Mitt Romney: ‘We Don’t Know What’s Causing Climate Change On This Planet’

If he actually sticks to this position if and when he becomes President, then good for Mitt:

While speaking at an event in Pittsburgh, Mitt Romney said he questioned the science behind global warming and opposed climate legislation. “‘My view is that we don’t know what’s causing climate change on this planet,” Romney said. “And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.”


“I do not believe in a cap and trade program,” Romney added. “By the way, they do not call it America warming, they call it global warming. So the idea of America spending massive amounts, trillions of dollars to somehow stop global warming is not a great idea. It loses jobs for Americans and ultimately it won’t be successful, because industries that are energy intensive will just get up and go somewhere else. So it doesn’t make any sense at all.”


The green blogosphere assailed the former Massachusetts governor for flip-flopping positions on the issue, calling out Romney for changing positons yet again on climate change. ThinkProgress’s Brad Johnson noted that Romney made a completely opposite statement in June: “I believe that humans contribute to that,” Romney said. “I don’t know how much our contribution is to that, because I know that there have been periods of greater heat and warmth in the past but I believe we contribute to that. And so I think it’s important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases.”


Grist’s Christopher Mims also slammed Romney. “If there’s one thing Mitt Romney’s good at, it’s turning directly into whatever political winds are blowing through the Republican base.”


While 97% of climate scientists agree that human activity is causing climate change, Romney perhaps read a recent Reuters poll that showed 43% of Republicans (and 49% of tea party members) believe global warming is the result of natural causes.

Of course, while liberals repeat the usual lie that "97% of climate scientists agree that human activity is causing climate change", conservatives are well aware that over 30,000 scientists signed a petition urging the United States to reject the Kyoto agreement, stating that "there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing, or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth." Conservatives are also aware that Al Gore has gotten exceedingly rich since he became the planet's spokesman for "climate change". Coincidence? I think not.

Girl Scouts Allow 7-Year-Old Boy to Join Because He is ‘Living Life as a Girl’

Unbelievable:

The Girl Scouts of Colorado are allowing a 7-year-old boy to join a local troop because he is “living life as a girl.”


“We make the distinction that if a child is living life as a girl and the family brings the child to us and says my daughter wants to be a Girl Scout, we welcome her,” Rachelle Trujillo, vice president of communications with Girl Scouts of Colorado told CNSNews.com.


On Tuesday, 9news.com, a Denver-based television station, initially reported the story of the 7-year-old boy, Bobby Montoya. His mother, Felisha Archuleta, said a local troop leader told her Bobby could not join the troop because he was a boy.


But the statewide organization responded to inquiries from 9news.com by saying that Girls Scouts is “an inclusive organization” and that Bobby would be allowed to join.


“We have privacy rights that we are very respectful of with families,” Trujillo told CNSNews.com. “We do not require proof of gender when a family wants their daughter to be a member of Girl Scouts.”


Trujillo said boys who are living like boys will not be admitted.


“The child must be living life as a girl,” Trujillo said.


In a statement the Girl Scouts of Colorado gave to 9news.com, the organization said:


"Girl Scouts is an inclusive organization and we accept all girls in Kindergarten through 12th grade as members. If a child identifies as a girl and the child's family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout. Our requests for support of transgender kids have grown, and Girl Scouts of Colorado is working to best support these children, their families and the volunteers who serve them. In this case, an associate delivering our program was not aware of our approach. She contacted her supervisor, who immediately began working with the family to get the child involved and supported in Girl Scouts. We are accelerating our support systems and training so that we're better able to serve all girls, families and volunteers."

Paul Ryan Accuses Barack Obama Of Inciting Class Warfare

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Sore Loser He/She Chaz Bono Whines That Dancing With The Stars Judges Bullied Him Over His Weight

He/she didn't win "Dancing with the Stars" this season, and of course that had nothing to do with his lack of skills, it must be due to a liberal's favorite "bullying":

Chaz Bono braved controversy to be the first transgender contestant on Dancing with the Stars, but he revealed in an interview today that it was jibes over his weight that troubled him the most.

