As Obama Rushes To Nuclear Deal With Iran, Iran Refuses To Provide Information

As the sands of time run down on the Obama administration, he and his peeps are dead set on creating a deal with Iran, any deal, doesn’t matter what. They’re working hard to cement Obama in the same mold of foreign policy incompetence as Jimmy Carter and Neville Chamberlain

(Washington Post) The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said that Iran has failed to provide the information or access needed to allay the agency’s concerns about the weapons potential of the country’s nuclear program.

With the deadline nearing for international talks on constraining Iran’s nuclear program, Yukiya Amano, director general of the IAEA, said in an interview that Iran has replied to just one of a dozen queries about “possible military dimensions” of past nuclear activities.

Amano said that Iran has provided only “very limited” information about two other issues, while the rest have not been addressed at all.

Is it any wonder that the White House will not promise to let people know the details before it is signed?

(Weekly Standard) In an interview this evening on Fox News, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki would not promise that Americans would get to see the details of a nuclear deal with Iran before it’s “signed, sealed, delivered.”

Fox host Greta Van Susteren asked, “When there is a proposed deal, will the American people get sort of a real strong briefing on it before it’s actually signed, sealed, and delivered so that we can have our thought whether it’s a good deal, bad deal, so we can have some input? Or is this going to be signed and then we are going to hear about it?”

“Well, I think it’s not about it signed — it’s negotiated between countries and it’s negotiated between leaders of countries. That’s traditionally and historically how international negotiations have worked,” said Psaki.

In other words, the American public can piss off, because the Obama administration will be as secretive as usual. We’ll be lucky if Congress is informed. More likely, the deal will be leaked to a foreign news outlet from one of the negotiating partners. Team Obama, which blew off the Iranian green uprising, seems to really be enthralled by the hardcore Iranian regime

(Breitbart) On Monday, the White House dismissed Ayatollah Khamenei’s “Death to America” rhetoric, telling CNN that it was “intended for a domestic political audience.” That comment came on the heels of White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest explaining that such rhetoric provided even more reason for negotiating a deal with the Iranian regime.

At the same time that the White House essentially blew off Ayatollah Khamenei’s “Death to America” routine, the White House deliberately misinterpreted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments the day before and the day of his re-election in Israel. Apparently the things said during an election do not constitute electioneering; the things said in a country that has not had free elections for three decades constitute electioneering. Welcome to the delusional anti-Semitic world of the Obama administration, where Palestinian diplomats can refuse to disassociate from Hamas, and Iran can openly embrace the destruction of America and Israel, but it’s the Jews who need to be clubbed into line.

Obama embraces enemies and, at best, dismisses allies. If this coming deal with Iran was so great, information might be shared. That it is being kept relatively secret, without even briefings of Congress, should say quite a bit. Fortunately, it will have no force of law past Obama’s time in office.

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Spring Snow Is Totally The Fault of Climate Change

Here’s yet another disciple of the Cult of Climastrology

(Huffington Post) It was a lovely spring day in Chicago. Last week it hit a balmy 60 degrees as the season began to move off of winter. Opening Day of the baseball season is just around the corner, less than a mere two weeks away on April 5. I look my morning constitutional, and some of it was even outdoors;

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And the elves back at the homestead are all laughing.

Yes, this is Chicago on Monday morning, March 23. That’s three days after the official beginning of Spring. It was 29 degrees when I set out on my early morning walk. By 10:30, the snow was coming down even harder. And yes, the first game of the baseball season will be at Wrigley Field is only 13 days away. I expect to hear Cubs announcer Pat Hughes call out that the runner sleds into second base for a double.

Where is Sen.James Inhofe (R-OK) when you really need him? Now’s when you’d love to see him on the Senate floor with that snowball, ridiculing the concept of Climate Change…

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If All You See…

…is a field overgrown from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Nice Deb, with a post on the difference in the way the White House treats Netenyahu’s and Khamehnei’s “words”.

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Ted Cruz Responds To Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown On Climate Change

I mentioned California governor Jerry Brown’s silliness regarding Ted Cruz and “climate change” yesterday. Cruz fired back

(Think Progress) Responding to California Gov. Jerry Brown’s (D) remarks on Meet the Press on Sunday that Cruz was “absolutely unfit” to run for office because of his “direct falsification of the existing scientific data” on climate change, Cruz said Sunday that “global warming alarmists” like Brown “ridicule and insult anyone who actually looks at the real data.”

Speaking on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Sunday, Cruz said that Brown and other proponents of action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change engage in “ad hominem attacks” and “don’t want to confront the data” on climate change. Cruz said that satellites are showing that warming isn’t happening, even though “apocalyptic computer models said that we would see substantial warming.”

