Carney: It’s A Good Thing That Obama’s Not Decisive

By William Teach September 13, 2013 – 8:35 am

Well, in all fairness, it is incredibly difficult for Jay Carney to defend Obama when Obama’s been flipping and flopping, zigging and zagging, playing some golf, changing his mind, blamestorming, dropping the ball and responsibility in Congresses lap, playing golf, walking back John Kerry’s comments, walking them forward, walking them back, agreeing with Putin, getting tough, getting weak, giving a speech which was the fruit of his incompetence, rinse, lather, repeat

(Roll Call) President Barack Obama’s Syria strategy may not have been particularly decisive, but that’s not a bad thing, according to the White House.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney defended his boss Thursday after a blistering few weeks of criticism in Congress and elsewhere over his handling of the Syria crisis.

Carney said the American people “appreciate a president who doesn’t celebrate decisiveness for decisiveness’ sake.” He also said Americans like that Obama is open to “new information” and adjusts his course accordingly.

Carney said that in the end, the president will deserve credit if the diplomatic initiative with Russia to get Syria to give up its chemical weapons arsenal succeeds.

Well, you do have to hand it to Obama, he is decisive when it comes to Blamestorming, particularly Republicans, and we all know that if the “diplomatic initiative” blows up….which it probably will, based on Obama’s history of coming to an agreement then demanding more, along with denigrating the people he’s negotiating with….he will Blame Others.

Maybe Obama should read this article on overcoming incisiveness. As for the rest of us, we should understand that people who wear mom jeans are flighty, emotional, and prone to change their minds on a whim, much like little girls playing with dolls.

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I Didn’t Realize AIDS Was Caused By Globull Warming

By William Teach September 12, 2013 – 3:57 pm

No, really. Some Warmaweenies are proclaiming that “climate change”, ie, you driving your fossil fueled vehicle (not me, of course) is causing all sorts of diseases to make the blood supply bad, because disease, like, say, the Black Plague which killed around 75 million people during the Little Ice Age period, never happened before the combustion engine, and mosquitoes which could carry disease suddenly popped into existence in 1980 (via Junk Science)

(E&E News) A whole new set of ungovernable pathogens are being loosed on the world’s blood supplies. A warming climate has allowed blood-borne tropical diseases to flourish where once they were unheard of, and they’re getting around.

The state of blood supplies became worrisome after tennis star Arthur Ashe’s death from AIDS 20 years ago in 1993 — the result of an HIV-tainted transfusion administered during a routine heart bypass operation in the late 1980s.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 12, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a wall being built to stop the hundreds of feet of sea rise coming soon!!!!!!!!, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day Jammie Wearing Fools, with a post noting that the Million Muslim March came up short.

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Surprise! Obama Going Hard After Coal Plants

By William Teach September 12, 2013 – 11:16 am

What does he care if this causes you, the peasant, to suffer?

(Bloomberg) Representatives of coal-intensive utilities and coal-producing regions said that President Barack Obama would effectively outlaw construction of new power plants using the fuel with pending environmental rules.

The Environmental Protection Agency is revising proposed rules from last year in response to opposition by utilities and mining companies. The new version, under review by White House officials and scheduled for release next week, will be structured differently though it offers little solace to the industry, according to people who have been briefed on the measure and asked not to be identified before its release. (snip)

To deal with the (non-existent) threat (of globull warming), Obama directed the EPA to cap carbon dioxide from power plants, which account for 40 percent of U.S. emissions. The first step is to issue rules for new plants, a proposal set to be released next week. The more contentious rules would govern emissions from existing plants, and those aren’t scheduled to be issued until next year. The rules will be the first of their kind.

Hmm, did Congress, the lawmaking portion of the federal government, give the EPA/Executive Branch the power to decide this? Sadly, they probably did. Not that Obama and his peeps would give a damn, because Republicans won’t stand up en masse to stop him.

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Terry Jones Arrested On His Way To Burn Korans

By William Teach September 12, 2013 – 8:26 am

He’s back!

(Orlando Sun Sentinel) Controversial Gainesville Pastor Terry Jones, known for his plans to publicly burn copies of the Muslim holy book, was arrested Wednesday with thousands of kerosene-soaked Qurans, authorities said.

Jones, 61, was arrested on felony charges after a traffic stop near a pharmacy in Mulberry, a small town in Polk County, just before 5 p.m. He faces charges of unlawfully transporting fuel and openly carrying a firearm.

Deputies said Jones was riding in a pickup truck that was towing a smoker and trailer filled with kerosene-soaked Qurans. He also had extra bottles of kerosene inside the truck bed.

According to Jones’ website, he planned to burn 2,998 Qurans in the Tampa Bay area on Wednesday. He was arrested along with Associate Pastor Marvin Sapp.

“My detectives had many conversations with Terry Jones prior to today,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Wednesday. “He was told he was welcome to come to Polk County and express his First Amendment rights. However, if he violated the law, he would absolutely be arrested and placed in the county jail.

