Obama Expects US-ISRAEL Relations To Get Better Because Of Th3 Iran Deal

By William Teach August 29, 2015 – 4:38 pm

Well, on one hand, he’s right: if a Republican wins, they will toast the deal and make our relations better, which won’t be that hard after Obama has destroyed that relationship

(AP) President Barack Obama on Friday compared tensions between the U.S. and Israel over the Iranian nuclear deal to a family feud and said he expects quick improvements in ties between the longtime allies once the accord is implemented.

“Like all families, sometimes there are going to be disagreements,” Obama said in a webcast with Jewish Americans. “And sometimes people get angrier about disagreements in families than with folks that aren’t family.”

Yeah, it’s just like that. If one family member is making a deal with an outside party that wants to kill the other family member.

The president encouraged skeptics of the agreement to “overcome the emotions” that have infused the debate and evaluate the accord based on facts.

“I would suggest that in terms of the tone of this debate everybody keep in mind that we’re all pro-Israel,” he said. “We have to make sure that we don’t impugn people’s motives.”

This is the same guy who’s said it’s either this agreement or war, deeming those same skeptics warmongers. He’s claimed that those who are against this deal are making “common cause” with the Iranian regime. Pot. Kettle.

Oops, that pot kettle thing is probably raaaaacist.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 29, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…are evil meat based burgers, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post On Carly! being excluded from the next GOP debate.

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Cult Of Climastrology Predicts 2015 To Be Hottest Year Ever!

By William Teach August 29, 2015 – 11:06 am

Yet, this still wouldn’t prove anthropogenic causation, just a Holocene warm period

Climate change: 2015 will be the hottest year on record ‘by a mile’, experts say

Climate scientists are predicting that 2015 will be the hottest year on record “by a mile”, with the increase in worldwide average temperatures dramatically undermining the idea that global warming has stopped – as some climate-change sceptics claim.

Even though there are still several months left in the year to gather temperature readings from around the world, climate researchers believe nothing short of a Krakatoa-sized volcanic eruption that cuts out sunlight for months on end can now stop last year’s record being beaten.

It is rare for climate experts to make such a bold prediction so soon in the year, but they believe that a surge in ocean temperatures in particular now makes it almost inevitable that 2015 will turn out to be the hottest year globally since instruments were first used to gather readings more than 130 years ago.

There’s nothing wrong with making predictions: many are predicting yet another brutal winter for the US, Europe, and the Northern Hemisphere. Of course, when those who control the actual data are making predictions, you know they are going to come true. And there’s a reason for that

The average temperature increase will be so much higher than the previous record, set in 2014, that it should melt away any remaining arguments about the so-called “pause” in global warming, which many climate sceptics have promoted as an argument against action on climate change.

They’ve trotted out over 70 excuses for the Pause, now they’ll try to “massage” the data to prove it isn’t happening. But, it still wouldn’t prove anthropogenic causation, unless you count falsifying data to be anthropogenic.

They expect it to be 0.1C above average, since they failed to get anyone to care when they were yammering about 0.01 and 0.02C increases. So, we already know the number that will be produced sometime in January. And expect lots of data to be released right before the Paris ‘climate change” meeting.

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FBI “A Team” Involved In Clinton Email Server Probe

By William Teach August 29, 2015 – 7:36 am

If Hillary Clinton was a lower level government employee, she would most likely already be under indictment. If she was running one of those evil Big Corporations, multiple federal agencies would have rushed in with warrants. But, it’s nice to see that the best are now being used

(Fox News) An FBI “A-team” is leading the “extremely serious” investigation into Hillary Clinton’s server and the focus includes a provision of the law pertaining to “gathering, transmitting or losing defense information,” an intelligence source told Fox News.

The section of the Espionage Act is known as 18 US Code 793.

A separate source, who also was not authorized to speak on the record, said the FBI will further determine whether Clinton should have known, based on the quality and detail of the material, that emails passing through her server contained classified information regardless of the markings. The campaign’s standard defense and that of Clinton is that she “never sent nor received any email that was marked classified” at the time.

It is not clear how the FBI team’s findings will impact the probe itself. But the details offer a window into what investigators are looking for — as the Clinton campaign itself downplays the controversy.

Ed Morrissey provides a pretty good explanation of how that section of the Espionage Act applies. It should be noted that Republicans drive out, or at least attempt to drive out, their own people who have been accused of breaking minor laws. Remember Larry Craig? His offense was a misdemeanor. Hillary has certainly been involved in Bad Behavior, if not illegal behavior.

Clinton told reporters Friday that she remains confident no violations were committed.