Sadly, Ted missed a salient point: the people, especially the leaders, in the Cult Of Climastrology are massive hypocrites within their own lives. Of course, TP deflects Ted’s point about the satellite data

About 90 percent of the warming over the last 17 years has occurred in the oceans, the impacts of which will start to be felt more acutely in the near future. Greenland’s ice melt has increased five-fold since the mid-1990s. Another recent study found that sea level is rising 60 percent faster than projected.

We’re back to “the oceans ate my warming”.

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Science Museums Urged To Cut Ties With Fossil Fuels Companies, Koch Brothers

This is the soft tyranny of the Progressive Left, whom Jonah Goldberg referred to as “nice fascists”. In their world, voluntary associations that they disapprove of must be cut. And they’ll take long fossil fueled trips in order to make sure you know it

Science Museums Urged to Cut Ties With Fossil Fuel Donors
Letter from Nobel laureates and other scientists goes to 330 institutions urging them to cut ties with the industry responsible for climate misinformation.

Hundreds of museums across the country––including some of the most prestigious––are being asked by more than 30 scientists to cut their ties to the fossil fuel industry.

In a letter sent to more than 330 science and natural history centers on Tuesday, the researchers said that when “some of the biggest…funders of misinformation on climate science” give millions of dollars to science-focused museums, it acts to “undermine public confidence in the validity of the institutions.”

“Museums are feeling budgetary crunches, and these donors bring in large sums of money,” said Beka Economopoulos, co-founder and director of the Brooklyn-based Natural History Museum, a new educational organization that coordinated the letter. “Museums, even unintentionally, are unlikely to bite the hand that feeds them. There is a threat of self-censorship where the philanthropy serves to make museums more reticent to offend the donor, or certainly to critique the practices of the donor.”

The Cult of Climastrology would prefer their version of censorship. Not to be outdone, here’s what the NY Times, the “Paper of Record”, runs. Same story, different tenor

Science Museums Urged to Cut Ties With Kochs

Dozens of climate scientists and environmental groups are calling for museums of science and natural history to “cut all ties” with fossil fuel companies and philanthropists like the Koch brothers.

A letter released on Tuesday asserts that such money is tainted by these donors’ efforts to deny the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change.

The Koch brother, long a liberal bugaboo, have a long history of donating vast sums of their own money to help other people and institutions out in a charitable manner. No one has been able to show any sort of association for a quid pro quo or “self-censorship”. Rather than being lauded for their humanitarianism and philanthropy, they are insulted and assaulted. By people who a) do not give their own money to help out and b) refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels.

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Ted Cruz Presidential Announcement Brings The Liberal Moonbattery Out In Force

It was rather wise for Ted Cruz to announce early that he’s officially running for president: it brings that bat guano insane from Liberals out into the open early, so it can be knocked down. Ezra Klein provides one of the more laughable “articles”

Imagine Ted Cruz as president

If you guessed Sen. Ted Cruz would launch his presidential campaign by remixing John Lennon’s “Imagine,” well, you win the pool.

Cruz, a former national debater, is an excellent speaker. And he doesn’t just dish red meat. His announcement at Liberty University had the friendly, looping cadence of a megachurch preacher. He walked the stage confidently. He bantered with the crowd. He told stories. He was as comfortable talking Obamacare as he is layering on schmaltz. Liberals who have come to expect a conservative firebreather will be disappointed.

But there was an odd note twanging through his address, and it took to an anonymous student on the social networking app YikYak to point it out: “Imagining this guy actually fulfilling these promises.”

The word Cruz kept coming back to — “imagine” — was a bit of a dodge. He asked his audience at the evangelical Christian university to imagine a more conservative world. He asked them to imagine a flat tax, and the full repeal of Obamacare, and a government that stands against gay marriage and with Bibi Netanyahu. But he didn’t tell them how to achieve it — save for the implied vote for Cruz. The speech ended up feeling like a cross between CPAC and The Secret.

Which leads to this subhead

Imagination is not a plan

Really? Remember, Ezra Klein was and is a BIG supporter of Barack Obama, whose entire 2008 campaign was based on “Hope and Change”, and nothing more. Cruz has shown that he has plans. He has been active in the Senate. What did Obama do, other than avoid any difficult votes?

Vox’s Timothy B. Lee also makes a big deal out of the fact that the donation page doesn’t use SSL, but was forced to create a correction

Correction: This article originally stated that the site doesn’t use SSL encryption at all. In fact, the submission of the credit card data is encrypted, but the lack of encryption for the donation page as a whole creates unnecessary risks for user security, as explained above.

That is something that Team Cruz needs to fix, right? Oops. They already have. Again, remember that Obama’s website was barely using any security at all, and liberals poo poo’d it.