There are many who are saying “yeah, couldn’t happen to a nicer person” and celebrating his arrest. While Jones (I refuse to call him a pastor) is not a nice person, is a wacko and a jerk, to put it mildly, he was going to engage in his 1st Amendment Rights, and the police just happened to stop him and arrest him after warning him. By what law did they stop him? They certainly couldn’t see the gun. What was the traffic stop based on? Police can’t just pull someone over for no reason that they can see. It looks as if Nutjob was intentionally targeted by the police because they did not approved of what he planned to do.

While I personally think he should stop this burning Korans for many reasons, we should all consider the implications of Government interfering with someone engaged in Free Speech and demonstration. Especially Free Speech and demonstration that we disagree with. That’s one of the main points of those clauses, to protect what which we do not disagree with. Oh, and to tell Government “hands off”. The next person stopped and arrested could be you.

Rick Moran kinda wants it both ways (and it’s not just Nazi’s that burn books), and here’s Melissa McEwan showing Typical Liberal Tolerance

I’m sure he will not be charged with a terrorist act, but he should be. He is blatantly and unapologetically trying to incite hostilities against Muslim USians; he is actively trying to create an unsafe environment for them. This behavior should be absolutely intolerable to any society that espouses a belief in equality. No one is equal when serious threats against them are not taken seriously. This fucking guy. Our fucking priorities.

I won’t deny that Jones is being, to continue Melissa’s use of vulgarity, an asshole, but he is also engaged, as mentioned, in 1st Amendment Rights. People like McEwan should be really careful in how they position their view of the 1st, in this case calling it terrorism, because that is a near vertical drop covered in petroleum jelly. What’s good for the goose might just backfire on the gander.

Also, consider that she considers burning Korans a “threat”. Why would this be a “threat”, unless there are people who would get extraordinarily violent? Oh, and considering her views on men and other-than-Muslim religions, she’s one of the last people who should be discussing equality.

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Sea World, Trader Joes, Join The “Obamacare Is Bad For Business” Party

By William Teach September 12, 2013 – 8:00 am

The hit parade keeps playing on

(Orlando Sentinel) SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. is reducing hours for thousands of part-time workers, a move that would allow the Orlando-based theme-park owner to avoid offering those employees medical insurance under the federal government’s health-care overhaul.

SeaWorld confirmed the move Monday in a brief written statement to the Orlando Sentinel. The company operates 11 theme parks across the United States and has about 22,000 employees — nearly 18,000 of whom are part-time or seasonal workers. It has more than 4,000 part-time and seasonal workers in Central Florida.

Under a new corporate policy, SeaWorld will schedule part-time workers for no more than 28 hours a week, down from a previous limit of 32 hours a week. The new cap is expected to go into effect by November.

In fairness, Sea World would not state specifically that this move was done to avoid having to provide coverage under Obamacare, but rational thinking adults understand there is no other reason for the move. Then there’s Trader Joe’s

(HuffPo) After extending health care coverage to many of its part-time employees for years, Trader Joe’s has told workers who log fewer than 30 hours a week that they will need to find insurance on the Obamacare exchanges next year, according to a confidential memo from the grocer’s chief executive.

In the memo to staff dated Aug. 30, Trader Joe’s CEO Dan Bane said the company will cut part-timers a check for $500 in January and help guide them toward finding a new plan under the Affordable Care Act. The company will continue to offer health coverage to workers who carry 30 hours or more on average.

It sure seems as if Obamacare is “highly disruptive”. But don’t take my word for it

(Fox News) The AFL-CIO approved a resolution saying that President Obama’s health care overhaul will drive up the costs of union-sponsored health plans to the point that workers and employers are forced to abandon them.

In a strongly worded resolution released Wednesday, the federation said that labor unions still support the Affordable Care Act’s overall goals of reducing health costs and bringing coverage to all Americans, but added that the law is being implemented in a way that is “highly disruptive” to union health care plans.

Strange how no one saw the train wreck coming. The Lonely Conservative provides even more good new on ObamaCare jumping the tracks.

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Oops: Time Notices That Warmist Hurricane Hysteria Has Failed

By William Teach September 11, 2013 – 3:40 pm

A surprisingly non-alarmist article from Bryan Walsh, Time’s resident Warmist

A Silent Hurricane Season Adds Fuel to a Debate Over Global Warming

It’s been quiet this hurricane season — too quiet. Back in May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted a “very active” tropical-storm season, one with between seven and 11 hurricanes. The agency lowered that estimate in August to between six and nine hurricanes, but still predicted that three to five of them would become major storms, with winds above 111 m.p.h.

We’re now a day away from the exact midpoint of the Atlantic hurricane season, the period when storm activity is historically at its strongest — Sept. 10 — and so far we’ve experienced … nothing. While there have been a handful of tropical storms, we have yet to see a single hurricane — a tropical cyclone with sustained winds of at least 74 m.p.h. This is extremely unusual, and if the calm continues, 2013 could rival 2002, which didn’t experience its first hurricane until Sept. 11. What gives?

