Bucks County residents seem resistant to buying into the Global Warming Myth. Despite the promise of a $10,000 solar panel for their community as a reward, only 1 of the 6 Bucks County communities participating in SmartPower’s Clean Energy Community program has met the registration goals for electricity generated by alternative means. Half the communities are below 50% of the program’s required registration.
Liukin Gracious After Outrageous Rip-Off
The gymnastics competition judging controversy at the 2008 Olympics in Bejing continued after American Nastia Liukin lost a Gold medal for the uneven bar competition to Chinese He Kexin although the two obtained the same score.
The scoring between He Kexin, obviously under sixteen-years of age and therefore unqualified, and Liukin came down to a third-level tie breaker. In Olympic gymnastics scoring, the third-level tie breaker is “the average of the three lowest of the four counting judges’ deductions” according to Sports Illustrated. Liukin lost because the Australian judge did not deduct the proper amount of points for He Kexin’s visible errors.
I’m no gymnastics expert, but the experts on television are aghast at the judging of this year’s Olympics.
The American squad lost the team finals to a Chinese team that is obviously mostly underaged and arguably turned in worse performances on most of the events. That was explained away by a few mistakes perpetrated by Alicia Sacremone.
Sacremone later lost a bronze medal for the vault competition to Cheng Fei of China, who hit the vault crooked and landed square on her knees. Sacremone was competent in her performances and hit both landings.
And now an inaccurate score has robbed all-around winner Liukin of a well deserved Gold medal in favor of an athlete whose hometown paper listed her age as 13 this Spring.
For her part, Liukin is a lot more gracious than I am about China’s questionable Gold.
“I know I didn’t have my best routine, but I had the same exact score as she did, which makes it a little harder to take,” she said. “I still don’t understand how they broke the tie, but that’s the rules, and you just have to play by them. If it had happened in the all around, I would have been a lot more disappointed.”
Liukin was also asked if the fact that He was one of the gymnasts suspected of being underage — in May she was identified in a Chinese newspaper as being just 13 — made the silver medal harder to swallow. But she wouldn’t bite. “She’s an excellent athlete no matter how old she is,” she said.
Next up for Liukin is Tuesday night’s balance beam event, in which she’ll try to beat her father’s total of four medals in an Olympics.
Incompetence or a Ruse? Image Says Obama Picks Bayh
It could be typical Obama campaign incompetence, a ruse by the campaign, or some skilled but illiterate Photoshoppers at work, but a screen shot purporting to show a CNN story declaring Indiana Senator Evan Bayh as Barack Obama’s pick for the Vice Presidential nomination is making the rounds. I’m going with the Photoshopper option.
What’s He Hiding? Obama / Ayers Foundation Records Sealed
Reporter Stanley Kurtz has been denied access to documents related to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a foundation established by proud domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and later chaired by Barack Obama, by “top library officials” at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Richard J. Daley Library according to Kurtz.
Let it Be Biden
It could be genuine or it could be typical August pre-decision misdirection, but according to CNN there’s significant scuttlebutt that Barack Obama will pick Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his running mate.
Pelosi: “God Has Blessed Us With” Obama
Congressman Patrick Murphy‘s brain Nancy Pelosi gushed that Presidential candidate Barack Obama was “a leader that God has blessed us with at this time” at a fundraiser in her ultra-liberal San Francisco district yesterday.
In a written statement, God responded that blessing Pelosi with leaders was “above his pay grade.”
A confident Barack Obama raised an extraordinary $7.8 million Sunday at three California fundraisers, most if it in large checks to a Democratic Party committee.
“I will win. Don’t worry about that,” he said to the crowd of about 1,300 at his third event of the evening, according to the pool report.
Behold the party of the little people! No word on whether any bitter Pennsylvanians were in attendance, or whether they were too busy clinging to their guns and religion and hating people on a Sunday night to travel to enlightened San Francisco.
Obama Campaign Admits Infanticide Vote Lie
In an interview following his abysmal performance at the this weekend’s Saddleback Civil Forum on Presidency, Barack Obama angrily and defensively stood behind his voting record on Illinois’ Born Alive Infant Protection Act, saying pro-life groups were “lying” about his record. Transcript and video here.
UPDATE FOR CLARITY: The Obama campaign’s admission that what Obama says in the video is a lie is bolded in the 7th paragraph following the video of Saturday’s interview.
Obama A Bomb: Candidate Implodes at Forum
The Barack Obama campaign and his thousands of press secretaries in the Mainstream media are beside themselves today after the candidate’s disastrous performance at yesterday’s Saddleback Civil Forum on Presidency.
Obama Mistakenly Admits He Was Mentored by Communist
In his self-aggrandizing memoir Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama repeatedly references a mysterious poet named “Frank” who he idolized and saw as a mentor. Jerome Corsi’s best-selling book Obama Nation examines this relationship and comes to the same conclusion many observers have reached: “Frank” is Communist Party USA stalwart Frank Marshall Davis.
Battle of the 8th District Also-Rans
Independent congressional candidate Tom Lingenfelter has challenged the candidacy of Constitutional Party candidate Jay Russell in court, alleging that Russell duped more than 2,500 voters into signing his nominating petition with false claims.
