Pentagon Alerted A Mere 50 Minutes After Benghazi Attack Started

By William Teach November 9, 2012 – 7:50 pm

Somehow, according to Bloomberg, this blows away Conservative arguments

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was alerted about 50 minutes after the start of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and dispatched troops from Europe within hours, according to the Pentagon.

A timeline released today by the Defense Department counters statements by some Republicans before the Nov. 6 election that President Barack Obama’s administration failed to respond to requests for military aid or for rescue efforts during the Sept. 11 attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. More congressional hearings and briefings on the attack are scheduled next week.

First of all, why did it take 50 minutes to alert the Pentagon? Second, um, can Bloomberg point out what PBO actually did to save our people under assault for 7 hours? Talking about it and moving some assets somewhere else is not the same as actually rescuing our people.

While Obama ordered “all available” Pentagon assets to respond to the attack, no armed planes were near Benghazi at the time, Panetta said today in a letter to members of Congress.

But, hey, we were able to get a drone up and over in 70 minutes. Did the two intrepid Bloomberg reports think to ask how long it would have taken to fly jets from a base in Europe or off a freaking aircraft carrier? Or one of the Marine ships in the Med which carriers Harriers, helicopters, and Ospreys? You know, since we could get a much slower drone over the compound? Bloomberg tries to play with the timeline, but

(Fox) New Pentagon details show that the first U.S. military unit arrived in Libya more than 15 hours after the attack on the consulate in Benghazi was over, and four Americans, including the ambassador, were dead.

That means that they arrived around 22 hours after the attacks began. That sounds like either a breakdown in communication or a bunch of political hacks failing to make a decision in a timely fashion.

His explanation, however, did not satisfy McCain. In a statement Friday, McCain said Panetta’s letter, “only confirms what we already knew — that there were no forces at a sufficient alert posture in Europe, Africa or the Middle East to provide timely assistance to our fellow citizens in need in Libya. The letter fails to address the most important question — why not?

The US has teams all over the world ready to go at a moments notice. They train for situations which are fluid in which information is limited, and they go in and kick the ever loving sh*t out of the bad guys. Why no deployments?

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Adult Entertainment Industry Not Thrilled With LA County Condom Referendum

By William Teach November 9, 2012 – 3:16 pm

The Nanny State strikes the p0rn industry

(ABC News) A ballot measure mandating that porn stars wear condoms in adult films passed with 56 percent of the vote in Los Angeles County this week, but the adult film industry in California says it has already has a system to curb the spread of sexually transmitted diseases — and it’s better than latex.

The Safer Sex in the Adult Film Industry Act, or Measure B, will require performers to wear condoms during vaginal and anal intercourse, something industry leaders and their employees think is unnecessary because studios require performers to submit to mandatory STD testing every 14 or 28 days. If they aren’t STD-free, they can’t be entered into the industry-wide sexual health database, and they’re banned from performing.

The story notes that when Vivid and Hirsh required all actors to wear condoms back in the 1990’s their revenue dropped 30%. We also hear how a lot of do-gooders with good intentions think that this is super duper great and a “victory for common sense.” In other words, they are legislating thought. P0rn actors and actresses pretty much know what they are getting into, and the industry takes a lot of measures to reduce and eliminate disease.

Performer Kylie Ireland, who also directs adult films, said she was “obviously” against Measure B.

“It’s a ridiculous waste of time and money to regulate an industry that is already self-regulating,” she said. “We’ve done this all on our own. … I always felt totally comfortable and I’ve been in this business for 17 years.”

First of all this is the Nanny State rearing its ugly head. Second of all, can anyone guess what comes next? That’s right, these studios will take their business out of LA County, removing a huge “wad” (couldn’t help myself) of cash from the economy.

Adult film actor James Deen said the measure also violates his rights to free speech because he wants to portray a certain fantasy for film, and he should have the right to do that. He said he is considering a move to Las Vegas, a possible new home for the Los Angeles porn community. (Ireland estimated the L.A. County group makes up about 95 percent of the business in the United States.)

So, violating free speech (that’s kinda nebulous) and a potential huge loss of revenue for LA County.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 9, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Goldfish and Clowns, with a post on offensiveness.

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Calgary Hit With Massive Amount Of Globull Warming Snowfall

By William Teach November 9, 2012 – 10:35 am

Bet they’d be having a lot of fun biking instead of taking fossil fueled travel

(Calgary Sun) Calgarians suffered the same white plight that befell Edmonton just the day before as record amounts of snow blanketed the city and the rest of southern Alberta.

By 5 p.m., 11 cm were on the ground in Calgary, another 15 cm expected overnight, and yet another 10 cm expected Friday, Environment Canada reported.

Environment Canada said average snowfall for all of November is about 16 cm.

