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"Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance
smothered in balloons and ribbons" -Frank Zappa


Right-Wing Media Cover Up Senate Republicans' Obstructionism
April 18, 2012 2:26 am ET — 9 Comments



Following the release of a report on the legislative business
conducted by the Senate, conservative media have tried to cover up
Republican obstructionism in order to label the Democratic-controlled
Senate as "lazy" and "do-nothing." In fact, Senate Republicans have
repeatedly used procedural tricks to block measures that would
otherwise have passed the Senate.

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Right-Wing Media Attack Senate Democrats As "Lazy" And "Do-Nothing" ...
Hannity: "Democratic-Controlled Senate" Is A "Do-Nothing Chamber."
From the April 16 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity
Show:

HANNITY: There's a report out in the Washington secrets column in the
Examiner is that the Democratic-controlled Senate, you know the one
that hasn't passed a budget in over a thousand days -- well anyway,
for those who need proof the Senate is a do-nothing chamber in 2011
and their failure to pass a federal budget in a thousand days, their
constitutional duty, in the latest report, the Secretary of the Senate
revealed a slew of new data that put the first session of the 112th
Senate at the bottom of Senates since 1992 in terms of legislative
productivity.

I mean, pretty damning considering that it wasn't even an election
year. That's pretty bad. Shows how bad liberals, you know, running
things are. They say -- just Republicans' fault. It's all the
Republicans' fault. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Sean Hannity Show,
4/16/12, via Media Matters]

Fox's Doocy: "Democrat-Controlled Senate" Is "The Laziest Senate In
Decades." From the April 17 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

STEVE DOOCY (co-host): Alright. Time now for your news by the numbers.

[...]

DOOCY: And finally, six-and-a-half hours a day. That's reportedly how
long the 2011 Democrat-controlled Senate was in session per day. They
also produced less legislation than any other Senate since 1992,
earning the embarrassing distinction as the laziest Senate in decades.
Congratulations. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 4/17/12, via Media Matters]

Breitbart.com: "Obama Was Right About The 'Do-Nothing Congress' -- At
Least About The Democrat-Controlled Senate Portion." From an April 17
Breitbart.com post by John Sexton:

Obama was right about the "do-nothing Congress" -- at least about the
Democrat-controlled Senate portion. A report released by the Secretary
of the Senate shows that the 112th Senate has done less work than
almost any Senate in recent history.

The 2011 Senate spent an average of just 6.5 hours, in session which
is the second lowest in 20 years. Only 2008 saw a lower average number
of work hours. But unlike 2008, 2011 was not an election year when
political wrangling tends to mean less work gets done. The Senate also
passed fewer bills into law in 2011 -- 90 in all -- than any previous
Senate except one. [Breitbart.com, 4/17/12]

... But Senate Republicans' Obstructionism Is Responsible For Blocking
Numerous Bills
In 2011, Senate Republicans Repeatedly Blocked The Senate From Acting.
In 2011, Senate Republicans used procedural tricks, such as
filibusters, to require that measures received the support of a
supermajority of senators before they moved forward. The following
legislation would have passed the Senate and the following nominations
would have been confirmed had Senate Republicans not thrown up
procedural roadblocks:

Nomination Of Mari Carmen Aponte To Be Ambassador To The Republic Of
El Salvador. [Senate vote 227, 12/12/11]
Middle Class Tax Cut Act Of 2011. [Senate vote 224, 12/8/11; Senate
vote 219, 12/1/11]
Nomination Of Richard Cordray To Be Director Of The Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau. [Senate vote 223, 12/8/11]
Nomination Of Caitlin Joan Halligan To Be A United States Circuit
Judge. [Senate vote 222, 12/6/11]
Teachers And First Responders Back To Work Act Of 2011. [Senate vote
177, 10/20/11]
American Jobs Act Of 2011. [Senate vote 160, 10/11/11]
Nomination Of James Michael Cole To Be Deputy Attorney General.
[Senate vote 67, 5/9/11]
Bill Reauthorizing Government Programs That Aid Small Businesses.
[Senate vote 64, 5/4/11]
Senate Republicans' Obstruction Has Continued In 2012. Senate
Republicans have continued their obstructionist tactics in 2012. The
following bills would have passed and the following nominations would
have been confirmed had Senate Republicans not used procedural devices
to require support from a supermajority:

Paying A Fair Share Act Of 2012. [Senate vote 65, 4/16/12]
Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act. [Senate vote 63, 3/29/12]
Reauthorization Of The Export-Import Bank Of The United States.
[Senate vote 52, 3/20/12]
Reopening American Capital Markets To Emerging Growth Companies Act Of
2011. [Senate vote 51, 3/20/12]
GOP Is On Pace To Attempt To Filibuster More Often Than Democrats Did
When They Were In The Minority
So Far During This Congress, The Senate Has Held 48 Votes On Whether
To Cut Off A Filibuster. A cloture vote is the only procedure
available in most circumstances to attempt to cut off a filibuster and
allow the Senate to take an up-or-down vote on a bill, a motion, or a
nomination. A cloture vote generally requires a vote of 60 senators to
be successful, while most measures only require the support of a
majority of senators in order to be passed. The Senate held 34 cloture
votes in 2011 and has held 14 cloture votes so far in 2012. [List of
Senate roll call votes in 2011 from Senate.gov, accessed 4/17/12; List
of Senate roll call votes in 2012 from Senate.gov, accessed 4/17/12]

In 2005-06, When Democrats Were In The Minority, The Senate Held Only
54 Cloture Votes Over The Full Two-Year Congress. Democrats were last
in the minority in the Senate during the 109th Congress, which lasted
from 2005-06. During that time, the Senate held 54 cloture votes.
[List of Senate roll call votes in 2005 from Senate.gov, accessed
4/17/12; List of Senate roll call votes in 2006 from Senate.gov,
accessed 4/17/12]

In 2003-04, The Senate Held Only 49 Cloture Votes. Democrats were also
in the minority during the 108th Congress, which lasted from 2003-04.
During that time, the Senate held 49 cloture votes. [List of Senate
roll call votes in 2003 from Senate.gov, accessed 4/17/12; List of
Senate roll call votes in 2004 from Senate.gov, accessed 4/17/12]

More:

http://mediamatters.org/research/201204180001

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Right-Wing Media Cover Up Senate Republicans' Obstructionism, "Republicans stand for........

"Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance
smothered in balloons and ribbons" -Frank Zappa


Right-Wing Media Cover Up Senate Republicans' Obstructionism
April 18, 2012 2:26 am ET — 9 Comments



Following the release of a report on the legislative business
conducted by the Senate, conservative media have tried to cover up
Republican obstructionism in order to label the Democratic-controlled
Senate as "lazy" and "do-nothing." In fact, Senate Republicans have
repeatedly used procedural tricks to block measures that would
otherwise have passed the Senate.

