ISIS Proclaims US Hostage Killed In Jordan Air Strikes

By William Teach February 7, 2015 – 1:29 pm

The obvious narrative from ISIS is that Jordan is to blame

(NY Times)  She had always been the unidentified, lone female American hostage of the Islamic State. For nearly 17 months, while her fellow American captives were beheaded one after another in serial executions posted on YouTube, Kayla Mueller’s name remained a closely guarded secret, whispered among reporters, government officials and hostage negotiators — all fearing that any public mention might imperil her life.

On Friday, the Islamic State confirmed her identity, announcing that Ms. Mueller, a 26-year-old aid worker from Prescott, Ariz., had been killed in the falling rubble of a building in northern Syria that it said had been struck by bombs from a Jordanian warplane. Both the Jordanian and American governments said there was no proof, even as they rushed to deplore her possible death. Top Jordanian officials said the announcement was cynical propaganda.

Ms. Mueller was abducted while on the road from Syria back to Turkey (might not have been a wise idea to be in Syria in the first place). If she was killed in a Jordanian airstrike, the blame goes strictly to ISIS, which was holding her captive.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 7, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful, natural field that would be perfect for a solar farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Powerline, with a post on where the job growth has gone.

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Climate Change Is Totally Like 4 Guys Sitting At A Lunch Counter In Greensboro Or Something

By William Teach February 7, 2015 – 10:24 am

No, really! (video at the link)

Climate Change Is Young People’s ‘Lunch Counter Moment’

Fifty-five years ago Jibreel Khazan of the Greensboro Four sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth store on Feb. 1, 1960 with three other classmates from North Carolina A&T University to highlight racial injustices in America.

At that time, Jibreel and his classmates were fighting for equality, and the goal to desegregate the lunch counter across America became central in that fight.

Today, while the fight for equality continues, because of climate change it is no longer just about equality, but also existence.

Jibreel Khazan has stated that “climate change is young people’s ‘lunch counter moment’ for the 21st century.”

All young people should listen, and give up all their modern conveniences, like their tablets, smartphones, computers, TVs, ice makers, and so on.

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Bobby Jindal Provides Perfect Response To Obama’s Silly Christian Blaming

By William Teach February 7, 2015 – 6:47 am

I’ve said many, many times over the years, and, in particular, over the past few days, that Liberals like to use language designed specifically to deflect from the given subject. They create strawmen, they throw out words and phrases such as “racist!”, “bigot!”, “settled science”, and “Islamophobia”, they attempt to put people on the defense, all which changes the tone of the debate. This is exactly what Obama did with his petty speech at the National Prayer Breakfast regarding past negative actions of Christians. I’ve listened a bit to Beck, Hannity, and Rush fall into this trap. Jonah Goldberg did. Many on Fox News and in the Conservative Blogosphere fell into this same trap. So did many Republican politicians. They started going down all the roads of “wait a minute, this happened hundreds of years to a millennium ago.” Not Bobby Jindal, though

(National Review)  Bobby Jindal on Friday released a statement responding to the president’s remarks on Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast in which he cautioned Americans from getting on a “high horse” when taking a stance against radical Islam because people have committed “terrible deeds” in the name of Christianity, too.

“It was nice of the President to give us a history lesson at the Prayer breakfast,” Jindal said. “Today, however, the issue right in front of his nose, in the here and now, is the terrorism of Radical Islam, the assassination of journalists, the beheading and burning alive of captives. We will be happy to keep an eye out for runaway Christians, but it would be nice if he would face the reality of the situation today. The Medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the Radical Islamic threat today.”

That is an utterly perfect response. In sales, we deal with something similar all the time. Customers try and take off the beaten path, and our job is to get them back to the correct trail, which leads to a sale (or at least to not waste more time than necessary). What Jindal did is much like the basic form of overcoming objections (amazingly, many try to over-complicate this with 5 to 7 steps). Acknowledge the objection. Reiterate the objection. Then provide a solution. This is also sometimes called ARC (Acknowledge the concern, Respond to the concern, Close that part of the conversation, with C being the hard part. Different situations have different closes). If this isn’t done correctly, you get stuck in the quicksand.

Jindal acknowledged the concern, responded to the concern, then closed it and moved on without get stuck in the quicksand of Obama’s intended conversation deflection, and put it back on Obama.

