented hyping related to global warming. The media and many scientists are ignoring very important facts that point to a natural variation in the climate system as the cause of the recent global warming."

Chief Meteorologist Eugenio Hackbart of the MetSul Meteorologia Weather Center in Sao Leopoldo-Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

•"There's no need to be worried. It's very interesting to study [climate change], but there's no need to be worried."

Anton Uriarte, a professor of physical geography at the University of the Basque Country in Spain

Source: Sen. James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee

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Al Qaeda Like the Democrats Stick With Failed Strategy In Pakistan

Yahoo News is reporting that according to Defense Secretary Gates, Al Qaeda has re-established itself in Pakistan and in concentrating its attacks on the Pakistani government and Pakistani people. I'm not sure who Al Qaeda has planning their strategy these days but it didn't work in Iraq and I doubt that it will work in Pakistan either.

Looks like sticking with failed strategies is something Al Qaeda and their allies the Democrats in Congress share.

For more on Defense Secretary Robert Gates remarks concerning Al Qaeda in Pakistan check out Yahoo! News - Gates: Al Qaeda has regrouped in Pakistan border area:

Al Qaeda has regrouped in Pakistan's remote Afghan border area and begun to focus attacks on the Pakistani government and military, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday.

But the Pentagon chief said al Qaeda's activities in Pakistan have not yet affected Afghanistan, where U.S. and coalition forces have faced increased Taliban violence in the past two years.

"There is no question that some of the areas in the frontier area have become areas where Al Qaeda has re-established itself," Gates said. "But so far, we haven't seen any significant consequence of that in Afghanistan itself.

"Al Qaeda right now seems to have turned its face toward Pakistan and attacks on the Pakistani government and Pakistani people," he told reporters.

Gates said the Pentagon was looking for ways to improve the Pakistani army's counter-insurgency capabilities by providing training and equipment. The United States provides hundreds of millions of dollars in security-related aid to Pakistan annually.

Attacks on the Pakistan government and military have increased in recent weeks. A suicide bomber killed 10 Pakistani military recruits in the northwestern town of Kohat on Monday.

More than 400 people have been killed in suicide bomb attacks in Pakistan in recent months, most in the North West Frontier Province.

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I think Harry Reid must have taken lessons from Baghdad Bob

With the democrats in control of both the house and senate, I'm glad that they had the "Wisdom" to elect such ineffective leaders as Reid and Pelosi.

Who knows where the country would be if they had actually elected someone who knew how to lead, but instead we have Reid and Pelosi, who with their ineffective at best leadership have paved the way for a Republican takeover in 2008.

The Gateway Pundit has done a great job of summarizing the antics of the "Worst Congressional leader on record" in his post, Gateway Pundit - Who's Lying Now, Harry Reid?:

The New York Times examines the antics of America's worst Congressional leader on record and wonders where it all went wrong for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid:

“Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, has called President Bush a loser and a liar and has referred to him derisively as King George. Mr. Reid has also apologized — but only, he likes to point out, for the “loser” line.

Mostly, Mr. Reid, Democrat of Nevada, calls the president “this guy,” as in an interview last week, when he said, “I am mystified, dumbfounded about how difficult it is to work with this guy.”

In private conversations about Mr. Bush with friends and Senate colleagues, Mr. Reid has even used the word “hate,” though he clarifies that it is political not personal hatred that he feels.

You may have to go back to the Civil War to find a period in American history where the opposition has been so toxic in their attacks on the president. The shocking attacks by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Dick Durbin, Jim Moran yesterday and other democratic leaders on the president and the troops have done nothing but harm to this nation.

And, as Harry Reid continues to attack this president and troops at war he himself has been unwilling to admit that the US and Allied forces have had great success in Iraq this past year.
This is what Harry Reid said on Tuesday:

"Who's winning?" Reid asked a group of reporters. "Big Oil, Big Tobacco. ... Al Qaeda has regrouped and is able to fight a civil war in Iraq. ... The American people are losing."

The video is here.

Yep the War is Lost, but not to the American people. The War is lost to Democrats that had hoped upon hoped that they U.S. Military would lose, so they could continue to capitalize upon the deaths of our American Freedom Fighters. Reid and the Democrats will have a hard time explaining how we lost the war when the U.S. and Iraqi Military have defeated Al-Qaeda side by side.

I personally think that Reid and Pelosi must have taken lessons from Baghdad Bob, on how to declare defeat in the face of victory. It was not that long ago when Baghdad Bob declared victory over the Americans as our Tanks rolled up the road behind him, Harry is doing the same thing.

