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Friday, 7 March 2014
Bibi & Israel Wasting Time They Don't have.........................from Dan Friedman
[Two things are clearly coming into focus. Iran is drawing close to becoming a nuclear state while Israel has allowed itself to be frozen in place by volunteering for two American charades: “peace talks” with the PLO and nuclear talks with Iran. Will Netanyahu wake up and finally take action before it’s too late? Or will Israel's second-longest serving prime minister throw up his hands and write a book that blames his own fiasco on Barack Hussein Obama and “pressure”? df]
Times of Israel, March 6, 2014
Sometimes It Takes a Gentile.........................from Dan Friedman
[I am always a bit uneasy when a gentile does the job a Jew is meant to do. But Michelle Bachmann, the courageous Republican Congresswoman from Minnesota, deserves great credit for speaking out about the shameful behavior of the American Jewish community and its betrayal of Israel. df]
Adar Bet 3, 5774, 05/03
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann says Jewish organizations prefer Obama's future over Israel's.
By Gil Ronen
Thursday, 6 March 2014
Politically incorrect humor featuring Barack Obama and Chris Christie!...from TPC
I was sent this photo by one of my email subscribers and thought that it was both extremely politically incorrect and very funny at the same time in what I would call a completely bipartisan way!
News..................
Russians sink a boat off Ukraine coast - their own
Iran’s Gaza Arms Shipment and Obama’s Middle East Diplomacy
Pentagon: North Korea develops unmanned strike aircraft from stolen U.S. target drone
DOD removes 20 areas from imminent danger pay list
Mass. court: Subway 'upskirt' photos not illegal
Reid Suggests GOP Opposition to Adegbile Based in Race
What Are Kerry and Europe Really About?
Venezuela breaks diplomatic relations with Panama, citing conspiracy
How Ukraine Spillover Could Complicate the US Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Ukraine crisis: We confront Vladimir Putin now, yet appeased him before
Niger hands Gaddafi's son Saadi over to Libya
Photo that depicts the Obama-Putin relationship perfectly!...from TPC
It isn't often that one picture can lay out the complexities of a relationship but this one of Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin unfortunately does!
At The Political Commentator here.
Asylum for Terrorists? New U.S. Immigration Policy Welcomes Terrorists
President Obama has changed immigration rules, making it easier for so-called "minor" terrorists to gain asylum in the United States. Is this a good idea? Find out as Tammy Bruce, Scott Ott and Stephen Green discuss granting asylum to terrorists.
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Sexy British Glamour Model Hannah Elizabeth Rubs Ice Cube on Her Breasts
Pretty awesome, heh.
See, "Hannah Elizabeth for Zoo Today."
Wednesday, 5 March 2014
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Post independence map of Scotland.........................
Here is a copy of the leaked plans of the SNP to rename parts of Scotlandto reflect the new situation should Scotland become an independent country.
New maps, only €1, or 1 Caledonian lira
H/T Roger
Home prices and having babies!...from HAS
Does an increase in home prices have any impact on the fertility rate?
Does the unemployment rate impact the birth rate?
The study in this article at HAS provides an answer.
Late News...............
Bitcoin firm CEO found dead in suspected suicide
Israeli Commandos Raid Iran Arms Ship off Sudan
The End of the ‘Wrong Side of History’
Exclusive - Benghazi Victims' Families Demand Boehner Haul CIA Official Before Select Committee
Comic Cowboys take aim at Mobile's elected officials, police and more
Senate Rejects Obama Civil Rights Division Nominee
Thwart Putin’s ‘Evil Empire’ 2.0
Obama Cuts Funds for Israeli Missile Defense
First US-Israeli intelligence collaboration in four years against an Iranian military target: Iranian missile ship
WATCH: IDF releases action videos as part of PR blitz after seizure of Iranian ship
Mysterious and ‘arrogant’ Vladimir Putin seeks Russia’s return to status of world superpower
Right-Wing Extremism: Germany's New Islamophobia Boom
Ukraine Crisis EU Concerned about Cost of Sanctions on Russia
North Korea Almost Shot Down a Chinese Jet
The West has the power to make Putin regret his Ukraine adventure, but does it have the will?
George P Bush looks to continue family's political legacy
Spanking The Girl Scouts - Wild Bill
The battle for morality and our children heats up with the boycott of girl scout cookies.
Calling the Global Warming Charlatans "Nazis"
On February 20th, the noted meteorologist, Dr. Roy W. Spencer, fed up with being called a “denier” of global warming, posted a commentary on his blog titled “Time to push back against the global warming Nazis.”
