Climate Change Summit’s Price Tag To The U.S. Taxpayers

Wonder what you would find if you frisked the recently filed Congressional expense reports?

Answer: The cost of sending 106 people from the House and Senate – spouses and staffers included – to Copenhagen, Denmark for the Climate Change Summit.

Taxpayers… Get your checkbooks and wallets ready. CBS reports:

For 15 Democratic and 6 Republican Congressmen, food and rooms for two nights cost $4,406 tax dollars each. That’s $2,200 a day – more than most Americans spend on their monthly mortgage payment.

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The group expense report was filed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. She wouldn’t talk about it when our producer tried to ask.

Pelosi’s office did offer an explanation for the high room charges. Those who stayed just two nights were charged a six-night minimum at the five-star Marriott. One staffer said, they strongly objected to no avail. You may ask how they’ll negotiate a climate treaty, if they can’t get a better deal on hotel rooms.

Total hotel, meeting rooms and “a couple” of $1,000-a-night hospitality suites topped $400,000.

Flights weren’t cheap, either. Fifty-nine House and Senate staff flew commercial during the Copenhagen rush. They paid government rates — $5-10,000 each — totaling $408,064. Add three military jets — $168,351 just for flight time — and the bill tops $1.1 million dollars — not including all the Obama administration officials who attended: well over 60.

Remember: There was nothing accomplished at this Climate Change Summit in Denmark besides successfully polluting the planet even more. I hope our politicians and government officials enjoyed their nice little vacation, because – as always – it is not on their own tab. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that Congressmen need to fly around on occasion, but this is just absurdity. $2,200 for a hotel room and food for a day!? This is atrocious government spending at its finest. If any politician is trying to find out where to make budget cuts – which will probably never happen – they better be slamming their fingers down on this Congressional expense report!

Side-Note: Perhaps we should start a national raffle where a few citizens are chosen every year to have a week’s vacation paid for by the politicians in Washington DC. Wait a second… We pay their salaries… Damn, there goes that idea.

And why was the Ways and Means chair – Charlie Rangel – at the Climate Change Summit on the taxpayer’s dime? That question still baffles me.

*UPDATE* – January 26, 2009

Click here to watch CBS’s newscast on this story.

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Danish Newspaper: Obama Is Greater Than Jesus

Wonder what you would find if you frisked the Danish newspaper Politiken?

Answer: Apparently, President Obama is greater than Jesus Christ.

Wow:

Despite all the compromises, it has finally been possible to ensure something so fundamental, as the right of every American not to be financially shipwrecked when their health fails them. Add to that the biggest ever financial support package in America’s history, a major disarmament agreement and the quickest-ever re-establishment of American reputation.

On the other hand, we have Jesus’ miracles that everyone still remembers, but which only benefitted a few. At the same time, we have the wonderful parables about his life and deeds that we know from the New Testament, but which have been interpreted so differently over the past 2000 years that it is impossible to give an unequivocal result of his work.

Obama is, of course, greater than Jesus – if we have to play that absurd Christmas game. But it is probably more meaningful to insist that with today’s domestic triumph, that he has already assured himself a place in the history books – a space he has good chances of expanding considerably in coming years.

Without, however, ever attaining the heavens….

Shaking my head…

Sounds like President Obama is this liberal-atheist, author’s wet dream. Honestly, the country of Denmark must want to become the laughing stock of all the countries found on world map.  I will just leave it at that.

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Obama Goes To Climate Change Conference As Blizzard Hits Copenhagen

Wonder what you would find if you frisked the weather report at the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen?

Answer: A lot of snow.

Hmm… How ironic:

World leaders flying into Copenhagen today to discuss a solution to global warming will first face freezing weather as a blizzard dumped 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow on the Danish capital overnight.

Delegates from 193 countries have been in Copenhagen since Dec. 7 to discuss how to fund global greenhouse gas emission cuts. U.S. PresidentBarack Obama will arrive before the summit is scheduled to end tomorrow.