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Stanford Announces Li-Ion Battery Breakthrough

With all the news about Cheap Solar Cells in the news this week, I nearly missed this item about Stanford's Li-Ion research. The are claiming that using their new Nanowire technology that existing Li-Ion technology can achieve capacities a full magnitude (10 times) better than current Li-Ion batteries.

If this proves accurate and can be manufactured in a cost effective manor, then it is conceivable that we will be using them in both our homes and autos.

Using the cheap solar cells in the news this week, the southern facing roofs on our houses will be covered with solar collectors, which then will be connected to these high capacity Li-Ion batteries. The batteries will then power our homes even after dark or on cloudy days. It is possible that you could even have collectors and batteries packs large enough to charge your electric auto as well.

Just think, no bills from the electric utility or the gas station. And best of all those Mideastern and South American fools won't be getting any of my hard earned dollars. Sounds great, I can't wait.

Read more about Stanford breakthrough in Stanford News - Stanford's nanowire battery holds 10 times the charge of existing ones and Future Pundit - Stanford Scientists Claim 10 Times Better Batteries

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My Favorite Fred Thompson Commercial So Far

This has got to be best Fred Thompson Commercial to date, but it needs a sound track.

Seriously, I really like Thompson, I just wish he would loosen up a bit, and putting out a few commercials like this one would go a long way in doing so.

I really like the one that says "In the Fred Thompson Administration There Will Be No Need For Leaders Of Terrorist States to visit Ground Zero; Ground Zero will be where ever they live".

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San Francisco Proposes Solar Power Rebate Initiative

Looks like the San Francisco City Council is tired of waiting on congress to propose clean energy initiatives and they are taking the lead, today they announced their own Solar Power Initiative. Under the proposal Businesses could receive up to $10,000 in rebates for installing solar panels, Residents could receive up to $5000. The program has a goal of 10,000 installations over the next 10 years. For more on what looks to be the first grass roots government effort to promote solar energy check out Good Clean Tech - San Francisco Unveils Proposal for Solar Power Initiative and Gizmodo - Renewable Energy: San Francisco Working on Ambitious Solar Plan, Rebates and Loans for Solar Installations for more on this innovative program.

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Bad Guys Beware, Laser C-130 Gunship Revealed

If the Al-Qaeda bad guys ever decide to peek their heads out which ever cave they are hiding in, it looks like they have another worry. The U.S. Air Force already known for their deadly C-130 Gunships that can reduce a building as well as anything in it to rubble in seconds, have a new C-130 and this one is sporting the lastest in high-energy lasers.

They are not saying a lot about it's capabilities are other than it can take on ground targets at the speed of light.

When they test this thing I'll bet it will be worth more than the the price of admission. The Defense Tech blog has the story take a look Defense Tech: Laser Gunship Revealed:

So, a few months ago you might remember we talked about a series of tests of Boeing's airborne laser - a massive, Rube Goldberg contraption housed in a 747 freighter aimed at knocking down ballistic missiles.

During a phoner press conference, Boeing officials mentioned in passing they were working on another system that could engage ground targets. To me, this seems far more logical for such a weapon than one that's designed to knock out missiles...that mission strikes me as redundant.

Well, now it seems Boeing has taken the first step in making the laser gunship a reality by installing the weapon on a C-130H...

Boeing completed the laser installation Dec. 4 at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. The laser, including its major subsystem, a 12,000-pound integrated laser module, was moved into place aboard the aircraft and aligned with the previously-installed beam control system, which will direct the laser beam to its target.

With the laser installed, Boeing is set to conduct a series of tests leading up to a demonstration in 2008 in which the program will fire the laser in-flight at mission-representative ground targets to demonstrate the military utility of high-energy lasers. The test team will fire the laser through a rotating turret that extends through the aircraft's belly.

"The installation of the high-energy laser shows that the ATL program continues to make tremendous progress toward giving the warfighter a speed-of-light, precision engagement capability that will dramatically reduce collateral damage," said Scott Fancher, vice president and general manager of Boeing Missile Defense Systems.

"Next year, we will fire the laser at ground targets, demonstrating the military utility of this transformational directed energy weapon."

I just love the idea that a JTAC could soon call in for a laser strike on a target. Move over Spectre, say hello to the new "Vulcan" cannon (Star Trek reference here).

ATL, which Boeing is developing for the U.S. Department of Defense, will destroy, damage or disable targets with little to no collateral damage, supporting missions on the battlefield and in urban operations. Boeing's Advanced Tactical Laser industry team includes L-3 Communications/Brashear, which made the laser turret, and HYTEC, Inc., which made various structural elements of the weapon system.

