RWC Unfiltered 9-22-11

· Al Qaeda Gets Libyan SAMs

· Another Top Scientist Quits Obama’s Global Warming Cabal

· Obama Plan Attacks Charitable Giving Deduction

· Michael Reagan Planning Run Against Feinstein

· USPS Warns of “Consolidation” of Mail Service: Obama “End Saturday delivery.

· GAYSTAPO Attacks “Straights” and Traditional Values

· California Outsources Bay Bridge Rebuild To China

· Pieces Of Falling Satellite will likely Hit Land.

· DOJ’s $1 an Ounce Coffee and $10 Cookies

More American died last year from prescription drugs that from traffic crashes,

Al Qaida is plotting to target aircraft flying to and from Algeria using newly-acquired surface-to-air missiles from Libya.

The U. S. State Department said it has determined a plot by Al Qaida Organization in the Islamic Maghreb to attack aircraft chartered by energy companies in Algeria. Officials said AQIM was believed ready to use its new stockpile of Russian-origin surface-to-air missiles to down aircraft.

U.S. Africa Command has helped train forces from such states as Mali, Mauritania, Morocco and Niger to block SAM shipments to Al Qaida. Russia and China are known to be flying into and out of Algeria.

A Masschusetts man drove his 1928 Rolls-Royce Picadilly P1 Roadster for 82-years. He got it from his father, brand new - as a graduation gift in 1928. He drove it up until his death last year…..at the age of 102 putting over a million miles on it.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist and erstwhile Obama supporter Ivar Giaever has resigned as a Fellow from the prestigious American Physical Society to protest the organization’s promotion of manmade global warming fears.

Norwegian-born Dr. Giaever shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973 for work at General Electric related to superconductors.

In an email to APS Executive Officer Kate Kirby on Sept. 13, which was obtained by the Climate Depot website, Giaever said:

“Thank you for your letter inquiring about my membership. I did not renew it because I cannot live with the [APS] statement below:

“‘Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth’s climate.

“‘The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth’s physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now.’”

Giaever goes on to say: “In the APS it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible? The claim (how can you measure the average temperature of the whole earth for a whole year?) is that the temperature has changed from ~288.0 to ~288.8 degrees Kelvin in about 150 years, which (if true) means to me is that the temperature has been amazingly stable, and both human health and happiness have definitely improved in this ‘warming’ period.”

Giaever was one of Barack Obama’s key scientific supporters and joined more than 70 Nobel Science laureates in endorsing him in an October 2008 open letter.

But in March 2009, Giaever was one of more than 100 co-signers of a letter to President Obama criticizing his stance on global warming. The letter stated in part: “We, the undersigned scientists, maintain that the case for alarm regarding climate change is grossly overstated.”

Giaever, now a professor emeritus at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is one of several prominent scientists to resign from the APS over its global warming position. Among them is physicist Hal Lewis, who wrote to the organization before his death this past May: “Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life.”

D minus science student Al Gore continues to insist his politicized science views are correct.

Canada is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”.

In a combative set of remarks, Obama vowed to veto any package that cuts into Medicare without raising “serious revenues” from wealthy Americans and corporations. He effectively dared Republicans to follow through on their no-tax-hike pledge as the deficit committee works under a strict timeline to find at least $1.2 trillion in deficit savings by Thanksgiving.

Obama, drawing immediate condemnation from congressional Republicans, unveiled a new deficit reduction plan Monday anchored by $1.5 trillion in new taxes heavily focused on the most successful Americans.

In addition, the plan includes the so-called “Buffett Rule,” named after billionaire Warren Buffett who complained he was paying a lower tax rate than his secretary. The provision would set a new tax rate for those making more than $1 million a year. Tim Geithner suggested the administration would leave it up to Congress to work out the particulars.

Critics point out that inasmuchas buffet’s flagship company owe and is fighting paying many hundreds of millions in taxes making both he and Obama hypocrites, and in any case Buffets claim that his secretary pay taxes at a greater rate than her has been debunked as, at best, fuzzy math.The president, announcing a plan in the Rose Garden that includes more than $2 trillion total in entitlement cuts and tax increases over the next decade targeting Medicare and Medicaid.

Buried in the plan reportedly are limits on charitable contribution deductions among other “secrets.” This could eviscerate America’s Non-profits already dealing with alling contributions.

The former Israeli UN Ambassador says Obama’s ineptitude has created the current Palestinian crisis saying nothing good can come out of this.

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (CA.) Democrat’s approval rating has hit a low of 41 percent, no one has stepped forward to challenge her in 2012. With time running out for a challenger, it now appears that former conservative talk show host and adopted son of Ronald Reagan Michael Reagan may take a shot,

Marty Wilson, who ran former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina’s unsuccessful campaign against Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., last year, said a candidate will have to announce by mid-November to stir interest before the end of the year. “People who were assuming that this was not a winnable race might want to take a second look at this now,” he told the Chronicle.A recent study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year.
Another study found that on average Americans drink 22 gallons of Alcohol a year.That means that the average American gets about 41 miles to the gallon!
Makes you damned proud to be an American!

