Late Pic Dump..............

"Sugar Cookie Christians" - Wild Bill

Sweet and sappy? Or biblical truth and tough love? What does America need from the Church?

Beware! Media Will Support Obama's Climate Lies

By Alan Caruba

In the same way the U.S. media has long supported and disseminated all the lies about global warming—now called climate change—you can expect extensive support President Obama’s Tuesday speech based this hoax.

Call it the audacity of deceit. At the heart of the President’s speech is his reference to “carbon pollution.” It has no scientific basis. You will not read that in Wednesday’s newspapers, nor hear it on radio and television unless you are tuned to conservative media.

The claim that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a pollutant is absurd insofar as it is, next to oxygen, the second most vital gas for life on planet Earth. It is responsible for the growth of all vegetation, including crops vital to feeding humanity and the livestock on which they depend as a food source.

If you want to learn the truth about CO2, you can visit:

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/

http://sppiblog.org/

http://www.co2science.org/

http://www.nipccreport.org/

You can be certain that no journalist will visit these websites because the last thing they are interested in learning or reporting is the truth. In this regard, they will saturate the print and broadcast media with accolades about the President’s climate policies.

His policies are better understood as anti-energy policies and you would be well advised to keep in mind that all nations are totally dependent on access to sufficient, indeed, abundant energy to function. Poor nations are energy-poor.

Since the first days of the global warming scare campaign in the late 1980s, the media have repeated every lie until 2009 when the posting of thousands of emails between the core conspirators working for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were found to be deliberately distorting and publishing false climate data.

Even “climategate” has not deterred the media from continuing to publish falsehoods, repeating the way Greens attribute every natural phenomenon from hurricanes to tornadoes, droughts and forest fires, to “climate change.”

As promised during his 2008 campaign, the President made good on his war on coal which, as he said, would necessarily “skyrocket” the cost of electricity. His speech outlined further efforts to deter the construction of any new coal-fired plants while forcing others to shut down. Prior to his first term, coal produced fifty percent of all the electricity generated and this has now begun to drop. There is no indication that Obama cares about the cost of everyone’s electrical bill, particularly at a time of economic stagnation.

The media have also been the cheerleaders for the so-called “renewable energy”, wind and solar power, which would not exist without government subsidies, tax exemptions, and mandates for its use. As Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, notes, “Accelerating renewable energy development on federal lands will likely lead to more bat and avian mortality and a further retreat from honest enforcement of the Endangered Species Act.” The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind far for killing a protected bird species

Obama intends to do this at the same time that a vast, new abundance of natural gas has been discovered and is being extracted; another major source of electricity generation in the nation. Between coal, natural gas, and oil, America could be energy independent and reap the benefits of exporting these energy reserves as well. Obama’s speech offers the opposite of this bounty and path out of the current stagnation of the economy.

You can depend upon the liberal press quoting liberals such as Carol Browner, a former EPA director and now a “distinguished senior fellow” the Center for American Progress. “The President’s plan to cut carbon pollution from power plants is the latest in a series of steady and responsible steps he has taken to address climate change that threatens the health of our kids and the planet.”

Like the President’s speech, this is pure Leftist bilge without a scintilla of common sense or science. Interpreting natural events from volcano eruptions to floods as “climate change” is comparable to pagan religions that think “the gods must be angry.”

Beware of Obama’s lies and policies and beware of the media coverage that will ignore the falsehoods and the outcomes.

© Alan Caruba, 2013

Afternooon News...............

