Surprise! Obama Admin. Sorta Kinda Approves First New Refinery In 30 Years

By William Teach October 11, 2012 – 1:58 pm

As Grist points out, this comes a mere 3 weeks before the election

(Interior Department) As part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to expand domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced approval of a ‘land-into-trust’ application from the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation. Today’s action is one in a series of necessary approvals that will enable the tribes to build the first U.S. refinery in decades, supporting American made energy — including domestic resources from the Bakken Formation — while also creating jobs. …

If all required approvals are granted, the proposed MHA Nation Clean Fuels Refinery would be the first new refinery built in the United States in more than 30 years. … As proposed, the 13,000 barrel-per-day facility would refine Bakken Formation crude oil into diesel fuel, propane and naptha products for the U.S. market. Since the President took office, domestic oil and gas production has increased each year, with domestic oil production currently at an eight year high, and natural gas production at its highest level ever.

We’ll know how serious they are if Team Obama starts touting this on the campaign trail. If they do, we’ll know it is simply a campaign trick, and the “series of necessary approvals” will never materialize. Furthermore, while more diesel fuel is good for truckers and some other vehicles, it doesn’t help the average driver.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 11, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is a dog that is killing the planet by using too many resources, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Conservatives4Palin, with a post about Obama’s latest excuse for getting whooped in the debate.

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Here We Go: AP Beclowns Themselves With Story Saying AGW Causes Antarctic Ice To Grow

By William Teach October 11, 2012 – 11:30 am

Yet another shark jumping incident from one of the most unhinged Warmists out there, Seth Borenstein, proving once again that science is completely missing from the Cult of Gore

(AP) The ice goes on seemingly forever in a white pancake-flat landscape, stretching farther than ever before. And yet in this confounding region of the world, that spreading ice may be a cockeyed signal of man-made climate change, scientists say.

This is Antarctica, the polar opposite of the Arctic.

While the North Pole has been losing sea ice over the years, the water nearest the South Pole has been gaining it. Antarctic sea ice hit a record 7.51 million square miles in September. That happened just days after reports of the biggest loss of Arctic sea ice on record.

Climate change skeptics have seized on the Antarctic ice to argue that the globe isn’t warming and that scientists are ignoring the southern continent because it’s not convenient. But scientists say the skeptics are misinterpreting what’s happening and why.

Shifts in wind patterns and the giant ozone hole over the Antarctic this time of year — both related to human activity — are probably behind the increase in ice, experts say. This subtle growth in winter sea ice since scientists began measuring it in 1979 was initially surprising, they say, but makes sense the more it is studied.

And then Seth tries to spin a fantasy of greenhouse gases, which trap heat inside the Earth’s atmosphere, cause an increase of ice in Antarctica, while causing a decrease of Arctic ice. In Warmist World, there’s no possible way that this can be mostly or solely natural, no, it has to be due to the modern activities of Mankind, like using lots of energy to publish an AP story that is insane.

Climate Depot provides analysis and derision, as well as plenty of links.

Sunshine Hours translates the article

  • Translation: It was embarrassing us, so we’ll make something up.
  • Translation: More Ice = Warming and Less Ice = Warming. Our scam wins either way!
  • Translation: We ignored the records in 2006 and 2012 and finally a few bloggers embarrassed us so much about 2012 that we had our buddy Seth Borenstein make up some crap.
  • Translation: Clown Feet would be more appropriate.

Jo Nova

‘Yet again climate models fail to predict things in advance, they only do the post modern type of prediction — the bury-my-bewilderment type, after the fact. Once more, nothing can disprove the theory of man-made climate catastrophe’

Boom!

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5 Things To Watch During Ryan/Biden Debate

By William Teach October 11, 2012 – 8:54 am

Tonight’s the night. After Barack Obama’s disastrous (hoorah!) debate performance against Mitt Romney, it’s now Biden’s time to attempt to save face and turn the election back towards Obama. So, 5 things to watch

  1. How many gaffes will Biden make, and will he use interesting dialects?
  2. If Biden has a decent debate, how bad will that make Obama look?
  3. Will Biden remember that today is not Halloween, and minimize the horror stories?
  4. How many times will Biden reference Big Bird?
  5. What seasoning does Paul Ryan have ready after he fillets and field dresses Biden?

Politico has their own 5

  1. Can Biden draw blood?
  2. Can Ryan defend himself and the GOP ticket?
  3. Will Ryan let his feel-your-pain flag fly?
  4. Good Joe v. Bad Biden
  5. How will foreign policy play?

Number 4 is the funniest, since Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush write

Biden is flat-out the best debater in the 2012 campaign this side of Mitt Romney — more comfortable and limber at the lectern than his own boss, according to Democrats who get paid to prep candidates.

Except, Biden hasn’t had a debate in four years, and he’s been such a detriment on the campaign trail over the past few months that when he’s actually sent out he’s sent only to venues in the Bluest of Blue areas. There are times when he has been benched for days to avoid there being a Bidenism.

It’s almost a given that Biden will recite some version of “Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.”

If he does, Ryan will destroy Joe and the O administration spin on Libya and how al Qaeda is spreading.

The Blaze also provides 5

  1. BIDEN UNBOUND
  2. RYAN’S DEBUT
  3. BATTLE OF THE AGES
  4. NUMBERS GAME
  5. THE MODERATOR

The last one could be important, if Joe is given easy questions and Ryan is given “when did you stop beating your wife” ones.

