2012 End Of Time

After Another Loss for Obama, Dem Doubts Deepen on 2012

"We have now had at least three or more experiences of the president explaining to people that he has a plan and it is under control but the results don't match. He has an unreasonable Congress that doesn't respond to reason. So why continue to reason with them?"

-- Former SEIU President Andy Stern to the Huffington Post.

Since the 2010 election, President Obama has thrice tussled with Republicans in Congress and thrice he has lost, each time worse than before.

There was the lame-duck deal on extending current tax rates in December in which Obama traded away a core campaign promise for a short-term extension of long-term unemployment benefits.

Then there was the battle over the continuing resolution that is currently funding the government. While Obama stalled for a better deal, Republicans whacked $6 billion in short-term cuts to spending and then a longer, but hazier deal on future outlays. There, Obama avoided a government shutdown and got nothing much but the chance to kick the can on the final round of cuts.

Now, Obama is walking away with, yes, the largest increase in the federal borrowing limit in history (not a wholly attractive thing, politically) and another government shutdown avoided, but nothing else. Republicans, meanwhile, got caps on spending now, a vote on a balanced budget amendment and a cuts commission to find more savings still.

The Senate will, barring a last-minute crack up, pass the plan early this afternoon. While this government shutdown deadline was fungible -- owing to the fact that it was literally about being out of money, not reaching the end of a spending bill – today was the day set by the administration as “Armageddon,” also known as a partial government shutdown.

In each confrontation, Obama has proven less able to combat Republicans. This may have something to do with the fact that the administration really does seem to believe, as Vice President Joe Biden said, that conservative Republicans really are terrorists with nuclear weapons.

What politician wouldn’t like for his opponents to believe that? It’s like the 1979 Steelers. They won all their games when the teams were still in the locker room.

Liberals are beginning to suspect that Republicans have been bluffing all along. The New York Times today trumpets that Tea Partiers in Congress were divided and seem to be actual lawmakers with competing interests and ideas. This is part of what Jonah Goldberg has dubbed the “conservatives in the mist” phenomenon, when establishment media outlets examine the strange ways of right America and find them nearly human. But it is also part of a larger message to the White House : stop backing down.

Q&A: Polar shift 2012 opinions? - 2012 The End Of The World2012 ...

Solar System – Did you notice? In February 2001, the Sun did a magnetic polar shift. The next one is due again in 2012. NASA scientists who monitor the Sun say that our star’s awesome magnetic field flipped 22 months ago, signaling the arrival of a solar maximum. But it wasn’t so obvious to the average human. ImageThe Sun’s magnetic north pole, which was in the northern hemisphere just a few months ago, now points south. It’s a topsy-turvy situation, but not an unexpected one. “This always happens around the time of solar maximum,” says David Hathaway, a solar physicist at the Marshall Space Flight Center. “The magnetic poles exchange places at the peak of the sunspot cycle. In fact, it’s a good indication that Solar Max is really here.”

i was jst looking around at 2012 and i came across this. what are the chances of this happening?

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast15feb_1/

Best answer:

Answer by Roger K So the answer is – yes – that has happened on earth and will happen again someday. The essential part is that and it will happen. The other fact is that a reversal takes a few thousand years from start to finish – so in the lifespan of a person, the change will be minimal, and the impact probably undetectable – except that you might need to buy a new compass.

It certainly happen in 2012. Everything about 2012 end-of-the-world scenarios are false.

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

Please don’t worry about this.

Solar activity varies on a 10.7 year cycle. No particular problems before, none likely now.

Since there are a couple of phenomena that involve the magnetic poles (NOT the geographic poles), let’s look at both.

First, over time the location of the magnetic North Pole moves. This is a short term phenomena that has been known since 1831 and has been shown to move almost constantly.

Geological studies have shown that the North and South Magnetic Poles have reversed many time in the past. It is a process that takes thousands of year to occur, it could be happening right now and we’d never know it. It never destroyed the world and there is no reason to think it will in the future. Right now it is a topic because the 2012 Doomsday hoaxers have seized on it for their own purposes.

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