“I have said repeatedly that I did not send nor receive classified material and I’m very confident that when this entire process plays out that will be understood by everyone,” she said. “It will prove what I have been saying and it’s not possible for people to look back now some years in the past and draw different conclusions than the ones that were at work at the time. You can make different decisions because things have changed, circumstances have changed, but it doesn’t change the fact that I did not send or receive material marked classified.”

What, was she sending smoke signals? Faxes? Classified material was, in fact, found in her emails in her insecure emails, which flowed through her server. Furthermore, even emails that weren’t classified included information on the business of the State Department and United States government. How can we possibly trust someone who intentionally skirted, and most likely broke, the law and common sense regarding security? Companies and governments at all levels work hard to secure their systems, and spend gobs of money doing so. Yet, even they are not totally secure, hence all the hacking issues (see Ashley Madison, Target, IRS, etc). Here was Hillary, using a totally insecure server doing the business of government.

Heck, one would have thought she would want the business of the Clinton Foundation to be as secure as possible.

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Man With Largest Carbon Footprint In World Says ‘Climate Change’ Is A Threat Right Now

By William Teach August 29, 2015 – 7:10 am

Let’s be perfectly clear: climate change is real. It always happens. What’s not real is the cult-like belief that it is mostly/solely caused by the works of Mankind. And, certainly, if it was so darned anthropogenic, Obama would not have just take a long fossil fueled flight to New Orleans for the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which included trips in large fossil fueled vehicle convoy, which is soon to be followed by the same type of trip to Alaska

(The Hill) President Obama is pointing toward Alaska as tangible evidence of the immediate danger climate change presents the U.S.

“This is all real,” Obama said Saturday in his weekly address. “This is happening to our fellow Americans right now.”

“In fact, Alaska’s governor recently told me that four villages are in ‘imminent danger’ and have to be relocated,” he said, citing Gov. Bill Walker (I). “Already, rising sea levels are beginning to swallow one island community.”

“Think about that,” Obama added. “If another country threatened to wipe out an American town, we’d do everything in our power to protect ourselves. Climate change poses the same threat, right now.”

Iran constantly threatens the United States, yet Obama is pushing a deal that would see Iran gain even more power and have more money to carry forth the threat by killing more U.S. citizens.

“Alaskans are already living with its effects,” Obama said. “More frequent and extensive wildfires. Bigger storm surges as sea ice melts faster. Some of the swiftest shoreline erosion in the world – in some places, more than three feet a year.”

There’s no increase in wildfires. Sea rise? A whopping 7 inches during the 20th century, which is very low for a Holocene warm period.

“Alaska’s glaciers are melting faster too, threatening tourism and adding to rising seas,” he added. “And if we do nothing, Alaskan temperatures are projected to rise between six and twelve degrees by the end of the century, changing all sorts of industries forever.”

Glaciers melting during a Holocene warm period is nothing unexpected. They were melting back during the early 20th century, when CO2 was below the “safe” level of 350ppm. As for projections? So far, virtually every climate model has failed, hence the need for scary prognostications.

Now, if only Warmists like Obama would practice what they preach. But, they think that being carbon neutral means paying a fine, such as with purchasing carbon credits, rather than changing their behavior. Rather like refusing to stop speeding, preferring to pay the ticket. Of course, if we go by Cult of Climastrology talking points, speeding won’t destroy all life on Earth.

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Climate Change Is Causing Injuries Because It’s Nice Outside And People Go Play

By William Teach August 28, 2015 – 4:42 pm

It’s so utterly horrible. Nice weather leads to people going outside and hurting themselves while playing. And no one ever hurt themselves outside before CO2 hit 350ppm, you know

(Climate Progress) People of all ages — not just the elderly — are more at risk of death and emergency room visits as the earth warms, a recent study has found.

The study, published this month by researchers at Brown University and the Rhode Island Department of Health in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, focused on the population of Rhode Island. Researchers found that it didn’t need to be that hot for people to start visiting the ER in higher numbers — according to the study, a temperature of 75 degrees compared to 65 made heat-related emergency room visits increase by 3.3 percent. But, as it got hotter, the jump in visits was more acute: on days with highs of 85 degrees, ER visits jumped 23.9 percent compared to days with highs of 75 degrees. In addition, Rhode Island’s death rate increased by 4 percent on 85-degree days compared to 75-degree days.

So, again, all this confirms is that when the temps rise, people get outside. And many hurt themselves while doing things in the great outdoors, and even overheat themselves. Shocking! The study even mentions these notions, and points out that the age group is not the elderly, but those 18-64 most at risk.

But, of course

The study warned that, if climate change continues to drive temperatures up, Rhode Island’s residents “would experience substantially higher morbidity and mortality.” If, by the end of this century, days in Rhode Island become 10 degrees warmer — a projection that’s on the high end of climate models — the summertime death rate in the state would increase by 1.5 percent, or about 80 additional deaths per summer. In addition, the ER visit rate would jump by 25 percent, or an increase of about 1,500 visits every summer. And since other states — not just Rhode Island — are expected to see higher temperatures with climate change, the study’s results could serve to make residents around the U.S. wary of high heat.

