And Another Global Warming Scandal

A woman who was a leader on a team  that released a report claiming to be the final and conclusive word that man-made global warming is continuing says the report has hidden data, was unready for peer review and that the evidence indicates  that global warming has stopped.

The report was made by Berkeley Earth Surface
Temperatures project team headed by Richard Muller, of Berkeley University, and has been cited by the usual suspects who want to create a perception of crisis to centralize power and wealth.

Professor Judith Curry, who chairs the
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at America’s prestigious
Georgia Institute of Technology, and who is the second named author of the team’s four reports, says the data shows the earth stopped warming in 1998.


She says Muller never consulted her before putting the papers on the internet before the peer review process was finished.

“I think they have made errors and I distance myself from what they did,” she said.

Sensitized Education


The Roar

The media’s investigative hound dogs are into a suspicion which they believe could end a black conservative’s Presidential quest.  Ironically, this mad dash to commit journalistic assassination completely ignores the fact that this entire fiasco is based on a whimsical allegation which, even those at Politico are not quite sure of just what it entails.  It’s the old “see if it sticks” reporting.

Recently, syndicated journalist Kathleen Parker provided just what a clear thinking analysis could achieve when political vendettas are left outside the mix.  In today’s column, Ms. Parker writes, “To Cain’s generation (age 65), a casual remark about someone’s appearance is often viewed as a gesture of friendliness.  To someone younger, who has been versed in the catechism of sexual harassment, it could be viewed as hostile or at least inappropriate.”

I think Ms. Parker has summed up this entire “grabbing at straws” attempt to derail what may very well become the first successful black conservative Presidential candidate.  And once again, it comes down to our old but reliable nemesis of “education.”  Think about it folks.  Just what  has become grounds for “sexual” harassment in our own environs?

I’ll be perfectly frank in that I am a member of Mr. Cain’s generation.  I now reminisce for the days when whistles resulted in a wave, even accompanied with a smile?  Not in every instance but certainly in many and without any thought to being harassed.  One could actually compliment a young lady as to her great looking legs (prior to this unisex pant suit fad) without fear of rebuke.  Has society become so minutely sensitized that casual compliments are now taboo?

Ultimately, this entire harassment charade, and Mr. Cain is just its latest target, is a wee bit hypocritical when given the allurements of summertime bikini briefs.  Instead of attempting this “high tech hanging” (Justice Clarence Thomas’ words), maybe our astute and truth seeking journalists should determine just who it doing the harassing when the office outfits are shelved for a week-end at the beach!

Jim Bowman
Author of,
This Roar of Ours

Texting Ban Looms For Pa. Drivers

The Pennsylvania House, yesterday, Oct. 31, voted 188-7 to pass SB 314 which bans texting while driving, and the state Senate approved the House’s revisions, today, 45-5 sending the bill the Governor for his expected signature.

Dissenting in the House were Speaker of the House Sam Smith (R-66), Daryl Metcalfe (R-12), Tom Creighton (R-37),  Gordon Denlinger (R-99), Jim Cox (R-129),  Scott Perry (R-92) and Stephen Bloom (R-199).

Dissenting in the Senate were Jake Corman (R-34), John Eichelberger (R-30), Mike Folmer (R-48), Charles McIllhenny (R-10) and Donald White (R-41).

The bill allows for the use of GPS devices and entering telephone numbers into cell phones.

The penalty is a $50 fine.

Delaware County Ghost Stories 2011


The Revenge Of Flatulent Fred (2011)

Elizabeth Wilson (2010)

Kristina (2009)

The English Language

The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.

We are all familiar with a Herd of cows, a Flock of chickens, a School of fish and a Gaggle of geese.

However, less widely known is a Pride of lions, a Murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens), an Exaltation of doves and, presumably because they look so wise, a Parliament of owls.

Now consider a group of Baboons.

They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates.

And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons?

Believe it or not ……. a Congress!

I guess that pretty much explains the things that come out of Washington! …………..

 

People Who Get Democrats Elected

People Who Get Democrats Elected — A woman noticed a particular effect caused by her lawn sprinkler and at 4:30 p.m. on  July 6, 2007 she recorded it. She attributed it to metallic oxide salts that had been  introduced to our water supply and “oxygen supply” within the last 20 years.

She decided to place her evidence as to this harbinger of environmental doom on YouTube to warn the world  and it can be found here.

The effect that she noticed was a rainbow in the sprinkler spray.

You make a fairly safe assumption as for whom she voted for president the next year.


People Who Get Democrats Elected

Mountain Lions In The Northeast?

Mountain Lions In The Northeast? — Two persons reported seeing a mountain lion the afternoon of Oct. 26 near the Drexelbrook Apartments near Darby Creek in the Drexel Hill section of Upper Darby, Pa.

Police investigated and declared the sightings unfounded.

Coincidentally, though NBC is reporting that a mountain lion has been seen in Washington D.C.

Interesting coincidences are worth a mention.

About 15 years ago, there was also a spate of mountain lion sightings in Delaware County, Pa..

In the early 1980s, a fisherman  in Crum Creek in Newtown Township thought he saw a tiger. He threw down his rod and reel, a wade a mile through the creek to a road where he flagged down a car to take him to the police station where he reported it. Police investigated with shotguns at the ready. They found the “tiger” to be a striped great dane.