Cambrian Dissenters​:Google Tax Efficiency - Political Hypocrites Claim The Moral High Ground

CDR Salamander​: The Future Belongs to Those Who Show Up

High Flying Reading: Blue Angels Pilot Takes Part In Molino Storytime

Prominent Blacks Deserting the Liberal Plantation

American Suicide Bombers Attack Taliban Office In Qatar

Coal Stocks Plummet, Environmen​talist Hopes Rise Ahead of Obama's Climate Speech

Navy receives first F-35C Lightning II fighter

Russia rejects Snowden extraditio​n demand, blasts US rhetoric

Northrop engineerin​g sevices for LCS mission package

Taxpayer Subsidized Cars in Immigratio​n Bill

Berlin Airlift 65th Anniversar​y

Enemies of Freedom, a North Korea Tour, & More: Reason's 45th Anniversary Issue

Reason TV's Kennedy joined Reason's Matt Welch and Katherine Mangu-Ward to find out what's in the August/September 2013 issue as they celebrate 45 years of publicizing "Free Minds and Free Markets."

Afghans Get Out While the Gettin's Good.......................from Dan Friedman

[As reported on the English website of German publication Der Spiegel. Not reported in USA media so far as I can tell. Wouldn't want to convey the idea Obama's plan for an Afghanistan withdrawal is another bomb ready to go off, now would we? df]

 

 

Exodus

 

Afghan Diplomats Defect as Western Withdrawal Nears

 

"No one wants to return to Afghanistan,"

 

By Hasnain Kazim

Bonus Totty...............

Pic Dump...............

News...................

The New Yorker Blows Off the Navy

Reykjavík House Disappears Into The Icelandic Landscape

Snowden: Yes, I took the job at Booz Allen to gather evidence on NSA surveillan​ce

Illegal immigrants who commit crimes face lesser punishment than U.S. citizens

Uh oh: New IRS chief says inappropri​ate screening of tax-exempt groups was broader, and lasted longer, than thought

Is Obama Intent on Provoking Marshall Law?

Austerity Lentils

Priest challenges Pelosi to condemn abortion or quit church

Dieter Zorn, Snake Expert, Dies After Viper Bite During Presentati​on On Overcoming A Fear Of Snakes

Obama's Lost War: On Eve of Talks, Taliban Attack Karzai's Palace

Egyptians strive to end Morsi era: Muslim Brotherhood frantic to save the Caliph

Iran secretly building in Port Sudan military supply base for Syria, Hizballah

Islamic Cannibalism

Palestinians: "No Jews Allowed!"

Europe Losing its Patience

Officials worried Iranians with ‘sinister motives’ may enter Canada as undocumented refugees: report

A Country Divided: Where Is Turkey Headed?

A Machiavellian Age of Sea Power

NewsBusted 6/25/13

H/T Jeff

Doolittle Raiders Final Reunion (2013)

Tuesday Totty...............

TMZ Takes Down Topless Video of Kate Upton on Horseback

Yeah, well, it's was nice while it lasted.

And screencaps are still available, showing that little lady's big bazongas.

I guess this was about the next best thing, "Kate Upton Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2013."



TMZ was probably threatened with a lawsuit for unauthorized use of the video. Fans, though, were mostly pissed off that the idiots posted little pasties over Ms. Upton's nipples. She's got a lovely pair.

Great Dance Routine: James Cagney and Bob Hope

This is posted because at lunch time today we couldn't think of any modern day Hollywood 'Stars'....................from a personal point of view no one has the charisma that the greats had.



H/T TMG

Jay Leno on the scandals...................

"I was going to start off tonight with an Obama joke, but I don't want to
get audited by the IRS."

On NSA surveillance: "We wanted a president who listens to all Americans -
now we have one."

On a new IRS commissioner: "He's called 'acting commissioner' because he has
to act like the scandal doesn't involve the White House."

On closing the Guantanamo prison for terrorists: "If he really wants to
close it, turn it into a government-funded solar power company. The doors
will be shut in a month."

Concerning the Benghazi, Associated Press, and IRS scandals: "Remember in
the old days when President Obama's biggest embarrassment was Joe Biden?"

On Obama saying he didn't know about the IRS scandal: "He was too busy not
knowing anything about Benghazi to not know anything about the IRS."

"The White House has a new slogan about Benghazi: Hope and change the
subject."

"It's casual Friday, which means that at the White House, they're casually
going through everybody's phone calls and records."