Denmark has a maritime climate and milder winters than its Scandinavian neighbors. It hasn’t had a white Christmas for 14 years, under the DMI’s definition, and only had seven last century. Temperatures today fell as low as minus 4 Celsius (25 Fahrenheit).

DMI defines a white Christmas as 90 percent of the country being covered by at least 2 centimeters of snow on the afternoon of Dec. 24.

HAHA! So while climate change scientists are trying to scare the bejesus out of everyone that our planet will be scorched to death in a matter of years, there’s a big ol’ snow storm going on outside of the conference…  You have got to absolutely love this!

Good thing the Anointed One is scheduled to arrive in Copenhagen tomorrow and maybe he will put all these climate change buffoons in check, but I have my doubts:

Despite some rumors swirling in Copenhagen that the lack of progress at the ongoing climate change summit will cause President Obama to cancel his attendance tomorrow, the White House says no – the President is still committed to going.

There have been “no changes” to the President’s plans, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters this morning.

Mr. Obama is set to leave this evening for an overnight trip to Copenhagen. He’ll spend the day Friday on the ground in Demark in hopes to negotiate toward a politically non-binding agreement.

Personally, I think President Obama should listen to Sarah Palin and cancel his trip to Copenhagen. This trip could have the potential to blow up in his face (figuratively speaking) and he cannot afford that happening again:

The only time a President should travel to such a conference is if two essential elements are in place.  First, the agreement should be all but finished in order to make the President look effective in completing it.  Second, it should have considerable domestic support.  Bill Clinton made the mistake of ignoring the second condition with Kyoto on climate change, and it ended up making him look particularly ineffective with the Senate unanimously voted to ignore the treaty rather than even consider ratifying it.  If the same thing happens again to Obama for the third time in a year, he’s going to look not just ineffective but clueless as well.

The Climate Change Conference is turning out to be a disaster! Here’s some of things that have gone completely wrong so far:

• Climate Change conference president resigns
• U.S. pledges billions; China says climate pact is doubtful
• Copenhagen Riots Break Out
• Developing Nations Walk Out Of Climate Talks

Mr. President… Please just stay home, because you will save the United States some money and yourself from another political mishap.

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Schwarzenegger And Palin’s Battle On Climate Change

Wonder what you would find if you frisked Sarah Palin and Arnold “The Terminator” Schwarzenegger on the subject of climate change?

Answer: We got ourselves a little bit of a Republican battle folks!

In recent headlines, Sarah Palin has urged President Obama to rethink his decision on attending the international climate conference in Copenhagen because of the unfolding ClimateGate scandal. During an interview while in Copenhagen (of course he’d be there), California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was asked to comment on Sarah Palin’s remarks and the Terminator didn’t hesitate to throw a couple jabs toward the Former Alaskan Governor:

The California governor has become an environmental standard bearer for the Republican party, which is split on the merits of curbing emissions. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election, has attacked cap and trade and questioned any link between man-made emissions and global warming.

“You have to ask: what was she trying to accomplish?” said Mr Schwarzenegger. “Is she really interested in this subject or is she interested in her career and in winning the [Republican] nomination [for president]? You have to take all these things with a grain of salt.”

But don’t worry… Sarah Palin has a couple punches of her own:

Why is Governor Schwarzenegger pushing for the same sorts of policies in Copenhagen that have helped drive his state into record deficits and unemployment? Perhaps he will recall that I live in our nation’s only Arctic state and that I was among the first governors to create a sub-cabinet to deal specifically with climate change. While I and all Alaskans witness the impacts of changes in weather patterns firsthand, I have repeatedly said that we can’t primarily blame man’s activities for those changes. And while I did look for practical responses to those changes, what I didn’t do was hamstring Alaska’s job creators with burdensome regulations so that I could act “greener than thou” when talking to reporters.