The NY Times’ Alan Rappeport weighs in on the Cruz birtherism meme, and, unsurprisingly, fails to 100% say “he’s eligible”. It’s not a big surprise, seeing as how the Times ran two “just wondering” articles, in February and July 2008, about whether McCain was actually eligible. Then we have moonbattery from Think Progress

Ted Cruz Just Laid Out The Most Anti-Woman Agenda Yet

The evidence supporting that assumption is rather thin, but, then, Liberals often do not tend to actually read beyond the headline, so the talking point will simply be that Cruz is part of the He Man Woman Haters Club. Despite doting on his wife and two daughters. Much of the evidence is simply that on some issues, women support it more than men, such as with repealing Ocare, and that women support the contraception mandate (ie, forcing Other People to pay for birth control) 65%. Which leads to

A Flat Tax And Abolishing The IRS

“Instead of a tax code that crushes innovation, that imposes burdens on families struggling to make ends met, imagine a simple flat tax. Imagine abolishing the IRS.,” he said.

There’s little polling on a flat tax or abolishing the IRS specifically, since it mostly hasn’t been a serious policy proposal from either party. The last candidate to propose a flat tax was Herman Cain with his 9-9-9 proposal in 2012. That proposal was 10 points more popular with men than with women.

So, no real evidence, but somehow that’s “anti-woman”.

On immigration reform, abortion and same sex marriage, gun control, government data collection, school choice and Common Core, and foreign policy, women poll different from men, so, this is the so-called evidence that Cruz is anti-women. Will this be the new dynamic, that a simple slight difference of opinion is part of the War on Women? Of course, it’s Democrats who want to disarm the law abiding population, especially women, leaving them more vulnerable to criminals, who do not care about the law.

Anyhow, Democrats are cheering for Ted, because

The launch of Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential bid Monday has prompted an outpouring of excitement and delight — from Democrats.

To liberal activists, the firebrand Texan is much too far to the right for the nation at large and too extreme to even win the Republican nomination.

But they want nothing more than for him to run strongly throughout the primary season. The more momentum he develops, they argue, the more likely he is to push the eventual GOP nominee further to the right than that person will want to go.

Be careful what you wish for. They said Ronald Reagan was too far to the Right, in both 1980 and 1984, and look how that turned out. Especially when you have someone who can speak and think as well on stage as Cruz can. Teleprompter? He don’t need no stinkin’ teleprompter!

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Cult Of Climastrology Gets Steven Goddard Suspended On Twitter

Anyone surprised? Warmists, like the rest of their fascistic Progressive brethren, like to shut down those they disagree with.

Steven has more on this at his site. And the Daily Caller has chimed in

Ironically, Goddard said the last tweet he sent out before having his account suspended was “After taking power, progressives changed their motto from ‘always question authority’ to ‘it is illegal to question authority.’”

More at Twitchy

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Twitter is a private company and they can do as they wish. Of course, trying to get an Islamic jihadi kicked off is very, very hard. But not a Skeptic. Liberals can’t take debate.

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Climate Change Snow Discussed As “Weird Weather”

The Cult Of Climastrology at its finest

Weird weather discussed at Delaware Valley College

Last Friday’s snowfall could be a harbinger of climate change.

“It’s weird to have 6 inches of snow on the first day of spring,” Michelle Grossman, a meteorologist at NBC10, told about 80 people at an informal talk on “Climate Change and (Weird) Weather” on Sunday at Delaware Valley College in Doylestown Township.

While spring snows have happened before, they could become more frequent in the future as climate change upends traditional weather patterns, according to Grossman, a Penn State graduate who has been forecasting at the Philadelphia TV station since 2008.

It’s weird to blame cold and snow on warmth.

Anyhow, it’s happened before, but, somehow, a warming world will create more cold and snow in the spring? Cult.

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If All You See…

….is a beautiful field that would be a perfect place for a windfarm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Power, with a post on Starbucks (Expensive) Coffee ending their #racetogether campaign.

I forgot to mention yesterday that it is sundress week, in honor of Spring!

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Warmist Gov Moonbeam: Ted Cruz Unfit To Run For President Because Of Climate Change Views

Apparently, the Cult Of Climastrology is now dictating who is allowed to run for POTUS

(Washington Post) California Gov. Jerry Brown (D), speaking Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” deemed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) “unfit” to run for president because of his views on climate change.

“That man betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of the existing scientific data,” he said. “It’s shocking, and I think that man has rendered himself absolutely unfit to be running for office.”

I can’t find that in my copy of the Constitution, regarding qualifications. But, wait, it gets better

Brown said there should be urgency to deal with climate change. “I think this almost has to be at the level of a crusade,” he said.

Blimey. I didn’t think the 2016 general election would be run along the lines of the Spanish inquisition. Oh, but, we arent done with Moonbeam

Gov. Jerry Brown said opposition to steps President Barack Obama is taking on climate change “borders on the immoral,” as he tore into Republicans in an interview aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Do you know what’s immoral and should disqualify a person? Refusing to practice what they preach. Brown is like most Warmists, living a big carbon footprint life, expecting Everyone Else to have theirs reduced by Government.

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