A September 15, 2011 letter from the United States Postal Services’ Vice President of Consumer and Government Affairs to bulk mailers in the Santa Barbara region says, in part, “it will conduct a study of whet her some mailing facilities should be consolidated…because of a 20% loss of mail voilume.” The letter lament that it had too much equipment, too many facilities and too many people- An unsustainable 80% of its costs are salary and benefits.

At the same time the USPS is doubling down on a nationwide “If it fits it shiups” ad campaign touting its express mail service.” That service critics say is a prime reason why the USPS is losing million of dollars every day- $2.2 billion in the pasy 12 months.

the post office is on the wrong side of the information revolution. As broadband and other digital technologies become increasingly available, mail is used less and less. E-mail, online bill payment, and even digital greeting cards are taking the place of paper and stamps. The trend is clear: First-class mail volume has shrunk 20 percent since its peak in 2006, and the fall shows no sign of stopping.

The next most likely casualty will be traditional voice phone services.

Internet, phone payments amd text messaging have combined to reduce the need for snail mail. UPS and FedEx and other package services broke the USPS monopoly on parcel delivery. USPS sued UPS alleging only it should be permitted to deliver packaged, and lost. More applications for non-profit postage rates are being denied.

Congress is also keeping USPS from dropping Saturday delivery, although that step would save close to $2 billion a year or $40 million each Saturday. Canada ended Saturday mail delivery years ago something Obama said on September 19, 2011 he supports. Unless cut are made USPS’ deficit is shooting toward $7 billion.

in February 1692, when a grant from King William & Queen Mary empowered Thomas Neale “to erect, settle and establish within the chief parts of their majesties’ colonies and plantations in America, an office or offices for the receiving and dispatching letters and pacquets, and to receive, send and deliver the same under such rates and sums of money as the planters shall agree to give, and to hold and enjoy the same for the term of twenty-one years Benjamin Franklin became the first U. S. Post Master General in 1775.Before the Civil War everyone had to pickup their mail at the local postoffice unless you livered in the 40 biggest cities then you could pay an extra pneey ior two to have your mail delivered.

The first stamp issue of the U.S. was offered for sale on July 1, 1847 sold for five and ten cents.That nickel is $1.10 in today’s value.

By 1890, 454 post offices were delivering mail to residents of United States cities. It was not until the turn of the century, however, that free delivery came to farmers and other rural residents, i.e., Rural Free Delivery ( RFD).

USPS employs over 574,000 workers and operates over 218,000 vehicles. It is the second-largest employer in the United States after Wal-Mart, and the operator of the largest vehicle fleet in the world. Of course WalMart is profitable.

The U. S. military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy expired at 12:01 AM, Monday. September 20. 2011. Homosexual men and woman can now serve openly and their individual sexual proclivities have protected status. “Partners” do not have the same rights or benefits as spouses in conventional marriage.

GAYSTAPO is a catch all tilte for homosexual activists. A current Gaystapo campaign is against PayPal not to handle donations made to groups that promote traditional values . . . . The homosexual activist group All Out is grinding PayPal to immediately shut down the online accounts of ten groups it has labeled “anti-LGBT extremist groups.” Most of the groups are U.S.-based. PayPal reportedly has responded, saying it could not comment on individual accounts and must take “the rights of free speech and freedom of religion” into account.

When these Gaystapo groups learn of companies that do not support the homosexual agenda, they put economic pressure on them. Chuck Colson reports that “last year Apple dropped the Manhattan Declaration’s iPhone app because some gay-rights activists wrongly complained that the Declaration’s support of traditional marriage was anti-gay. Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, withdrew as the keynote speaker from the Willow Creek Leadership Summit because of threats from, yes, you guessed it, more homosexual-rights activists.”

Such militancy runs the risk of backlash from the vast majority who are heterosexual in their sexual persuasion and chose not to actively object to homosexuality as long as homosexual activist do not push their agenda on them.

A Los Angeles Times article reported that many “in liberal Hollywood who fought to defeat the [Proposition 8] initiative banning same-sex marriage and are now reeling with recrimination and dismay. Meanwhile, activists continue to comb donor lists and employ the Internet to expose those who donated money to support the ban. Already out is Scott Eckern, director of the nonprofit California Musical Theatre in Sacramento, who resigned after a flurry of complaints from prominent theater artists, including ‘Hairspray’ composer Marc Shaiman, when word of his contribution to the Yes on [Prop] 8 campaign surfaced.”

Peter Vidmar, a double gold-medal winner in the 1984 Olympics in gymnastics, was forced to resign as Chairman of USA Gymnastics. Why? Because in 2008 he donated $2000 to support Proposition 8. The homosexual defamation machine went into action and put pressure on the Olympic Committee and its sponsors. The blacklist lives!