OK, cue up the Islamist supporting deflections and strawmen from Lefties.

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Great Googly Moogly: Obama’s New Foreign Policy Doctrine Is “Strategic Patience”

By William Teach February 7, 2015 – 6:38 am

This is apparently a real thing (via Twitchy)

(Foreign Policy)  Critics of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy have for years assailed his administration for responding too slowly to crises ranging from Syria to Russia. In a far-reaching blueprint released Friday that outlines the administration’s worldview, the White House insisted the United States is leading the global effort to confront challenges in a deliberate manner described as “strategic patience.”

The National Security Strategy, required by U.S. law, is intended to set the direction for the administration and communicate American intent to lawmakers, the public, and the world. It is Obama’s second such strategy, and likely last, before he leaves office in early 2017.

It aims to rebut criticism that he has consistently waited too long to respond to challenges like the rise of the Islamic State and Moscow’s military aggression in Ukraine, allowing the problems to worsen while his administration debated ways to act. And it represents a defiant defense of Obama’s leadership.

I really had thought we’d hit rock bottom with the Obama foreign policy makeup, kinda like a band that used to play in sold out stadiums reduced to playing seedy dive bars. Apparently, the band has now been reduced to playing midnight fraternity parties.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Researchers Claim Underwater Volcanoes Have Affect On Climate Change

By William Teach February 6, 2015 – 1:49 pm

Here’s one of those causes brought on by nature that have an effect on the climate

(UK Daily Mail) Volcanoes lurking hidden under the world’s oceans may play a far greater role in climate change than previously thought, according to a new study.

Scientists have found that underwater volcanoes, which were long assumed to ooze lava at relatively steady rates, in fact erupt in pulses.

A new study has shown that these submarine eruptions follow regular cycles that can range from just a couple of weeks to 100,000 years.

The researchers claim these eruptions appear to be linked to changes in the Earth’s orbit that occur over time.

Surprisingly the researchers also found that these eruptions also appear to be clustered during the first six months of each year.

The findings may now mean that models predicting how human activity will change the climate will need to be adjusted.

Wait, the models may be wrong? The hell you say!

This is certainly not the first bit of research regarding undersea volcanoes, and it won’t be the last. The reality of climate change is that most is caused by nature, just like has always occurred.

Underwater volcanoes are known to be widespread on the floor of the world’s oceans at joins in the tectonic plates.
Most are located in the deep ocean, where their activity can be difficult to measure, although some in shallow water can erupt with enough lava to create new islands. Others erupt with explosive results.

Make sure to read the article, too much info to excerpt. And, now, cue the true denialists, who’ll yammer on about Mankind and CO2 while, at the same time, refusing to give up their own big carbon footprints.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 6, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible plastic bottles causing heat induced snow from climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sister Toldjah, with the headline of the day.

BTW, please recycle those bottles. “Climate change” may be a load of mule fritters, but pollution is real.

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Poor Little Jihadi Was Bummed Over Lack Of Toilet Paper

By William Teach February 6, 2015 – 9:48 am

Nothing worse than a whiny Islamic jihadi

(UK Daily Mail) A British extremist accused of faking his death to return to UK posed with a severed head in Syria – but moaned when he did not have enough toilet paper.

Imran Khawaja, 27, posed for the picture while with the Rayat al-Tawheed (RAT) insurgents to ‘create propaganda’ for Islamic State extremists.

But while in Syria, Khawaja also complained of not having enough toilet roll and sent a message to his co-accused Asim Ali asking for some ‘ASAP’, Woolwich Crown Court heard.

The horror! !!!!!!!

BTW, regarding the group he was part of

Many videos began with the Islamic declaration of faith ‘There is no God but Allah, Mohammed is the messenger of Allah,’ with background music glorifying Jihad and martyrdom.

Weird. Haven’t they heard that Obama and other Leftists say that ISIS isn’t really Islamic?

Other than the toilet paper thing, there is more evidence of how brutal these people are. Cue the left wing deflections.

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Surprise: Indiana Democrat Proposes Allowing Certain Dead People To Vote

By William Teach February 6, 2015 – 7:11 am

Of course, none of the articles actually mention that the State legislator proposing this is a Democrat

(Time) It’s difficult to vote if you’re dead. (Unless you live in Chicago. Or New York. Or Florida.) But an Indiana lawmaker is hoping to make election season a bit easier for the recently departed at least.