"It is not looking good for President Obama. Today his teleprompter took the
fifth."

"Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I told
you so!'"

"These White House scandals are not going away anytime soon. People in Kenya
are now saying he's 100 percent American. That's how bad it's gotten."

On Obama's commencement address: "He told the young graduates their future
is bright unless, of course, they want jobs."

On a Chicago man who set a record for riding a Ferris wheel: "The only other
way to go around and around in a circle that many times is to read the
official report on Benghazi."

On White House claims of ignorance on the scandals: "They took 'Don't Ask,
Don't Tell' out of the Pentagon and moved it into the White House."


H/T Shelly

Bedtime Totty...............

Meanwhile, in the Outback . .. .

"You gonna shear her, mate?"

"Naw, I'm gonna shag her all by meself."




H/T Roger

Monetary reward & punishment..................from Rico

Punish savers? Rewards borrowers?

Here is FED 'monetary policy' laid bare.

- They want people to spend money they do not have, and have created the perfect situation to accomplish that by allowing people to spend more than they earn.

Americans have taken the 'bait' set out by the FED, and have gone into debt to buy homes, cars, education, and

....well, whatever can be financed by cheap (low interest) debt. This is the REWARD.

Now look at 1-yr CD's and further consider even a 2% official inflation rate (it's actually a lot higher if you follow John Williams of ShadowStats...say 10-11%) on top of that. Savers are guaranteed to lose. This is the PUNISHMENT.

Reward bad behavior and punish good behavior. Sounds pretty much like the 'plan' we see in operation today. Yeah, that's worked really well so far, hasn't it?

- Guess we need more of the same. Never fear, the FED will provide it for a long time to come.

Delta Bravo Sierra

H/T DJ Elliott

Late News....................

Random

Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. - Interestin​g picture...

Customer shoots, kills robber outside Atlanta shop while waiting to buy LeBron James sneakers

Family Pressure May Have Swayed Rubio on Immigration Reform

Journalist​s trapped on flight to Cuba as Snowden follies continue

ICE Agents Urge Senators to Vote 'No' on Immigratio​n Bill

Air Force Institutes 'Don't Be A Dumbass' Safety Campaign

Immigratio​n Pressure Group, USCIS Desecrate American Flag

Immigratio​n Bill Allows Napolitano to Nix Border Fence

Background Check Gun Records Are Saved

WSJ: IRS scandal not a closed case

Breaking: Supreme Court to review Obama recess appointmen​ts

Vegas Tourism Handout in Immigratio​n Bill

This Whole Ammo Shortage Thing by the Numbers

Is Norway Running U.S. Foreign Policy?

Federal Stingray Exposed

Corker Admits: Immigratio​n Bill Amendment Does Not Improve Law Enforcemen​t

Lebanon Sucked Into The Vortex...................from Dan Friedman

[Sunni vs. Shia, the fault line again. df]

 

 

WSJ, MIDDLE EAST NEWS, June 24, 2013

Deadly Fighting Erupts in Lebanon

At Least 12 Soldiers Killed in Sidon as Conflict in Neighboring Syria Exacerbates Sectarian Tensions

Res Ipsa Loquitor....................from Rico

This really does 'speak for itself' if you think about it.

....and Bob's your Uncle.

Syrian rebel leader eats the heart of a Syrian soldier! (Video)

Video of the Syrian rebel leader eating the heart of a Syrian soldier he had just killed. 

The question has always been whether the Obama administration has chosen to back a side in the Syrian civil war that could be as bad, if not worse, than the current government. 

I think we now have our answer!

Watch at The Political Commentator here.

Bonus Totty.................

Pic Dump.................

2013 The ISLE of MAN TT - World's Greatest Motor-Sporting Event

H/T Gerard

Where There's Smoke There's Failure

News...................