EMBED
Embed this video:


Right-Wing Media Attack Senate Democrats As "Lazy" And "Do-Nothing" ...
Hannity: "Democratic-Controlled Senate" Is A "Do-Nothing Chamber."
From the April 16 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity
Show:

HANNITY: There's a report out in the Washington secrets column in the
Examiner is that the Democratic-controlled Senate, you know the one
that hasn't passed a budget in over a thousand days -- well anyway,
for those who need proof the Senate is a do-nothing chamber in 2011
and their failure to pass a federal budget in a thousand days, their
constitutional duty, in the latest report, the Secretary of the Senate
revealed a slew of new data that put the first session of the 112th
Senate at the bottom of Senates since 1992 in terms of legislative
productivity.

I mean, pretty damning considering that it wasn't even an election
year. That's pretty bad. Shows how bad liberals, you know, running
things are. They say -- just Republicans' fault. It's all the
Republicans' fault. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Sean Hannity Show,
4/16/12, via Media Matters]

Fox's Doocy: "Democrat-Controlled Senate" Is "The Laziest Senate In
Decades." From the April 17 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

STEVE DOOCY (co-host): Alright. Time now for your news by the numbers.

[...]

DOOCY: And finally, six-and-a-half hours a day. That's reportedly how
long the 2011 Democrat-controlled Senate was in session per day. They
also produced less legislation than any other Senate since 1992,
earning the embarrassing distinction as the laziest Senate in decades.
Congratulations. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 4/17/12, via Media Matters]

Breitbart.com: "Obama Was Right About The 'Do-Nothing Congress' -- At
Least About The Democrat-Controlled Senate Portion." From an April 17
Breitbart.com post by John Sexton:

Obama was right about the "do-nothing Congress" -- at least about the
Democrat-controlled Senate portion. A report released by the Secretary
of the Senate shows that the 112th Senate has done less work than
almost any Senate in recent history.

The 2011 Senate spent an average of just 6.5 hours, in session which
is the second lowest in 20 years. Only 2008 saw a lower average number
of work hours. But unlike 2008, 2011 was not an election year when
political wrangling tends to mean less work gets done. The Senate also
passed fewer bills into law in 2011 -- 90 in all -- than any previous
Senate except one. [Breitbart.com, 4/17/12]

... But Senate Republicans' Obstructionism Is Responsible For Blocking
Numerous Bills
In 2011, Senate Republicans Repeatedly Blocked The Senate From Acting.
In 2011, Senate Republicans used procedural tricks, such as
filibusters, to require that measures received the support of a
supermajority of senators before they moved forward. The following
legislation would have passed the Senate and the following nominations
would have been confirmed had Senate Republicans not thrown up
procedural roadblocks:

Nomination Of Mari Carmen Aponte To Be Ambassador To The Republic Of
El Salvador. [Senate vote 227, 12/12/11]
Middle Class Tax Cut Act Of 2011. [Senate vote 224, 12/8/11; Senate
vote 219, 12/1/11]
Nomination Of Richard Cordray To Be Director Of The Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau. [Senate vote 223, 12/8/11]
Nomination Of Caitlin Joan Halligan To Be A United States Circuit
Judge. [Senate vote 222, 12/6/11]
Teachers And First Responders Back To Work Act Of 2011. [Senate vote
177, 10/20/11]
American Jobs Act Of 2011. [Senate vote 160, 10/11/11]
Nomination Of James Michael Cole To Be Deputy Attorney General.
[Senate vote 67, 5/9/11]
Bill Reauthorizing Government Programs That Aid Small Businesses.
[Senate vote 64, 5/4/11]
Senate Republicans' Obstruction Has Continued In 2012. Senate
Republicans have continued their obstructionist tactics in 2012. The
following bills would have passed and the following nominations would
have been confirmed had Senate Republicans not used procedural devices
to require support from a supermajority:

Paying A Fair Share Act Of 2012. [Senate vote 65, 4/16/12]
Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act. [Senate vote 63, 3/29/12]
Reauthorization Of The Export-Import Bank Of The United States.
[Senate vote 52, 3/20/12]
Reopening American Capital Markets To Emerging Growth Companies Act Of
2011. [Senate vote 51, 3/20/12]
GOP Is On Pace To Attempt To Filibuster More Often Than Democrats Did
When They Were In The Minority
So Far During This Congress, The Senate Has Held 48 Votes On Whether
To Cut Off A Filibuster. A cloture vote is the only procedure
available in most circumstances to attempt to cut off a filibuster and
allow the Senate to take an up-or-down vote on a bill, a motion, or a
nomination. A cloture vote generally requires a vote of 60 senators to
be successful, while most measures only require the support of a
majority of senators in order to be passed. The Senate held 34 cloture
votes in 2011 and has held 14 cloture votes so far in 2012. [List of
Senate roll call votes in 2011 from Senate.gov, accessed 4/17/12; List
of Senate roll call votes in 2012 from Senate.gov, accessed 4/17/12]

In 2005-06, When Democrats Were In The Minority, The Senate Held Only
54 Cloture Votes Over The Full Two-Year Congress. Democrats were last
in the minority in the Senate during the 109th Congress, which lasted
from 2005-06. During that time, the Senate held 54 cloture votes.
[List of Senate roll call votes in 2005 from Senate.gov, accessed
4/17/12; List of Senate roll call votes in 2006 from Senate.gov,
accessed 4/17/12]

In 2003-04, The Senate Held Only 49 Cloture Votes. Democrats were also
in the minority during the 108th Congress, which lasted from 2003-04.
During that time, the Senate held 49 cloture votes. [List of Senate
roll call votes in 2003 from Senate.gov, accessed 4/17/12; List of
Senate roll call votes in 2004 from Senate.gov, accessed 4/17/12]

More:

http://mediamatters.org/research/201204180001

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RE: *? 2 ALL: ROMNEY DENIES FAMILY CAME FROM MEXICAN POLYGAMIST COMMUNE - WHAT ARE YOUR COMMENTS?*

Willard Milton Liar, Liar, Magic UnderPants on Fire! -T

From Robert:

All of the information about the Romney family history came out in the
1962 campaign for Governor of Michigan. Democratic Governor John
Swainson was running for reelection against American Motors President
George Romney, Mitt's father.

George Romney won because it turned out that Swainson had previously
been a member of the Reorganized LDS Church. And in 1962 racism was
still king in Michigan. And Governor Swainson came on too strong for
equal rights for all Americans.

