Washington Post: Obama Isn’t A Catasrophic Mess, This Is All Standard Negotiation On Syria

By William Teach September 14, 2013 – 6:41 am

Here’s one of those articles I promised would be forthcoming which would show that no, Obama’s not a screwup, that he’s not getting played and owned by Putin and Assad, in fact, he’s super awesome and things are going according to plan

(Washington Post) Watching the maneuvering between the United States, Russia and Syria over the plan to remove Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons, it can look like a catastrophic mess. No one seems to be on remotely the same page, everyone is making crazy demands and it looks functionally impossible that everyone could actually reach an agreement.

Here’s the thing to understand: Everything that happens now between these three countries is a negotiation. Everything. The United States wants to see Assad’s chemical weapons removed as surely and as quickly as possible. Russia wants to protect Assad from Western military strikes and, if possible, from Western meddling of any form. Assad wants to keep the West uninvolved in his war.

Almost every single thing you’re seeing these three countries do right now, no matter how crazy it looks, is about getting as close to their desired outcome as possible. But these are high-stakes negotiations, which means they’re starting from maximalist positions, making crazy, unfulfillable demands, trying to game the process. That’s actually all normal. It’s just part of the game.

Put Max Fisher in the Obama Fan Boy Club, a club that is devoid of any sense of reality. He goes on to discuss Putin’s op-ed in the NY Times and how, no, it’s not giving Obama a massive wedgie followed by flushing his head in the toilet, it’s just an “act of public diplomacy”. How Russia supposedly backed off their own plan to get some horse-trading done (why would they do that when Obama seems perfectly willing to give Putin what he wants? Heck, he blew off Poland over the missile shield in a heartbeat). Then there’s Assad, who said he’d give up the chemical weapons if the US stopped arming the rebels (mostly made of Islamists). That’s not standard negotiation, that’s rubbing Obama’s face in the fact that Obama has made America very weak. No little pissant should be able to dictate terms to the USA.

And then there’s going to the United Nations, which Obama may or may not do, which Fisher finds to be Brilliant!!! And Obama is sorta keeping the potential for military strikes on (between rounds of golf) to pressure Assad.

The fact is, US Obama foreign policy is a mess, with contradictory messages from Obama and Secretary of State Kerry, and they’re always trying to play catch-up. They’re getting played by Putin and Assad. This is not standard negotiation. When Reagan gave his “tear down this wall” speech, that was not standard negotiation: that was a strong-arm tactic, blindsiding Gorbachev. Putin is not negotiating, he’s playing Obama while attempting to turn Russia into a powerhouse and diminishing America thanks to Obama’s weakness.

While a deal will probably get done (there’s a breaking news banner at Fox about the US and Russia reaching a deal on a framework), only a complete Obama zombie would think this is standard negotiation, and that Obama doesn’t come off looking weak and a fool internationally.

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Heat Pumps, Insulation Now Considered Bad For “Climate Change”, And Must Be Regulated By Government

By William Teach September 13, 2013 – 2:55 pm

You’ve probably read about air conditioning being deemed Bad for Hotcoldwetdry, at least in how it applies to Other People who live in 3rd World Shitholes Developing Nations wanting it. I’ve probably mentioned at some point that refrigerators are also Bad, but mostly I note that the ice maker in your fridge is Bad, just for the silliness factor. But, it gets even funnier, as now even insulation and heat pumps (often used with air conditioning, fridges, and pools) are Bad For “Climate Change”

Explained in 90 seconds: Your fridge is accelerating climate change — but it doesn’t have to

The outward statecraft of the recent G20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, was dominated by disagreements over Syria. But behind the scenes, leaders were busy agreeing on something they rarely find common ground on: climate change. Thirty-five nations and the European Union decided to curb hydrofluorocarbons, a set of powerful heat-trapping gases used in refrigeration, air conditioning, heat pumps, and insulation. This follows a deal earlier this year between China and the United States, in which President Obama and President Xi agreed to limit these greenhouse gases.