The record snowfall for Nov. 8 is 12.6 cm, set in 1973, and November’s all-time high snowfall is 35.6 cm, set on Nov. 13. 1914.

It’s still snowing in Calgary, as of this morning when I wrote the post. Calgary also received lots of snow in October. Like, record amounts.

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Earth To Boil In Future, Says New Study

By William Teach November 9, 2012 – 7:33 am

Warmists really just can’t help themselves. Years ago they told Climate Realists that weather was not climate. Now, every storm is proof of “climate change”, even snow storms and long cold periods. I personally love their insane argument about snow, where they say a warmer climate creates more water vapor creating more snow. I guess it was super warm during the last ice age. DERP face. And the Warmists are back attempting to say that storms will be worse and it will get super duper hot

Warmer still: Extreme climate predictions appear most accurate, report says

Except for the fact that the current world temperature is the same as it was 16 years ago.

Climate scientists agree the Earth will be hotter by the end of the century, but their simulations don’t agree on how much. Now a study suggests the gloomier predictions may be closer to the mark.

“Warming is likely to be on the high side of the projections,” said John Fasullo of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., a co-author of the report, which was based on satellite measurements of the atmosphere.

That means the world could be in for a devastating increase of about eight degrees Fahrenheit by 2100, resulting in drastically higher seas, disappearing coastlines and more severe droughts, floods and other destructive weather.

And withing 3 paragraphs we’ve already degenerated into soothsaying: “could”. Not will. No statistical predictive number is provided to asses the likelyhood of a rise of 8 degrees in the future when everyone will have forgotten the prediction. It’s not like their predictions have failed in the past, ya know.

Climate scientists around the world use supercomputers to simulate the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. Sophisticated programs attempt to predict how climate will change as society continues burning coal, oil and gas, the main sources of heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide.

Garbage in, garbage out, especially when they quite often discount/under utilize/don’t included the effects of the sun and water vapor.

No supercomputer is powerful enough to predict cloud cover decades into the future, so Fasullo and colleague Kevin Trenberth struck on another method to test which of the many climate simulations most accurately predicted clouds: They looked at relative humidity. When humidity rises, clouds form; drier air produces fewer clouds. That makes humidity a good proxy for cloud cover.

Really? I live in North Carolina. There are many, many, many days in which the humidity is horrendous, yet, the sky is relatively clear most of the day. I bet many of you can say the same. It’s the upper level atmospheric water content that matters. If you aren’t specifically including cloud cover in your models, they’re worthless.

Scientists not involved in the research said the report, funded by NASA and scheduled for publication Friday in the journal Science, could improve the predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its next comprehensive report, due in 2013. The panel is a world body organized by the United Nations to guide policymakers as they struggle to curb and adapt to climate change. The world has warmed by about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880, a rise scientists nearly uniformly attribute to carbon pollution from fossil fuels.

1.4 F? That’s it since the end of the little ice age? This is not, as Joe Biden would say, a “big f*cking deal.” It is less than one would expect during a warm period. The previous warm periods were up several degrees F higher. This is not science, it’s politics. Particularly since so few Warmists practice what they preach.

Oh, and it’s neither carbon nor pollution. Science!

Double oh, don’t these super computers use one heck of a lot of energy? That would mean, by Warmist doctrine, that they are bad for hotcoldwetdry. So these researchers are part of the problem.

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Welcome To ObamaWorld: Large Number Of Companies Announce Layoffs Post Election

By William Teach November 9, 2012 – 6:41 am

Quite a few companies are giving their position on the election outcome

(The Blaze) Do elections have consequences? If you have been paying attention to the financial markets, you might think so. Wall Street has had two horrible days since President Obama won a second term.

However, stock prices are not the only thing taking a hit. It appears that the job market is also suffering. In the last 48 hours, the following major corporations have announced layoffs in America (links take you to news stories about the layoffs – with details from the companies):

Also mentioned is Darden Restaurants, which is going to limit workers to 28 hours a week to avoid ObamaCare requirements regarding full time workers.

The story also lists a large number of companies that announced that they are closing. And then we go to Daily Job Cuts and find more (partial list)

We also get many more closings, including

And plenty more small companies.

Are all these a pure response to Obama’s re-election? Surely, no. There are layoffs and closings every day. But, this was a huge number post election, and those super evil rich people who provide the jobs are certainly highlighting the state of the economy and what they expect the economy to do in the future. They’re telling people they voted for lollipops and unicorns, they voted because they prefer likeability over competence and experience, they voted for more of the same and blamestorming over a proven track record of success. Quite a few companies are laying people off directly due to the ObamaCare tax that’s a penalty but a tax but a penalty. From Twitchy we get

I’m offering a shiny new unicorn to any reporter who asks Obama about all the layoffs and closings. That is, if Obama deigns to take questions. Doubtful.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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Good News! Another IPCC Vacation Meeting Coming Soon

By William Teach November 8, 2012 – 3:24 pm

And what a vacation it will be! They get to visit Qatar from Novermber 26 through December 7th. Tory Aardvark has a few thoughts, and wonders if anyone is going (well, surely those who are going on Someone Else’s dime will)

It has all been downhill for the warming alarmists since COP15 in Copenhagen where 33526 delegates and press attended what they called Hopenhagen, where the hope was to destroy western industrialised society and pave the way for the Green Hell of the Agrarian Dream.