“When politicians and scientists started calling people like me ‘deniers’, they crossed the line. They are still doing it,” said Dr. Spencer. “They indirectly equate (1) the skeptics’ view that global warming is not necessarily all manmade nor a serious problem with (2) the denial that the Nazi’s extermination of millions of Jews ever happened.” The Holocaust happened, but global warming’s latest natural cycle ended about 17 years ago and, as a lot of people have noticed, it has been getting cold since then.
“Like the Nazis,” said Dr. Spencer, “they advocate the supreme authority of the state (fascism), which in turn supports their scientific research to support their cause…” In the case of global warming, this huge hoax was put forth by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The UN would like to be the world’s global government, but that’s not going to happen. In the meantime, the IPCC provided scientists that cooperated with lots of money for their alleged research, all of which “proved” that carbon dioxide was dramatically heating the Earth. Others like Al Gore made millions selling “carbon credits”. Along the way, both Gore and the IPCC received a Nobel Peace Prize.
Dr. Spencer received a Ph.D. in meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981. He was a Senior Scientists for Climate Studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center where he and a colleague, Dr. John Christy received NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for their global temperature monitoring work with satellites. He became a Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2001 and continues to advise NASA as a U.S. Science Team Leader. As he points out on his blog, his research has been supported by U.S. government agencies, so the usual claim by Greens that he is a paid stooge of Big Oil just doesn’t work in his case.
Dr. Spencer’s decision to call a Nazi a Nazi ignited a lot of discussion among the global warming hustlers and those whom they have been calling “deniers” for many years. I always found it particularly offensive, but I suspect those I called charlatans and hustlers felt the same way. The difference, however, is the connotation applied to the term, “denier.” Even today anti-Semites of various descriptions deny that six million Jews died in the death camps of Nazi Germany during World War Two along with millions Christians and Eastern Slavic Europeans
What makes this particularly offensive and horrid is the fact that those in the Nazi leadership under Adolf Hitler were all environmentalists, deeply committed to conservation and similar expressions that put the Earth above the value of human life.
This is all revealed in a book by R. Mark Musser, “Nazi Oaks”, now in its third printing. Musser was introduced to environmentalism at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, from which he graduated in 1989. In 1994 he received Master of Divinity and spent seven years as a missionary to Belarus and in the Ukraine.
Musser’s book is absolutely astonishing as he documents how “Green” the Nazis were from their earliest years until their defeat. It was Heinrich Himmler, the Reich Leader from 1929 to 1945, who was responsible for the “Final Solution”, the mass killing of Europe’s Jews. He led the Nazi party’s SS.
As Musser notes, “The Nazis were trying to eliminate both global capitalism and international communism in order to recover a reverence for nature lost in the modern cosmopolitan world.” The Nazis also held Judeo-Christian values in contempt.
“That this evolutionary Nazi nature religion was clothed in secular biology and colored by environmental policies and practices, is a historical truth that has been ignored and underreported for too long a time in all the discussions about the Holocaust,” writes Musser.
I am inclined to believe that it is no accident that the global warming charlatans began to use the term “deniers” to describe skeptics.
By 2011, a Gallup poll that surveyed people in 111 countries revealed that most of the human race did not see global warming as a serious threat. Still, worldwide 42% told Gallup that they thought global warming was either ‘somewhat serious’ or ‘very serious.’ That was down from 63% in polls taken in 2007 and 2008 in the U.S.
More than just a spat between scientists, in April 2012, the Congressional Research Service estimated that, since 2008, the federal government had spent nearly $70 billion on ‘climate change activities.’ That kind of money could build or repair a lot of bridges and roads. It could fund elements of our military. It could be spent on something other than a climate over which neither the government nor anyone in the world has any influence.
Bursting onto the national stage, Dr. Spencer’s decision to call the global warming scientists Nazis for their efforts to intimidate or smear the reputations of those whose research disputes their claims, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. a Wall Street Journal columnist, wrote on March 1 that “Surely some kind of ending is upon us. Last week climate protesters demanded the silencing of Charles Krauthammer for a Washington Post column that notices uncertainties in the global warming hypothesis.”
“In coming weeks,” wrote Jenkins, “a libel trial gets under way brought by Penn State’s Michael Mann, author of the famed "hockey stick" graph (Editor’s note: an IPCC graph Mann created that asserted a sudden, major increase in heat has been widely debunked) against the National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writer Rand Simberg and roving commentator Mark Steyn for making wisecracks about his climate work.”
