I’m so happy the government is taking care of us (sarc off)
“The 2010 Affordable Care Act will put some 2.3 million workers at the greatest risk of reduced hours, the February study found. That group represents roughly 1.8 percent of the workforce and consists of people who do not have insurance through their employer, work between 30 and 36 hours per week and earn incomes 400 percent below the federal poverty line for firms with 100 or more employees.
The study, conducted by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and recently highlighted by the Los Angeles Times, attempts to place a number on what has until now been an anecdotally-based trend of employers threatening such cuts as a result of the law. ” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/part-time-workers-obamacare_n_3210321.html
DirkH
August 3, 2013 10:32 am
neillusion says:
August 3, 2013 at 10:24 am
“I suppose it might even be possible to make up new words for each example.
This would enable short analysis, conclusion and execution of what someone was up to with a comment.
Anyone?”
We leave the making up of new words to the Left.
faboutlaws
August 3, 2013 10:36 am
The Federal Reserve Board is a federal government entity whose chairman is appointed by the president. The individual regional Federal Reserve banks are federally chartered corporations owned by the member banks in each district. The presidents of the regional banks sit on the FOMC which determines monetary policy. The individual banks perform some quasi federal functions such as the distribution of money and the servicing of savings bonds. I’ll check with the wife about this and apologize/correct if I am wrong. She should know as a SVP&GC of one of the regionals.
The Reform Party of the US has a better platform than Constitution Party to me. Henry Ross Perot’s old independent party. Jesse Ventura was a joke though.
That’s where I’m looking, as a former Republican. I try but just cannot endorse being a Libertarian, let everybody run wild.
Reform Party
*Maintaining a balanced budget, ensured by passing a Balanced Budget Amendment and changing budgeting practices, and paying down the federal debt
*Campaign finance reform, including strict limits on campaign contributions and the outlawing of the Political action committee
*Enforcement of existing immigration laws and opposition to illegal immigration
*Opposition to free trade agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement and Central America Free Trade Agreement, and a call for withdrawal from the World Trade Organization
*Term limits on U.S. Representatives and Senators
*Direct election of the United States President by popular vote
*Federal elections held on weekends
*A noticeable absence from the Reform Party platform has been social issues, including abortion and gay rights. Reform Party representatives had long stated beliefs that their party could bring together people from both sides of these issues, which they consider divisive, to address what they considered to be more vital concerns as expressed in their platform. The idea was to form a large coalition of moderates; that intention was overridden in 2001 by the Buchanan takeover which rewrote the RPUSA Constitution to specifically include platform planks opposed to any form of abortion. The Buchananists, in turn, were overridden by the 2002 Convention which specifically reverted the Constitution to its 1996 version and the party’s original stated goals.
The Obamanoids have announced how they will handle the attempt to evade the so-called Affordable Healthcare Act by employers hiring part-timers. They will simply count the number of hours worked by such part-time people, divide by 40 hours/full-time worker, and the result will be….the equivalent of X number of full-time workers. These will be added to the employer’s full-time employees, and if the magic 50 employee threshold is reached —-voila!!! The employer is liable to conform to Obamacare.
Thus does Leviathan move forward to crush all opposition.
The great experiment, the Constitutional Republic called the United States of America, is perilously close to death.
john
August 3, 2013 11:04 am
Chad Wozniak says:
August 3, 2013 at 10:28 am
Chad, I’ve been working on a project combining bank fraud and renewable fraud. Documentary coming soon.
A rework of my Real Science comment:
The Chicken Little Brigade: Lying to Create a ‘Better World’
In 1989 a lead IPCC author, Steven Schneider of Stanford University, said: “We have to offer up scary scenarios… each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective [dishonest] and being honest [ineffective]?”
Following Schneider’s lead:
“Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.” -Sir John Houghton, ex ipcc chair
“The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.” -Daniel Botkin, UCSB
And the leftist Senator Tim Wirth said in 1993: “We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing.”
That was it, for the scientists and politicians, it didn’t matter at all whether the theory was true because it’s the right thing to do anyway. And the scientists had already been given the green light to lie, because it’s “the right thing” that they are supporting in their lies.
Now you see so many warmists saying like: “Well, what if we are wrong? Will we have done such a terrible thing by building a better world anyway?”
A better world?
Like the — 83% — CO2 cuts mandated by 2050 that were in the Cap & Trade bill that passed the US House in 2009? 83%, with large cuts coming immediately. This would have taken a wrecking ball to the economy, and created virtually apocalyptic havoc. “A better world,” I’m afraid not.