But the Romney family dirty laundry was well publicized. George Romney
admitted he was born in a polygamous colony in Mexico. But the most
important Romney ancestor was the Mormon Prophet Parley Pratt. Like
all the other early Mormon prophets, Pratt held that the capital of
the USA must be moved from Washington DC to Independence Missouri, the
site of the original Garden of Eden in Mormon mythology. And from
Independence Missouri, the Mormon Church will then rule the United
States and then the world.

Mitt Romney refuses to disavow Parley Pratt. In fact he cannot do so
because all prophecies Pratt received are considered official Mormon
Doctrine. So he does the pooh-pooh act instead. Nobody knows what Mitt
Romney really believes about anything except that his dedication to
the Mormon religion seems not to be open to question.

Best regards, Robert




Hi Team! *? 2 ALL:
ROMNEY DENIES FAMILY CAME FROM MEXICAN POLYGAMIST COMMUNE -


(above): Joseph Smith and wives
Romney's father, the late Michigan governor George Romney, was born
in Chihuahua, Mexico,
in 1907 to American citizens living in a Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints colony.
The Romney family had left the U.S. to avoid being prosecuted for
polygamy after laws against
the practice were enforced, and returned to the U.S. after the
Mexican Revolution broke out.



Some family members stayed in Mexico and Mitt Romney has about 40
relatives still living
south of the border. - Huffington Post


Toby Harnden reports:

A governor who backed Barack Obama in 2008 and was given a prominent
speaking role at the Democratic National Convention has said that Mitt
Romney could struggle in the November election because women 'are not
great fans of polygamy'.



Governor Brian Schweitzer of Montana, who was viewed as a possible
vice-presidential running mate for Obama four years ago, raised
Romney's Mormon faith by repeatedly stating that his father was 'born
into a polygamy commune in Mexico'.



(above): Schweitzer, Romney


The comments were quickly disavowed by an Obama spokeswoman but have
raised concerns among Republicans that the Obama campaign and its
allies will use Romney's Mormon faith as a means of attacking his
character.




...(Schweitzer) said, '86 per cent [of women are] not great fans of
polygamy'. He added: 'I am not alleging by any stretch that Romney is
a polygamist and approves of [the] polygamy lifestyle, but his father
was born into [a] polygamy commune in Mexico'".



Romney denies family came from Mexican polygamist commune - what are
your comments?

Greg Dempsey
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SECULARHUMANIST/
Voice of the People
=====
'Romney's father was born into a polygamy commune in Mexico':
Montana's Democrat governor launches personal attack on Obama's
election rival

By Toby Harnden

Daily Mail

PUBLISHED: 15:22 EST, 20 April 2012 | UPDATED: 16:47 EST, 20 April 2012





...During his 2008 speech at the Democratic convention in Denver,
Schweitzer trumpeted his Cathoilc faith, saying: 'Like Senator Obama,
my family has roots in the Great Plains.


'My grandparents were immigrants who came to Montana with nothing more
than the clothes on their back, high hopes and faith in God.'


Romney's father George W. Romney, who went on to become head of the
American Motor Company and governor of Michigan, was born in 1907 in a
settlement in Mexico that had been founded in the 1880s by Mormons
fleeing American anti-polygamy laws.




The last polygamist in Romney's direct ancestry was his
great-grandfather Miles Park Romney, who had three wives. Romney's
paternal grandfather Gaskell was monogamous and the Mormon Church
outlawed polygamy in 1890.


Five years ago, Romney, who has been married to his wife Ann for 42
years, said: 'I have a great-great-grandfather. They were trying to
build a generation out there in the desert and so he took additional
as he was told to do. And I must admit, I can't imagine anything more
awful than polygamy.' Ann, whose father was a Welsh atheist, converted
to Mormonism before she married Mitt.


A senior Romney adviser said he expected Democrats to use the
presumptive Republican nominee's faith against him. 'They'll take
advantage of whatever they can.


'Even if they never have to use the word Mormon, if there's a chance
it gives people a little bit of a doubt or erodes part of the
Republican base, they'll be happy to take it. But I don't think
they'll be caught with their hands in the cookie jar talking about
Mormonism.'


Already, there are indications that the Obama campaign is prepared to
go after Romney's religion in subtle ways. His advisers declared
Mormonism 'off limits' after they were panned for portraying Romney as
'weird'. But in recent days the word 'secretive' has been used about
him repeatedly - a charge often laid at the door of the Mormon Church.


Richard Land, head of public policy for the Southern Baptist
Convention and a prominent evangelical figure who has met Romney
privately said: 'As far as I'm concerned, Mormonism isn't a Christian
faith. It's a different religion. But I and most evangelicals wouldn't
have a problem voting for a Mormon against Barack Obama.'

He said that he believed personal faith should not be part of the
election and doubted the Obama campaign would 'comment on Romney's
religion frontally' but expected Obama's media allies to do so
eagerly.


'They're going to try to highlight all the more the exotic beliefs of
Mormons and hope to scare off enough independents to help Romney win.'


Predicting 'the ugliest campaign in my lifetime, and I was born in
1946', he said the press would attempt to get swing voters to ask
themselves: 'He believes in that? Wow, do I really want a president
who believes something like that?'


In the US media, jibes about Mormon polygamy and 'magic underwear'
(observant Mormons like Romney wear what are known as temple
undergarments beneath their cloths) are commonplace and acceptable
whereas that mocking Jews or Muslims is considered beyond the pale.


Romney is a former Mormon bishop who hails from one of the most
prominent families in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints.
Mormons believes that early Christian leaders fell away from God's
truth and that it took the discovery of the Book of Mormon by Joseph
Smith, the self-proclaimed prophet who founded the church, to
'restore' true Christianity.


Smith is said to have discovered the sacred text in 1823. It had been
engraved on golden plates buried in a hill near his home in New York
that he had found after being guided there by an angle called Moroni.


Mormons do not smoke tobacco, swear or drink coffee, tea or alcohol.
They conduct baptisms of the dead, usually of their ancestors but
also, most controversially, Holocaust victims (a practice the church
now outlaws).


They believe that Jesus appeared to the Americas after the
resurrection and that there are three heavens. Blacks were not allowed
to be ordained into the Mormon Church until 1978.


Romney and each of his five sons served for two years as Mormon
missionaries. In Romney's case, he was sent to France in the late
1960s. Romney later joked: 'It's quite an experience to go to Bordeaux
and say, 'Give up your wine! I've got a great religion for you!''

A number of the tenets of Mormonism are regarded as bizarre by many
Americans and one of the biggest challenges Romney faced in the
primaries was that many evangelicals regarded Mormons as members of a
non-Christian cult.


Romney lost primaries in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana - the bible belt of the Deep South - though all these
states are virtually certain to back him in the general election.


