Cartoon Round Up....

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

President Obama's Last Resort? A New Propaganda Push on Children and Climate

UK: Britain's Terror Addiction

China Conducts Third Flight Test of Hypersonic Strike Vehicle

Super Typhoon Hagupit takes aim on the Philippine​s

American teacher murdered in Abu Dhabi mall

Top Obama aide: I'll leave after State of the Union

Who's behind the devastatin​g Sony hack?

Reducing the Republic to Political Ruins

White House Decides to Build a Bigger Fence

Islamic State has training camps in Libya, warns US commander

If it needs a London conference, Afghanistan must be in trouble

Obama set on obstructing Netanyahu’s re-election

Thought for the Day................

H/T Doverthere

Historical Video: Muslim hatred for Jews and Christians (and everyone else)...from TPC

The video in this article shows how the hatred for, and the desire to destroy, Jews and Christians by some of the more radical members of the Muslim faith, is nothing new.

Watch at The Political Commentator here.

Thank goodness..​....................from Rico

How can you be a dog lover and NOT laugh at (and completely 'get') this?

Achmed deals with a marriage proposal in Ireland | Jeff Dunham: All Over the Map

Thursday Totty................

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

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

WH Can't Explain Why Soap Opera Producer Just Became Ambassador to Hungary

A Bad Night in Libya: Sharyl Attkisson on the Benghazi Cover-up

Sebelius on Gruber: Never met him

Gowdy Approaches Benghazi Minefield

Russia’s budget cuts threaten long-term economic prospects

India, France to 'Fast Track' Rafale Fighter Deal

Accident at Ukraine nuclear plant forces reactor shutdown

Safari Park Rules

Again? New Black Panthers Plot Terror, Feds Only Indict on Gun Charges

Michael Bloomberg Targets 12 More States for Gun Control

Obama Dismisses Republican Efforts To Roll Back Amnesty

Israel Hogtied: Obama's Alliance With Iran...................from Dan Friedman

[Rhetorical question for liberal schlemiels like Dershowitz and the entire Israeli "leadership”: Do you honesty think Obama will cooperate with an Iraeli strike against Iran while

he's "negotiating" with the Mullahs and acting as their wingman? df]

 

 

Telegraph (UK), 02 Dec 2014

 

Iranian jets join allies in the fight against Islamic State in Iraq

 

First evidence of Islamic Republic forces fighting alongside the RAF to take control of towns from Isil in northern Iraq

 

By  Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent

BIG accomplish​ments.....................from Rico

America has seen some BIG accomplishments by the man with the smallest character and intellect to ever lord it over them.

No, not the fiasco of the ObamaCare website...or even the Obama(doesn't)Care steaming pile of Democrat*(C) legislation itself.
* Not one Republican voted for it, something the voters remembered last election.

He has pissed-away and wasted more money and racked-up a more massive debt than anyone else ever has.
- The 'ancien regime' and Marie Antoinette must be spinning in their graves out of sheer jealousy.

Free Fire Zone- Securing the Grid Update

The House of Representatives passed the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act which requires the government to plan for attacks on our infrastructure including the electrical grid. This is vital due to numerous threats including hacking by the Chinese and Russians, Electro-Magnetic Pulse EMP and sabotage

The Great Renewable Energy Rip-Off

 

By Alan Caruba

One of the lesser known attempts to prove that renewable energy, wind and solar power, can replace traditional energy sources--coal, oil, and natural gas--went belly up in much the same way current wind and solar companies depend on tapping the taxpayer for government subsidies in order to stay in business. Google’s Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal initiative begun in 2007 and shut down four years later.
 

Two members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Ross Koningstein and David Fork, worked on the project. Both men have excellent credentials in aerospace engineering and applied physicals, respectively, but neither had a clue about climatology. Expertise in one field rarely translates to another unless it is closely allied.

At the start of the project "we shared the attitude of many stalward environmentalists. We felt that with steady improvements to today's renewable energy technologies, our society could stave off catastrophic climate change. We now know that to be a false hope, but that doesn't mean the planet is doomed."