August 3, 2013 at 8:42arthur4563
[…] As for nuclear power, one would think the environmentalists would demand more.[…]
Which should give the game away to anyone paying attention.
Had, back in the 80’s/90’s, these folk really believed in CO2 induced doom then Nuclear was then the only option. We could, assuming we all believed the sky was about to fall, have moved, where safe (away from the Ring of Fire), to Nuclear. This would have bought us many decades in which to deal with the problem.
The fact that even now, with their imaginary acceleration of ‘Global Warming’, secret heat and no indication in the CO2 record that the trajectory has changed in 30 years, they still won’t support Nuclear derived energy.
This is why I have no time for alarmists – there is and always has been a time gaining solution but, despite their doom laden predictions for a CO2 enhanced world, they just can’t quite bring themselves to accept a practical alternative to Unicorn Utopia.
I always see them as folk drowning in the sea but try as they might they just can’t accept the offer of a life belt because it might be made of PVC and they read a piece once that claimed PVC was bad. There is just no hope with these people.
… And Arthur … The Federal Reserve (founded 1913 but could be dated back to 1791) is a private company as is The Bank of England (founded 1694).
@ur momisugly arthur4563 re nuclear power.
Nuclear is not safe. It is not reliable. It is not affordable. It is not a boon to mankind. See: http://sowellslawblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/reconsider-nuclear-power-is-it-ever.html?m=0
Our children and grandchildren will rightfully ask: You had solar, wind, ocean currents, and hot ocean surface water in the tropics, so why did your generation build all those toxic and deadly nuclear power plants? What did we ever do to you, that you hate us so much that you poisoned the planet with plutonium wastes?
Roger Sowell says:
August 3, 2013 at 11:19 am
“Our children and grandchildren will rightfully ask: You had solar, wind, ocean currents, and hot ocean surface water in the tropics, so why did your generation build all those toxic and deadly nuclear power plants? What did we ever do to you, that you hate us so much that you poisoned the planet with plutonium wastes?”
a) seawater contains Uranium. We must do something!
b) about Ralph Nader’s invention of the toxicity of Plutonium http://atomicinsights.com/1995/05/how-deadly-plutonium.html
Roger Sowell says:
August 3, 2013 at 11:19 am @ur momisugly arthur4563 re nuclear power.
Nuclear is not safe. It is not reliable. It is not affordable. It is not a boon to mankind. See: http://sowellslawblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/reconsider-nuclear-power-is-it-ever.html?m=0 says (among many other things):
Point two, is nuclear power reliable? One must put the question in context, reliable in relation to what? If the comparison is to intermittent renewable energy sources such as wind, or solar, nuclear power is a bit more reliable.
Here in New Hampshire, the Seabrook plant keeps right on humming. The wind farms are new and I don’t know if anything has failed yet, but they don’t reliably produce power. In face, they reliably don’t produce power.
I recently came across the following from wind farms in western NY that I visited (I have some in-laws who live near them). Blades are cracking after less than three years service. I’d love to know how much the repairs cost! http://dddusmma.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/wind-farm-rotor-failures/ says in part:
There is a wind farm in western New York State consisting of 67 turbines that have been in operation for around three years.
Recently there have been several units shut down while 10 blades were repaired. If each came from a different turbine it would mean the wind farm was producing 10% less electricity than planned while the turbines were out of service. It could also support the contention that the life of wind farms will be less than planned.
Sigh – in moderation.
I bought a can (pair of aerosol cans) of Neverwet from Home Depot. Great toy potential (e.g. a tortilla chip that salsa doesn’t stick to), but I haven’t decided what it would be really good for. The 2nd spray does leave things milky white and feeling rough.
Tipping buckets in weather stations? (Minor market for that!)
The guard on my weed whacker? (Won’t last the first tank of gas, though.)
Paint mixing and pouring tools are quite promising as long as flakes of Neverwet don’t mess up the paint.
It is interesting holding a piece of pine under the faucet and seeing it slough off all the water.
john
August 3, 2013 12:29 pm
Here are a 4 photo/video’s of the northern lights. This is the best photography (by Ole C. Salomonsen) in motion I have ever seen. I am certain you all will agree and am thankful he is willing to share his work. http://vimeo.com/arcticlightphoto
Ox AO
August 3, 2013 12:30 pm
DirkH
It isn’t just Big oil (except for Exxon) that is supporting CAGW. Back in the 90’s Enron (yes the same corrupted company) invested over a billion US dollars for the study of CAGW.