Aware of the widespread suspicion of his religion, Romney has shied
away from talking about it. He gave a speech in College Station, Texas
in December 2007, billed as the equivalent to John F. Kennedy's 1960
address to allay fear about his Catholicism, in which he insisted that
'no authorities of my church' would 'ever exert influence on
presidential decisions'. But even then he uttered the word Mormon only
once.


During the Republican primary campaign, his advisers avoided almost
any mention of his faith. In January, a senior campaign official said
that he believed there was an anti-Mormon smear campaign afoot in
South Carolina but he wanted no public mention of it for fear of
aggravating the issue.


The downside of this approach was that Romney's deep faith, the
observant life he has led and the family he has built are central to
understanding him. By barely referring to Mormonism - his core - it
was easy to believe he had no core.
Alex Castellanos, a veteran Republican strategist who was a top
adviser to Romney in 2008, said that Romney's faith could be turned
into an advantage.


'He's over the tough part on the Mormon issue. He cleared that hurdle
in the primaries.' Talking about his faith 'helps people to understand
that there's a real core to Mitt Romney, that he believes there's a
right and there's a wrong and he's lived his life the right way'.


He added: 'The real window into Mitt Romney's heart is Ann Romney. The
window into his soul may be his faith. Seeing who he is as a human
being tells you how he's lived his life.'


The current Romney adviser agreed, saying the campaign could to 'take
this perceived weakness and turn it into a strength' by emphasising
the tens of millions of dollars he has donated to his church (all
Mormons are required to tithe 10 percent of their income) and his
pastoral care of church members.


'We don't need to talk about Mormonism, we don't need to do a faith
speech. But we can talk about it in terms of who you are, about
family, about good works.'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2132883/Democrats-begin-attacks-Romneys-Mormon-faith-claims-women-great-fans-polygamy.html#ixzz1seOS2GOC






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RE: *? 2 ALL: ROMNEY DENIES FAMILY CAME FROM MEXICAN POLYGAMIST COMMUNE - WHAT ARE YOUR COMMENTS?*

Willard Milton Liar, Liar, Magic UnderPants on Fire! -T

From Robert:

All of the information about the Romney family history came out in the
1962 campaign for Governor of Michigan. Democratic Governor John
Swainson was running for reelection against American Motors President
George Romney, Mitt's father.

George Romney won because it turned out that Swainson had previously
been a member of the Reorganized LDS Church. And in 1962 racism was
still king in Michigan. And Governor Swainson came on too strong for
equal rights for all Americans.

But the Romney family dirty laundry was well publicized. George Romney
admitted he was born in a polygamous colony in Mexico. But the most
important Romney ancestor was the Mormon Prophet Parley Pratt. Like
all the other early Mormon prophets, Pratt held that the capital of
the USA must be moved from Washington DC to Independence Missouri, the
site of the original Garden of Eden in Mormon mythology. And from
Independence Missouri, the Mormon Church will then rule the United
States and then the world.

Mitt Romney refuses to disavow Parley Pratt. In fact he cannot do so
because all prophecies Pratt received are considered official Mormon
Doctrine. So he does the pooh-pooh act instead. Nobody knows what Mitt
Romney really believes about anything except that his dedication to
the Mormon religion seems not to be open to question.

Best regards, Robert


Hi Team! *? 2 ALL:
ROMNEY DENIES FAMILY CAME FROM MEXICAN POLYGAMIST COMMUNE -


(above): Joseph Smith and wives
Romney's father, the late Michigan governor George Romney, was born
in Chihuahua, Mexico,
in 1907 to American citizens living in a Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints colony.
The Romney family had left the U.S. to avoid being prosecuted for
polygamy after laws against
the practice were enforced, and returned to the U.S. after the
Mexican Revolution broke out.

Some family members stayed in Mexico and Mitt Romney has about 40
relatives still living
south of the border. - Huffington Post


Toby Harnden reports:

A governor who backed Barack Obama in 2008 and was given a prominent
speaking role at the Democratic National Convention has said that Mitt
Romney could struggle in the November election because women 'are not
great fans of polygamy'.

Governor Brian Schweitzer of Montana, who was viewed as a possible
vice-presidential running mate for Obama four years ago, raised
Romney's Mormon faith by repeatedly stating that his father was 'born
into a polygamy commune in Mexico'.

(above): Schweitzer, Romney


The comments were quickly disavowed by an Obama spokeswoman but have
raised concerns among Republicans that the Obama campaign and its
allies will use Romney's Mormon faith as a means of attacking his
character.


...(Schweitzer) said, '86 per cent [of women are] not great fans of
polygamy'. He added: 'I am not alleging by any stretch that Romney is
a polygamist and approves of [the] polygamy lifestyle, but his father
was born into [a] polygamy commune in Mexico'".

Romney denies family came from Mexican polygamist commune - what are
your comments?

Greg Dempsey
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SECULARHUMANIST/
Voice of the People
=====
'Romney's father was born into a polygamy commune in Mexico':
Montana's Democrat governor launches personal attack on Obama's
election rival

By Toby Harnden

Daily Mail

PUBLISHED: 15:22 EST, 20 April 2012 | UPDATED: 16:47 EST, 20 April 2012

...During his 2008 speech at the Democratic convention in Denver,
Schweitzer trumpeted his Cathoilc faith, saying: 'Like Senator Obama,
my family has roots in the Great Plains.


'My grandparents were immigrants who came to Montana with nothing more
than the clothes on their back, high hopes and faith in God.'


Romney's father George W. Romney, who went on to become head of the
American Motor Company and governor of Michigan, was born in 1907 in a
settlement in Mexico that had been founded in the 1880s by Mormons
fleeing American anti-polygamy laws.


The last polygamist in Romney's direct ancestry was his
great-grandfather Miles Park Romney, who had three wives. Romney's
paternal grandfather Gaskell was monogamous and the Mormon Church
outlawed polygamy in 1890.


Five years ago, Romney, who has been married to his wife Ann for 42
years, said: 'I have a great-great-grandfather. They were trying to
build a generation out there in the desert and so he took additional
as he was told to do. And I must admit, I can't imagine anything more
awful than polygamy.' Ann, whose father was a Welsh atheist, converted
to Mormonism before she married Mitt.


A senior Romney adviser said he expected Democrats to use the
presumptive Republican nominee's faith against him. 'They'll take
advantage of whatever they can.


'Even if they never have to use the word Mormon, if there's a chance
it gives people a little bit of a doubt or erodes part of the
Republican base, they'll be happy to take it. But I don't think
they'll be caught with their hands in the cookie jar talking about
Mormonism.'