What gives is that natural variability happens. Just like the way the Modern Warm Period is mostly natural, Mother Nature creates periods where there is a dearth of tropical storms.

The truth is that scientists aren’t really sure why there hasn’t been a hurricane yet this season, nor do they know why an intense hurricane — Category 3, 4, 5 — hasn’t made landfall in the U.S. since Wilma all the way back in 2005. (Sandy, for all the damage it did, was barely a Category 1 storm by the time it made landfall along the East Coast.) And as Andrew Revkin reported in the New York Times, leaked drafts of the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seem to reflect a reduced scientific certainty that global warming will make storms stronger and more frequent. In the 2007 report, the IPCC saidthat it was more likely than not — a greater than 50% certainty in the panel’s terminology — that human activity was contributing to an observed intensification of hurricane activity in some parts of the world. Now the IPCC — or at least the draft — says it has “low confidence” of that relationship, which means it believes that there is only a 2-out-of-10 chance of being correct. The estimated probability that the 21st century will see more intense hurricane activity has fallen as well.

First, it has been 7 years and almost 8 months since Wilma, the last major hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. Second, Sandy was actually just below hurricane strength when it made landfall (it was still destructive, like any tropical storm, especially when combined with a big cold front). Third, the IPCC and other Warmists first predicted that the 2005 season was the new normal. When that didn’t happen, they said there wouldn’t necessarily be more hurricanes, but the ones that formed would be stronger. That failed, so Warmists are now trying to say that the lack of landfalling tropical systems, particularly hurricanes, is also a sign of human induced “climate change”.

Of course, Bryan ends the article with standard Warmist hysteria, but, hey, they can’t help themselves, and Bryan did make the point that the New Climate Denier scientists are clueless.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 11, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that is rising up and requires barriers to stop it, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Notebook, with a post on remember 9/11.

BTW, the background looks like it might be Manasquan, NJ, where I grew up and spent many a day surfing at this exact beach.

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Never Forget. Never Surrender (Will Remain At Top For The Day)

By William Teach September 11, 2013 – 9:16 am

Today marks the 12th anniversary of that dark day, when Islamic jihadis killed 2,996 of our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. Last year, the USA Today is wondered if 9/11 is becoming just another day, similar to Pearl Harbor Day. Based on the tiny coverage by major news outlets, which feature tiny stories on their front pages, if at all, it just might be. The NY Times’ article is about “taking stock” of the years of war, you know, after we were attacked. And spends little time discussing the attacks. The big editorial is about “The Race To Improve Global Health“. The Washington Post isn’t much better. Nor CBS and NBC. ABC does feature a big graphic at the top. Good for them. LA Times? Tiny.

Those blogging (from the feedreader at this time of the morning)

Why should we never forget? Things like this

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Warmists Claim They Predicted There Would Be More Arctic Ice This Year

By William Teach September 11, 2013 – 8:12 am

The Arctic has been doing very well this year, thank you very much, with big growth, 60% in one year, and being the same thinkness as it was back in 1940. There’s been no warming for 8 years in the Arctic. But, hey, the Warmists predicted this, right? Right?

Arctic sea ice delusions strike the Mail on Sunday and Telegraph | Dana Nuccitelli | Environment | theguardian.com

Arctic sea ice delusions strike the Mail on Sunday and Telegraph

When it comes to climate science reporting, the Mail on Sunday and Telegraph are only reliable in the sense that you can rely on them to usually get the science wrong. This weekend’s Arctic sea ice articles from David Rose of the Mail and Hayley Dixon at the Telegraph unfortunately fit that pattern.

Both articles claimed that Arctic sea ice extent grew 60 percent in August 2013 as compared to August 2012. While this factoid is technically true, it’s also largely irrelevant. For one thing, the annual Arctic sea ice minimum occurs in September – we’re not there yet.

Does Super Warmist Nuccitelli think that the Arctic is going to all of a sudden melt-down? Here’s where it gets funny

And while this year’s minimum extent will certainly be higher than last year’s, that’s not the least bit surprising. As University of Reading climate scientist Ed Hawkins noted last year,

“Around 80% of the ~100 scientists at the Bjerknes [Arctic climate science] conference thought that there would be MORE Arctic sea-ice in 2013, compared to 2012.”

Which is strange, because most have been telling us that the Arctic would be ice free this year (see Steven Goddard for a list of these prognostications), and there are non-stop complaints that the melting Arctic will kill all the polar bears (who are also doing quite well) and raise sea levels quite a bit (which is idiotic since the Arctic ice is free floating, but, hey, it’s not like Warmists practice science in the first place).

The rest of the article attempts to position that this is completely in line with “climate change”, which is all your fault for driving a fossil fueled vehicle and using hair spray. And that Warmists are really, really unhappy that any news source would dare to print things that do not fit the Narrative Of Climate Change.

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