Environmentalists start off with several thoroughly incorrect beliefs that are not supported by science. The first is that climate change has anything to do with human activity such as carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases.”

The Earth is not a greenhouse. It is always in the process of absorbing and discharging heat via the atmosphere and the oceans. If it retained heat all life on Earth would die. Even on a hot summer’s day, it will cool at night. Deserts, too, are often cooler at night.  As for carbon dioxide, it is a trace gas in the atmosphere at barely 0.04%, but it is also the gas which all vegetation requires. In turn, vegetation gives off oxygen while we humans and other animals exhale carbon dioxide.

Secondly, environmentalists mistakenly believe that carbon dioxide emissions from the use of energy, particularly coal and oil, are so great that it affects the weather defined as what is happening now and the climate whose trends can only be determined decades and centuries from now. The constant claims about carbon dioxide emissions are blatantly false.

There is no basis in science for nations to reduce so-called greenhouse gas emissions. Indeed, more carbon dioxide would be a good thing for the planet’s vegetation, yielding healthier forests and greater crop yields on farms.

Thirdly, environmentalists believe that we shall run out of coal, oil, and natural gas at some point. The current estimates put that point very far in the future and, since new reserves are being found, they show no indication of not being available for a very long time to come.
 

“Trying to combat climate change exclusively with today’s renewable energy technologies simply won’t work,” said the two IEEE engineers. They’re right. Of all the forms of energy available wind and solar are so expensive and so unpredictable that they make no sense based on the false notion that humans can impact the Earth’s climate now or ever.

The public is never told that wind turbines and solar farms all require a traditional electrical energy producer—coal, oil, or natural gas-based—because they don’t function if the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. These days, we can add nuclear plants to those deemed traditional. Hydroelectrical plants are also traditional.

It is the American taxpayer who is paying the price for renewable energy that is more costly to produce than traditional coal-fired plants or those now benefitting from the reduced cost of natural gas thanks to fracking technology that Is securing more of it, as well as oil. 

A Fox News headline recently reported that the “World’s largest solar plant applying for federal grant to pay off federal loan.” The wealthy investors in a California solar plant, the Ivanpah solar plant, owned by Google and the renewable energy giant, NRG, not only received a $1.6 billion construction loan from U.S. taxpayers, but they are now requesting a $539 million grant to pay off their loan! 

William La Jeunesse of Fox News reported that “In 2013, the Obama administration handed out $18.5 billion in renewable energy grants, with $4.4 billion going to solar projects.” Now one of those projects wants the government to give them money to help pay off their construction loan.

La Jeunesse reported, “the plant produced only about a quarter of the power it’s supposed to, a disappointing 254,263 magawatt-hours of electricity from January through August, not the million megawatt-hours it promised.”

Renewable energy is a huge taxpayer and consumer rip-off.

Where solar leaves off, wind energy has been tapping taxpayers by means of the wind energy Production Tax Credit, (PTC) a form of welfare for wind energy companies. The Institute for Energy Research released a white paper in November noting that “A two-year extension will cost $13.35 billion, which is enough to pay 124 million Americans’ monthly electricity bills.”

The PTC “allows wind producers to pay the grid to take their power and still profit.” This “negative pricing” forced two nuclear plants to close their doors because they could not compete against the practice. This would be a good time to let your congressman know that you don’t want to have the PTC extended any further.

Still think wind energy is a good thing? Fully 65% of voters think that two decades of tax credits is enough! Wind energy, like solar, tends to produce more electricity when it is needed least. To top off reasons to stop throwing money at it, the Institute for Energy Research has found that “wind energy costs $109 per megawatt hour, which is twice as much as this year’s average wholesale electricity price of $54 per MWh.”

To wrap up this look at renewable energy the Obama administration’s “war on coal” is going to cause utility bills to surge. As reported on Bloomberg News, according to the Brattle Group, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based consulting company, “the loss of the cheaper coal units will boast power prices by as much as 25% on grids that serve about a third of the nation’s population. The biggest impact may be in the Midwest and Northeast, where demand for gas for heating jumps during the cold-weather months.”

