Global Warming and Energy

Who would have guessed that an NSF global warming project is corrupt.

"But a 2011 audit of the project's proposed construction budget stalled three times when, according to the independent Defense Contract Audit Agency, NEON's accounting proved so poor that the review could not be completed. Eventually, DCAA issued an adverse ruling, concluding that nearly 36% of NEON's budget proposal was questionable or undocumented. When the NSF green-lit the project, the agency's inspector-general ordered the audit released on 24 November, which found unallowable expenses including a $25,000 winter holiday party, $11,000 to provide coffee for employees, $3,000 for board-of-directors dinners that included alcohol, $3,000 for t-shirts and other clothes, $83,000 for "business development" and $112,000 for lobbying.""

They use our stolen taxdollars to lobby to steal more taxdollars.

As if it hadn't been discredited enough, Mann hockey stick takes another hit.

Police State

The National Science Foundation will monitor social media to find out who is saying things it doesn't like. The NSA already does this.

Interpol to launch global facial recognition database.

Of course Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies. That's why it was funded by the CIA.

Tax and Spend

In a meaningless but headline-grabbing vote, the House cuts funding to IRS enforcement by 25 percent. Next week, without any headlines, they will vote to increase it. The Senate will agree. The president will sign. What a bunch of baloney.

House votes non-temporary ban on internet taxes.

Rich people are paying more than their fair share of taxes.

"But according to the latest data from the IRS, in tax year 2011, the top 1 percent of taxpayers (in terms of adjusted gross income) paid 35.06 percent of all federal income taxes. The top five percent of taxpayers paid 56.49 percent. The top 10 percent of taxpayers paid 68.26 percent. The top 25 percent of taxpayers paid 85.62 percent of the taxes, and the top 50 percent paid a whopping 97.11 percent."

Of course they own that much of the nation's wealth too.

US to squander taxpayer dollars on two doomed searches for non-existent dark matter.