Exxon is the only company that I know that is studying real science. Sad isn’t it?
Ric Werme says:
August 3, 2013 at 12:28 pm
Sigh – in moderation.
I bought a can (pair of aerosol cans) of Neverwet from Home Depot. …
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I never heard of it before. Was it invented by a politician?
PS “°” Thanks for the tip and your guide. http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/index.html
My web-page counter just hit 200,000 !
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Doug Huffman
August 3, 2013 1:14 pm
Dirk H., thanks for reading and citing Rod Adams’ Atomic Insights. I met him as a ship’s engineer officer doing a suite of tests done to scope the ship’s impending refueling and overhaul. He became a good work acquaintance.
About the hazard of nuclear power plants; the USN NNPP has >5 x 10^3 reactor-years of safe operation. Not the cheapest by any means, but a fine safety record. How long will it persist now that Rickover’s dicta are ALL forgotten.
I was recently sent a video of Never Wet. As much as I have enjoyed ScotchGuard and Rain-X, I am looking for clever applications of Never Wet. But for its matte finish, I’d waterproof my Inspired Cycle Engineering Sprint 26 trike, it has the most wonderful almost candy-apple red color.
noaaprogrammer
August 3, 2013 1:22 pm
Pamela Gray says:
“Rolf, Pacific is the key word there. NE Oregon was HOT, HOT, HOT!!!!”
But the summers now are not nearly as hot as they used to be in the 1950s and 1960s. Some of the past summers in SE Washington had 3 to 4 weeks of consecutive triple digit highs.
I’m so happy the government is taking care of us (sarc off)
“The 2010 Affordable Care Act will put some 2.3 million workers at the greatest risk of reduced hours, the February study found. That group represents roughly 1.8 percent of the workforce and consists of people who do not have insurance through their employer, work between 30 and 36 hours per week and earn incomes 400 percent below the federal poverty line for firms with 100 or more employees.
The study, conducted by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and recently highlighted by the Los Angeles Times, attempts to place a number on what has until now been an anecdotally-based trend of employers threatening such cuts as a result of the law. ”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/part-time-workers-obamacare_n_3210321.html
neillusion says:
August 3, 2013 at 10:24 am
“I suppose it might even be possible to make up new words for each example.
This would enable short analysis, conclusion and execution of what someone was up to with a comment.
Anyone?”
We leave the making up of new words to the Left.
The Federal Reserve Board is a federal government entity whose chairman is appointed by the president. The individual regional Federal Reserve banks are federally chartered corporations owned by the member banks in each district. The presidents of the regional banks sit on the FOMC which determines monetary policy. The individual banks perform some quasi federal functions such as the distribution of money and the servicing of savings bonds. I’ll check with the wife about this and apologize/correct if I am wrong. She should know as a SVP&GC of one of the regionals.
The Pacific Northwest has had the best July in MANY years. Mild temperatures, dry, moderate humidity. Pretty much perfect. http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-best-july-weather-in-generations.html . It’s a good thing it doesn’t happen too often, or the place would be more crowded than it already is.
Rolf, Pacific is the key word there. NE Oregon was HOT, HOT, HOT!!!!
The Reform Party of the US has a better platform than Constitution Party to me. Henry Ross Perot’s old independent party. Jesse Ventura was a joke though.
That’s where I’m looking, as a former Republican. I try but just cannot endorse being a Libertarian, let everybody run wild.
Reform Party
*Maintaining a balanced budget, ensured by passing a Balanced Budget Amendment and changing budgeting practices, and paying down the federal debt
*Campaign finance reform, including strict limits on campaign contributions and the outlawing of the Political action committee
*Enforcement of existing immigration laws and opposition to illegal immigration
*Opposition to free trade agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement and Central America Free Trade Agreement, and a call for withdrawal from the World Trade Organization
*Term limits on U.S. Representatives and Senators
*Direct election of the United States President by popular vote
*Federal elections held on weekends
*A noticeable absence from the Reform Party platform has been social issues, including abortion and gay rights. Reform Party representatives had long stated beliefs that their party could bring together people from both sides of these issues, which they consider divisive, to address what they considered to be more vital concerns as expressed in their platform. The idea was to form a large coalition of moderates; that intention was overridden in 2001 by the Buchanan takeover which rewrote the RPUSA Constitution to specifically include platform planks opposed to any form of abortion. The Buchananists, in turn, were overridden by the 2002 Convention which specifically reverted the Constitution to its 1996 version and the party’s original stated goals.
