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Are you feeling lucky?

Asked by CNBC on Christmas Eve day - "Is my privacy safe?", Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, responded with the analogy regarding your deepest secrets: [paraphrased] "What you might not reveal to your priest, your doctor, your lawyer, or your spouse - you reveal to Google. If you're searching for something you're ashamed of, maybe you shouldn't be doing those things."

So what's he's saying? That in essence, if you're researching a topic for a college thesis that may have a keyword that the FBI might be interested in (such as "terrorist"), maybe you shouldn't be asking at all?

Does the average nerd in mom's basement den know about this?

Google has saved every iota of data from all web searches since it's conception - and each search can be traced back to a unique IP (internet protocol) address.

For example: If you had AOL as your internet provider for the last 10 years and you made a Google search for "naked women", Google has a record of your search with your IP address. It's a number (such as 97.234.05.55) that uniquely identifies a computer (not the actual person..at least, not yet). Personally, I don't care who knows if I'm searching for naked women...

How Much Data? 100,000,000,000,000 yottabytes?

2 Billion Searches a Day

Can you imagine what the FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover would have done with this kind of information today? And how do you know whether or not the National Security Agency (NSA) in downloading all this data from one of their spy satellites? (All computer cable and cell-phone connections are made through satellites.)

Look up your IP Address

http://ip-lookup.net/index.php

Dial-up modems are re-assigned on availability. Go to START / RUN / type "winipcfg" to release an re-new.

Your internet provider (and web host) can tell a 3rd party who pays the bill (at your actual physical address) for an internet connection at your IP address. And then, if the U.S. government wants to know what you've been doing for the last 5 years, by using the Patriot Act, they can gain access to those Google searches and find out what house or apartment they came from. And this applies to ALL data, not just from web searches (g-mail, etc). Wiping your hard drive is futile and is unnecessary if you have something to hide. (So you better be good for goodness sake!)

Inside Googleplex at Mountain View, California

Google was born in January 1996. It was started as a research project by Larry Page, who was soon joined by Sergey Brin, when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California.

The company's stated mission from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." (To be Master of the Universe? Information has always meant power.)

Google's initial public offering (IPO - stock) was on August 19, 2004. It raised $1.67 billion, implying a total value of $23 billion.

My Google stock certificate for 2,000 shares @ $95.96 per share in 2004 - (click on photo to enlarge)

The word "google" has become a common lexigram for "search" or "look up", as in "I'm going to google 'Bud Meyers' and see if he's ever been arrested for anything." (The verb "google" was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006.)

As most people already know by now, besides just being an internet search engine, Google also generates profits from advertising with it's g-mail, online maps (Google Maps and Google Earth), office products, social networking sites and video-sharing services (YouTube). Google has more recently developed an open source web browser (Chrome) and a mobile phone operating system. But 95% of their profits comes from "Adsense" (using *Adwords).

Their most recent endeavor (called "Goggle") is experimentation with visual search: image recognition, and labeling - using a cell phone (a work in progress).

Google knows all your secrets, but at least you can clear your temporary internet files and your browsing history.

Google's Privacy Policy
http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html

See also:

* Web site owners use pay-per-click (utilizing "keywords") which are scored by Google for searches by algorithms, and are defined by relevant web content - "page rank".

** "Cloud computing" - (g-mail, Google Earth, googlebots as web crawlers, etc). New cell phones with an experimental image search (called "Goggle"), and of course, their web browser - "Chrome".

*** Meta-tags and robots - and googlebots

Officially, almost 15 million people in America are jobless - Unofficially, about 27 million people.

Unemployed people should NOT be used as an example of Democratic spending and their hypocrisy regarding PAYGO. Why stop at the unemployed? Why not go after old people too - cut off Social Security and Medicare as well. Pay-as-you-go! Cut off the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Pay-as-you-go! There's plenty to cut.

On Fox News' web site, according to CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, FOX NEWS SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: This is a $15 trillion economy. The bill you mentioned, the jobs bill, is $15 billion. That's one tenth of one percent of the gross domestic product. It's not going to have any serious effect on the economy."