But it wasn't from ignorant, faceless haters that the 42-year-old faced these attacks, but rather from the show's judges, whom Bono has blasted as 'disrespectful.'

The only child of Cher, 65 , and the late Sonny Bono, told Good Morning America: 'I was called a basketball, a penguin, an Ewok, and I just didn't appreciate it.'

Bono, who was joined by dancing partner Lacey Schwimmer, 23 , for the interview said he felt particularly attacked by Bruno Tonioli, 55 , who compared him to the flightless bird.

He said: 'If you want to critique my dancing and give me some constructive advice so I can try to improve the next time that I'm there, that would be great.'

'But I don't really know how to be less penguish, and so I kind of took offence to that.'

Bono, who earned a score of 19 out of a possible 30 on Monday night, also said he feels there is a gender divide between how overweight men and overweight women are treated on the show.

He mentioned the positive response from the judges to Kirstie Alley, 60 , on the last season.

'It's hard to take this competition seriously when the judges are so inconsistent,' he said.

'At the same time, we went out there and did what we needed to do and did it well and had a great time doing it.

Schwimmer, who has also been criticised for her weight, concurred.

But Bono revealed the competition had strengthened his relationship with his superstar mother.

'This was something my mom and I could really have common ground on because this is something that she knows what it feels like to go out and perform in front of an audience.'

Occupy Wall Street Supporter Michael Moore Lies on National Television About His Wealth: No I'm Not Worth Millions

Props to Piers Morgan for doing what journalists are supposed to do: not let personal ideology get in the way of doing their damn job:

Schlockumentary filmmaker Michael Moore is so hell-bent on being a leader of the Occupy Wall Street movement that he's willing to lie about his wealth on national television.


Appearing for the second time this month on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight Tuesday, Moore dishonestly pushed back on any suggestion that he's part of the top one percent in this nation who are millionaires:

Homeless New York City Man Schools Filthy, White Occupy Wall Street Protesters On Cleaning Up After Themselves

Preach! Bro! Preach!

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President Obama Holds Secret Meet-and-Greet With Hollywood Execs and Influencers

Barry's down with the morally bankrupt, Hollyweird elite:

UPDATED: Among those attending the morning gathering at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel were studio head Harvey Weinstein, UTA's Rob Prinz, CAA managing partner and music head Rob Light, and ICM's Chris Silbermann.


Before he left Los Angeles for San Francisco on Tuesday, President Barack Obama stopped for an undisclosed meeting with some of the entertainment industry's high-level executives, as well as talent representatives with access to the industry's top stars and musical acts, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.


Among the small group of industry insiders who were invited to attended the early-morning meeting with the president at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel were: Weinstein Co. studio head Harvey Weinstein, CAA managing partner and music head Rob Light, ICM president Chris Silbermann, Modern Family creator Steve Levitan, Atlantic Records chairman Craig Kallman, producer/songwriter Bruce Roberts, talent manger and producer Jason Weinberg, UTA agent Rob Prinz, talent manager and producer Eric Ortner, Island Def Jam senior vp Karen Kwak, Warner Bros. Records president Livia Tortella, talent manager Greg Mertz, ID PR publicists Kelly Bush and Mara Buxbaum, talent managers Bruce Flohr, Michael Green, Steve Moir and Bill Silva, Universial Music Publishing head Tom Sturges, entertainment attorney Chuck Ortner and actor/activist Kal Penn.


The event was not a fundraiser, and attendees were not asked to donate to the Obama reelection campaign. But those invited have been ardent supporters of the president and were identified as "influencers" with the ability to help Obama shape the national political conversation heading into a tough race in 2012.