Revelations of several thousand emails between IPCC scientists, one of whom was Mann, were christened “climategate” and demonstrated the efforts in which they engaged to suppress the publication of any papers that questioned global warming in scientific journals. As the climate turned cooler, they became increasingly alarmed.
What we are likely witnessing are the long death throes of the global warming hoax. Calling those scientists and others like myself “deniers” and other names simply reveals the desperation of those who are seeing a great source of money slip away under the spotlight of scientific truth, nor will they be able to impose their lies on the rest of us.
© Alan Caruba, 2014
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News.......................
Pushing Climate Deception and Fear at Children - two US organisations carry on the despicable practice
President Putin - Macho Man Gives Uncle Sam And John Bull A Spanking
Great Lakes nearing ice cover record
Subject of 'hot mug shot' suing over use of photo
The Basics of Concealed Carry
Crimea River
Emails revealed on Lois Lerner's attorney agreeing to her testifying
CDR Salamander: The Lessons of WWI we need to Remember Today
Is Moldova next?
Obama’s Journey from Arrogance to Incompetence
Obama's budget eyes $1 trillion hike in tax revenue
What Putin and Obama Do and Don’t Have in Common
High school senior denied 1st request for college tuition
Petraeus being kept 'quiet'? Rep asks Holder why probe of ex-CIA chief remains open
Vintage World War II aircraft visit Pensacola for the weekend
Choom Gang Economics
Dempsey: Threat of Conflict in Asia Increasing
Israel and the Rest of the World
Can the US Afford the Asia Pivot?
Britain reduced to shaking a weedy fist at Vladimir Putin
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Crisis in Ukraine: Did Obama Invite Russia into Crimea?
Trifecta looks at President Obama's response to the Russian invasion of Crimea. Did Obama's overall weakness on foreign policy serve as a silver platter invitation to Russian President Vladimir Putin; an invitation to invade Ukraine? Hear what Scott Ott, Stephen Green and Tammy Bruce think.
Irony!...from TPC
In the scheme of government a battle has been raging over who would be the worst President of all time and who would be second-worst!
The result is the irony of all ironies!
At The Political Commentator here.
Is the housing market heading up or rolling over?...from HAS
Is the housing market going to continue to improve or have we seen the bounce and prices and sales are now going to roll over and head back down?
In a guest article the author lays out his case for why the market may be running out of steam.
At HAS here.
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
MLK a Republican? Or Just a Dream?..........................
Democrats insist that MLK wasn't a Republican. They want to claim, and take credit for, his dream, but not the blame for destroying that dream.
Ponzi has a 'red line' too.....................from Rico
Yesterday's ~2% rise in Gold put the Banksters on full combat alert.
You can easily see their paper attack on Gold and Silver bullion this morning. Any 'unmanaged' rise in price puts control of their paper Ponzi scheme at risk of failing and you can almost hear them collectively (a) making pyramids in their seat cushions, (b) gasping, and (c) muttering "price.increases.must.not.stand."
Any move towards something even remotely resembling 'price discovery' that threatens the paper price suppression scheme is clearly their 'red line'
...and unlike their metrosexual political counterparts, they have the cojones to do something about defending that line, illegal though it may be.
Manipulator-in-Chief........................from Dan Friedman
[Is this another instance of Obama making another end-run around the Constitution? Or is it another instance of gutless Congressional Republicans failing to protect it? df]
The Hill,March 03, 2014,
Netanyahu at AIPAC...................from Dan Friedman
Here's a link to a play-by-play summary of Netanyahu’s address to AIPAC this morning via Times of Israel. No video as yet. Please note: I never said Bibi doesn’t give a heckuva speech. It’s his follow-thru (or lack thereof) that worries me.
Obama's Sewer Pipe..........................from Dan Friedman
With the full cooperation of Obama’s leftist friend at Bloomberg, Jeffrey Goldberg, Obama tried again to ambush Netanyahu while he was in the air traveling to D.C. Shades of 2011. For about a day the interview, and Obama’s condescending threats, got plenty of play in our media. But that all changed on Sunday night. That’s when the Russians pulled their stunt in the Crimea, capturing the world’s attention and upstaging Obama (and Bibi) in the process. The “distraction” took the wind out of the sails of Goldberg’s “scoop”, and now it’s dropped entirely off the radar screen. Instead, we’re back to business as usual. All eyes have returned to BHO’s incompetence (intended or unintended) in foreign affairs and how the man has turned a once-great country into the laughing stock of the “international community.”
