Climarxists are blaming the record-breaking snowfall and cold that hit the nation n December 2010 leaving  nearly 55 percent of the U.S landmass covered in snow on global warming while reputable scientist say  we may be sliding back into a little ice age. Lowell Ponte argued in his 1976 book “The Cooling:  Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? “  A bit of global warming might supply the atmospheric moisture that could make such a rapid return to Earth’s normal colder ice climate happen.

In 1974 Time magazine warned of a new ice age. In 2004 Discover magazine predicted an ice age lasting 300 to 400 years. There was also the famous Scientific America cover story on the same theme. Some now say that was right.

But you would never know this listening to global warming advocates, who in recent days have proclaimed that global warming is the cause of the record-shattering cold and snow in the Northeast, Great Britain, and much of Europe.

A Dec. 22 editorial in Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) put its finger precisely on the fallacy in such thinking. As philosopher of science Karl Popper observed, to be valid science a claim must be “falsifiable,” testable in a way that can prove it wrong.

But the global warming zealots now claim that any and every extreme of weather - hot or cold, wet or dry, stormy or free from almost all hurricanes - purportedly validates their belief in global warming.

“This isn’t science,” said IBD, “it’s a kind of faith. Scientists go along and even stifle dissent because, frankly, many are lining their pockets with some of the hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants that are at stake. But for the believers, global warming is the god that failed.”

For many of these cultists “their real agenda has nothing to do with climate change at all,” opined IBD.

Weeks ago warming scientists, including some caught lying in “climategate,” and radical activists convened in Cancun, Mexico, and felt record cold in this tropical resort.

But the failure of their predictions led to no recantation of their dogma. What emerged instead from Cancun was a recommendation that by 2020 the world’s rich nations should transfer $100 billion per year to poorer nations to “mitigate” the harm they will suffer from global warming we purportedly have caused.

“This is what global warming is really about,” said IBD, “wealth redistribution by people whose beliefs are basically socialist. It has little or nothing to do with climate.”

And the largest share of wealth redistribution these climarxists intend via the pretext of global warming will go not from rich to poor, but from the private sector to the public sector, from private property and capitalists to socialists who control government and are eager to grab control over everything.

Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency is defying a vote by the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate that refused to give the EPA unlimited power to regulate so-called greenhouse gases as if they were environmental toxins.

Such power could give the EPA dictatorial power over your body, which with each exhalation emits the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, a byproduct of the biological processes that keep you alive not unlike those who have for decades tried to legislate cow flatulence.

Such environmental and ideological extremists are unwilling to acknowledge that you, like bossy, are as much a part of “nature” as any other living thing.

They refuse to acknowledge that a human skyscraper or internal combustion engine is therefore just as “natural” as a bird nest or an anthill.

Or that natural climatic change is too vast and complex for today’s primitive and politicized science to comprehend.

How much longer will thinking people be fooled by the power-grabbers’ global-warming snow job?

Little of this has to do with environment but more to do with an ideological political class determined to reengineer lifestyles. The global warming cultists were quick to say the cold is a result of global warming and working hard to stifle debate lest they loose millions in grants.

The biggest “scientific” contribution has been manipulating data to satisfy cultist theory.

This harkens to the snotty Lord Wellington (1769 - 1852) an aristocratic elitist of his day who decried the building of railroads because they would cause what he saw as his inferiors  to “move about needlessly.”

A Washington Post editorial on Nov. 19 endorsed Senate passage of the New START treaty with Russia. On Dec. 27, after the treaty was passed, the Post published an editorial saying that Russia was firmly under the control of former KGB officer Vladimir Putin, the former president who is now prime minister, and that the Russian regime could not be counted on to live up to international standards. What happened? Nothing just duplicity. The pot calling the kettle black.

Rahm Emanuel is the quintessential political insider. As a Washington DC acquaintance calls him, “a profane, hot-head, furniture smashing S. O. B.” He is one of the premier power brokers of the notoriously corrupt Chicago political  machine. In a town where political power is all that matters Emanuel will have that power when he is soon elected Mayor- which he will one way or another.