BOOM! And it’s on like Donkey Kong ladies and gentlemen! Hmm… I wonder what Arnold’s chances are at wining this fight? How about: slim to none. As we all know, Gov. Schwarzenegger is as moderate of a Republican that one can be without falling into the liberal’s left-sided cesspool. Therefore, he lacks a major disconnect with the American people while he plays politics in Copenhagen and the state of California continues to dive into the red. Personally, Gov. Schwarzenegger should of just jumped around the question (politicians are good at that) because Sarah Palin is pretty moderate on the climate change issue.

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Climate Change Conference’s Hilarious Opening Film

Climate Change Conference 2009

Wonder what you would find if you frisked the opening film for the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) in Copenhagen?

Answer: A knockoff of the recent film 2012 and stuffed polar bears. What could go wrong?

HAHA! Yes… This was actually the film that kicked off the UN’s climate change conference. I apologize to the director, Mikkel Blaabjerg Poulsen, ahead of time because I don’t think he intended on creating a dark comedy – but it happened.

First off, I would like to point out that this film was based on an obvious dream or nightmare, which tend to be fantasy and fiction. Hmm… Is that hinting at a deeper meaning within the film like man-made global warming is just all a dream? Perhaps.

Besides looking into the deeper meanings of this short film and laughing, there are some other things that make it quite comical:

• What kind of cable does the family in the film subscribe to? Every single channel seems to be talking about global warming. Give me a break! That’s got to be the lamest service ever.
• A stuffed polar bear… Really!? How cliché and pathetic can you get? Oh wait… The stuffed polar bear got devoured by the ‘dry-cracked-earth-monster’.
• The father in the film sure knows how to comfort his daughter after waking up from a horrible nightmare… By going straight to the computer to look up YouTube videos of bureaucrats and scientists rambling on about their manipulated/false findings. Hey! They got to keep their funding flowing somehow, right?
• And like any good father, you always let your 6 year-old climb up to the top of an apartment complex’s roof with no railings on a rainy day to film herself… Only to be shown with hundreds of other exploited children saying the same thing.

Overall, great video COP15 and Mikkel Blaabjerg Poulsen… You had me quite entertained.

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Al Gore Asking $1,200 Per Handshake

Wonder what you would find if you frisked Al “I’m Only Doing This To Save The Planet” Gore during his visit at the climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark?

Answer: A lot of money in his pockets.

That’s if a lot of people actually want to shake his hand in the first place. Personally, I’m sure there will be a decent turn out since climate change is almost like a religion amongst scientists.

If you haven’t looked at my graphic to this post already… Wonder what the price tag is to meet and shake Mr. Gore’s hand? $1,200!

Not a joke. Read the announcement yourself. If you need help converting danish krone to dollars, click here.

Props to you Al Gore… Way to go hypocrite.

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Bad Timing For Liberals

Wonder what you would find if you frisked a liberal right now, with all the current problems in the world?

Answer: BAD timing.

Props to IMAO:

I think Obama is just really in over his head, as this was the completely wrong time for a liberal. You don’t put a liberal in charge during a time of war …or any serious time for that matter. No wonder Obama has only talked to General McCrystal once; Obama is hoping if he ignores the war, it will go away. Same for Iran and their nuclear capabilities. He just wants to focus on dinky social issues, where liberals are strongest. Look at the time when Bill Clinton did well: Economy was taking care of itself, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we were ignorant of any big international problem. It was a time of naivete: Perfect for a liberal. That’s not now; this is Carter all over again. Liberals don’t know how to do anything useful, so they flounder when useful things need to be done. They really need to wait until all the big things are handled by others before they take charge.

So, remember to pity Obama just a little. He probably actually believed his “Hope and Change” mantra and thought all the big problems would go away so he could focus on things we don’t actually need right now like a health care overhaul or Cap & Trade. Liberals felt pretty useless right after 9/11, and probably the only thing that will make them feel even more useless is putting them in charge.

I think that sums it up!

Side-Note: 2 wars, threats from Iran, threats from North Korea, economic ‘crisis’, health care reform, cap-and-tax, ACORN corruption, safe school czar problems, and where’s President Obama???

Oh yeah… Copenhagen, Denmark to try and get the Olympics in Chicago for 2016. Good work, good work.

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