Already, there are indications that the Obama campaign is prepared to
go after Romney's religion in subtle ways. His advisers declared
Mormonism 'off limits' after they were panned for portraying Romney as
'weird'. But in recent days the word 'secretive' has been used about
him repeatedly - a charge often laid at the door of the Mormon Church.


Richard Land, head of public policy for the Southern Baptist
Convention and a prominent evangelical figure who has met Romney
privately said: 'As far as I'm concerned, Mormonism isn't a Christian
faith. It's a different religion. But I and most evangelicals wouldn't
have a problem voting for a Mormon against Barack Obama.'

He said that he believed personal faith should not be part of the
election and doubted the Obama campaign would 'comment on Romney's
religion frontally' but expected Obama's media allies to do so
eagerly.


'They're going to try to highlight all the more the exotic beliefs of
Mormons and hope to scare off enough independents to help Romney win.'


Predicting 'the ugliest campaign in my lifetime, and I was born in
1946', he said the press would attempt to get swing voters to ask
themselves: 'He believes in that? Wow, do I really want a president
who believes something like that?'


In the US media, jibes about Mormon polygamy and 'magic underwear'
(observant Mormons like Romney wear what are known as temple
undergarments beneath their cloths) are commonplace and acceptable
whereas that mocking Jews or Muslims is considered beyond the pale.


Romney is a former Mormon bishop who hails from one of the most
prominent families in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints.
Mormons believes that early Christian leaders fell away from God's
truth and that it took the discovery of the Book of Mormon by Joseph
Smith, the self-proclaimed prophet who founded the church, to
'restore' true Christianity.


Smith is said to have discovered the sacred text in 1823. It had been
engraved on golden plates buried in a hill near his home in New York
that he had found after being guided there by an angle called Moroni.


Mormons do not smoke tobacco, swear or drink coffee, tea or alcohol.
They conduct baptisms of the dead, usually of their ancestors but
also, most controversially, Holocaust victims (a practice the church
now outlaws).


They believe that Jesus appeared to the Americas after the
resurrection and that there are three heavens. Blacks were not allowed
to be ordained into the Mormon Church until 1978.


Romney and each of his five sons served for two years as Mormon
missionaries. In Romney's case, he was sent to France in the late
1960s. Romney later joked: 'It's quite an experience to go to Bordeaux
and say, 'Give up your wine! I've got a great religion for you!''

A number of the tenets of Mormonism are regarded as bizarre by many
Americans and one of the biggest challenges Romney faced in the
primaries was that many evangelicals regarded Mormons as members of a
non-Christian cult.


Romney lost primaries in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana - the bible belt of the Deep South - though all these
states are virtually certain to back him in the general election.


Aware of the widespread suspicion of his religion, Romney has shied
away from talking about it. He gave a speech in College Station, Texas
in December 2007, billed as the equivalent to John F. Kennedy's 1960
address to allay fear about his Catholicism, in which he insisted that
'no authorities of my church' would 'ever exert influence on
presidential decisions'. But even then he uttered the word Mormon only
once.


During the Republican primary campaign, his advisers avoided almost
any mention of his faith. In January, a senior campaign official said
that he believed there was an anti-Mormon smear campaign afoot in
South Carolina but he wanted no public mention of it for fear of
aggravating the issue.


The downside of this approach was that Romney's deep faith, the
observant life he has led and the family he has built are central to
understanding him. By barely referring to Mormonism - his core - it
was easy to believe he had no core.
Alex Castellanos, a veteran Republican strategist who was a top
adviser to Romney in 2008, said that Romney's faith could be turned
into an advantage.


'He's over the tough part on the Mormon issue. He cleared that hurdle
in the primaries.' Talking about his faith 'helps people to understand
that there's a real core to Mitt Romney, that he believes there's a
right and there's a wrong and he's lived his life the right way'.


He added: 'The real window into Mitt Romney's heart is Ann Romney. The
window into his soul may be his faith. Seeing who he is as a human
being tells you how he's lived his life.'


The current Romney adviser agreed, saying the campaign could to 'take
this perceived weakness and turn it into a strength' by emphasising
the tens of millions of dollars he has donated to his church (all
Mormons are required to tithe 10 percent of their income) and his
pastoral care of church members.


'We don't need to talk about Mormonism, we don't need to do a faith
speech. But we can talk about it in terms of who you are, about
family, about good works.'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2132883/Democrats-begin-attacks-Romneys-Mormon-faith-claims-women-great-fans-polygamy.html#ixzz1seOS2GOC


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Action Alert: BOYCOTT American Legislative Exchange Council ALEC!; List of Mambers, Controversies

BOYCOTT ALEC!!!

Conservative Nonprofit Acts as a Stealth Business Lobbyist

ALEC = American Legislative Exchange Council

By MIKE McINTIRENYTimes Published: April 21, 2012

Jay LaPrete/Associated Press
Bill Seitz, an Ohio state senator and ALEC member

It was quickly flagged at the Washington headquarters of the American
Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, a business-backed group that
views such "false claims" laws as encouraging frivolous lawsuits.
ALEC's membership includes not only corporations, but nearly 2,000
state legislators across the country — including dozens who would vote
on the Ohio bill.

One of them, Bill Seitz, a prominent Republican state senator, wrote
to a fellow senior lawmaker to relay ALEC's concerns about "the recent
upsurge" in false-claims legislation nationwide. "While this is
understandable, as states are broke, the considered advice from our
friends at ALEC was that such legislation is not well taken and should
not be approved," he said in a private memorandum.

The legislation was reworked to ease some of ALEC's concerns, making
it one of many bills the group has influenced by mobilizing its
lawmaker members, a vast majority of them Republicans.

Despite its generally low profile, ALEC has drawn scrutiny recently
for promoting gun rights policies like the Stand Your Ground law at
the center of the Trayvon Martin shooting case in Florida, as well as
bills to weaken labor unions and tighten voter identification rules.
Amid the controversies, several companies, including Coca-Cola, Intuit
and Kraft Foods, have left the group.

Most of the attention has focused on ALEC's role in creating model
bills, drafted by lobbyists and lawmakers, that broadly advance a
pro-business, socially conservative agenda. But a review of internal
ALEC documents shows that this is only one facet of a sophisticated
operation for shaping public policy at a state-by-state level. The
records offer a glimpse of how special interests effectively turn
ALEC's lawmaker members into stealth lobbyists, providing them with
talking points, signaling how they should vote and collaborating on
bills affecting hundreds of issues like school vouchers and tobacco
taxes.