Mountain Lions In The Northeast?

Psychopaths Spotted Via Speech

An article published Oct. 20 on  LiveScience.Com indicates that difficult-to-change speech patterns can unmask psychopaths.

Researchers deduced these patterns after interviewing  52 convicted murderers, 14 of whom were considered to be  psychopaths.

They  think it possible that  by using text-analysis software to search for these patterns on things like Craigslist postings, law enforcement will be able to solve serial killings .

The researchers say that the psychopaths used subordinating conjunctions such as “because” and “so that” more often than none-psychopaths; and that their speech was broken up far more than normal by ‘uhs’ and ‘ums’.

Just something to consider next time you watch a presidential address.

By the way, regarding the debate as to the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath, Kelly McAleer, Psy.D. claims that a psychopath acts according to an innate nature while a sociopath has been conditioned by his environment.

Sounds good to me but feel free to disagree.

Psychopaths Spotted Via Speech

 Psychopaths Spotted Via Speech

Insults from on High

                                                                         The Roar

I am a patient man with what I consider to be a modicum of intelligence.  As such, our current President seems to have an unusual but consistent manner which infuriates, embarrasses and insults.  When lumped together with his second in command, these impressions become magnified greatly.  I’ll graciously give Biden a pass since his jobs requirements and subsequent laughable performance is thankfully a non factor.

Not so for the “can’t wait for Congress” President.  Nearing his three year mark and after receiving the public’s trust and expectation for addressing policy ills, his track record is abysmal.  He has infuriated as his promises for exiting the Middle East was put on hold.  Now, with next year’s election looming and his poll numbers in the tank, he deems abandoning Iraq, at a most inopportune moment, an appropriate and viable decision.

His actions and mannerisms leave much to be desired if Presidential decorum is still a worthy trait.  His gait is one to be found in a youthful jive setting.  His lack of self control uncovered another level to his unique Presidential style when kicking a closed door open after leaving what seemed to be a  briefing of some sorts.  And need one harken back to the embarrassing photo of the First couple saluting with their hands over their heart?  Can any Obama supporter explain why our commander in chief is clueless to a rudimentary grade school function?

Remember our embarrassment when President Obama felt the need to knell when confronting foreign heads of state?  This, aside from committing a grave injustice to the office, was not the actions of a leader.  This was so out of sorts to proper and established American protocol that it presented an air of being intentional.

Lastly, Obama has obviously kicked off his own campaign season, by preaching at his favorite niche for support, the college campuses.  Once again this gifted community organizer reverts back to his tactics of creating unrest as he instinctively “talks down” to his youthful supporters.  He  even seems to roll up his sleeves in an attempt to “get down.”  The only glitch is that his “get down” presentation is to the excessively educated who themselves tend to “look down.”

Those of us who have worked for a living while raising families and who have eventually severed the mortgage strings are aghast at such a performance.  This man has indeed transformed America but in doing so, he has also awakened both sides of the political aisle.  His record of instituting purely socialistic policies, along with his rude and arrogant style of conduct and iron fist, “can’t wait for Congress” approach, has become a unifier in opposition to the love, trust and adoration which brought Obama to our White House.

Similar to his record, there is little to defend as his current campaign mode is to amass votes in whatever manner available.  His ploy for buying votes with student loan relief substantiates this reckless “the end justifies the means” philosophy.  These are tactics learned early and carried throughout his life.  As such, he may well be too entrenched at playing the organizer than to act Presidential.

Jim Bowman
Author of,
This Roar of Ours

Pa. Senate Passes School Choice Bill

The Pennsylvania State Senate, yesterday, Oct. 26, passed SB 1, 27-22 sending it to the State House.

The vote was mostly along party-lines in the Republican-controlled institution with Democrat Daylin Leach (D-17) leading the opposition with claims that the bill will take money from poor school districts. He failed to note, however, that the money taken will then been given to the families of the poor children. He attempted to add an amendment prohibiting private schools from discriminating due to sexual orientation. It failed.

Democrat Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams, however, who represents the 8th District which consists of a large section of southwest Philadelphia and a large section of southeast Delaware County, made an impassioned defense of the bill

Republicans who voted against the bill were Stewart Greenleaf of the 12th District; Lisa Baker of the 20th District;  John Gordner of the 27th District; Pat Vance of the 31st District; and Elder Vogel of the 47th District.

Democrats who voted for the bill were Williams; LeAnna Washington of the 4th District; and Andy Dinniman of the 19th District.

Not voting was Republican John Pippy of the 37th District.

The bill offers vouchers ranging from $5,765 to $13,905 to families with incomes of $29,000 whose children attend the 5 percent worst performing schools in the state that would allow them to  transfer their children to private or parochial schools. In the second year, the vouchers would also be offered to low-income students already attending private schools.

The bill also raises of the limit on the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (E.I.T.C.) from $75 million to $100 million for next two school years to $125 million for  2014-2015. Children from middle class families in all school districts are eligible for  E.I.T.C. scholarships.

Gov. Tom Corbett will almost certainly sign the bill if the House should pass it.