Muslim Peace, Love and Kindness at Orlando, Florida Mosque

Peace, love, and kindness occuring at an Orlando, Florida mosque should be remindful to all about why thinking people view Islam as practiced by its evangelists in 2010 is the enemy of all societies interested in freedom to pursue their life, liberty, and happiness.

Please click on the following video to check out their brotherhood oriented activities:

http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=florida8.30.10.htm

Our current president, the Marxist Obama is funding mosques with American taxpayer dollars.

U.N. Climate Panel Damaged by Independent Report

The following article is published at Telegraph.co.uk:

“Couched though it is in the most measured language, yesterday’s report by the Inter-Academy Council (IAC) into errors contained in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is extremely damaging. Not only does it conclude that fundamental reforms are needed in its methodology but it also targets (albeit obliquely) its controversial chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, saying that his term of office is too long.

The investigation was prompted by the IPCC’s bogus assertion that glaciers in the Himalayas were melting so fast that they would disappear by 2035. The erroneous claim was based on a single quote in a science journal news story, never repeated in peer-reviewed literature. The IPCC quickly admitted the error but dismissed it as an aberration carried on just one page of a report thousands of pages long. The IAC is unimpressed and calls for stronger enforcement of the panel’s scientific review procedures to minimise future mistakes. It also says that “qualitative probabilities should be used to describe the probability of well-defined outcomes only when there is sufficient evidence”. In other words, it is telling the IPCC not to stray into what outside observers might regard as scaremongering and policy advocacy.

The rap across the knuckles is deserved. It should have triggered the resignation of Dr Pachauri but he insists he wants to stay on to implement any necessary changes in procedure. Yet his – and the IPCC’s – credibility have been tarnished by this affair. We have argued that a conservative case for preserving the planet’s scarce resources should support much of the action demanded by concerned scientists, regardless of whether the case for man-made global warming can be proved. But it becomes difficult to keep an open mind on such issues if the findings of a purportedly scientific document cannot be trusted.”

Comment:  Such information doesn’t seem to reach the White House.  The Obama mind  is still going to find some way to cripple U.S. industry, big and small, to force  some kind of Cap and Trade tax  legislation on the country.

Ohio Public Pension Records Kept Secret

Public Pension Records Release Denied

Information needed to assess Ohio’s pension systems and its cost to private citizens is being denied to news organizations, says the Buckeye Institute. 

The Ohio News Organization requested the service time, pay and benefits of Ohio’s five state pension fund’s 400,000 recipients in early July.  Eight Ohio newspapers requested the information jointly as part of an examination of Ohio’s pension systems and its cost to private citizens.  Attorney General Richard Cordray advised Ohio’s five state pension funds not to disclose any parts of their records, even though names and addresses were not to be included. 

According to the Institute: 

• Two of the pension funds, the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) and the Ohio Police & Fire Pension Fund (OPFPF), are asking for millions more from taxpayers through the legislature.
• The STRS would like to increase the taxpayers’ contribution from 14 percent to 16.5 percent of teacher salaries.
• The OPFPF is asking for the taxpayers’ contribution for police officers to be increased from 19.5 percent to 25 percent of their salaries, and the taxpayers’ contribution for firefighters to increase from 24 percent to 25 percent of their salaries. 

Democratic state Reps. Stephen Dyer (Dist. 43) and Matt Lundy (Dist. 57) said that they were troubled the pension funds rejected this request for information in a budget year while the legislature is preparing to solve the state’s deficit.  “We need appropriate information to make important decisions,” says Lundy. 

Source: Julie Robison, “Public Pension Records Release Denied,” Buckeye Institute, August 23, 2010. 

The above reporting came from the National Council for Policy Analysis.