The documents — hundreds of pages of minutes of private meetings,
member e-mail alerts and correspondence — were obtained by the
watchdog group Common Cause and shared with The New York Times. Common
Cause, which said it got some of the documents from a whistle-blower
and others from public record requests in state legislatures, is using
the files to support an Internal Revenue Service complaint asserting
that ALEC has abused its tax-exempt status, something ALEC denies.

"We know its mission is to bring together corporations and state
legislators to draft profit-driven, anti-public-interest legislation,
and then help those elected officials pass the bills in statehouses
from coast to coast," said the president of Common Cause, Bob Edgar.
"If that's not lobbying, what is?"

ALEC argues that it provides a forum for lawmakers to network and to
hear from constituencies that share an interest in promoting
free-market, limited-government policies. Lobbying laws differ by
state, and ALEC maintains that if any of its members' interactions
with one another happen to qualify as lobbying in a particular state,
that does not mean ALEC, as an organization, lobbies.

Mr. Seitz, who sits on ALEC's governing board, said he believed that
liberal groups like Common Cause are attacking the organization out of
frustration that "they don't have a comparable group that is as
effective as ALEC in enacting policies into law." He said that ALEC
was not much different from other professional associations that
represent state legislators, and that members were free to ignore or
disagree with the group's policy positions.

"This concept that private companies are writing the bills and handing
them to gullible legislators to trundle off and pass is false," Mr.
Seitz said. "There is nothing new, surprising or sinister about
private-sector organizations coming together with legislators to share
ideas and learn from each other."

Continued Here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/us/alec-a-tax-exempt-group-mixes-legislators-and-lobbyists.html?_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120422

Wikipedia LIST of ALEC Members & Businesses

American Legislative Exchange Council

Abbreviation ALEC
Motto "Limited Government, Free Markets, Federalism"[1]
Formation 1973
Type Tax exempt, non-profit organization, 501(c)(3)
Headquarters Washington, D.C.,
United States
Chairman Noble Ellington

Website alec.org

The ALEC board of directors is composed of the following:[7]

2012 ALEC National Chairman
Rep. Dave Frizzell Indiana
First Vice Chairman
Rep. John Piscopo Connecticut
Second Vice Chairman
Rep. Linda Upmeyer Iowa
Treasurer
Sen. Chip Rogers Georgia
Secretary
Rep. Liston Barfield South Carolina
Chairman Emeritus
Rep. Noble Ellington Louisiana
Sen. Owen Johnson New York
Rep. Dolores Mertz Iowa
Immediate Past Chairman
Rep. Tom Craddick Texas
Board Members
Sen. Curt Bramble Utah
Rep. Jon Brien Rhode Island
Rep. Harold Brubaker North Carolina
Sen. Bill Cadman Colorado
Sen. Jim Buck Indiana
Rep. Philip Gunn Mississippi
Rep. Joe Harrison Louisiana
Speaker William J. Howell Virginia
Sen. Michael Lamoureux Arkansas
Rep. Steve McDaniel Tennessee
Sen. Ray Merrick Kansas
Sen. Dean Rhoads Nevada
Sen. William Seitz Ohio
Rep. Fred Steen II North Carolina
Rep. Curry Todd Tennessee
Sen. Leah Vukmir Wisconsin
Sen. Susan Wagle Kansas

[edit] Private enterprise board
The ALEC private enterprise board is composed of the following.[10]

Person Company Title Sector Status
Preston Baldwin Centerpoint360 Chairman Tobacco lobbyist Active
Sandra Oliver Bayer Vice Chairman Pharmaceutical Active
John Del Gorno GlaxoSmithKline Vice Chairman Pharmaceutical Active
David Powers Reynolds American Treasurer Tobacco Active
Maggie Sans Wal-Mart Stores Secretary Retail Active
Jerry Watson Chairman Emeritus Bail Bonds Emeritus
Lisa A. Sano Blocker Energy Future Holdings Board Member Energy/Oil Active
Don Bohn Johnson & Johnson Board Member Pharmaceutical Active
Jeffrey Bond PhRMA Board Member Pharmaceutical Active
William Carmichael American Bail Coalition Board Member Bail Bonds Active
Derek Crawford Kraft Foods, Inc. Board Member Food and Beverage Active
Robert Jones Pfizer Inc. Board Member Pharmaceutical Active
Teresa Jennings Reed Elsevier Board Member Publishing Resigned[11]
Kenneth Lane Diageo Board Member Alcoholic Beverages Active
Bill Leahy AT&T Board Member Telecommunications Active
Richard McArdle United Parcel Service Board Member Shipping Active
Kelly Mader Peabody Energy Board Member Energy/Oil Active
Mike Morgon Koch Companies Public Sector,LLC Board Member Lobbyist Active
Daniel Smith Altria Board Member Tobacco Active
Randy Smith ExxonMobil Board Member Energy/Oil Active
Russell Smoldon Salt River Project Board Member Energy/Water Active
Roland Spies State Farm Board Member Insurance Active
[edit] State chairmen
ALEC chairmen from state legislatures are:[12]

State Leaders (Party)
Alabama Mary Sue McClurkin R
Alaska Wes Keller R
Arizona Debbie Lesko R
Arkansas Linda Collins-Smith R
Michael Lamoureux R
California Joel Anderson R
Colorado Bill Cadman R
B.J. Nikkel R
Connecticut Debra Lee Hovey R
Kevin D. Witkos R
Delaware Vacant
Florida Jimmy Patronis R
Georgia Calvin Hill, Jr. R
Chip Rogers R
Hawaii Gene Ward R
Idaho Patti Anne Lodge R
Illinois Kirk Dillard R
Renée Kosel R
Indiana Jim Buck R
David Wolkins R
Iowa Linda J. Miller R
Kansas Ray Merrick R
Kentucky Tom Buford R
Mike Harmon R
Louisiana Greg Cromer R
Joe Harrison R
State Leaders (Party)
Maine Richard Rosen R
Maryland Michael Hough R
Christopher Shank R
Massachusetts Nicholas Boldyga R
Harriett Stanley D
Michigan Tonya Schuitmaker R
Minnesota Mary Kiffmeyer R
Mississippi Jim Ellington R
Missouri Tim Jones R
Jason T. Smith R
Montana Gary MacLaren R
Scott Reichner R
Nebraska Jim Smith
Nevada Barbara Cegavske R
New Hampshire Gary L. Daniel R
Jordan G. Ulery R
New Jersey Steve Oroho R
Jay Webber R
New Mexico Paul C. Bandy R
William Payne R
New York Owen H. Johnson R
North Carolina Fred F. Steen II R
North Dakota Alan H. Carlson R
Bette Grande R
Ohio John Adams R
State Leaders (Party)
Oklahoma Gary Banz R
Cliff Aldridge R
Oregon Gene Whisnant R
Pennsylvania Vacant
Rhode Island Francis T. Maher, Jr. R
Jon Brien D
South Carolina Liston Barfield R
Thomas Alexander R
South Dakota Deb Peters R
Valentine B. Rausch R
Tennessee Curry Todd R
Texas Charles F. Howard R
Jim Jackson R
Kel Seliger R
Utah Curtis S. Bramble R
Wayne L. Niederhauser R
Chris Herrod R
Vermont Kevin J. Mullin R
Virginia John A. Cosgrove, Jr. R
Stephen H. Martin R
Washington Jan Angel R
Don Benton R
West Virginia Eric Householder R
Wisconsin Scott Suder R
Robin J. Vos R
Wyoming Peter S. Illoway R