Esquire Magazine, Inspire Magazine

The real cover-up at the heart of the National Health Service

Mass Immigration Disaster - Speaker Bercow Joins The Quislings

Saudi seeks economic boost with switch to Fri-Sat weekend

Worth A Thousand Words: Patching A Pipe

America’s broken bootstraps

22 Excellent Reasons To Drink More Whiskey

Pelosi booed for defense of NSA surveillan​ce

Millions of immigrants waiting for green cards

President-​Congress showdown reaches high court

Paul: Snowden may tarnish his reputation by going to Russia or Cuba

EPA decides peer review of fracking study not such a good idea

Chica​go Violence Scoreboard​- June 23, 2013

Curious about how metadata works?

Admiral Frank Kelso II, former Chief of Naval Operations, leaves legacy of integrity, service

Lionized as a hero, Edward Snowden psyop for Amnesty?

Palestinian Jihad Islami fires six rockets into Israel from Gaza

Islamists and Jihadis: A Cancer on the Face of the World

Syria: rebels heed lesson of Qusayr to drive back Assad forces in Aleppo

F-35C lands at Eglin

Thousands pay respects to fallen warrior

Monday Mopsies..............................

China and Russia bogart the proverbial 'joint' in the Edward Snowden NSA scandal!...from TPC

The Edward Snowden foreign policy and national security fiasco is just the latest in a long line of Obama administration failures in these two arenas. 

In this article I use the analogy of bogarting a joint to provide some context that the President and the rest of his administration can hopefully understand! 

At The Political Commentator here.  

Sexy Smokin' Rule 5

This is hot.

See, "Sunday Rule 5."

As always, it's a massive cleavage-palooza with some boobtastic awesomeness thrown in.

Smokin' bazongas at the link.

Saying. Doing. Opposites?...................from Rico

For those who are still 'smarting' from last Thursday's post-FOMC bullion fire-sale, it is worth remembering that this was (a) orchestrated by the FED through their captive bullion banks and (b) was a purely paper-based contrivance...no one in their right mind was actually selling physical bullion (there was ZERO physical Gold fo sale, and nothing but BUY orders for physical in the wholesale arena), only tons of unbacked paper bullion in order to drive the price lower.

- In fact, this paper 'smackdown' actually drove physical buying through the roof.

Funny, but the ONLY ones saying that Gold bullion is a lousy investment have been the digital-fiat Anglo-American banking Cartel and their cronies and enablers.

- The rest of the world (ex-Chicago's CME/COMEX) is absolutely ignoring them.

Let's look past the 'noise' at what is actually happening and somehow is just NOT being reported.

- The Central Bankers are huge net buyers of Gold.

- JPM has quietly gone 'net long' Gold.

Silly bankers!

- They must not understand their business (money), or maybe they forgot to watch FTV (CNBC, MSNBC) to find out what they REALLY ought to be doing?

- Or 'maybe' they know what is coming since enrichment by crony inside information 'leaked' discretely in advance has become they way things work between Wall Street and Washington?

Here is a thesis for 2013:

- The financially 'broke' Banks and their governments are recapitalized by the revaluation of Gold, solving a lot of nasty balance sheet problems for them. For the average people who do not own it (or have sold it in sheer panic), not so much.

Yeah, sounds absolutely crazy I know! Hear me out...

- In 1933 Gold was taken out of circulation and out of the hands of the people, then Gold was sharply 'revalued' higher and 'voila!' the bankers and the

government were instantly recapitalized. Of course, the people who used-to own that Gold were royally screwed silly. Surprise!

Golly! Would a Banker or a Government that was 'broke' LIE to you? Would they SAY one thing and prepare to DO another? Steal YOUR money to replace money they had spent/lost? Nawwwwwww...say it ain't so.

- Hmmmmmm....well, gee, let me think about that one for a minute.

"Containme​nt" Is The New "Appeaseme​nt"..................from Dan Friedman

[The Iranian Bomb: The Economist gives up. df]

 

Breakout beckons

Neither Iran’s election, nor sanctions nor military threats are likely to divert it from the path it is on to getting nuclear weapons

Bedtime Totty................