But Neil Cavuto and most others at Fox are still praising Senator Bunning.

I have a post on Extended Unemployment Benefits, and I get more hits on that post than any other (5 to 1). People are genuinely scared, and seeing their only source of income being held to a candle-standard for government spending is plain wrong.

All the talking heads on Fox don't seem to realize this, and continue praising Bunning as some kind of a martyr / hero...that's plain ridiculous!

If any of Senator's Bunning's 40 grand-children were not from privileged families and needed unemployment benefits, how would THEY feel about grandpa's "bold" and "brave" stand?

Does the owner of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, personally push this agenda? Does he really feel that unemployment benefits is a waste of money, and a drag on the economy and this country? Is this the ideology the permeates the Fox newsrooms these days? Might Fox News have taken the issue with "fiscal responsibility" just a tad too far by insulting the jobless?

Where's Bill O'Reilly? Who's looking out for us?

Are not the two out of ten people in America who are unemployed not worthy of fair representation? Are the unemployed (and the homeless families) the new enemy of Fox News? Couldn't they have picked a fairer fight?

Especially now, when the jobless rate (and failed mortgages) is nearly as bad as is was during the Great Depression when millions of people were living in shantytowns called "Hoovervilles".

I find it ironic that Fox News has been saying that Obama dropped the ball when he focused on Healthcare reform for the past year instead of concentrating on JOBS (which I agreed). Yet, at the same time, FOX News is waging a war against the unemployed! What is Fox thinking?

The liberals LOVE IT! Here's what the Huffington Post was thinking...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/02/bunning-blocks-jobless-be_n_482291.html

Was FOX News anchor Martha MacCallum trying to convince the public that it is the unemployed who are the ones responsible for the government budget woes?

Does FOX News want the unemployed to be homeless?

Why is Fox News taking the position that it's just lazy people that don't want to work and who are collecting unemployment benefits - - - why does Fox News praise Senator Bunning as a HERO for taking a stand by voting against extended unemployment benefits?

Yesterday Martha MacCallum deliberately misconstrued a letter from one of Senator Bunning's constituents. In the letter he did not say, "I will give up my extended unemployment benefits to lower the deficit."

What he said was is that he hasn't worked a full 40-hour week in several months and that the sheet metal shop he works for laid off most of his co-workers. He himself is still working and only probably qualifies for partial benefits because he's still employed.

FOX News anchor Martha MacCallum outright lied. Martha's slant is going to make a lot of unemployed people VERY ANGRY.

"Cut off their benefits, maybe they'll find a job."

And this morning on Fox and Friends, Fox News commentator Stuart Varney said (paraphrased) "cut off their unemployment benefits and maybe they'll go find a job." That's ridiculous! I'm sure many of the people he insulted were also elitist professors with PHDs and worked hard all their lives! They all weren't just lazy laid-off good-for-nothing factory workers that were beneath Stuart Varney's status in society!

FOX is waging a war against the unemployed!

It's a shame about Stuart Varney - I really liked him and his view points until now. Especially since he's from England and claims to know all about "class warfare".

If 10 friends went on a hike into the mountains, and 2 succumbed to injuries, would the remaining 8 leave them behind? Fox News would. Stuart Varney would say,"They're too lazy to walk, leave them behind and maybe they'll find a way out."

See my post "What Bozo will Fox News hire next?"
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog3.php/2010/03/05/fox-news-commentator-stuart-varney-briti

I watch Fox News every day, as I'm sure many of the unemployed people do too; but many of those same people probably feel totally betrayed by Fox's war on the unemployed.

Does Fox News also think the unemployed is responsible for Moody's lowering of the USA's credit rating - which is getting continuely worse every year.?

Senator Bunning's actions was not to DENY unemployed people extended benefits, but to make a point in the way Democrats have been expanding government spending. But Fox News is waging a campaign against the unemployed, making them look as though they are just lazy, and it is THEY who are to blame for the budget woes.