Controversies[edit] NPR
National Public Radio, NPR, has aired several programs about ALEC and
its influence in the drafting of legislation[17] and one program,
Shaping State Laws with Little Scrutiny, aired on October 29,
2010.[18]

After the later NPR report was aired, ALEC released a statement
responding to some of the accusations in the NPR story.[19]

[edit] William Cronon
in the midst of protests surrounding Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's
in March 2011 Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill, William Cronon, a
historian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin devoted the first
post on his newly-established Scholar as Citizen blog to ALEC. He
addressed the largely behind-the-scenes role of the ALEC in working
for the passage of ideologically conservative legislation at the state
level. William Cronon pointed out that neither the model legislation
which ALEC produces, nor the list of elected officials who are members
of ALEC are publicly available.[20][21] This resulted in the issuing
of a FOIA request by the Wisconsin Republican Party to obtain all
e-mail from Cronon's university account relating to Republican topics;
Paul Krugman and the American Historical Association defended Cronon's
right to conduct public political research. They decried the action as
an apparent attempt at intimidation.[21][22]

[edit] April 2011 protests
On April 29, 2011, hundreds gathered in Cincinnati to protest ALEC for
the first time outside the group's Spring Task Force Meeting, and to
vocalize demands for legislation serving the public interest.
Teach-ins, a rally, street theatre, and a march led to a second
protest in New Orleans at ALEC's Annual Meeting, held on August 3–6,
2011.[23]

[edit] Whistleblower and ALEC Exposed
On July 13, 2011, the Center for Media and Democracy[24] and The
Nation published a file leak which made available more than 800 pieces
of ALEC's model legislation, brought to them by an organizer of the
Cincinnati ALEC protest. The files were leaked to the organizer, Aliya
Rahman, via a two-point connection to a source inside ALEC.[25] For
ALEC Exposed, the Center for Media and Democracy made a new website
[26] to house over 800 ALEC "model" bills which were previously
unavailable to the public. It developed dozens of tools to enable
citizens to track ALEC politicians,[27] ALEC corporations [28] and
ALEC bills moving in their states.[29]

Simultaneously, The Nation devoted a special edition [30] of its
magazine to breaking the story on ALEC Exposed, featuring expert
analysis by John Nichols,[31] Joel Rogers, Laura Dresser,[32] Wendell
Potter,[33] Lisa Graves,[34] Julie Underwood,[35] Mike Elk, and Bob
Sloan.[36] On July 14, 2011, the Los Angeles Times announced that
government watchdog Common Cause would issue a challenge to ALEC's
nonprofit status, on the grounds that ALEC "spends most of its
resources lobbying, in violation of the rules governing nonprofit
organizations."[37]

On July 21, 2011, Terry Gross interviewed Louisiana Representative
Noble Ellington, then the national chairman of ALEC, about the group's
corporate members' role in drafting legislation. Gross, commenting on
the fact that it is impossible for non-members to know whether pieces
of legislation introduced in statehouses are based on ALEC models,
asked if Ellington thought the process was transparent. Ellington
responded saying, "[w]hile we may be discussing it, it may not be
transparent, but before it's passed, legislators have to say, 'We
approve this model legislation.' Not the corporations. They don't have
a vote. Legislators say [what is introduced]. ... And then the
legislators can introduce that legislation in [their] state. It goes
through a committee, the public has input, they have an opportunity to
talk to their legislators about the legislation — so I don't see how
you can get more transparent than that." When asked if the public had
a voice in the process Ellington responded that the "taxpaying public
is represented there at the table because I'm there."[38]

[edit] Boilerplate
In November 2011, Florida State Representative Rachel Burgin (R),
introduced legislation to call on the federal government to reduce
corporate taxes. The text still included the boilerplate "WHEREAS, it
is the mission of the American Legislative Exchange Council to
advance..."[39] While the bill was quickly withdrawn and the phrase
removed, returning as HM717,[40] Common Cause blogger Nick Surgey
explained the greater significance:

With some justification, you might ask why this really matters: even
if this bill passed it wouldn't force Congress to act. However, I
think it matters because the states play a very significant role in
setting the national agenda. Corporations know this, which is why they
frequently use ALEC to secretly introduce their model bills, creating
the impression of widespread popular uproar in the state houses. In
recent years they have used this mechanism for both attacks on the
EPA's regulation of greenhouse gases (ALEC bill introduced in 22
states) and in pushing back against the Affordable Care Act (ALEC bill
introduced in 44 states).[41]

Surgey went on to comment:

It matters who writes our laws and it matters who stands to benefit
from them. When these are the very same entity, then we as citizens
should have the right to know this.[41]

[edit] Florida 'Stand Your Ground' law
According to weblog Talking Points Memo, the Florida Stand-your-ground
law was identical to a bill proposed by ALEC. The law has frequently
been mentioned as the reason George Zimmerman was not immediately
arrested in the shooting of Trayvon Martin.[42] However, the
legislator who wrote the law, Dennis Baxley, wrote that the Stand Your
Ground law does not seem to apply in this case and that authorities
are still investigating the matter.[43]

[edit] Boycott, loss of support, and task force disbanding
On April 4, 2012 the political advocacy group Color of Change
announced a call to boycott Coca-Cola due to its support of ALEC and
their advocacy work that allegedly encourages voter suppression
through voter ID laws.[44] Within hours, Coca-Cola announced it was
ending its relationship with ALEC in apparent response to the
threatened boycott. Kraft Foods and Intuit dropped support for the
group under apparent pressure.[45][46] Additionally, Pepsi had quietly
withdrawn its support of ALEC earlier in the year.[47] On April 9, the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also withdrew their support for
ALEC.[48] McDonald's severed ties with ALEC on April 10, 2012.[49] On
April 12, Reed Elsevier dropped ALEC and Wendy's said that it had done
so at the end of 2011.[50] Mars, Inc. has also dropped its memberships
with ALEC.[51] On April 13, 2010, American Traffic Solutions announced
that it would not renew membership with ALEC.[52] On April 17, Blue
Cross Blue Shield announced that they would not renew its membership
with ALEC.[53] On April 19 Yum! Brands, which operates Taco Bell, KFC,
Pizza Hut, and other restaurants, announced that they had dropped
their support of ALEC.[54]

On April 17, 2012, ALEC announced that it was disbanding its Public
Safety and Elections Task Force, which provided model bills for voter
ID requirements and "stand your ground" gun laws.[55] On April 18, the
National Center for Public Policy Research announced the recreation of
a voter ID task force in the wake of the ALEC boycott.[56][57]

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Earth Day 2012: Mobilize The Earth

Earth Day 2012: Mobilize The Earth

Take Action for a Sustainable Future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day

Earth Day is a day early each year on which events are held worldwide
to increase awareness and appreciation of the Earth's natural
environment. Earth Day is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day
Network, and is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year. In
2009, the United Nations designated April 22 International Mother
Earth Day. Earth Day is planned for April 22 in all years at least
through 2015.