Indiana Rep. Matt Pierce proposed a bill taken up by the House Elections Committee Wednesday that would allow an absentee ballot from someone who dies before Election Day to be counted.

Democrat Matt Pierce was supposedly upset that former U.S. Rep. Frank McCloskey’s vote in 2004 (11 years later????) wasn’t counted, as McCloskey passed away from cancer prior to election day. Of course, there’s a wee bit of a problem with this scheme

(IndyStar) Indiana Election Division co-director Brad King says allowing such votes could violate a state constitutional requirement that a voter live in a precinct for 30 days before an election.

Seriously, is this a really big issue in Indiana, where people lose their vote by dying within 30 days of an election? Or, really, is this a serious issue for Democrats dying before elections? Of course, details matter, so it would be interesting to see how this bill is written. Does it block the checking of voter rolls against deaths, which would open the floodgates to lots of dead people voting?

Meanwhile, found while checking Pierce’s official website

An Indiana House Committee today passed legislation authored by State Rep. Sue Errington (D-Muncie) requiring professional massage therapists to be held accountable to the same standards of practice as other healthcare professionals.

The Indiana House Public Health Committee approved House Bill 1360 that establishes higher ethical and behavioral guidelines for therapeutic massage therapists.

“Professional massage therapists welcome more stringent regulation for their industry,” said Errington. “This legislation helps separate amateur therapists from those who are truly devoted to providing high-quality treatment to their patients.”

Interesting. If I had to guess, this is either about some massage therapist pissing off a bigshot Democrat, about regulating massage therapists heavily (because Dems love them some Big Government), and/or creating a way to manufacture new union membership. Also, it’s interesting that Democrats want to hold massage therapists to the “same standards of practice as other healthcare professionals”, yet, pitch a fit over requiring abortion providers to provide the same standards of practice as other healthcare professionals.

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UNC Considers Banning App That Exposes Delicate Snowflakes To Mean Comments

By William Teach February 6, 2015 – 6:49 am

Hmm, a very Left learning university full of Left leaning students is having a problem with “hate speech” on a smartphone app, so, hey, let’s consider blocking the app

(WRAL) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is considering banning a smartphone app that some say encourages hate speech, but other schools say free speech among students needs to be promoted.

Yik Yak allows users post anonymously to a local bulletin board, and those posts can be seen only by people in a certain geographic area.

“People have been saying some very racist, very hurtful things,” said Ashley Winkfield, a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill who has kept a running tab of “yaks” that she finds troubling.

During the height of the “Black Lives Matter” protests on campus last fall, for example, one person posted, “I really hate blacks, I’m going home where there aren’t any.”

Another poster said, “the way blacks are acting right now kind of justify a slavery.”

Winkfield said the anonymous posts scare her and are making her increasingly distrustful.

Here’s an idea, which these same Leftists always throw out when someone complains about a TV program: turn it off. Don’t look at it. Delete the app. Or, how about, since these snowflakes are supposedly adults, fight back. Engage in conversation. Attempt to change minds.

“These are people we are going to class with, people who we see every day, and they might have some type of ill will toward us,” she said.

Strange, these people writing mean things and going to UNC tend to lean towards the Political Left.

Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Winston Crisp said UNC-Chapel Hill officials are examining options for dealing with Yik Yak.

“I think it adds little to no value to our community and creates more problems for our students than it will ever be worth,” Crisp said in a statement. “We want Carolina to be a place where people feel comfortable talking about race and other issues, and we are working hard to create opportunities for them to do that in a constructive and respectful way.”

In other words, they’re afraid of Free Speech, and want to shelter the snowflakes from having to deal with mean people (which often simply means people who have different views) like they’re 4 years old. The Real World isn’t always so nice. Even a small blogger like myself gets plenty of “hateful” comments and emails. I also get them on Twitter. I often delete them (email and blog comments). Or fight back. Or ignore them. Because no Internet jerk can do more than tick me off for a few seconds. They aren’t going to scare me personally, ruin my day, cause me to get an ulcer, or any of the other freakouts that seem common amongst the Left.

The way a “banning” would work would be for UNC to block the app through the campus WiFi, as was done at Utica College in New York and Norwich University in Vermont. The non-delicate snowflakes would still be able to access it via their mobile network.

“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all” Noam Chomsky

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