Poll: Americans Support Israel Actions 42% To 38%

By William Teach August 5, 2014 – 7:23 am

What does this mean? That 38% are Israel haters

(Politico) A slim plurality of Americans believe Israel’s actions against Hamas are justified, a new poll says.

According to a Gallup poll released Tuesday, 42 percent of Americans say Israel’s actions against Hamas are justified, compared with 38 percent who say they are unjustified. (WT note: 21% have no opinion)

By contrast, only 14 percent of Americans believe that Hamas’ actions against Israel are justified, with 66 percent saying they are unjustified.

U.S. public opinion on the matter has barely moved from when Gallup last tracked the question 10 days ago.

So, 38% are idiots. I wonder how they would feel if it was, say, Canada lobbing missiles into the U.S. or people sneaking across the southern border….oh, right, these people already support that kind of lawless action. But, it’s no wonder so many feel Israel is unjustified in protecting itself when major (left leaning) media outlets print Palestinian/Hamas propaganda like this

(NY Times) In the eyes of an occupying power, the humanity of those under its thumb depends on the degree of their submission to, or collaboration with, the occupation. If the occupied population chooses to stand in the way of the occupier’s goals, then they are demonized, which allows the occupier the supposed moral excuse of confronting them with all possible means, no matter how harsh.

The Israeli occupation of Palestine is one of the only remaining settler-colonial occupations in the world today.

And it is not limited to East Jerusalem and the West Bank: Although Israel withdrew its settlers and army from Gaza in 2005, it is still recognized by the United Nations as an occupying power, due to its complete control of Gaza’s airspace, sea access and of almost all of its land borders. (snip)

There is now an extremist, racist ideological current in Israel that not only justifies the recent onslaught on the Gaza Strip, but actually encourages the use of enormous and disproportionate violence against civilians, which has led to the extermination of entire families. (snip)

If Israel wants to continue its occupation and hinder Palestinians’ path to freedom and independence, then it should be aware that the Palestinian people will continue to resist with all the means at their disposal. If Israel intends to end the occupation, then it will find that the Palestinians are more than ready for an agreement.

That op-ed was written by Ali Jarbawi, a political scientist at Birzeit University and a former minister of the Palestinian Authority. The Times even went so far as to translate it. Not once does it mention the violence and threats from groups like Hamas. No mention of the tunnels nor rocket fire. No mention of the violent terrorist attacks. This is much of what the American public sees, blame of Israel, little blame on Hamas.

At the Washington Post, David Ignatius attempts to put all the burden on Netanyahu for a long term peace, virtually excusing Hamas. While there have certainly been a few articles and opinion pieces in favor of Israel, most tend to slam Israel, to put the burden for peace on Israel, and excuse Hamas.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Special Feminist Snowflakes Really Psyched Over Unshaven Armpits

By William Teach August 4, 2014 – 6:34 pm

To go with other unshaven body parts

(London Evening Standard) It’s time for the arm-bush ambush. Summer is a time when most women unquestioningly invest a lot of time, money and pain in hair removal, but many of London’s young feminists are becoming part of a growing revival. While this year has been declared “the year of the bush” for our lower regions, many women think that particular forest is old territory. Recently, outspoken trendsetting ladies (and uh… Madonna) have started cultivating their underarm gardens.

Many will recoil in horror at the thought of a woman’s unshaven pit. However, at a time when the most admired female faces are unashamedly bold, such as Cara Delevingne’s, it isn’t surprising that it’s increasingly cool for women to do something different.

I stopped shaving my armpits last year after my friend Alexis Calvas, 22, who hadn’t shaved for months, told me she was forced to remove her underarm hair or be fired from a dance-teaching job. It made me wonder why I mindlessly conformed to this fabricated part of feeling feminine. After a few months of shyly growing, I began to realise that we weren’t the only women binning our razors.

Uh huh

The underground armpit hair trend is sprouting all over London, where carefree young women are proudly presenting natural fuzz, often (less naturally) dyed in all colours of the rainbow. This is partly thanks to social media, which has allowed women to share images and stories about their bodies. But armpit hair is even growing within the fashion industry.

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Oops: Fossil Fuels Hating Natue Conservancy Makes Oodles Of Money Off Fossil Fuels

By William Teach August 4, 2014 – 1:38 pm

Well, hey, they have no choice!