The name and concept of Earth Day was allegedly pioneered by John
McConnell in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco. Earth Day
was first observed on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the
northern hemisphere. This day of nature's equipoise was later
sanctioned in a Proclamation signed by Secretary General U Thant at
the United Nations where it is observed each year. About the same time
a separate Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord
Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970.
While this April 22 Earth Day was focused on the United States, an
organization launched by Denis Hayes, who was the original national
coordinator in 1970, took it international in 1990 and organized
events in 141 nations. Numerous communities celebrate Earth Week, an
entire week of activities focused on environmental issues.


Go Here:

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Earth Day: Discussing the Coming Climate Crisis

Earth Day: Discussing the Coming Climate Crisis With Heidi Cullen

Apr 22, 2012 4:45 AM EDT

Record-breaking heat. Floods. Droughts. Tornadoes. Don't believe the
skeptics—the evidence of climate change is all around us. An interview
with climatologist Heidi Cullen.

When I reached Heidi Cullen, chief climatologist for Climate Central,
she remarked on the glorious weather we were enjoying. But underneath
our pleasure at the sunshine and blossoms, we were both feeling uneasy
about the warmth. So far all 11 years of the 21st century have been
among the 13 warmest years on record, according to the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.


Cullen is in the habit of keeping a close eye on the weather:
Climate Central is a nonprofit science research organization
headquartered in Princeton, N.J. Before she joined them, Cullen, who
holds a doctorate from Columbia University, was the Weather Channel's
first on-air climate expert.

We had just been through a March of record-shattering heat, and we
were roasting through mid-April days. On top of that, according to the
U.S. Drought Monitor, most of the U.S. is experiencing an unusually
dry period, with southern Florida bone dry. More than 63 percent of
Georgia is in the worst two levels of drought, the highest of any
state.

Because of the dry, windy conditions, wildfires and brush fires have
been raging along the East Coast from New England to Florida;
billowing black clouds from New Jersey Meadowlands fires have been
visible from midtown Manhattan. And in much of New England, stream
flow levels were at record lows—with Vermont, though still reeling
from last summer's disastrous floods, abnormally dry.

"We may have just broken another record," Cullen says of the recent
heat wave. "That's what we do these days. We break records."

Cullen noted that her phone didn't stop ringing during the March heat
wave. Whenever there is an unusual weather event, journalists want to
know if it is caused by climate change. "In fact, I was just talking
to someone at NPR who facetiously asked, 'How's your summer going so
far?'"

It seemed an appropriate atmosphere in which to ask a climate
scientist what's going on with the weather. And what weather has to do
with climate change.

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Dozens of tornadoes blitzed the Midwest and Plains, here an aerial
view of the destruction of a neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas, April
15, 2012.

Let's start with the basics, Heidi. What's the difference between
climate and weather?

When I was at the Weather Channel, I got this question all the time. I
think Mark Twain said it best: "Climate is what we expect; weather is
what we get."

Climate is a statistical concept, so it can be hard for people to wrap
their minds around it. When we talk about climate, we're talking about
the average of weather. We have an intuitive feel for climate
"forecasts" in our own lives—we expect, in January, that July will be
much warmer. And that's accurate. Where things get tricky, of course,
is over long time periods.

I think of climate as being like an orchestra. It has so many
elements, the way an orchestra has many sounds. The climate system is
made up of components such as our atmosphere, the oceans, ice sheets,
and the land surface. We experience natural climate variations, such
as el Niño (the periodic warming of the eastern equatorial Pacific
Ocean), which has an inherent time scale of three to seven years. In
fact, we just came out of a la Niña episode (the opposite phase of el
Niño, in which there is a cooling of the eastern equatorial Pacific
Ocean), which is generally associated with drought along the southern
portion of United States (including Texas, which saw its hottest,
driest summer on record in 2011). Other natural climate variations
include solar activity and volcanoes.

So think of all these instruments, all these natural variations, at
play in our climate. Now add to that a steady drumbeat of warming in
our climate system caused by us.

"
The "wait and see" approach may seem rational, but it's incredibly
risky. By the time we're really seeing the full impact of global
warming, it is too late to fix it.


"
How do we know we are causing the recent warming trend? Didn't we just
come out of an Ice Age?

Yes, there is tremendous natural climate variability. I studied the
period known as the Holocene when I was working on my Ph.D. at
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. That's the
past 10,000 years. The Holocene is known as having had a relatively
stable climate compared with other time periods. The start of the
Holocene also corresponds with the rise of complex human
civilizations. It would seem we require this rather small envelope of
climate stability to thrive.

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US Congressman John   Mica - 7th District of Florida - Ranking Member of the House   Transportation and Infrastructure Committee

Dear Friends,

I wanted to share with you an interview I gave this week concerning the General Services Administration (GSA) and its offensive spending of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars.  

As you may have heard, the GSA spent over $820,000 in the fall of 2010 on a Las Vegas junket at taxpayer expense.  On the bill for this atrocious spending were such items as mind readers, clowns and swag bags.  Upon the release of the Investigator General's report, which I had requested, I immediately held a hearing to get to the bottom of this and ensure that this waste would not continue.  

To view the video, please click here

Three years ago when I became Republican Leader of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, (which oversees public buildings which GSA administers), I commissioned a report entitled "Sitting on our Assets", detailing the rampant waste and abuse of taxpayer funds by the GSA.  Last year, in the cold of winter, I dragged GSA bureaucrats to an abandoned 14,000 square foot building in Washington with no heat to prove a point: that this waste would not continue.  These two instances are only the tip of the iceberg, and I pledge to you that I will not rest until the root cause of this waste is found and those responsible are held accountable.

With my regards and best wishes, I remain

John L. Mica
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