Can't wait to see the test shoot next year...

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Immigration Is Hot, So How Is The Fence Coming?

Immigration is the hottest issue on the campaign trail on both sides of the aisle, just ask Romney, Rudy, Thompson, Huckabee, Obama of even Hillary. They are all saying that the people out there are angry about the borders and Washington's lack of progress in securing the border.

So how are they doing, we've paid for the fence, now how much has been built, USATODAY.com has posted an updated story titled 'Virtual' border fence sees progress:

The administration's plan to use technology and physical barriers to keep people from illegally entering the country is back on track this week.

A virtual fence along a 28-mile stretch of Arizona will get the government's conditional stamp of approval Friday, allowing it to move into the next testing phase.

Earlier this year Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff withheld partial payment to contractor Boeing Co. because the technology the company used in a pilot project near Tucson, did not work properly.

Also this week, Chertoff will tell landowners along 225 non-contiguous miles stretching from California to Texas that they have 30 days to give the government permission to access to their properties. The government needs the approval to determine whether it's even possible to build a fence on their land. If landowners do not agree within 30 days, Homeland Security will issue temporary condemnation orders to gain access.

As of Tuesday, 200 landowners had not given the department permission to access their properties, according to a Homeland Security official who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the subject. Most of the landowners who have not given approval are in Texas and Arizona.

The 225 miles of physical fencing and the 28-mile virtual fence are part of the government's plan to keep people from illegally entering the U.S. If the 28-mile virtual fence is successful, elements of it could be used as a prototype along other parts of the southern and northern borders. The project is being tested in Arizona because over much of the last decade, more illegal immigrants have crossed from Mexico through the state than anywhere else on the border.

The virtual fence includes 98-foot unmanned towers that are equipped with an array of sophisticated technology including radar, sensor devices and cameras capable of distinguishing people from cattle at a distance of about 10 miles.

Homeland Security has said the cameras are powerful enough to tell group sizes and whether people are carrying weapons and backpacks full of drugs.

But software glitches have kept the array from providing a common operating picture with global positioning information to Border Patrol command centers as well as to agents with laptops in their vehicles stationed in the area to intercept intruders.

The government paid Boeing $15 million of its initial $20 million contract before determining during the summer that there were glitches. Over the next 45 days Border Patrol agents will be testing the system, and if agents are satisfied, they will accept the project. If there are problems, Boeing will be asked to fix them.

By the end of 2008, Homeland Security plans to complete 370 miles of pedestrian fencing intended to stop illegal immigrants on foot, and 300 miles of vehicle barriers to stop drug smugglers on the southwest border. As of Sept. 30 of this year, 145 miles of fence were complete.

They've had nearly two years to build 145 miles of fence, so maybe about 10 years from now there maybe enough to completed to keep a few illegals home. But really, the fence is really just a piece of the solution, if our economy needs workers, people, whether from Mexico or elsewhere in the world are going to find a way to get here.

What needs to happen is our immigration should be based on realistic numbers established yearly by congress and the administration. The immigration department needs to be sized to handle the flow legally.

No ten year waiting lists, no preferential programs, if someone wants to come here they sign up to come, and as long as the quota hasn't been reached for the year, they are issued visas and if they want to stay, they have to achieve citizenship within a reasonable time, otherwise they go home when the visa expires.

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Dead Donating To Democrats In Record Amounts

The word is not only are the deceased voting in record numbers nationwide but they are contributing to the candidates campaigns in record amounts as well. I'm not sure you can enforce campaign law on the deceased, after all a life sentence to them would be nothing.

But something needs to be done, otherwise you can bet Hillary and her kind will be taking full advantage of the pocketbooks of the deceased. Take a look at the USATODAY post, Deceased still lining political coffers, to tune of half-million:

Harold Schooler died in 2003, but his political activism lives on.

The former piano salesman and musician is among more than 160 dead people who have given more than $540,000 to political committees and candidates for the White House and Congress over the past eight years, an analysis of political donations shows.

The estate of Schooler, who lived in Palm Springs, Calif., has donated $28,500 this year to the Democratic National Committee.

Federal rules allow such donations as long as contributions don't exceed legal limits and the intentions of the deceased were known, said Federal Election Commission spokesman Bob Biersack. Such gifts are fairly rare, he said.

Kent Cooper, a campaign-finance expert and former Federal Election Commission official, admits these contributions are "a little strange and unusual."