The Environmental Protection Agency has come up with more ways to shut down the provision of electrical power as its proposed Mercury and Air Toxics Standards go into effect, requiring coal-fired plants to install scrubbers or close their doors.

The EPA is not protecting anyone’s health. It is forcing them to pay more for what should be the most traditional and affordable sources of electricity in the world. It is putting people's lives at stake if the power is not available.

© Alan Caruba, 2014

Abbey Clancy by Liz Collins (LOVE Advent 2014)

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

You just can't make this sh*t up................

H/Ts Amnon & Doverthere

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

Will Germany Abolish Itself and France Commit Suicide?

Austria firewood explodes in wood stove

A Western Tourist Hasn't a Chance in a Persian Bazaar

New York's Plot to Gut the Second Amendment

Chief Jackson: 'Pursuing' Investigat​ion into Whether Brown's Stepfather Incited Riot

Richard III's DNA throws up infidelity surprise

Benghazi Heroes Debunk House Intel Report as 'Full of Inaccuraci​es' with Firsthand Account

Britain's Heavy Drinkers Offered Anti-Booze Pill

Detroit power failure raises alarms across the country

The Bitter End

Police threatenin​g Ferguson Oath Keepers underminin​g own interests

New, Legally Binding Treaty Emerges on First Day of UN's Lima Climate Conference

World's 'Worst' Nazi Is Dead

Afghan Cops Shoot Bomb-Carrying Bird

Funeral Goes Wrong When Thief Steals Hearse, Body

Boehner faces conservati​ve ire over plan to delay immigratio​n fight

The Movers and Shakers Behind the Ferguson Riots

Austin, TX Police Officer Shoots Gunman from 100 yards, With a Pistol, While Holding Reins to Horses

Liberalism in Ruins

Senate Confirms Soap Opera Producer as Ambassador​: Read Her Applicatio​n Essay

15,000 bottles of Jameson stolen from Dublin warehouse in armed burglary

Teatime Totty................

Stuff. To Do List.......................from Rico

It's NOT all about STUFF despite what the marketeers and merchandisers would have you believe.
- I have happily managed to completely avoid Black Friday and Cyber Monday for many years now.

This does NOT mean I lack a "to do" list, however.
- And THIS idea is definitely going onto the list.

With proper Arabic numbers, I wonder how this would work in a mosque?

Tim Hawkins - Fun Funeral

Management of Perception​.....................from Rico

The attached WSJ graphic covers 2007-2013. The "Barry Recovery" years.

Interesting that home (ownership) decreased by 11.5% and home (rental) increased by 22%, along with the other numbers shown.

The accompanying WSJ article discussed INFLATION running about 12%.

I'm sure it wasn't "management of perception" that stories like this were 'held' until after the mid-term elections.

I'm equally sure that most Americans (the stupid ones that Gruber and Barry yukked about) had already figured this out all on their own without their smugger, smarter, self-selected 'betters' telling them they had been screwed

Soldier's Christmas - Madison Rising

All three sides?......................from Rico

Liars are often politely referred to as people who talk out of BOTH sides of their mouth.

Barry's legacy as an accomplished liar is to be able to talk out of all THREE sides of his mouth.......

Cartoon Round Up....

A World Without Israel: Is Our Ally in Trouble?

Israel is under attack, and the US doesn't seem to be doing anything. Join us for Part 1 of 'The Future of the Middle East,' with Bill Whittle, Yaron Brook, Tammy Bruce, and Andrew Klavan

Zo: Is Bill Cosby the Real Victim?

When is rape not considered rape? When it’s done by a liberal. If Bill Cosby had espoused traditional liberal views, he would have been given a free pass

How To Talk Your Way Out of the White House 101

Fox News photo

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush may have just talked his way out of the White House, and I want to offer my help to ensure he is successful. At a meeting Monday evening of CEOs sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, Bush appeared to take a veiled shot at Mitt Romney for trying to be too conservative in the last Presidential election and indicated that he would not be so inclined if he decides to enter the race.     (continue reading)

H/T Paul B