Senator Bunning wants the Democrats to be fiscally more responsible (using PAYGO), but he has been making his point on the backs of desperate Americans, who today are struggling just to survive.

Most Republicans (and unemployed Republicans and Tea Party members) want the Democrats to be fiscally more responsible as well, and they want to stop the Democrat's insane spending too. But why punish the down-trodden to achieve this?

The majority of the Republicans ought not to circle their wagons around him - unemployed people can still vote in November.

Who's really to blame?

Both the Republicans and the Democrats voted to bail out AIG to the tune of $185 billion, who was hemorrhaging because of huge wagers in the form of credit default swaps (leveraged 35 to 1) made by banks like Goldman Sachs, who got paid 100% on the dollar, as did many foreign banks...but the taxpayers got stuck like a pig with the bill. And now, AIG wants another $10 billion!

But let the unemployed go homeless?

And the banks, through TARP, with influence through the Federal Reserve (many of who are ex-Goldman Sachs executives) got $780 billion in loans to make their banks "more stable". Yet the banks foreclosed on homes and raised interest rates.

And what about the billions of dollars of taxpayer money going down that Black Hole called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who need billions more (think Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and Rahm Emanuel)? The banks get THEIR government guaranteed money!

But let the unemployed go homeless?

Meanwhile, these fat-cats on Wall Street have continued to get million-dollar bonuses and "golden parachutes"...and members of congress are being paid $174,000 a year with AAA healthcare.

But let the unemployed go homeless?

And let's not forget the United Auto Workers Union, who were put ahead of bondholders and shareholders to gain control of GM and Chrysler by using billions of dollars more of taxpayer funds. And then the government decided which dealerships should remain open for business.

But let the unemployed go homeless?

But all this did was cause massive layoffs for all the other working people who only want to pay their rent these days. Yet, we see the politicians in Washington bicker over a lousy $15 billion for a jobs bill that can save American families from soon becoming homeless.

Especially at this time when billions of dollars of taxpayer Stimulus Funds (money that was meant to create real, legitimate, and sustainable jobs) is being fraudulently spent and wasted. This fund is now allocated up to $821 billion on the national debt!

But let the unemployed go homeless?

Americans send billions of dollars to foreign entities like the IMF and give billions more in foreign relief aide all over the world. Shouldn't the taxpayers (American citizens who foot the bill) be helping their own neighbors instead, in the form of a little relief with unemployment benefits while this country has been going through the biggest financial meltdown since the Great Depression?

Yet Charlie Rangel and Tim Geithner won't pay their income taxes, as do thousands of other of Federal employees who can't be fired...including many more in Congress...but let the unemployed go homeless?

And what about all the earmarks, of which there were nearly 10,000 in the FY2010 spending bills, that will not be uprooted by this Congress.

The Republicans and the Democrats need to stop grand-standing and start helping the people they represent...us.

Healthcare reform, "green jobs", and cap-and-trade are political agendas for an ideology that America can't afford right now; but passing simple legislation for unemployed Americans should be as critical as creating jobs at this time in our depressed economy.

Hey Fox News!

Instead of attacking the people who were victimized by bad government policy, poor regulation of the banks, brokerage houses and the SEC (and all Democratic spending) - here's something to consider...

As of today the DOW stocks are at the 2005 level but, the unemployment rate has DOUBLED the 2005 level.

(Click chart to enlarge)

March 13 Update: Fox News Continues to Insult Unemployed
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog3.php/2010/03/13/fox-news-continues-bashing-the-jobless

In closing...

To the politicians >>> Help American citizens survive first, then worry about everything else.

Do NOT think like FOX News and let the unemployed go homeless.

I'm against "big" government, but if you're going to have laws, have proper regulations to protect us against the greedy and irresponsible behavior of financial institutions, and the major multi-national corporations that out-source jobs...corporations that give political donations equally to both the Republicans AND the Democrats. (Don't buy anything made in China, only MADE IN THE USA)

The federal government has awarded more than $107 billion in contract payments, grants and other benefits over the past decade to foreign and multinational American companies while they were doing business in Iran, despite Washington’s efforts to discourage investment there.