The Obamanoids have announced how they will handle the attempt to evade the so-called Affordable Healthcare Act by employers hiring part-timers. They will simply count the number of hours worked by such part-time people, divide by 40 hours/full-time worker, and the result will be….the equivalent of X number of full-time workers. These will be added to the employer’s full-time employees, and if the magic 50 employee threshold is reached —-voila!!! The employer is liable to conform to Obamacare.
Thus does Leviathan move forward to crush all opposition.
The great experiment, the Constitutional Republic called the United States of America, is perilously close to death.
Chad Wozniak says:
August 3, 2013 at 10:28 am
Chad, I’ve been working on a project combining bank fraud and renewable fraud. Documentary coming soon.
A rework of my Real Science comment:
The Chicken Little Brigade: Lying to Create a ‘Better World’
In 1989 a lead IPCC author, Steven Schneider of Stanford University, said: “We have to offer up scary scenarios… each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective [dishonest] and being honest [ineffective]?”
Following Schneider’s lead:
“Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.” -Sir John Houghton, ex ipcc chair
“The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.” -Daniel Botkin, UCSB
And the leftist Senator Tim Wirth said in 1993: “We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing.”
That was it, for the scientists and politicians, it didn’t matter at all whether the theory was true because it’s the right thing to do anyway. And the scientists had already been given the green light to lie, because it’s “the right thing” that they are supporting in their lies.
Now you see so many warmists saying like: “Well, what if we are wrong? Will we have done such a terrible thing by building a better world anyway?”
A better world?
Like the — 83% — CO2 cuts mandated by 2050 that were in the Cap & Trade bill that passed the US House in 2009? 83%, with large cuts coming immediately. This would have taken a wrecking ball to the economy, and created virtually apocalyptic havoc. “A better world,” I’m afraid not.
August 3, 2013 at 8:42 arthur4563
[…] As for nuclear power, one would think the environmentalists would demand more.[…]
Which should give the game away to anyone paying attention.
Had, back in the 80’s/90’s, these folk really believed in CO2 induced doom then Nuclear was then the only option. We could, assuming we all believed the sky was about to fall, have moved, where safe (away from the Ring of Fire), to Nuclear. This would have bought us many decades in which to deal with the problem.
The fact that even now, with their imaginary acceleration of ‘Global Warming’, secret heat and no indication in the CO2 record that the trajectory has changed in 30 years, they still won’t support Nuclear derived energy.
This is why I have no time for alarmists – there is and always has been a time gaining solution but, despite their doom laden predictions for a CO2 enhanced world, they just can’t quite bring themselves to accept a practical alternative to Unicorn Utopia.
I always see them as folk drowning in the sea but try as they might they just can’t accept the offer of a life belt because it might be made of PVC and they read a piece once that claimed PVC was bad. There is just no hope with these people.
… And Arthur … The Federal Reserve (founded 1913 but could be dated back to 1791) is a private company as is The Bank of England (founded 1694).
@ur momisugly arthur4563 re nuclear power.
Nuclear is not safe. It is not reliable. It is not affordable. It is not a boon to mankind. See:
http://sowellslawblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/reconsider-nuclear-power-is-it-ever.html?m=0
Our children and grandchildren will rightfully ask: You had solar, wind, ocean currents, and hot ocean surface water in the tropics, so why did your generation build all those toxic and deadly nuclear power plants? What did we ever do to you, that you hate us so much that you poisoned the planet with plutonium wastes?
http://nationalreview.com/article/355074/remembering-ploesti-robert-zubrin/page/0/2
Roger Sowell says:
August 3, 2013 at 11:19 am
“Our children and grandchildren will rightfully ask: You had solar, wind, ocean currents, and hot ocean surface water in the tropics, so why did your generation build all those toxic and deadly nuclear power plants? What did we ever do to you, that you hate us so much that you poisoned the planet with plutonium wastes?”
a) seawater contains Uranium. We must do something!
b) about Ralph Nader’s invention of the toxicity of Plutonium
http://atomicinsights.com/1995/05/how-deadly-plutonium.html
Roger Sowell says:
August 3, 2013 at 11:19 am
@ur momisugly arthur4563 re nuclear power.
Here in New Hampshire, the Seabrook plant keeps right on humming. The wind farms are new and I don’t know if anything has failed yet, but they don’t reliably produce power. In face, they reliably don’t produce power.