An insider who attended the hour-long meeting with the Obama campaign staff tells THR that the vibe was casual. The president appeared for about 25 to 30 minutes, telling the group that his campaign would be tough and he needed their help to engage the Hollywood community in particular and the general public at large.


The meeting comes at a time when Obama seems to be grappling with how close his campaign should align itself with the entertainment industry. The president has recently returned to Los Angeles twice for star-studded fundraisers, and the campaign clearly knows that the executives invited to the meeting can deliver singers and other stars who often provide the entertainment at major campaign events.


At the very least, it sounds like the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, next year will have a great soundtrack.

Bernie Goldberg To Bill O’Reilly: 2012 Obama Media Bias Will Be So Subtle Voters ‘Will Not Even Catch It’

Mediaite.com:

With the 2012 elections fast approaching and the economy in a state of flailing paralysis, Bill O’Reilly took a look tonight at how the media is responding to the Obama Administration’s first tenure. With some in the media arguing that the President has little control over the economy, Bernie Goldberg told the Factor host this came off as yet another example of bias, and one which warned the next wave of pro-Obama fervor in the media would be significantly less feverish.


Goldberg, who wrote a book about the media’s relationship with the 2008 Obama campaign entitled “A Slobbering Love Affair,” did not expect that level of infatuation this time around. “If they slobber all over him this time as much as they did last night, the media and the President will have to get a room.” Unlike Sen. John Kerry or Michael Dukakis, Goldberg argued that President Obama “was a historic figure, and they fell in love with him.”


On comments by David Gregory that the President didn’t have much control over the economy, Goldberg gave Gregory the benefit of the doubt on bias, but told O’Reilly that it still “sounds like here’s another liberal journalist saying ‘don’t blame Barack Obama.’” He did concluded, however, that overt bias was not to be found in the press anymore this election cycle, and it would look much more like Gregory’s statements: “the bias… will be subtle, sometimes the audience will not even catch it.”


Goldberg also discussed the coverage of Muammar Gaddafi‘s death, which he found appropriate, though objected to “gratuitous” visuals of the dictator’s corpse.

Karl Rove Declares That Herman Cain Has ‘Peaked’

Mediaite.com:

Herman Cain’s reign on top of the 2012 contender list may be coming to an end. That’s the impression Karl Rove gave during an appearance on Fox News this morning as he slammed the candidate as having “created an image of him not being up for this task” through a series of blunders.


The conversation began with talk of Cain’s seemingly-confused stance on abortion. However, Rove then continued, pulling out an entire white board filled with missteps Cain had made thus far in the campaign. This all correlated with poll numbers that, according to Rove, show that Cain had already “peaked.”


Of course, it’s possible that one should take Rove’s declaration of the Cain campaign’s death with a pinch of salt. Cain, is a favorite candidate with the Koch Brothers and the Tea Party and, previously, some of the harshest critiques that GOP establishment member Rove has given to Conservatives, have all been directed at Tea Partiers. However, whether Rove was biased in his denunciations of the likes of Christine O’Donnell or not, he was still right in predicting their losses.

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New York City Shootings Are Up 28% Since Occupy Wall Street Began

Examiner.com:

The New York Post reports that the number of gunshot victims in New York has risen 28% in the last month. (The quality of life in and around Zuccotti Park has decreased commensurately, as health code violations pile up, but that’s another story.)


The time frame dovetails precisely with the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement. So does this imply a cause-and-effect relationship between the two phenomena? Not necessarily. hen you look at the small sample numbers available for comparison—56 shootings last week as compared with 22 for the same week in 2010—the finding may well be outside the realm of statistical significance.


Then again, the Post observes:


Four high-ranking cops point the finger at Occupy Wall Street protesters, saying their rallies pull special crime-fighting units away from the hot zones where they’re needed.


Since Occupy Wall Street took over Zuccotti Park on Sept. 17, the NYPD has relied heavily on its borough task forces, the department’s go-to teams for rowdy crowds.


