Pelosi Congress taking it easy…

When campaigning last fall for a shift of control to the Democrats in the U.S. Congress, Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi promised a Dem-controlled House would be, “a hard-working body putting in five-day weeks.” According to several Web site reports surfacing this weekend, even that simple campaign promise has been broken by the 11-percent-approval-rating Pelosi-led Congress.

An anonymous House of Representatives staffer recently revealed to NewsMax.com, among others:

“We sometimes have days with just one hour of votes from 3 to 4 p.m. on renaming post offices before calling it a day,” the staffer told NewsMax.

“No votes are scheduled on Fridays this month. And Pelosi hopes to close the House down for the year on Nov. 16.

“Pelosi made a big deal of saying she would make the House work five-day weeks. You can see how long that lasted.”

One has to wonder, with the Dems in control, how long it will be before the days of $6,000 cordless phone battery purchases return with a vengeance.

Despite Nobel, Gore considered "ridiculous" on atmosphere

Although his global warming propaganda film, An Inconvenient Truth, may have won former Vice President Algore an Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize under highly politically charged circumstances, one of the top atmospheric scientists in the world warns that in a few years, we could look back and consider the global warming hysteria, “ridiculous.”

The Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald is reporting that Algore’s conclusions are fodder more suited for Ripley’s Believe It or Not than the Nobel Peace Prize committee.

As the Sydney Morning Herald reported:

“We’re brainwashing our children,” said Dr [William] Gray[, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts,] 78, a long-time professor at Colorado State University. “They’re going to the Gore movie [An Inconvenient Truth] and being fed all this. It’s ridiculous.”

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But Dr. Gray, whose annual forecasts of the number of tropical storms and hurricanes are widely publicized, said a natural cycle of ocean water temperatures – related to the amount of salt in ocean water – was responsible for the global warming that he acknowledges has taken place.

However, he said, that same cycle meant a period of cooling would begin soon and last for several years.

“We’ll look back on all of this in 10 or 15 years and realize how foolish it was,” Dr. Gray said.

It looks like Nobel-winner Gore will be more likely to win an endorsement from Titleist Golf than from Dr. Gray.