Then in a flash Climategate destroyed the illusion of Anthropogenic Global Warming, despite the then socialist British Prime Minister Gordon Brown telling us there only 50 days to save the world and the current incumbent socialist US President Barack Obama saying the science is settled.

Then just as the great Green socialist hope for one world government, Barack Obama flew into Copenhagen to save the world from what was then called Global Warming, Gaia saw fit to unleash an unprecedented  irony on the warmists with a massive snow storm that forced Obama to leave early citing “weather constraints in Washington“

Last years UN Climate Circus COP17 in Durban attracted just 12,500 delegates, where 7300 were from Green NGOs and journalists, COP17 like its predecessors COP16 and COP15 achieved nothing, but did provide yet another exotic location for the saviours of the planet to consume huge quantities of fossil fuel and enjoy 5 star luxury living while saving the planet.

Boom! The numbers in attendance have fallen, but there are still plenty of dupes who will take unnecessary fossil fueled flights to proclaim that no one else should take fossil fueled flights. Though, I’m not sure that having a meeting close to the crazy nation of Iran is such a good idea. But, fortunately, the Iranian leaders hold the same views on “climate change” as most in attendance at the COP18 working vacation. I hear they have some great golf there. They even hold a big tournament in Doha, the same city COP18 will be held in.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 8, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…are wonderful plants sucking the CO2 from the world’s worst carbon polluter out of the air, you just might be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Basil’s Blog, with an important point about government shutdown.

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Bummer: Pot Is Bad For Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach November 8, 2012 – 11:15 am

Many are thrilled that Washington and Colorado approved marijuana for recreational use. Personally, I could care less. I don’t smoke it. I used to when in high school and the first years of college, but, it stopped being fun (note: I don’t drink much, either). I’m not worried about pot being super bad, as it is less dangerous of a drug than alcohol. If people want to use it, so be it. If States want to make it legal (though HIGHLY controlled and taxed), that’s what is supposed to happen. It will be interesting to see how the highly politicized Obama DOJ reacts, since marijuana is a federal Schedule I drug, in the same class as cocaine and crack. But, hey, Grist is here to throw cold water on those who are psyched

This likely means increased production to meet newly legal needs, which likely means more impact on the environment.

Marijuana advocates point to the fact that it’s “just a plant.” They’re not wrong! But it’s a plant that’s often shipped hundreds of miles from production to consumer, and either grown indoors at tremendous energy costs, or cultivated outdoors to the detriment of the local landscape.

And energy usage, all those evil incandescent bulbs mimicking sunlight, is bad for “climate change”. Growing outside can be bad for the real environment, and you have all those miles for shipment of pot (fossil fuels), so, it’s better that you grow it at home, but, back to energy

Unfortunately, they won’t avoid massive energy costs from the bright artificial lights used for up to 20 hours a day in order to speed up nature. About a quarter of the cost of weed grown inside is the cost of energy – which some studies say could be 1 percent of all the energy used in the U.S. And that’s been without legalization.

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

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Surprise! Obama Supporters Want Israel Dead

By William Teach November 8, 2012 – 8:59 am

RebelPundit’s Anne Sorok exposes the Left with their own words, as Obama supporters were out celebrating

From The Blaze on Sorok’s video

“It really mean to me, no more Israel,” one supporter said. The rest of the man’s answer is almost entirely indiscernible as English. However, TheBlaze will try to transcribe his comments as accurately as possible:

“Iran. Man, to tell you the truth, if mother f**ker Obama, if uh, they thought Mitt Romney was going to war with mother f**king Iran. And they felt, the mother f**ker, what’s his name? Notnuhnoo [sic],” he continued.

“Oh, Netanyahu?” Sorock clarifies.

“He felt the mother f**ker was going to war with f**king Iran, he felt Obama wasn’t going to go with that sh*t though. Obama fell back like man, f**k that sh*t, kill those mother f**kers,” he concluded.

There’s your typical leftist. Taking the side of Iran and wanting to see Israel wiped out, or at least forced to give up most of the land they won as they were attacked multiple times by Arab nations. Leftists sympathize with terrorists who stand against everything Liberals stand for…well, they do agree on destroying Israel.

The Lonely Conservative: “What a nice, civil society Obama has created.”

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