First, there’s no proof of anthropogenic causation, and, second, seems like people in Rhode Island are rather wimpy.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 28, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil burger, which is almost as bad as the evil fossil fueled vehicles in the background, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Right Wing News, with a post on employers being held responsible for contractors and franchises.

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Yet Another Poll Finding Vast Disapproval Of Iran Deal

By William Teach August 28, 2015 – 10:40 am

Surprise?

(The Hill) A vast majority of the public would oppose the White House moving forward with the nuclear deal with Iran without the support of Congress, according to a new survey released by an organization critical of the deal.

The poll, released by Secure America Now, found that 82 percent of Americans — including large majorities in both parties — oppose the White House granting billions of dollars in sanctions relief “without the approval of Congress.”

The survey also showed that, when informed about “secret side deals between Iran and the U.N. monitoring agency,” 61 percent of people thought that Congress should vote to kill the deal. Just 16 percent said it should be approved, despite the existence of the side deals.

We also learn from the poll

58% say it’s better to walk away from the deal now and negotiate from strength fora better deal now. Only 24% say that it’s the best deal we can get now.

This is all on you, Democrats. You’re willing to go against the will of the American People in favor of protecting Obama, and, let’s face it, the hardcore Iranian regime.

Meanwhile

(Daily Beast) As Congress takes up the Iran nuclear deal next month, it ought to confront this paradox: The agreement allows the Iranians to do something Americans can’t—sell oil to the rest of the world.

Don’t get me wrong. I support the deal, under which Tehran would stop enriching weapons-grade uranium for the next 15 years in return for relief from economic sanctions. It’s not perfect, but President Obama is right that it’s better than what we’d have if his conservative critics got their way—no deal, leaving the Islamic Republic on the brink of acquiring nuclear weapons.

Still, freeing Iran to crank up its oil exports stands in stark incongruity to what’s happening here at home. Domestic oil production has soared by an amazing 68 percent over the past decade, yet we can sell very little of it abroad thanks to outdated laws banning U.S. oil and gas exports.

Excellent point. Jennifer Rubin makes a few good points, too

Second, the president has ceased selling this as the “good deal” he once promised. It is now “this deal or war.” This proposition has been aptly debunked by a variety of experts, including Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.),plenty of former Democratic lawmakers and a slew of experts.

And poll after poll show that the American people think it is a bad deal.

Fifth, the president, after reluctantly signing the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act and conceding that Congress should be entitled to weigh in, is now promoting a filibuster whereby Democrats deny the people’s representatives the right to cast their votes. These same Democrats voted for the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act.

John Boehner and Mitch McConnell need to schedule votes on the Iran Deal immediately upon the return of Congress, get Democrats on the record.

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With 10th Anniversary Of Katrina, Media Banging Drum On Climate Change And Hurricanes

By William Teach August 28, 2015 – 7:08 am

They’re all forgetting the numerous, and changing, prognostications immediately following Hurricane Katrina. Witness Time Magazine’s Justin Worland

Why Climate Change Could Make Hurricane Impact Worse

Hurricane Katrina surprised disaster preparedness authorities when it made landfall 10 years ago, leveling entire communities and killing more than 1,800 people. The storm caused more than $100 billion in damage, making it the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. But for all the damage the storm caused in New Orleans, Katrina was a relatively weak hurricane when it hit the city.

Wait, what? Katrina was a Category 3, with winds of 125mph, at landfall in Louisiana. That’s “relatively weak”?

In the academic community, the unexpected disaster prompted climate scientists to consider the link between climate change and storms. Since then, research has shown that climate change will increase the devastation caused by hurricanes as sea levels rise due to global warming. Some research has also suggested that climate change has increased the intensity and frequency of storms.

Ah, a new prognostication. Let’s not forget how this has evolved.

  • We were told that the big hurricane season of 2005 would be “the new normal”, and that climate change was at fault. There would be lots and lots of landfalling hurricanes.
  • When hurricane formation significantly decreased immediately, we were told that there would be fewer, but they would be more powerful
  • When landfalling hurricane activity fell off the map (no major landfalling hurricanes in the U.S. for 3596 days, only 1-2 barely-a-hurricanes making landfall since 2008), we were told that climate change was actually decreasing the number of landfalling hurricanes, but we are still doomed in the future.
  • Superstorm Sandy was declared as “the new normal”, and that we would have them all the time.
  • Now we get “doom from sea level rise and the occasional hurricane”

Time is good enough to mention many of these, then spin the failed predictions awa

While scientists have come to a consensus about how storm surge will affect cities, research on how climate change affects hurricane strength and intensity remains unclear, and no findings have been positive. Many peer-reviewed studies suggest that warmer weather in tropical oceans has increased the frequency of tropical storm activity, though not necessarily the intensity. Others suggest that climate change has made storms more intense. Still other research has suggested that future storms will be both more frequent and more intense.