But let the unemployed go homeless?

Government regulation, multi-national corporations, and big banks have been at the root of the problem that has put the unemployed people in America where they are today. Why not help the unemployed?

Tell the politicians (and FOX News) to help American citizens first, then they can go play in the sand box later.

To Martha MacCallum and Stuart Varney > > > Thank God you have your jobs at Fox News. The U.S. taxpayers are very thankful that they don't have to pay you unemployment benefits as well (which is barely enough to sustain a meager exisitance below the poverty level.)

Meanwhile, those unemployed people will watch the world pass them by while the more fortunate go shopping, go on vacations, and eat steak and lobster at the better restaurants...the very things that the unemployed were once able to do. Now many of them eat mayonnaise sandwiches and canned tuna. And bite their nails, lose sleep, and worry every night about how they will pay for a roof over their head next month.

Contact FOX News

I e-mailed FOX several times but I never got a response - and I also called Fox, but as usual, all I got was an answering machine. I left my message and number, but as usual, they never returned my call again either. Fox News expects my congressman to return my call but they think themselves exempt? Maybe FOX should hire more people to help the jobless...I will work for them FOR FREE to help answer their incoming e-mails.

(By the way, Senator Harry Reid anwsered my e-mails...3 times! And I didn't even vote for him!)

Of the 25 e-mail addresses I attempted to write at FOX News (10 am EST this morning), the following 5 messages were undeliverable and could not be sent:

glennbeck@foxnews.com
happeningnow@foxnews.com
foxhannity@FOXNEWS.COM
bullsandbears@foxbusiness.com
americasnewsroom@foxnews.com

The recipient's mailbox is full and can't accept messages now.

FOX News phone number is 1-888-369-4762

CONTACT: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77538,00.html

Related Posts:

Goldman Sachs Fueled AIG Gambles
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog3.php/2009/12/13/goldman-sachs-started-the-2nd-great-depr

More on Timothy Geithner, Joe Cassano, AIG, Henry Paulson, Goldman Sachs, and Ben Bernanke
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2010/01/11/timothy-geithner-and-aig-why

Related posts on the current unemployment situation:

Unemployment - Foreclosures, Might See Rise in Suicides
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2010/03/10/unemployment-foreclosures-might-see-rise

The Great Depression: Then and Now - Is There a Difference?
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2010/03/08/the-great-depression-then-and-now-is-the

The New Poor - Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2010/02/21/the-new-poor-millions-of-unemployed-face

The Jobless and Suicides in 2010
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog3.php/2010/03/07/out-of-work-buy-a-shotgun

Government Jobs (Bigger Government) Drive Employment Numbers
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2010/03/01/government-jobs-bigger-government-drive

Actual Unemployment in 2010 - Recession Worse than Reported
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2010/02/04/actual-unemployment-in-january-2010-rece

Deep Recession Shows No Sign of Letting Up - Maybe Getting Worse
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2010/02/24/deep-recession-shows-no-sign-of-letting

Largest U.S. Labor Union: AFL-CIO says Jobs Won't Return
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2010/01/07/largest-u-s-labor-union-afl-cio-says-job

More Bad News for the Unemployed in 2010 - and Beyond
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2010/02/23/more-bad-news-for-the-unemployed-in-2010

Almost 1 out of 5 People are Out of Work in the U.S.A.
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2009/12/31/unemployment-december-2009-new-release

FOX News Wages War on Unemployed - Thinks They're Lazy
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2010/03/02/real-reason-why-extended-unemployment-be

Extended Unemployment Benefits in 2010 - Fully Explained
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog3.php/2010/02/16/extended-unemployment-benefits-in-2010

Click on link below, then click on each image to enlarge. Use as you wish.