A letter writer to the San Francisco Chronicle who supported Prop 8 was intimidated when Internet search engines were used “to find the letter writer’s small business, his Web site (which included the names of his children and dog), his phone number and his clients. And they posted that information in the ‘Comments’ section of SFGate.com — urging, in ugly language, retribution against the author’s business and its identified clients.”

Homosexual groups have been bullying companies, movie studios, schools, and Christian groups for decades. A recent act of bullying came from GLAAD when the pro-homosexual group demanded that Universal Pictures remove anti-“gay” language from the Ron Howard film, The Dilemma. I’m not the only one making the claim of homosexual Gestapo tactics. A number of liberals have been critical of GLAAD, arguing that it “has turned into one of the biggest bullies in Hollywood.” Consider this report:

In many ways, leftist Hollywood created this monster. As a general rule, you can never appease a bully, most especially an ideological bully like GLAAD. Their goal here is not a seat at the table, their goal is ideological purity, and once you give into them they smell your weakness and never stop coming at you.

School systems have been bullied by pro-homosexual groups and politicians to reshape the curricula of public schools. Judges have bullied voters by overturning elections that resulted in redefining marriage.

Florence Agnes Henderson (born February 14, 1934) playing the role of Carol Brady in the television program The Brady Bunch, which ran from 1969 to 1974.has written a tell-all book that recounts a sexual tryst with former NY city mayor and Congressman John Vliet Lindsay (November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) who she says gave her pubic lice (crabs) or mechanized dandruff.

With unemployment over 12% in California it is inexplicably outsourcing a half billion dollar connected with replacing part of the Bay Bridge to China. Ironically the Bay City bridge that goes from San Francisco to Oakland was a Depression Era project begun in1933. Designed by Charles H. Purcell, and built by American Bridge Company, it opened for traffic on November 12, 1936. It is a two level ten lane bridge.

The Chinese company located in Shanghai prefabricated sections of the new bridge extensively because no American company could at the price the Chinese government subsidized company would.

The biggest cost savings critics say is because of much cheaper Chinese labor cost for the fabrication contract. The bridge’s spans each exceed 10,000 feet making it the longest such span in the world transiting 270,000 vehicles a day.

The International Monitary Fund projects a miserable 1.5% economic growth this year in US and 2% next year.

Publishers of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World scrambled Tuesday to correct a controversial statement that Greenland had lost 15 percent of its permanent ice cover over the last 12 years — an assertion scientists labeled “incorrect and misleading.”

The claim came in a HarperCollins press release on the publication of the 13th edition of the atlas, stating that global warming was “turning Greenland ‘green.’” The gradual melting was also depicted in the atlas itself, as cartographers carved out huge chunks of ice to reflect the apparent results of a warming planet.

That was a mistake, scientists say.

Poul Christoffersen, a glaciologist at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, said the 15 percent decrease in permanent ice cited “is both incorrect and misleading.” He believes the actual number is closer to 0.1 percent an error of 1,500 percent.

Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!

As a satellite is about to fall on us I recall as an Ohio farm boy walking across an east Ohio farm field when something whizzed past me trailing smoke and smacked into the tobacco barn roof caroming across the valley to land amid dry straw where is continued to smolder. My dog saw it too and raced to investigate in due course I arrived to find a small meteorite which I retrieved after burring my fingers and dunked it into a nearby pond to cool. Years later I showed it to a scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who told me it was an iron piece that likely came from an exploded chunk of something and burned to its melted metal core.. .

Estimates for the mass of material that falls on Earth each year range from 37,000-78,000 tons. Most of this mass would come from dust-sized particles. Only one death is known from the entire Twentieth Century–a man who was knocked from the porch of his house and died of injuries the following day. This was in Siberia from the Tunguska event in 1908. A woman is known to have suffered a dislocated shoulder from an impact in 1953. Experts calculate odds of being hit by a hunk of this satellie are one in 3,200.

A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!

The Justice Department spent more than $120 million in fiscal 2008 and 2009 to host law enforcement conferences across the country, many of which featured “extravagant and wasteful” costs for food, beverages and event planning, including spending $16 on each of 250 muffins served at an August 2009 legal conference in Washington, D.C., a report said Tuesday.

Acting Inspector General Cynthia Schnedar, in an audit report that examined taxpayer expenditures incurred by the Justice Department at 10 of 1,832 conferences held during fiscal 2008 and 2009, said investigators also found that another conference featured a lunch that cost $76 per person and coffee costing more than $1 per ounce. Other costly items cited in the report included a $32-per-person snack break consisting of Cracker Jacks, popcorn and candy bars, $7.32 Beef Wellington hors d’oeuvres, $10 cookies and $5 Swedish meatballs.

Obama says his new jobs bill will create over 1.9 million jobs — and up to 50 of them will be right here in America.- Leno