(NY Times) The nation’s largest environmental group is earning money from an oil well on land it controls in Texas, despite pledging a decade ago not to permit new oil and gas drilling on land supposedly set aside for conservation.

That revelation is contained in a forthcoming book about climate change by the writer and activist Naomi Klein, and the essential facts of the case were confirmed last week by the Nature Conservancy, the environmental group in question.

The Nature Conservancy — which says it helps protect about 20 million acres in the United States — argues that it has had no choice in the case of the well. Under the terms of a lease it signed years ago with an oil and gas company and later came to regret, the group says it had to permit the drilling of the well in 2007.

They could have sold the permit. They could have done terminated the lease. But, like so many “environmental” groups, they need the cold hard cash for their operations. Their investment policy makes it clear that they won’t invest in any company

  • That derive 5 percent or more of their revenue from the production of coal or oil sands (the highest emitting fossil fuels); or
  • That approve new coal-fired electric generating capacity, unless equipped with carbon capture and storage technology to mitigate CO2 emissions.

They say they will be divested of all that do not meet the criteria by 2014. But, as Klein noted in May 2013

What we know:
-Refused to answer any questions or to provide any details about its holdings or policies
-Financial statements reveal it has at least $22.8 million invested in the energy
sector
-Has relationships with fossil fuel companies including: BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell
Considering divestment?
-No comment

I can’t find one article that shows that the Nature Conservatory has divested. Of course, since they pretty much keep their holdings secret, it is hard to check.

This is not to say they are bad organization. They’ve done great work regarding real environmental issues. At the end of the day, though, the Nature Conservancy, like most environmental groups, are hypocrites when it comes to fossil fuels.

 

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 4, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible titanium golf club which can cause wildfires, made worse by climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on who we can trust regarding gun laws.

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New Pause Excuse? Pacific Trade Winds Blamed For Stalling Global Warming

By William Teach August 4, 2014 – 10:33 am

Is this a new excuse, or a miss-mash of previous Excuseifying?

(phys.org) Heat stored in the western Pacific Ocean caused by an unprecedented strengthening of the equatorial trade winds appears to be largely responsible for the hiatus in surface warming observed over the past 13 years.

New research published today in the journal Nature Climate Change indicates that the dramatic acceleration in winds has invigorated the circulation of the Pacific Ocean, causing more heat to be taken out of the atmosphere and transferred into the subsurface , while bringing cooler waters to the surface.

“Scientists have long suspected that extra ocean heat uptake has slowed the rise of global , but the mechanism behind the hiatus remained unclear” said Professor Matthew England, lead author of the study and a Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.

Good news, though

“But the heat uptake is by no means permanent: when the trade wind strength returns to normal – as it inevitably will – our research suggests heat will quickly accumulate in the atmosphere. So global temperatures look set to rise rapidly out of the hiatus, returning to the levels projected within as little as a decade.”

This is all very cute: they’ve managed to blame Mankind for increasing the temperature of the Atlantic, which super-charges the Pacific trade winds, causing the surface warmth to hide in the deep oceans (snicker), and this leads to fewer El Nino events, so, man is messing with natural events. But, hey, nature will eventually reassert itself, and we’ll all of a sudden have massive warming. Which is supposedly still caused by Mankind, ya know!

Cult.

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President Kumbaya “Wants To Pit White House Against Mean Congress”

By William Teach August 4, 2014 – 8:57 am

Nice to see that The Hill is about 5 years late on this notion

The White House’s emerging strategy for the midterm elections is to run against a “mean” Congress.

President Obama has made that tack known more than ever in recent days.

In the last week, he’s accused Republicans of getting into disagreements with themselves over the border supplemental and for not being able to pass “plain vanilla” legislation.

He asked them to “stop hating” and “being mad all the time.” And he mocked House Republicans for suing him and added, “And I said to Speaker Boehner, tell your caucus the best way to avoid me acting on my own is work with me to actually do something. Then you don’t have to worry about it.”

Just as important as Obama’s words are his gestures and style.

The president is in his wheelhouse when he’s in campaign mode, and during the Kansas City address he was frequently joking and smiling with the crowds.