"People hear now and then of accusations of dead people voting," he said, "but these are examples of dead people continuing to give and give and give."

The Democratic committee received the most campaign money from deceased donors, nearly $225,000, according to USA TODAY's tally of federal campaign-finance data compiled by CQ MoneyLine, a non-partisan group. The Republican National Committee was the second-largest recipient, with about $93,000.

The donors ranged from Schooler, who has contributed nearly $82,000 since his death, to Richard Lee of Nome, Alaska, whose estate gave $3,207 to the Republican National Committee in 2003. Attempts to reach Lee's survivors were unsuccessful.

Schooler's brother said he didn't know the reason behind his sibling's largess. "We never talked about politics," said Wayne Schooler, 87. "He didn't leave any to me … and I'm a Democrat."

The money from the deceased is a tiny fraction of political contributions.

Between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30, people listed as deceased gave nearly $96,000 in federal donations, according to CQ MoneyLine's data.

By comparison, the four congressional campaign committees have collected nearly $170 million so far this year, MoneyLine's tally shows. White House hopefuls have raised even more: about $420 million.

Officials with the Democratic and Republican parties said they don't make any special efforts to seek bequests from contributors' estates. "Occasionally, the committee receives donations from estates and does so in accordance with federal regulations and limits," said RNC spokesman Danny Diaz.

DNC spokeswoman Stacie Paxton said the money likely reflects donors' commitment to Democratic causes. "By donating to the party, they know that the issues that they care about will continue."

Martha Hughes, a Dallas secretary who died in 1999, was among the Democratic givers. She left all but $10,000 of her $1.7 million estate to Democrats at the state and federal level, according to her executor David Carlock. The analysis shows she gave $25,000 to the DNC in 2003.

Carlock said ballroom dancing and Democratic politics were among Hughes' passions. She had no children. "She lived through the Depression and was a great admirer of President Roosevelt's," he said.

What about the $10,000 that didn't go to Democrats? Hughes left it to her plumber, Carlock said.

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Hillary When It Rains It Pours, Dem Fundraiser Norman Hsu Indicted

For those who have wondered what happened to Norman Hsu, here your answer. Norman was indicted today in New York on 15 counts of duping investors with a nationwide Ponzi scheme. Where do the Clintons find these people. Check out the the news, starting with Michelle Malkin - Norman Hsu indicted in NY:

Just in from AP:

A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted Norman Hsu, a top Democratic fundraiser accused of cheating investors of at least $20 million and using some of the money to make illegal donations to political campaigns.

In the 15-count indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the government accused the 56-year-old clothing-industry entrepreneur of duping investors nationwide with a massive Ponzi scheme.

The Hillary Clinton campaign was too busy digging through Barack Obama’s homework to respond.

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More: Here’s the indictment (PDF).

Excerpts:

The campaign finance fraud counts:

And a demand that Hsu forfeit several items, including a sax from Billy Boy and some bottles of wine…

FOXNews.com - Democratic Fundraiser Norman Hsu Indicted on Federal Fraud Charges:

A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted Norman Hsu, a top Democratic fundraiser accused of cheating investors of at least $20 million and using some of the money to make illegal donations to political candidates including Hillary Rodham Clinton.

In the 15-count indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the government accused the 56-year-old clothing-industry entrepreneur of duping investors nationwide with a massive Ponzi scheme.

The government said Hsu also violated federal campaign finance laws by making contributions to various political candidates in the names of others.

Federal prosecutors said Hsu hoped his lavish contributions to campaigns would raise his public profile and convince more people to invest in his fraudulent financial scheme. To achieve his aims, prosecutors said, Hsu pressured many of his victims to contribute thousands of dollars to various candidates for president and Congress.

The indictment said Hsu from 2000 through August 2007 convinced his victims to invest at least $60 million in companies that supposedly extended short-term financing to businesses.

It said Hsu used the money instead to further his fraudulent aims, sometimes paying the large interest gains he had promised to those who had invested earliest in the scheme. Prosecutors said he eventually cheated the investors out of at least $20 million.

He faces six counts of mail fraud, six counts of wire fraud and three counts of violating the Federal Election Campaign Act.

If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison on each of the mail and wire fraud charges, and five years on each of the federal campaign finance charges. He also could face millions of dollars in fines.

Hsu is in custody in California on unrelated charges and was expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan in several weeks, prosecutors said.

A message left with a lawyer for Hsu was not immediately returned.

USA Today - Dem fundraiser Norman Hsu indicted:

A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted Norman Hsu, a top Democratic fundraiser and former fugitive accused of cheating investors of at least $20 million and using some of the money to make illegal donations to political candidates including Hillary Rodham Clinton.

In the 15-count indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the government accused the 56-year-old clothing-industry entrepreneur of duping investors nationwide with a massive Ponzi scheme.

The government said Hsu also violated federal campaign finance laws by making contributions to various political candidates in the names of others. A message left with a lawyer for Hsu was not immediately returned.

USA TODAY ARCHIVE: Hsu case sheds light on blind donors in race

Federal prosecutors said Hsu hoped his lavish campaign contributions would help draw money to his scheme by raising his public profile. To achieve his aims, prosecutors said, Hsu pressured many of his victims to contribute thousands of dollars to various candidates for president and Congress.

I can't wait to see how this comes out, what will Norman do to say out of jail, or will Hillary and the forces of evil get to him even in jail.

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USA Today doesn't give up easily on Global Warming

Just because they have missed their hurricane predictions for the last three years in a row and the case of Global Warming weakens by the day, that is no reason for the Mainstream Media and the National Academy of Sciences to give up predicting our doom due to Global Warming.

Since they can't predict Hurricanes worth a damn, now they have lowered their sites a bit now they are predicting we will be done in by tornadoes and thunderstorms.

Why should we believe organizations (Media, and Atmospheric Scientists) that have a monetary interest (circulation and research grants) in doom and destruction to predict anything but doom and destruction.

USATODAY - USA facing increase in severe storms, study says:

Global warming could bring the USA a dramatic increase in the frequency of weather conditions that feed severe thunderstorms and tornadoes by the end of the 21st century, says a study out Monday.

Some locations could see as much as a 100% increase in the number of days that favor severe thunderstorms, says the study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"The densely populated regions of the South and East, including New York City and Atlanta, could be especially hard-hit," reports study lead author Jeff Trapp of Purdue University.

A thunderstorm is described as "severe" by the National Weather Service if wind gusts reach 58 mph or faster, if hail is 0.75 of an inch in diameter or larger, or if the thunderstorm produces a tornado or tornadoes.

The fuel for the more intense storms would be the predicted warming of the Earth caused by the burning of fossil fuels that release greenhouse gases.

Trapp and his colleagues used climate models to determine whether increased greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, would affect severe thunderstorms' development. The scientists found that as the temperature of Earth's atmosphere rises, the warm, humid air that helps fuel powerful thunderstorms is also expected to increase throughout the USA.

Based on current carbon emission rates, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change earlier this year forecast that average temperatures will rise by 3 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit worldwide by 2100, which is expected to intensify precipitation.

Although the typically stormy spring could see more storms, "summer should have the highest increases in severe weather," says Trapp. His team reports that by the end of the century, the number of spring days with severe thunderstorm conditions would increase mostly over the southern plains and Florida. But in the summer, almost the entire eastern half of the country might see an increase in days conducive to more severe storms, with the largest increases likely near the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast.

Kevin Trenbreth, a senior scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Science in Boulder, Colo., who was not part of this study, says, "What they suggest here seems quite plausible." But he adds that although a study such as this is overdue and welcome, it is not as definitive as he would like because of limitations in the climate models used in the study. However, "conditions may be even worse than depicted," he says.

The new study is the second released this year that uncovered a link between severe thunderstorms and climate change. The first one, released by NASA researchers in August, forecast an increase in the intensity of severe storms throughout the year .

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Suprise, Suprise ,Anderson Cooper and CNN knew Gen. Kerr

OK, now the plot is getting interesting, true to a typical Clinton scandal, this one is full of all the mystery of a good adventure novel. Here is the story so far.

First we find out the Hillary plants questions at the democratic debates and she defends herself by saying everyone does it.

Next we find out that the Republican CNN/YouTube debate was filled by questions from Democratic Operatives, and we are told that poor journalism was responsible for CNN allowing it to happen.

Now we find out, the Debate moderator, Anderson Cooper knew the highest profile infiltrator, Gen. Kerr and that he has appeared on CNN before. And CNN paid the General to make the trip to the debate.

When will we realize that they don't call CNN the Clinton News Network for nothing, and they have the ratings to prove it. As the election gets closer I'll bet we will see more incidents as they try their best to elect their candidate.

The Gateway Pundit, who else, has a good workup of the developing Clinton Scandal take a look to find out more in Gateway Pundit: Growing CNN Scandal: Anderson Cooper Knew Gen. Kerr After All

He has some video as well.

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