> > > http://tobuds.com/tea-party/tea-party-logos.htm

(Just small samples below)

Democrat Senators - (Scroll down for Republican Senators)

- - - Listed in alphabetical by last name - - -

Baucus, Max - (D - MT) Class II
511 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Baucus

(202) 224-2651
Web Form: http://baucus.senate.gov/contact/emailForm.cfm?subj=issue

Bayh, Evan - (D - IN) Class III
131 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Bayh

(202) 224-5623
Web Form: http://bayh.senate.gov/contact/email/

Begich, Mark - (D - AK) Class II
144 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Begich

(202) 224-3004
Web Form: http://begich.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=EmailSenator

Bennet, Michael F. - (D - CO) Class III
702 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bennet

(202) 224-5852
Web Form: http://bennet.senate.gov/contact/

Bingaman, Jeff - (D - NM) Class I
703 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bingaman

(202) 224-5521
Web Form: http://bingaman.senate.gov/contact/

Boxer, Barbara - (D - CA) Class III
112 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Boxer

(202) 224-3553
Web Form: http://boxer.senate.gov/contact/email/policy.cfm

Brown, Sherrod - (D - OH) Class I
713 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherrod_Brown

(202) 224-2315
Web Form: http://brown.senate.gov/contact/

Burris, Roland W. - (D - IL) Class III
387 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Burris

(202) 224-2854
Web Form: http://burris.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm

Byrd, Robert C. - (D - WV) Class I
311 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd

(202) 224-3954
Web Form: http://byrd.senate.gov/contacts/

Cantwell, Maria - (D - WA) Class I
511 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Cantwell

(202) 224-3441
Web Form: http://cantwell.senate.gov/contact/

Cardin, Benjamin L. - (D - MD) Class I
509 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Cardin

(202) 224-4524
Web Form: http://cardin.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm

Carper, Thomas R. - (D - DE) Class I
513 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Carper

(202) 224-2441
Web Form: http://carper.senate.gov/contact/

Casey, Robert P., Jr. - (D - PA) Class I
393 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Casey,_Jr.

(202) 224-6324
Web Form: http://casey.senate.gov/contact/

Conrad, Kent - (D - ND) Class I
530 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Conrad

(202) 224-2043
Web Form: http://conrad.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm

Dodd, Christopher J. - (D - CT) Class III
448 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dodd

(202) 224-2823
Web Form: http://dodd.senate.gov/index.php?q=node/3130

Dorgan, Byron L. - (D - ND) Class III
322 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Dorgan

(202) 224-2551
Web Form: http://dorgan.senate.gov/contact/contact_form.cfm

Durbin, Richard J. - (D - IL) Class II
309 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Durbin

(202) 224-2152
Web Form: http://durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Feingold, Russell D. - (D - WI) Class III
506 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Feingold

(202) 224-5323
Web Form: http://feingold.senate.gov/contact_opinion.html

Feinstein, Dianne - (D - CA) Class I
331 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein

(202) 224-3841
Web Form: http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactU...

Franken, Al - (D - MN) Class II
320 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5641
Web Form: http://franken.senate.gov/contact/

Gillibrand, Kirsten E. - (D - NY) Class I
478 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Gillibrand

(202) 224-4451
Web Form: http://gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/

Hagan, Kay R. - (D - NC) Class II
521 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Hagan

(202) 224-6342
Web Form: http://hagan.senate.gov/?p=contact

Harkin, Tom - (D - IA) Class II
731 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Harkin

(202) 224-3254
Web Form: http://harkin.senate.gov/c/index.cfm

Inouye, Daniel K. - (D - HI) Class III
722 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Inouye

(202) 224-3934
Web Form: http://inouye.senate.gov/Contact/Email-Form.cfm

Johnson, Tim - (D - SD) Class II
136 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Johnson_(U.S._Senator)

(202) 224-5842
Web Form: http://johnson.senate.gov/contact/

Kaufman, Edward E. - (D - DE) Class II
383 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaufman

(202) 224-5042
Web Form: http://kaufman.senate.gov/services/contact/

Kerry, John F. - (D - MA) Class II
218 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry

(202) 224-2742
Web Form: http://kerry.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm

Kirk, Paul G., Jr. - (D - MA) Class I
317 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_G._Kirk

(202) 224-4543
Web Form: http://kirk.senate.gov/contact/

Klobuchar, Amy - (D - MN) Class I
302 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Klobuchar

(202) 224-3244
Web Form: http://klobuchar.senate.gov/emailamy.cfm

Kohl, Herb - (D - WI) Class I
330 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Kohl

(202) 224-5653
Web Form: http://kohl.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Landrieu, Mary L. - (D - LA) Class II
328 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Landrieu

Received a $300 million bribe for her vote on healthcare

(202) 224-5824
Web Form: http://landrieu.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

Lautenberg, Frank R. - (D - NJ) Class II
324 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lautenberg

(202) 224-3224
Web Form: http://lautenberg.senate.gov/contact/routing.cfm

Leahy, Patrick J. - (D - VT) Class III
433 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Leahy

(202) 224-4242
Web Form: http://leahy.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Levin, Carl - (D - MI) Class II
269 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Levin

(202) 224-6221
Web Form: http://levin.senate.gov/contact/

Lincoln, Blanche L. - (D - AR) Class III
355 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Lincoln

Her vote made it possible for the healthcare bill to go forward.

(202) 224-4843
Web Form: http://lincoln.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm

McCaskill, Claire - (D - MO) Class I
717 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_McCaskill

(202) 224-6154
Web Form: http://mccaskill.senate.gov/contact/

Menendez, Robert - (D - NJ) Class I
528 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Menendez

(202) 224-4744
Web Form: http://menendez.senate.gov/contact/

Merkley, Jeff - (D - OR) Class II
107 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Merkley

(202) 224-3753
Web Form: http://merkley.senate.gov/contact/

Mikulski, Barbara A. - (D - MD) Class III
503 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Mikulski

(202) 224-4654
Web Form: http://mikulski.senate.gov/Contact/contact.cfm

Murray, Patty - (D - WA) Class III
173 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Murray

(202) 224-2621
Web Form: http://murray.senate.gov/email/index.cfm

Nelson, Ben - (D - NE) Class I
720 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Nelson

(202) 224-6551
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Leaked computer files from the "Climategate" scandal

"This isn't just the smoking gun pointing to the fraud of global warming...it's a mushroom cloud!"

For years information on "climate change" has been manipulated, suppressed, and destroyed by "top scientists" - and the U.S. government's present administration may have been complicit - even in the face of the recent EPA cover-ups. The Cap and Trade bill was nothing more than an attempt to globally control the world's resources, and is part of a much larger plan...

The leaked files were from a climatologist/programmer at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, trying to update a huge statistical database (11,000 files) of important climate data between 2006 and 2009.

Data had been compiled by the CRU from hundreds of weather stations around the world about temperature and precipitation measurements from 1901 to 2006 (sun/cloud computer simulations, etc) and used to be considered "precise data" - - - and was considered the backbone of climate science.

...but the data files were a mess!

The CRU programmer expressed deep concerns about huge gaps in data, bug-filled programs, and worried about all the GUESSWORK he'd been doing. His comments suggested the problems went back many years. (The CRU at East Anglia University was considered by many as the world's leading climate research agency.)

...but it's worse than all the EPA's cover-ups. It's more damaging than the climate scientists who did "tricks" on data to hide the decline in global temperatures, because they couldn't explain the recent global cooling.

CBSNews.com Describes its Enormous Impact on Policymakers:

"In global warming circles, the CRU wields outsize influence: It claims the world's largest temperature data set, and its work and mathematical models were incorporated into the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2007 report. The report is what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acknowledged it 'relies on most heavily' when concluding carbon dioxide emissions endanger public health and should be regulated."

Download the File:

The programmer admited in many instances how screwed up all the data is (sample comments below). Very boring reading, but it is only posted here as documentation.