Rahm’s first job post-graduation was as a community organizer. Sound familiar? He then proceeded up the chain of the Chicago machine as the senior advisor and chief fundraiser for Richard Daley’s campaign for Chicago mayor.

 He then parlayed his astounding arm-twisting, oops, fundraising, ability into director of finance for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign

in 1992, which earned him the powerful position of senior advisor to the Clinton White House.

Emanuel left the White House in 1998 to work as the managing director for investment banking firm, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, in Chicago. In 2000, Pres Clinton

named Emanuel to the board of directors for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage corporation (Freddie Mac). During this time, it is estimated Rahm made more than $18

Million queries into how have been quickly quashed.

After a brief stint in the House of Representatives, a position from which he resigned on electon day, Nov. 6, 2008, Emanuel catapulted from lowly public servant to Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama.

Based on Emanuel’s stellar political rise, I have to ask myself: Why would this man give up one of the most powerful jobs in the world in order to roll the dice that he, one of over a dozen contenders in Chicago’s mayoral race, would indeed become the elected mayor of Chicago? My answer: He wouldn’t - unless the fix was in.

The only significant requirement for running for Chicago Mayor states that candidates must have “resided in the municipality at least one year next preceding the election.”

Under the law, Rahm Emanuel missed out by over half a year, because he resided in Washington, D.C. until October. How then could the Board of Elections have ruled that he was eligible?

A day before the Board of Elections ruled that Rahm was, indeed, a Chicago resident, a hearing officer jumped the gun and told the media how the Board would rule, before the Board actually met and ruled. It’s quite possible the Board’s decision was not determined in advance. It’s also possible that the video that surfaced of Rahm’s Chicago home posted for sale on You Tube was, as Rahm said, a “typo.”

It’s also possible that Rahm actually left boxes in storage at his old abode, despite his tenants declaring otherwise. Tenant Lori Halpern said: “There have never been boxes in the house that were not my possessions.” No one has proof that the photo of stored boxes Rahm provided was not genuine.

No one can prove that the Board of Elections ruling was a foregone conclusion, despite the fact that their ruling was based on a novel concept: “The question is not whether the candidate resided there during the prior year at all, but whether or not the candidate, once having held residency, whenever it occurred and however long ago, had ever renounced it.”

No one can prove anything. But one can draw conclusions based on series of coincidences.

The day after the Board of Elections defied their own written requirements and gave Rahm the go ahead to run for mayor, Illinois state Sen. James Meeks, in a surprise Christmas week announcement, withdrew his candidacy for Chicago mayor. No one can prove that this wasn’t just plain old good luck for Rahm.

More good luck for Rahm followed two days later newspapers reported:

“State officials are investigating how phony signatures and stamps from notaries wound up on the nominating petitions of four of the candidates running to succeed Mayor Richard M. Daley. In the latest mystery, investigators are focusing on the cottage industry of paid signature gatherers who help candidates collect names to get them on the ballot.”

Again, it can’t be proven that Rahm had anything to do with this “mystery.” In the coming days, more “mysteries” or scandals or discrepancies will surface that will further pare down the list of candidates. And eventually Rahm will be the only viable candidate left standing.

For those of us old enough to remember Chicago stuffing the ballot boxes (I’ll tell you that story some time) and elected John Kennedy President. Could Emmanuel do it again?

Ultra liberal and so often disagreeable Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich says the new Republican controlled Ohio legislature is s out to eliminate his district. Ohio will lose two Congressional seats due to population declines, and slicing off his heavily gerrymandered Cleveland district is a goal of many in the GOP there.

No modern president has headquartered his re-election campaign outside the Washington, D.C., area. Barack Obama aims to do just that.

While the final decision has not yet been made, “a Chicago location is a near certainty,” Politico reported, citing sources with knowledge of the campaign planning.

Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all located their re-election operations in Washington or its Virginia suburbs. Carter did too sorta he and HW both lost.

Re-election campaigns are typically based in Washington because that puts the operation closer to the candidate with instant, international media access. But, today that access is as close as your iPod.

With the betting Rahm Emmanuel will soon be Chicago mayor and David Axelrod itching to get out of WDC and to Chicago to be with his political and union henchmen it seems logical for Obama to run back to his base that’s showing cracks and disfunction..

Nixon confidant and aide H. R. (Bob) Haldeman told me there was proof that Chicago stole the 1960 presidential election  but defeated Richard Nixon opted not to pursue it lest it damage the nation. JFK won 49.7% to 49.6%. Bob also told me Catholics did not elect JFK and some said and say. In fact non-Catholic votes for Nixon entirely cancelled those votes. It was the closest presidential election ever.

To keep Winter 2010 in perspective it is far from the greatest winter devastation in recent history; for instance:

• In 1888 piled more than 20 feet of snow on New York City, forcing some residents to enter and exit their homes from third-story windows.
• 1816 was called the year without summer because in the Northeast snow remained year-round in the shade of rocks and trees. That was apparently caused by the added chill of high-altitude volcanic ash circling and shading the Earth.

From around 1400 A.D. until around 1850 A.D. was the little ice age probably for the same reason.

During America’s Revolutionary War British soldiers dragging heavy cannons across the thick ice from Staten Island to Brooklyn. Boston, New York City, Baltimore, and Philadelphia harbors repeatedly froze over in winter. The punishingly cold winter at Valley Forge was far more severe than those today.

Pope Benedict XVI condemned the campaign of Muslim violence against Christians. His New Year’s appeal Saturday came only hours after a bomb blast outside a Coptic church in Egypt killed 21 people as worshippers left Mass. There is an exodus of Christians from Iraq spurred by the October massacre of 68 woshipers, two of them priests at a Baghdad church and other epidemic violence. Next October the Pope will convene a conference of religious leaders at Assisi, the birthplace of St Francis to discuss achieving peace.

UK inmates rioted and burned down large parts of a so-called  ”open prison” during a New Year’s Eve party after staff wanted inmates to be breathalysed for smuggled alcohol.

The violence at the Category D men’s prison, near Arundel, in West Sussex, broke out around midnight on Friday, when around 40 prisoners began smashing windows and setting off fire alarms.

The damaged blocks included a mail room, a gym, a snooker room and a pool room with 10 newly-installed pool tables.

A total of 40 empty booze bottles were found. When the prisoners refused to be breathalysed they became violent along with other prisoners and went on what authorities call a mutiny, a prison mutiny..

The facility specialises in housing non-violent offenders who are nearing the end of their sentences and have a low risk of absconding. A former Fleet Air Arm Station, it was turned into a prison in 1960.

Inmates often hold down jobs driving to and from work but must be inside their one person apartments by 7PM and remain inside the facility until the next morning although they have a lot of freedom.

If convicted of violence the riotrs could finmd themselves in far less hospitable surroundings.

Whatever happen to homemade hooch made from raisens and such? Is there no prison heritage?

Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerilla, is Brazil’s first female president, taking over from the immensely popular Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The new president says she hopes to keep the country’s booming economy on track while advancing her radical communist Workers Party social agenda.

The federal government ran up more new debt during the 111th Congress than it did during the first 100 Congresses combined, according to the U.S. Treasury.

As of Dec. 28, the national debt had risen by $3.22 trillion during that Democratic-controlled Congress - equal to more than $10,429 for each person counted in the 2010 Census.

The total debt stood at $13.85 trillion on that date, or about $44,890 for every man, woman, and child in the country.

The new accumulated debt shattered the record set by the previous 100th Congress, which adjourned on Jan. 4, 2009 - $1.95 trillion.

While Democrats controlled the House and Senate in both of those Congresses, the two previous, Republican-controlled Congresses each added more than $1 trillion to the national debt.

The overall federal debt did not reach the $3.22 trillion figure until September 1990, during the 101st Congress, CNSNews reported.

Since Nancy Pelosi assumed her post as speaker of the House on Jan. 4, 2007, the national debt has ballooned by $5.17 trillion.

Yet during her inaugural address as speaker, Pelosi had vowed that under the 100th Congress the government would not burden future generations “with mountains of debt.”

She said: “After years of historic deficits, this 100th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: Pay as you go, no new deficit spending.”

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is supposed to the longest English word. According to the Oxford Dictionary of the English language it is “a factitious word alleged to mean ‘a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs.’” A condition meeting the word’s definition is normally called silicosis.

The U. S. Air Force is set to deploy to Afghanistan what it says is a revolutionary airborne surveillance system called Gorgon Stare, which will be able to transmit live video images of physical movement across an entire town.

In ancient times, Gorgon was a mythical Greek creature whose unblinking eyes turned to stone those who beheld them. In modern times, Gorgon may be one of the military’s most valuable new tools.

The new gadget is made up of nine video cameras mounted on a remotely piloted aircraft, can transmit live images to soldiers on the ground or to analysts tracking enemy movements. It can send up to 65 different images to different users; by contrast, Air Force drones today shoot video from a single camera over a “soda straw” area the size of a building or two.

It will take time to figure out how to quickly assimilate so much information in a meaningful, productive way.

If Congress does not change its spending habits now  everyone’s tax bills will be higher in the future. “If we don’t end up reforming our ways, federal taxes will have to double within the next 20 to 30 years, just to stop the bleeding.,”  says former US Controller General.

Former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez’s son Estaban, 22, who was serving a 16-year prison term for manslaughter, plea bargained from murder, had his sentence reduced to 7-years in an 11th hour political payback by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Estaban had organized and was the ring leader of a gang and carried knives. On the night of the stabbings the gang became upset after being banned from a fraternity party at San Diego State University stabbing three boys, killing one and disposing of evidence hundreds of miles away.

Esteban told other gang members not to worry because his father was connected.
When Estaban was arrested bail was set at $2 million. And when the judge set bail at $2 million, some 70 individuals from the worlds of governments, politics and labor relations sent letters attesting to the good character of the Nunez family and Esteban. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, in his letter, called young Nunez “a decent and responsible young man.”

Bail was reduced to $1 million and Esteban Nunez was allowed to remain free until the trial.

The other convictee’s sentences were not changed.

The U.S. Treasury website reported that as of last Friday, the last day of 2010, the National Debt stood at over fourteen trillion at $14,025,215,218,708.52. It took just 7 months for the National Debt to increase from $13 trillion on June 1, 2010 to $14 trillion on Dec. 31. If you spent $1,000 a second since Shakespeare lived you have just not run out of money.

Around the world last week mass animal die offs seemed to be a worldwide anomaly including:

• Thousands of dead fish washing ashore on the Arkansas River.
• Thousands of red wing black birds fell from the sky in Arkansas
• 40,000 dead devil crabs washed ahore in Kent, England.
• 54 dogs died mysteriously on British estyates.
• Hundreds of dead snapper wash ashore in New Zealand.
• Thousands of dead birds fell from sky in Sweden..
• 2 million dead fish in Chesapeake Bay from the Bay Bridge to Tangier Island. Spot and croaker species affected.
• 100 tons of sardines, catfish, and croaker washed ashore in Brazil.

Nobody seems to know why,

The top things people give up for the new year are junk food, alcohol, smoking, and gambling. So basically, people are giving up on 7-Eleven. — Leno

Obama’s legal advisers, confronting the prospect of new restrictions on the transfer of Guantánamo detainees, are debating whether to recommend that he issue a signing statement asserting that his executive powers would allow him to bypass the restrictions, according to several officials.

If Mr. Obama were to issue such a statement, it could represent a more aggressive use of unilateral executive powers than what he exerted in his first two years in office. The issue has arisen as the Republican Party takes control of the House.

Last month, while still under Democratic control, Congressincluded the detainee transfer restrictions - which would make it harder for the administration to achieve its goal of closing the prison at the military base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba - in a major defense bill it sent to Mr. Obama. He could act on the measure by the end of the week.

One provision bars the military from using its funds to transfer detainees to the United States, making it harder to prosecute them in federal court. Another prohibits the transfer of detainees to any other country unless the defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, certifies that the country has met a strict set of security conditions.

Ohio State tried hard to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory against Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl game but, failed