This has been Obama’s strategy pretty much from Day 1. He’s never left the campaign trail. Where is his proposed legislation? We need more than a couple brief ideas placed on sticky notes. The only fully developed plans he’s offered over the past few years, things that could be voted on, have been his budgets, which have been so bad that Democrat call it a political stunt when Republicans have forced votes on those budgets.

Obama should be very careful in his inflammatory rhetoric, as citizens might actually see that it is Senate Democrats who are the problem

Republicans say a do-nothing Senate and Obama are the reasons for Washington’s inaction.

“The reality is, there are 330 bills sitting in the Democrat-controlled Senate waiting for the Democrats to act,” Kukowski said.

Actually, let Obama not be careful, that way citizens will hear Obama complaining followed by the GOP messaging of Senate Democrats refusing to allow votes on House passed legislation. The Obama whines will not help vulnerable Democrats in 2014, but, really, by all appearances, Obama doesn’t care. He sees everything as being about himself. He’s a petty man, with pathetic leadership skills, and his agenda and work ethic are pathetic. If the GOP regains control of the Senate, he doesn’t care, as this will allow himself to be the Nasty Man he likes to be. So much for “changing the way Washington works” and creating a “post-partisans Washington”. So much for bringing people together. He’s divided the country beyond belief.

If he’s running against a “mean Congress”, it makes him sound like an angst ridden Emo teenager rejected by his schoolmates and always picked last for every activity.

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With Friends Like Steve Latourette, Who Needs Enemies?

By William Teach August 4, 2014 – 8:37 am

It’s bad enough Conservatives have to fight against Democrats: we also have to fight against Establishment Republicans

The Grifting Wing v. The Governing Wing

While the Tea Party is busy lining their pockets, the rest of the Republicans are actually trying to get things done.

These kinds of internecine fights constantly occur within the Parties, though, with the Democrats, it is typically their base talking about how the elected members aren’t far enough left. Oh, and how they haven’t voted the base more money and stuff. In the GOP, the Conservatives will fight to get things done in a conservative manner, and note that many Establishment Republicans might as well be Democrats. Establishment Republicans act like Democrats, smearing Conservatives.

Over the last few years we have seen the rise of a new grifter—the political grifter. And the most important battle being waged today isn’t the one about which party controls the House or the Senate, it’s about who controls the Republican Party: the grifting wing or the governing wing.

Today’s political grifters are a lot like the grifters of old—lining their pockets with the hard-earned money of working men and women be promising things in return that they know they can’t deliver.

Political grifting is a lucrative business. Groups like the Club for Growth, FreedomWorks and the Tea Party Patriots are run by men and women who have made millions by playing on the fears and anger about the dysfunction in Washington. My former House colleague Chris Chocola is pocketing a half-million dollars a year heading the Club for Growth; same for Matt Kibbe heading up FreedomWorks (and I don’t think Kibbe’s salary includes the infamous craft beer bar that FreedomWorks donors ended up paying for). The Tea Party Patriots pay their head, Jenny Beth Martin, almost as much. These people have lined their pockets by promising that if you send them money, they will send men and women to Washington who can “fix it.” Of course, in the ultimate con, the always extreme and often amateurish candidates these groups back either end up losing to Democrats or they come to Washington and actually make the process even more dysfunctional.

How well does it play for Establishment Republicans to smear the Conservative base? Can’t be good for donations. Instead of attacking, perhaps Establishment  Republicans should listen. But, hey!

Our beef isn’t with the rank and file Tea Party members, either. We understand their justifiable frustration with Washington. Our beef is with the grifters who run the organizations in Washington that are fleecing these hardworking men and women.

When you’re assaulting and insulting the groups themselves, going after Ted Cruz (which Latourette did), telling us we have to “compromise” (which seems to be code for “giving Democrats what they want and selling out the conservative principles you claim Establishment Republicans stand for), you are making your beef with the rank and file.

Paula Bolyard notes that Latourette is pretty familiar with what it means to be a grifter

LaTourette, the Chamber of Commerce, and their comrades who support special breaks and preferential treatment by the government for the rich and well-connected have exactly zero moral authority to lecture the likes of Jenny Beth Martin and Chris Chocola about their political influence. Their hypocrisy is laughable.

Erik Erickson

What LaTourette is really saying is that there are outsiders who more and more in Congress are listening to and there are insiders who Congress used to listen to and he wishes Congress would go back to listening to them. LaTourette’s firm made over a million dollars in 2013 and wants to be listened to.

Notice please that LaTourette never mentions two words: “voters” or “constituents.” He does not care about them. He cares about his profit and, in an act more and more common these days, projects his own sins onto others because it is the only way he understands them.

The Lonely Conservative notes that what Latourette really wants is all that Tea Party money in his own pocket.

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Mythical Carbon Pollution Is “An Affront To God” Or Something

By William Teach August 3, 2014 – 2:30 pm

No, seriously

At EPA Hearing, Religious Leaders Call Carbon Pollution ‘An Affront To God’

Speaking to three administrators for the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, David Kepley, an elder and deacon at the Providence Presbyterian Church, quoted Leviticus.

“God said ‘the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants,’” he said. “‘Throughout the land that you hold, you shall provide for the redemption of the land.’”

The verses, Kepley said, allude to several themes. For one, God has encouraged us not just to draw sustenance from the land, but to replenish it — to act as stewards of Creation. For another, the verses compare humans to “renters” in God’s house, meaning we can’t just trash God’s house with unmitigated pollution.

“To me this means that to be wasteful of the land’s bounty or to despoil it with substances that are harmful to people or other life forms is not just unproductive, but is an affront to God,” Kepley said. “In my view, the EPA has identified one of those areas where we humans have ignored our role as good stewards of the Creation.”

On one hand, he’s right on Mankind’s role in protecting the environment, from a religious point of view. On the other hand, CO2 is not a pollutant, otherwise, why would God have created it? Why would God have allowed there to be higher CO2 concentrations during most of the Earth’s history?

I wonder if someone asked the good deacon Kepley how, exactly, he traveled from Providence, whichever one he’s from, along with the other 27 religious leaders? Anyone think they walked? Or took some sort of fossil fueled travel. Yeah, that last one is not a question.

“In the religious communities with which I work, people are heart-sick about the role of fossil fuels in producing the heat-trapping gases that are causing climate change,” said Joelle Novey, the director of Interfaith Power & Light, a non-profit that engages religious communities on climate issues. “They are working to reduce their electricity use in their sanctuaries and at home. They are climbing up on ladders to change to more efficient lightbulbs. They are working together to support clean energy through their energy bills.”

Interfaith Power & Light covers the D.C. Maryland, and Northern Virginia area. Remember how the people in that area went ballistic the last few times they lost power from storms? They want their power.

Really, the whole thing is silly, but, unfortunately, growing, as hardcore Leftists infiltrate organized religion, embracing idiotic, non-scientific, Progressive political issues, and pushing them on their flocks and the public, attempting to say “this is what God wants”.

BTW, still not statistically significant warming over the past 17 years and 10 months.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 3, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil climate unfriendly golf course, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Theo Spark, with a post on theoretical vs real world economics.

In honor of Obama’s upcoming 15 day vacation, and having spent the weekend golfing with his old choom gang, this week is golf week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 3, 2014 – 9:47 am

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. This pinup is by Romain Hugault, with a wee bit of help. Make sure to check out his blog, some incredible artwork, focusing on WWII, and not just pinups.

What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The Lonely Conservative notes that employers are dumping plans, thanks to Ocare
  2. Raised On Hoecakes covers Israel being accused of human rights violations for protecting themselves
  3. Blazing Cat Fur has video on the truth about Islam
  4. The Hockey Schtick discusses chaos theory and climate change models
  5. The Daley Gator covers a sad reality the West must face up to
  6. The Last Refuge notes how things are going in Libya
  7. The Other McCain features the pro-Hamas crowd in L.A.
  8. Victory Girls Blog covers the real rape culture
  9. Public Secrets says we can thank Progressives for losing the war on poverty
  10. protein wisdom has liberals and petitions
  11. Political Clown Parade has Nutcase Pelosi charging across the House floor
  12. neo-neocon has the history of Jim Crow
  13. Moonbattery notes that gun rights are now part of the war on women
  14. Director Blue notes that the science is settled
  15. And last, but not least, Villainous Company tells Obama to stop hatin’ all the time

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

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