The original file, which is 274 pages long, and is in a TEXT (.txt) format. The text file may be too large to open in Windows Notepad, so I have saved a copy in Windows Document format (.doc)

http://tobuds.com/blogs/images/harry-read-me.doc
http://tobuds.com/blogs/images/harry-read-me.txt

Everything you need to know about the current climate debate:

Hydrogen - American Energy in 2010 and Beyond
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog3.php/2010/01/08/hydrogen-american-energy-in-2010-and-bey

What If All the Ice Melts? - Myths and Realities
http://tobuds.com/blogs/full-story/myth.htm

Kill the Polar Bears! - They're Destroying Our Planet!
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2010/01/03/kill-the-polar-bears-they-re-destroying

Cooling Down the Cassandras - By George F. Will - Washington Post
http://tobuds.com/blogs/full-story/myth2.htm

Carbon Emissions, Human Population, and Ice Ages - What it Really Means
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2009/12/20/carbon-emissions-human-population-and-ic

Evidence Surfaces from 1782 Disputing Global Warming
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2009/12/19/more-evidence-surfaces-disputing-global

New York Times Reports Global Cooling!
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2009/12/18/new-york-times-reports-global-cooling

Copenhagen: Scamming the American Taxpayers with "Climate Change"
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2009/12/12/copenhagen-scamming-the-american-taxpaye

Climategate Scandal - "Harry Read Me" File - Cap and Trade Farce
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog5.php/2009/12/01/climategate-s-harry-read-me-file-is-a-mu

Al Gore's Fear Mongering on "Climate Change" - Cap and Trade Scam
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2009/11/10/obama-s-and-al-gore-s-fear-mongering-on

Obama - Intergovernmental Panel on "Climate Change" (IPCC) - Climategate
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2009/12/06/obama-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate

DETAILED HISTORICAL DATA (from other posts)

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1806245/posts
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/cycles.htm#L_0252
http://www.carbonify.com/carbon-dioxide-levels.htm
http:// www.climateaudit.org

Sample Comments from CRU Programmer with Page Numbers

- "But what are all those monthly files? DON'T KNOW, UNDOCUMENTED. Wherever I look, there are data files, no info about what they are other than their names. And that's useless ..." (Page 17)

- "It's botch after botch after botch." (Page 18)

- "The biggest immediate problem was the loss of an hour's edits to the program, when the network died ... no explanation from anyone, I hope it's not a return to last year's troubles ... This surely is the worst project I've ever attempted. Eeeek." (Page 31)

- "Oh, GOD, if I could start this project again and actually argue the case for junking the inherited program suite." (Page 37)

- "... this should all have been rewritten from scratch a year ago!" (Page 45)

- "Am I the first person to attempt to get the CRU databases in working order?!!" (Page 47)

- "As far as I can see, this renders the (weather) station counts totally meaningless." (Page 57)

- "COBAR AIRPORT AWS (data from an Australian weather station) cannot start in 1962, it didn't open until 1993!" (Page 71)

- "What the hell is supposed to happen here? Oh yeah -- there is no 'supposed,' I can make it up. So I have : - )" (Page 98)

- "You can't imagine what this has cost me -- to actually allow the operator to assign false WMO (World Meteorological Organization) codes!! But what else is there in such situations? Especially when dealing with a 'Master' database of dubious provenance ..." (Page 98)

- "So with a somewhat cynical shrug, I added the nuclear option -- to match every WMO possible, and turn the rest into new stations ... In other words what CRU usually do. It will allow bad databases to pass unnoticed, and good databases to become bad ..." (Pages 98-99)

- "OH F--- THIS. It's Sunday evening, I've worked all weekend, and just when I thought it was done, I'm hitting yet another problem that's based on the hopeless state of our databases." (Page 241).

- "This whole project is SUCH A MESS ..." (Page 266)

Original date: Monday, November 30, 2009
Original Source:
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/lorrie_goldstein/2009/11/29/11967916-sun.html
By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN