Obama Takes “Charm Offensive” To Israel

By William Teach March 20, 2013 – 8:12 am

The Neverending Campaign goes on the road, once again showing a POTUS who is bereft of leadership

(CBS NY) President Barack Obama left for the Middle East on Tuesday evening. He’s on a mission to charm the Israelis into making peace concessions and to find some way to peacefully stop Iran from building a bomb.

What he wants is Israel to give up land they won in wars, most launched against Israel by Arab nations. As for Iran, nothing has stopped them so far.

The president’s move came in a four-minute statement — with Persian subtitles — that attempted to go around President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and reach the Iranian people directly.

It’s the same strategy he wants to employ in Israel, an attempt to circumvent Netanyahu with a campaign-like speech to the Israeli people.

“This trip is a charm offensive to make Israelis like him,” said Jerusalem Post political correspondent Gil Hoffman.

Hoffman said Obama thinks he can win a Middle East peace settlement if Israelis pressure Netanyahu.

Obama confuses “people liking him” with leadership. He’s, for good or bad, the President of the USA, not a movie start, and as such this diminishes the office of the POTUS, consequently reducing the standing of the US. But that is immaterial to Obama, who prefers adulation over all else.

And, if Obama wants Israelis to like him, perhaps his administration shouldn’t erase parts of the nation from the map

(Washington Free Beacon)

The map of the Middle East displayed in an Obama administration video released days before President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel shows the Jewish state dispossessed of substantial parts of its current territory, including its capital.

The map of Israel, displayed repeatedly during the video, shows the Golan Heights, Jerusalem, northern Israel, and areas surrounding what is currently the West Bank as non-Israeli territory. The Golan Heights is shown as part of Syria; Jerusalem is shown as part of the West Bank; and northern Israel is shown as part of Lebanon.

Obama’s schedule simply shows him in “Jerusalem”, with not national name attacked, unlike with “Tel Aviv, Israel”. Remember, the Obama admin. has long been unwilling to name Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and has even called it “Al Quds”, the Palestinian name many times.

BTW, many Palestinians do not want him around, either, starting riots (surprise!) and burning pictures of Obama.

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Study: Katrina-like Hurricanes Every Two Years Way In The Future. Maybe. Possibly

By William Teach March 19, 2013 – 3:11 pm

More prognostication deep into the future by Warmists, with lots of hedge betting

(USA Today) Could the USA deal with a Hurricane Katrina every two years?

Such a scenario is possible by the end of the century due to climate change, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Funny how they can’t tell us what will happen now.

The frequency of extreme storm surges — the deadly and devastating walls of water that roar ashore during hurricanes — is projected to increase by as much as 10 times in coming decades because of warming temperatures, the study finds. Global warming has already doubled the chance of storms like Katrina, according to the study, which was led by climate scientist Aslak Grinsted of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Except, the US has not been hit with a major hurricane (cat 3 and up) since Wilma in 2005. As of today, that is 2,703 days, which goes well beyond breaking the record for no Cat 3’s. Heck, there are barely any minor hurricane strikes. Since 2008 there has been one real hurricane. Irene was not a hurricane at landfall. Isaac was just barely a hurricane at landfall (and could be debated). Sandy was not a hurricane when she made landfall.

However, another expert finds fault with the study: “I find this paper to be very misleading,” says Georgia Tech climatologist Judith Curry, who says they used “a very incomplete data set:” It only considers tide gauge measurements at six locations (Atlantic City, Charleston S.C., Mayport, Fla.; Pensacola, Fla.; Key West, and Galveston, Texas.)

So, yet another dubious study designed to cause hysteria of something that may possibly kinda sorta happen in the future? Color me shocked.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 19, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…are wonderful environmentally friendly bikes, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Last Tradition, with a post on Rand Paul proposing a pathway to citizenship.

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Warmists Wonder If Hotcoldwetdry Causes Sinkholes

By William Teach March 19, 2013 – 11:46 am

I was wondering when some climate astrologer would go down this road after the sinkhole in Florida that swallowed that man (via Quark Soup)

(Discover) Increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to rainwater containing higher levels of carbon dioxide, otherwise known as acid rain. When carbon dioxide in water is given a carbonate ion, it prefers to make bicarbonate ions rather than staying happily in the water minding its own business. Any rock or shell made of carbonate then becomes more at risk of dissolution as the ocean and rainwater become more acidic, much like tooth enamel dissolves away when soaked in a glass of soda pop.

Once the bedrock starts to dissolve and erode away, the type of surface sediment makes the difference as to whether the sinkhole will be catastrophic or not.

Good grief.

Now, the Quark Soup link adds info from the USGS, which discusses land use which can cause sinkholes. AGW? Mule fritters!

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Hacker To Distribute Confidential Hillary Clinton Emails On Benghazi

By William Teach March 19, 2013 – 7:29 am

What’s in them? We don’t know yet. Will they be big? That remains to be seen, but why bother if they are tepid and meaningless?

(The Smoking Gun) Armed with confidential memos to Hillary Clinton that were stolen from the e-mail account of a former White House aide, a hacker has distributed some of the documents to a wide array of congressional aides, political figures, and journalists worldwide.

In a series of weekend e-mail blasts, the hacker known as “Guccifer” disseminated four recent memos to Clinton from Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of the former Secretary of State. (snip)

Most of the e-mail recipients were sent four separate memos that were e-mailed to Clinton by Blumenthal during the past five months. Each memo dealt with assorted developments in Libya, including the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi. One memo marked “Confidential” was sent to Clinton on September 12.

Now, according to this these are emails sent to Clinton, no mention of responses. And if they’re from the time period after the attack, what could they show? Perhaps the willingness to stonewall and obfuscate. Color me a bit skeptical. But, then, why bother if they are meaningless?

Of course, Liberals will say this is no big deal, because having our consulate attacked, burned, have Islamist flags raised above it, and 4 Americans killed, including our Ambassador, is much ado over nothing to them.

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Harry Reid Drops Scary Looking Gun Ban From Anti-Gun Legislation

By William Teach March 19, 2013 – 7:05 am

You could almost see this coming. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) is a fan of guns, and also knows that legislation like an assault weapons ban could seriously damage the Dems chances for the 2014 mid-terms for Senate races. And, really, how often did you hear him discuss the ban? Beuller?

(Politico) Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said on Monday that a controversial assault weapons ban will not be part of a Democratic gun bill that was expected to reach the Senate floor next month.

After a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday, a frustrated Feinstein said she learned that the bill she sponsored — which bans 157 different models of assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines — wouldn’t be part of a Democratic gun bill to be offered on the Senate floor. Instead, it can be offered as an amendment. But its exclusion from the package makes what was already an uphill battle an almost certain defeat.

The ban is supported by more than a dozen Senate Democrats and the White House, as well as gun-control groups.

In fact, S.150 is supported by only 21 other Senate Democrats, none of them named Harry Reid, which is a pretty low number considering how quickly Democrats attempted to use the Sandy Hook tragedy to assault 2nd Amendment Rights. Reid also knows that the Some Scary Looking Guns bill will most likely not make it past a filibuster.

Aside from the ban, three other major pieces of gun legislation have been approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee: a gun trafficking bill, a Democrats-only background checks measure and a proposal to increase school safety.

The gun trafficking bill should pass. The background check measure will most likely not be part of the bill brought to the floor, since it is will probably receive no support from Republicans, as it goes very, very far, particularly in retaining people’s information. And there’s a big danger in making the mental health information of citizens readily available to The Government.

Anyhow, we’ll see if DiFi brings her big and complicated scary guns legislation to the floor. It goes after not just the guns you expect, but bolt action and single shot rifles, competition rifles, and lots of shotguns.

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Memeorandum: Obama Apparently Looks Like Teenage Girls In Bikinis

By William Teach March 18, 2013 – 4:12 pm

There’s apparently this big kerfuffle about Satan in the History Channel’s show The Bible. Here it is

I love when Memeorandum puts some random photo next to a story that is totally irrelevant. Here’s the photo

Yeah, that’s from the upcoming movie “Spring Breakers”, an R rated bit of silliness which one source termed “The Movie About Selena Gomez & Vanessa Hudgens in Bikinis”.

Then again, Obama does like to spend lots of time on vacation, and has his own partially taxpayer funded spring break coming up.

And, yeah, I guess Satan does look a bit like Obama, when you stop and look at the still shot. Didn’t notice it myself while watching the show last night.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 18, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is the flag of the world’s worst carbon polluter which will cause the seas to rise up and cover all the land (especially your posh beach side manor), you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell… with a post on the Iraq war.

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White House Lowers Expectations For Obama Israel Trip

By William Teach March 18, 2013 – 12:34 pm

Expectations were lowered from “throwing Israel under the bus and supporting Islamists” to “mostly throwing Israel under the bus and supporting most Islamits”

(Fox News) As President Obama heads to the Middle East this week, including his first visit to Israel since becoming commander in chief, the White House is downplaying expectations, saying the president hopes only to help leaders come together to bring peace and democracy to the region.

Will Obama leave the drones at home?

The White House’s apparent strategy is to lower expectations to create breathing room for frank peace talks between both sides that hopefully will include discussions about what it will take to get back to the negotiating table.

Yet, the administration is still whining about Israel expanding settlements. Obama has never moved off his 1967 borders talk. Me, I’m expecting a big gaffe from O on this trip, which the media will dutifully excuse and cover up.

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Global Temperatures Not Matching Warmist Prognostication

By William Teach March 18, 2013 – 9:49 am

Climate doom? Yeah, not happening

(UK Daily Mail) The Mail on Sunday today presents irrefutable evidence that official predictions of global climate warming have been catastrophically flawed.

The graph on this page blows apart the ‘scientific basis’ for Britain reshaping its entire economy and spending billions in taxes and subsidies in order to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. These moves have already added £100 a year to household energy bills.

Let’s see that chart

The graph confirms there has been no statistically significant increase in the world’s average temperature since January 1997 – as this newspaper first disclosed last year.

And now the climate astrologers will attack the Daily Mail and probably talk about “cherry picked data”, Big Oil, etc and so on. Alas

Its source is impeccable. The line showing world temperatures comes from the Met Office ‘HadCRUT4’ database, which contains readings from more than 30,000 measuring posts. This was added to the 75 and 95 per cent certainty bands to produce the graph by a group that amalgamates the work of 20 climate model centres working for the IPCC. (snip)

The awkward fact is that the earth has warmed just 0.5 degrees over the past 50 years. And Met Office records show that for the past 16 years temperatures have plateaued and, if anything, are going down.

None of this proves that the Earth is not in a warm period. It is. The temp increases could kick back on, or they might dip, like during the time period from the 40’s to the 70’s. What this does show is that all the Warmist models, usually obtained using computers with little real world data but with notions that the only thing that can cause increased temperatures during this period are due to Mankind, are flawed. And hysterical. Over-the-top. Prognostications from carnival palm readers. And that CO2 (and other GHG) output from Mankind is not the main driver of the global climate.

The works of Mankind surely have an effect on the local climate. This is known as the Urban Heat Island Effect. Globally? Not so much. Someone needs to create a 12 step process to ween Warmists off their narrow dogma.

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