I recently came across the following from wind farms in western NY that I visited (I have some in-laws who live near them). Blades are cracking after less than three years service. I’d love to know how much the repairs cost!
http://dddusmma.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/wind-farm-rotor-failures/ says in part:
And while I’m dumping on wind, http://news.heartland.org/editorial/2013/07/31/president-obamas-climate-plan-would-kill-hundreds-millions-birds-and-bats
http://www.bu.edu/cecb/wind/video/
http://www.epaw.org/multimedia.php?lang=en&article=b6
Sigh – in moderation.
I bought a can (pair of aerosol cans) of Neverwet from Home Depot. Great toy potential (e.g. a tortilla chip that salsa doesn’t stick to), but I haven’t decided what it would be really good for. The 2nd spray does leave things milky white and feeling rough.
Tipping buckets in weather stations? (Minor market for that!)
The guard on my weed whacker? (Won’t last the first tank of gas, though.)
Paint mixing and pouring tools are quite promising as long as flakes of Neverwet don’t mess up the paint.
It is interesting holding a piece of pine under the faucet and seeing it slough off all the water.
Here are a 4 photo/video’s of the northern lights. This is the best photography (by Ole C. Salomonsen) in motion I have ever seen. I am certain you all will agree and am thankful he is willing to share his work.
http://vimeo.com/arcticlightphoto
DirkH
It isn’t just Big oil (except for Exxon) that is supporting CAGW. Back in the 90’s Enron (yes the same corrupted company) invested over a billion US dollars for the study of CAGW.
Exxon is the only company that I know that is studying real science. Sad isn’t it?
ENSO meter fans – I like to post recent data for the past month or so whenever there’s a new update.
Data from last Monday:
Opening http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/pdisp_sst.sh?ctlfile=oiv2.ctl&ptype=ts&var=ssta&level=1&op1=none&op2=none&day=29&month=jun&year=2013&fday=29&fmonth=jul&fyear=2013&lat0=-5&lat1=5&lon0=-170&lon1=-120&plotsize=800×600&title=&dir=
Found target /png/tmp/CTEST13750956029771.txt
Opening http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov//png/tmp/CTEST13750956029771.txt
Data file
data from 00Z29JUN2013 to 00Z29JUL2013
“———-”
0.0517259
-0.0648869
-0.252974
-0.289761
-0.138604
anomaly -01
I’ll try to remember to post this coming Monday’s data too.
OT
On NOW:
JoNova on Radio 2GB (873) this morning coming up Now (@5am) after the News.
On (not so) Free Carbon Markets
http://www.2gb.com/listen-live
Arthur – see RS above for Unicorn Utopia in action.
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I never heard of it before. Was it invented by a politician?
PS “°” Thanks for the tip and your guide. http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/index.html
Gunga Din says:
August 3, 2013 at 12:49 pm
Neverwet:
Yes, Slick Willie. 🙂
There have been a couple videos hyping it that have gone viral. They’re kind of fun. Links to reviews and videos:
http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/878224_NeverWet-aims-to-repel-negative-review.html
http://gizmodo.com/neverwet-review-the-magical-water-repelling-spray-is-812797429
You’re welcome! Glad you saw my comment.
My web-page counter just hit 200,000 !
It came from : Edmonds, Washington, United States
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Thank you to all who visited my web-pages, especially to Anthony for the tolerance and the WUWT generating .more than 90% of hits.
Power of a widely read blog is impressive !
.
Dirk H., thanks for reading and citing Rod Adams’ Atomic Insights. I met him as a ship’s engineer officer doing a suite of tests done to scope the ship’s impending refueling and overhaul. He became a good work acquaintance.
About the hazard of nuclear power plants; the USN NNPP has >5 x 10^3 reactor-years of safe operation. Not the cheapest by any means, but a fine safety record. How long will it persist now that Rickover’s dicta are ALL forgotten.
I was recently sent a video of Never Wet. As much as I have enjoyed ScotchGuard and Rain-X, I am looking for clever applications of Never Wet. But for its matte finish, I’d waterproof my Inspired Cycle Engineering Sprint 26 trike, it has the most wonderful almost candy-apple red color.
Pamela Gray says:
“Rolf, Pacific is the key word there. NE Oregon was HOT, HOT, HOT!!!!”
But the summers now are not nearly as hot as they used to be in the 1950s and 1960s. Some of the past summers in SE Washington had 3 to 4 weeks of consecutive triple digit highs.