The projection of more frequent and more intense hurricanes might surprise even the causal weather observer. Indeed, a major hurricane of category 3 or higher hasn’t hit U.S. soil since 2005, according to a study from earlier this year. But the so-called hurricane drought shouldn’t be viewed as an indication of what’s to come. This year’s strong El Niño will likely reduce the chance of powerful hurricanes.

“Climate scientists” and activists make predictions that fail to materialize, and we’re not supposed to view what’s essentially a 10 year drought as an indication of what’s to come. We’re supposed to believe that they’ll be right in the future. We’ve even got the nutters wondering if we have to create a Category 6 for hurricanes.

Maybe people shouldn’t live in areas along the seashore that are below sea level? Perhaps they should live in areas with competent government? Katrina hit Mississippi and Alabama pretty darned hard (and Florida), yet, there were none of the problems associated with New Orleans, since they had competent state, county, and local government which didn’t wait till the last minute to declare emergencies, as they actually implemented their disaster plans. They also didn’t have a populace which was mostly dependent on Government telling them what to do.

Newsbusters highlights 10 specific unhinged predictions since Katrina. Over at Watts Up With That, Larry Kummer notes

Will a strong hurricane hit America and wreck another major city? Certainly, eventually. Unfortunately, it seems likely that that city hit will be only slightly better prepared than were New Orleans and New York City (hit by tropical storm Sandy in 2012). Our preparations for most forms of extreme weather are no better.

Historians will more accurately assess the causes of our irresponsible public policy than we can, but a large role clearly results from the often disturbing behavior of climate scientists, unlike what the public expects from those warning of a global disaster, and the routine exaggerations and false predictions by activists. Perhaps historians will assign even more blame to our unwillingness to take responsibility for this serious issue: get clearer answer and act accordingly.

Hurricanes happen. If Erika hits the East Coast, you know Warmists will link it to “climate change”, most likely by claiming that “climate change” made Erika worse.

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D.C. Mayor Boo’d For Anti-Crime Plan By #BlackLivesMatter

By William Teach August 28, 2015 – 6:26 am

It’s seriously come to this

(Fox News) The boos began as soon as Washington’s mayor said she was putting more police officers on the streets in neighborhoods affected by violent crime. They didn’t let up for the next 18 minutes as Democrat Muriel Bowser laid out her plans to address an increase in homicides in the nation’s capital.

Bowser was repeatedly heckled and interrupted by a few dozen protesters affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement during her address Thursday inside the sweltering gymnasium of a long-shuttered school in southeast Washington.

That’s right, they’re seriously booing a plan to try and make high crime areas safer from criminals. BTW, Mayor Muriel Bowser is Black, and a member of the Democratic Party.

Shouting “Jobs, not jails!” and “More police is not the answer!,” the protesters accused the mayor of failing to address the root causes of violence and advocating for policies that would do more harm than good.

Jobs rarely show up to areas that have high crime. They tend to flee to areas where they don’t have to worry about being robbed on a constant basis and having their employees shot, stabbed, and assaulted. Homicides in D.C. are up 43 percent, with 103, just 2 less than all of 2014.

Among her legislative goals is to authorize warrantless searches of violent offenders released on parole or probation to look for illegal guns. The protesters argued those searches would put innocent people at risk.

While I’m not quite sure that the plan is legal, why are # BlackLivesMatter nutters so opposed to making sure violent criminals do not have guns, particularly since all evidence shows that, if the criminal is Blacks, the person they kill will most likely be Black?

“I will not be shouted down or scared away when it comes to the safety of the District of Columbia,” Bowser said.

Good for her. How long, though, till some big-shot elected Democratic Party official starts putting pressure on her to cancel these plans, which still have to be approved by the D.C Council?

Outside the school, which Bowser said would be converted into a temporary community center offering city services, was a collection of stuffed animals and empty liquor bottles (wait, what?) marking the spot where 18-year-old Shaun Simmons was fatally shot on Aug. 1. His mother, Shantee Simmons, said she agreed with the mayor’s approach. A friend, Robin McKinney, said the protesters were rude.

“None of them came to support her when her son died,” said McKinney, who is black. “None of that ‘Black Lives Matter’ came and supported her.”

So far, no one has been arrested for that murder. Perhaps the #BlackLivesMatter crew could work their neighborhoods to find out who pulled the trigger. Oh, right, they only care about when a White cop shoots a Black criminal (who’s often pointing a gun at the cops).

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