The American Spectator

Pete| 6.8.09 @ 7:22PM

They are just making sure they get in on the action. As scam artists themselves, they know a good scam when they see one, and this is the mother of them all. A bit greedy, if you ask me - they are already being handed quite a bit of taxpayer money by their Democratic masters. But, then, they probably need to smooth out cash flows between fixing elections.

Dave| 6.8.09 @ 8:10PM

The ACORN :get out the vote" scam is about to explode, so naturally they need to look for something else to keep the money flowing. And what better thing to latch on to than the great Globaloney hoax?

djaymick| 6.8.09 @ 8:41PM

Do the people, the ones that ACORN supposedly represent, realize what they are supporting? I bet ACORN has never informed them of what this will cost them on a daily basis. The people who they represent will be hit the hardest.

CC Ryder| 6.9.09 @ 12:22AM

Well, hell--Al Gore sure made a lot of 'green' when he went green. Just more liberal hogs at the public trough. Democrats are a bunch of carney barkers/scam artists. Scuzzball putrid people.

Marc Jeric| 6.9.09 @ 9:41AM

1) There was first in the 1970's the globaloney cooling scam (see e.g. Newsweek April 28 1975 on the internet); the government-paid scientists (90% of them are rejects of private enterprise) recommended to fight the new ice age by sending our war planes to cover the polar ice with soot in order to increase solar heat and prevent crushing of New York skyscrapers by the new glaciers;
2) When that did not work we had the globaloney warming hoax in the 1990's, proclaimed by mainly the same government-paid scientists (Dr. Hansen of the NOAA, for example); to prevent the massive heating, fires, flooding of coastal cities, disappearance of Florida, California, and Caribbean islands, massive hurrucanes, global famine, and other catastrophic events we should nationalize oil and gas and coal and electricity companies;
3) after 11 years of considerable cooling we are now faced with the climate change flimflam where whatever happens with our climate we should nationalize oil and gas and coal and electricity companies; and why not our banks, car companies while we are at it. To prevent this catastrophe the best vehicle presumably is international agreements enforced by the United Nations world government.
As for the influence of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas: on a normal day the atmoshere contains 10,000 ppm (parts per million) of water vapor and about 300 ppm of carbon dioxide. The government-paid scientists say that an increase of 100 ppm of CO2 over the next 50 years will result in a catastrophic warming. The thermal absorptivity of water vapor is 4 times larger than that of carbon dioxide; it follows that the CO2 increase will increase the overall thermal absorptivity of the mixture by about 1/4 of one percent. The production of methane from livestock and the swamps (or as the enviro-nazis call those "wetlands") vastly surpasses the influence of CO2.
There is the Global Warming Petition Project (see Internet) where 31,478 US independent scientists declared that there is no anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming; of these 9,029 are scientists with PhD degrees. Our enviro-nazis tried to sabotage this effort by submiiting phony names with phoney degrees - and then claimed the whole effort by the Petition scientists was a fraud. It took us 3 years and a lot of private money to verify the credentials of all the signatories and clean up the Petition of those saboteurs. See also Manhattan Declaration with more such signatories, plus a large number of scientific groups from other countries who state the same.
I am one of these signatories, MS and PhD degrees from UCLA, with majors in thermodynamics and heat & mass transfer.
I think to fight this communist attempt to secure a world government should not be fought on the narrow grounds of more taxes - that is the losing proposition; where about 50% of the population is on some kind of welfare we will always be outvoted. The battle should be fought and won on the firm scientific basis.
SCAM - HOAX - FLIMFLAM!!!
And now ACORN brownshirts are getting in on that scam. In the defunct USSR the system of community organizations was called "soviets"/

AntonioSosa| 6.9.09 @ 12:47PM

Thank you, Marc Jeric, for your comments and for signing the Petition debunking the theory that human release CO2 is causing "global warming." You are right about the need to fight the SCAM, now being promoted with our own tax dollars by ACORN "community organizers"!

Cap and Trade “would be the equivalent of an atomic bomb directed at the U.S. economy—all without any scientific justification,” as famed climatologist Dr. S. Fred Singer says. Additionally, Cap and trade would be another giant step towards Marxism -- and the corruption, poverty, enslavement, destruction and despair that Marxism entails.

Obama is working much faster than Hugo Chavez at imposing socialism/communism/Marxism (or whatever you want to call the government taking over, enslaving people, and destroying the economy). No wonder the Russians are gloating:

From Pravda: “…the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people…” Read the article in Pravda… http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-american_capitalism-0

CC Ryder| 6.9.09 @ 3:43PM

I did read that editorial, Antonio--misspellings and all. I almost threw up afterwards.