Warmists/Enviroweenies have already managed to get CFCs banned because of the supposed damage to the ozone layer, now they want HFCs banned, without any real replacement, other than living like it’s 1492, to stop the global temperature from virtually flatlining for over 15 years rising dozens of degrees by 2100.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 13, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a sun that feels brighter because someone used hairspray, but still doesn’t drive climate, you might just be a New Climate Denier

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on Putin schooling Obama.

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Hooray! California OKs Licenses For Illegals, Restricts Gun Ownership

By William Teach September 13, 2013 – 11:30 am

It’s hard to believe what an upside down nation we have become, especially in the People’s Republik Of California

(LA Times) Laboring late into the night Thursday to finish their work for the year, state lawmakers acted to allow many more immigrants who are in the country illegally to obtain California driver’s licenses, a measure Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign.

The driver’s license measure would significantly expand the number of immigrants in the country illegally who could have such documents. Some young, undocumented residents are already eligible for licenses under state law, if they qualify for temporary federal work permits.

“This bill will enable millions of people to get to work safely and legally,” Brown said in a statement issued immediately after the bill passed. “Hopefully, it will send a message to Washington that immigration reform is long past due.”

I’m sure you’re thinking exactly what I’m thinking: there should be no need for them to get to work safely and legally, because they shouldn’t be in the country in the first place. Interestingly, the licenses will have a special designation of DP (drivers privilege) yet no one is pitching a fit, like they did for North Carolina’s plan.

Legislators also moved to expand the state’s already stringent gun controls, voting to outlaw sales of rifles with detachable magazines and enlarge the list of crimes that result in a 10-year ban on possession of firearms.

Under SB 374, by Senate leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), those who already own assault weapons without fixed magazines would be required to register them by July 1, 2014. A second bill, by state Sen. Lois Wolk (D-Davis), would expand the list of crimes that could disqualify Californians from possessing guns.

The bill would restrict ownership of some 95% of rifles in production, ones which are rarely, if ever, used in crime, but used quite a bit for hunting. I’d love to tell you what the expanded list of crimes are, but the web address for the bill, and, the root address for the website to see all legislative action, is down. So is the website for the California legislature. And, the website for the California governor. Sheesh, it seems every website run by the government of California is down. I guess someone forgot to pay the bill.

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Met Office: Hey, Did We Mention That One Year Of Arctic Cooling Isn’t Significant?

By William Teach September 13, 2013 – 9:01 am

You really do have to love Warmists. When one little weather event occurs, they hyperventilate and claim that this is proof, PROOOOOOOOOOOOF!!!!!!! that Someone Else driving a fossil fueled vehicle and flushing their toilet too much caused it. When things do not work out, their first step is to say “meh”

(Met Office)Arctic summer sea ice extent has a lot of year to year variability because it can be heavily influenced by weather patterns:

– temperatures naturally vary from one year to the next;
– the amount of cloud can affect the amount of surface melting;
– summer storms can also break up ice, which can accelerate the melting process;
– settled conditions can be more conducive to ice forming;
– winds may act to spread out the ice or push it together.

Due to this high degree of variability, it’s important to look past short term fluctuations in sea ice extent and look at the longer records.

Hmm, so nature can affect being colder, but not being warmer?

The seasonal minimum (September) ice extent has declined at the faster rate of 11% per decade, and this rate of decline has accelerated in the past 15 years.

Since there’s been a pause in warming for over 15 years, might there be something else at play?

So all the evidence suggests the long-term decline of Arctic sea ice continues.

2013 was supposed to be the year the Arctic was ice free. Warmists prognostication and “computer models” stated that this huge growth couldn’t happen. Step two will be to provide talking points stating that this is Arctic rebound was completely within what they predicted

“We know sea ice extent is going to vary from year to year due to weather conditions and that’s not at all inconsistent with the overall decline in extent. You wouldn’t expect to see records broken year after year, so this ‘recovery’ is not unexpected.

Step three will be to Blame Mankind when the ice continues to grow.

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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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