Verum Serum weighs in:


Of course the protesters have a right to protest, but there is a cost associated with it. Police have spent more than $3 million so far dealing with OWS. Pulling those cops from their high crime areas has also resulted in a spike in violent crime. At some point the city needs to say enough, limit the time and place these protests take place, and get back to work dealing with the real troublemakers.


The NYPD estimates that about 10% of the total force, or as many as 3,000 police officers a day, are diverted from their normal responsibilities when the OWS protesters march.


The drain on resources in high-crime neighborhoods was underscored dramatically last week when a pregnant Brooklyn mother was killed by a rooftop gunman after she selflessly threw herself in front of a group of schoolchildren.


In the meantime, the Occupiers, even if they lack a useful agenda, provide much-needed comic relief at a time when the public mood is dour. In this video clip (h/t Andrew Breitbart) from an Occupy San Francisco rally, a young woman engages in responsive reading with a crowd using both a "human megaphone" and an actual megaphone (which is the communications equivalent of wearing both a belt and suspenders). Notice the slight decrease in volume among her congregants when she calls for "a democracy in which the people have the right to print their own money."

Homosexual, Far-Left Sex Columnist Dan Savage Tells Herman Cain To "Suck My Dick"

Again, like drugs, alcohol and the many other vices that human beings take part in, homosexuality is a choice. There is no credible scientific evidence that says otherwise. However, in order to brainwash the uneducated masses and make their immoral, alternative lifestyle choice into a "civil right", gay lobbyists have to assign a genetic biological trait (i.e. "predetermined" and therefore "unchangeable") to homosexuality. Educated people like Herman Cain are aware of this trick and have no problem saying so out loud. So of course, with GOP candidate for president Cain becoming more and popular these days, it stands to reason that a hypocritical, gay, open-relationship supporter, liberal scumbag Dan Savage would respond to Cain in the only way he knows how:

Sex columnist Dan Savage has apparently decided that it has been too long since his political opinions mattered. Having already destroyed Rick Santorum‘s internet reputation, Savage is now taking aim at Herman Cain for repeatedly declaring that he believes sexual orientation to be a choice. If it is a choice, Savage demands, Cain should prove it by performing sex acts on Savage. Yes, it has come to this.


Cain admits to being a social conservative in the way he conducts his life, and in his moral beliefs. He has said that the Bible tells him homosexuality is a sin, and he believes that. He also believes it is a “choice” and has said so repeatedly. But he has, for the most part, refrained from making any comments on how his opinions would translate into law. He has stated he has no problem appointing competent LGBT people to his cabinet. As far as the conservative gay community goes, GOProud head Chris Barron stood up for Cain after his initial homosexuality comments, arguing precisely that his policies would help LGBT people, and his personal views appeared to have no bearing on how he would govern.


Given Cain’s relationship with social libertarians (and gay conservatives), this may have been a bit of an overreaction:


Dear Herman,


If being gay is a choice, show us the proof. Choose it. Choose to be gay yourself. Show America how that’s done, Herman, show us how a man can choose to be gay. Suck my dick, Herman. Name the time and the place and I’ll bring my dick and a camera crew and you can suck me off and win the argument.


Very sincerely yours,


Dan Savage


There is a good bit to parse here, so may as well start with the obvious: it is at best megalomaniacal for Savage to assume that being sexually attracted to men necessarily implies being sexually attracted to Dan Savage. Then there is the larger portrayal of gay men– and straight women, to a certain extent– as being so disconnected from their bodily integrity that it is entirely appropriate to demand sexual favors of them. Savage may claim he is attempting to promote the dignity of people born with sexual orientations other than “straight”– or people born attracted to men, whichever the case may be– but how little must he think of the LGBT community to assume that “being gay” consists of fellating complete strangers on demand? It’s like he is seeing the gay community through the prism of a bad George Michael joke. At the very least, he’s not helping any bigots not see the world through the prism of a bad George Michael joke with this letter.