Reading stories about the Ukraine and Crimea, I did learn a strategic lesson. The Europeans are heavily dependent on Russian oil and gas, and this will have a strong impact on how the Continent – especially Germany – deals with this crisis. In turn, it would surely give more leverage to stable, friendly countries who can replace the Russian bear. Now here’s the kicker. Recently, enormous reserves of gas have been found off Israel’s coast, and shale oil under her land. These just beginning to come on line. By now, you must see where this is going. If only Israel and its fractious leaders can avoid the traps set for them by Jewish peace mongers and Muslim rejectionists alike, then the future of the Jews and Israel may yet be bright – in spite of Jeffrey Goldberg and his BFF Obama.
Going Outlaw - Wild Bill
If a tyrannical goverment passes laws we cannot obey, we will be outlaws. But that is not necessarily a bad thing.
Putin's Folly
By Alan Caruba
Photos of Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, often show him shirtless, riding a horse, shooting, catching large fish, and close to wild animals. It is the kind of public relations intended to emphasize his manliness and strength.
Putin has made it clear over the years that he wants to restore the size and influence of the former Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, in part from the four decades of isolation of the Cold War and in part because Communism doesn’t work no matter how large or small a nation may be.
Just ask the Venezuelans who want to overthrow their government or the Ukrainians who forced out their president, Viktor Yanukovych, after he tried to thwart a greater engagement with the European Union.
Putting Russian troops into the Republic of Crimea while claiming that they are there to protect the human rights of Ukrainians in the eastern sector will prove to be a major blunder. Call it Putin’s folly.
History is often shaped by the errors made by various leaders. The former head of the Soviet Union’s NKVD is long accustomed to using coercion and Communism depends on it to maintain its power. The move into Ukraine reflects the preference to threaten this and other former satellite nations, but we are now in different times. Putin is about to learn that.
President Obama’s lack of a coherent foreign policy and his desire to have better relations with Russia has been widely criticized, but so far as the Ukraine is concerned, he has acted wisely.
At an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Monday, the U.S. ambassador, Samantha Power, spelled out Putin’s errors of judgment for everyone to hear, accusing Russia of an act of aggression.
“Russia has every right to wish events had turned out differently,” she said of the events in Ukraine, but “It doesn’t have the right to express that using military force.” President Obama backed that up, warning of potential diplomatic and economic “isolation.”
In blunt terms, Powers said “So many of the assertions made this afternoon by the Russian Federation are without basis in reality.”
Powers enumerated the events, noting that Russian military forces had taken over Ukrainian border posts, taken over the ferry terminal in Kerch, and that its ships were moving in and around Sevastapol. In addition, Russia was blocking telephone services in some areas. “It is a fact that Russia has surrounded or taken over practically all Ukrainian military facilities in Crimea” in addition to having had its jets enter Ukrainian airspace.”
“Russian military action is not a human rights protection mission. It is a violation of international law and a violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the independent nation of Ukraine, and a breach of Russia’s Helsinki Commitments and its U.N. obligations.” All true.
Powers, speaking for the U.S., said that “There is a way out. And that is through direct and immediate dialogue by Russia with the government of Ukraine, the immediate pull-back of Russia’s military forces, the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, and the urgent deployment of observers and human rights monitors, not through more threats and more distortions.”
Putin’s show of strength will backfire because neither the U.S., nor the European Union, or any other nation wants to see a revived Soviet Union in the form of an over-aggressive Russian Federation.
President Obama announced an aid package to bolster the Ukrainian government, including $1 billion in loan guarantees to offset any loss of energy subsidies from Russia. The U.S. is also planning to provide technical support for Ukraine’s financial institutions, training for election observers and assistance in anti-corruption efforts. One of the reasons Ukrainians drove out Yanukovych was the corruption he represented and his preference for Russian influence in the Ukraine.
Coming off the global attention generated by the Winter Olympics, Putin may have calculated that he had to back Yanukovych and, after he fled Kiev and the Ukraine, concluded that only a show of military power would restore respect for the Russian Federation. He was wrong. Nations get respect for not invading their neighbors and for participating in the global economy.
In many ways, in today’s world there are options to pressure Russia with regard to its need to sell its natural gas and oil assets, and conduct trade with other nations. Putin has underestimated these options.
At some point he will withdraw his military—whose uniforms do not show any identification of origin—and will declare that Russia will respect the outcome of the Ukrainian elections in May. He has no choice. The Cold War is over, but it never really ended as far as Putin is concerned.
While President Obama has received a torrent of criticism for his foreign affairs policies, much of it well earned, his restraint is the best way to address the Russian invasion and the U.S. mobilization of resistance to it is the wisest course of action.
Nobody wants World War III and that includes Vladimir Putin.
© Alan Caruba, 2014
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