And 5 from the Washington Post, which gushes on Biden and “wonders” about Ryan, as well as lowers expectations in case Biden gets beaten like a rented mule. Here’s one of them

The Ryan wonk out: Most of the pre-debate coverage has and will continue to focus on Biden…..But, in our mind, it’s Ryan who has more to prove. Ryan has never — repeat, never — been on a debate stage this (symbolically) big before. And, Ryan’s great strength is his reputation as a numbers and policy geek — both great things in a public servant but less great things in a political debater. If Ryan goes too far down a wonky rabbit hole — we wonder what one of those might look like — he could find himself fighting from behind against the much more experienced Biden.

I’ve always wondered about the notion that the American people aren’t interested in deep explanations, positioned often by the media and pundits as being over the heads of Americans. And then the next day the media tells us that there were no concrete plans. To my mind, it seems that the middle ground voters want details, they want explanations, they want numbers. They’re tired of platitudes and content free talking points. They want to know what politicians are going to do, and how it will affect them. They do not want to be treated like children.

I do think Biden will do better than Obama, at least in terms of energy level and engagement. Expect Ryan to work to frustrate Biden and turn him into Angry Man, which can be done. Also, expect Ryan to have answers ready when Biden trots out the standard talking points, answers most people haven’t heard in response to those same tired Team Obama talking points since the media barely highlights them.

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Piers Morgan Gets Tough With DWS On Libya

By William Teach October 11, 2012 – 8:24 am

Yesterday, Congress held a hearing into exactly what happened in Libya, and who knew what and when. Boy Wonder Jay Carney had a few problems answering questions from Jake Tapper and others as to the Obama administration’s response. Debbie Wasserman Schultz had even more problems

(The Blaze) Appearing as a guest on Piers Morgan’s CNN show, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz did her best to defend the Obama administration’s handling of the deadly 9/11 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. She also tried to explain away the trove of misinformation that was circulated by the White House in the days following the attack that left U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead.

Morgan began by pointing out the obvious.

“It was very clumsily handled,” he said about the response to the Libya assault. “Was it scandalously handled? Should heads roll?”

After rolling her eyes and shaking her head, Schultz said that President Obama knew Ambassador Stevens personally, which had nothing to do with Morgan’s question whatsoever.

She continued: “What we need to do when the United States has been attacked, when Americans have been killed while serving our country; we don’t need to have Mitt Romney and the Republicans in Congress taking their first instinct, being to take cheap political shots–”

“Let me stop you there,” Morgan interrupted. “Because it’s not about Mitt Romney or what he did…what’s equally inappropriate though is the suggestion that Ambassador Rice and others made public statements which were deliberately misleading in the sense of blaming this video when in fact it has to be known after four or five days that it was much more likely to have been a terrorist attack that had been plan.”

Debbie Downer was shocked, shocked!!!!!!, that someone in the Compliant Media would dare to question the Official Obama Administration Spin that she was trotting out. It didn’t get any better when DWS attempted to move the conversation back to Mitt Romney

“You are flogging the wrong dead horse,” he interjected. “It isn’t about what Mitt Romney or Republicans did. The… really important horse that should be flogged is the behavior and the statements of those who were in positions of responsibility and, we would assume, knowledge, and it’s pretty un-American, pretty un-American, to put out completely false statements before you know the facts, isn’t it?”

“It is not OK for you to be saying that the administration was putting out completely false statements,” Schultz said, a look of disbelief on her face.

Piers Morgan continued to call her on her BS, and was shocked himself that Debbie said that the information the O admin put out wasn’t false. Which it was. A complete load of mule fritters. When they knew it was a terrorist attack within hours. And that there was no “spontaneous protest” which turned into an attack with heavy weapons. And that these “protesters” in Libya, Egypt, and all the areas where “protests” occurred just happened to have tons of al Qaeda and Taliban style flags and headbands ready to go. On September 11.

The Other McCain calls DWS the “Queen of unintentional comedy”

The Lonely Conservative says if anyone knows about false statements, it’d be DWS.

Ed Morrissey wonders about all the “lying” talk from DWS.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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Scumsucker Elijah Woods (D) Can’t Remember Name Of Murdered Ambassador

By William Teach October 10, 2012 – 7:33 pm

Just imagine a Republican did this (via Twitchy, and, yeah, I heard him say this on TV while I was walking through the breakroom at work)

Google news shows no sources other than Twitchy. Nothing at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, or Politico at the time of this post. Think a Republican would have gotten away with this?

Meanwhile, Jackass Woods made more unicorn* statements

House Democrats opened Wednesday’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing by attacking Republicans for cuts to embassy security funding — cuts that only happened thanks to overwhelming support from House Democrats, including House Oversight Committee Ranking Democratic member Rep. Elijah Cummings. In fact, more House Democrats – 149 of them — voted for the cuts than did House Republicans, of which 147 voted for them.

Oops!

*fantasy world.

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Pelosi Advises Biden To Focus On “Lady Parts” During Debate

By William Teach October 10, 2012 – 4:21 pm

Economy in stagnation, foreign policy melting down, unemployment and underemployment high, etc and so on, and ex-Queen Pelosi is worrying about Lady Parts

(The Hill) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is urging Vice President Biden to focus on women in Thursday’s night’s upcoming debate with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the GOP’s vice-presidential hopeful. “I just would say one word to the Biden people: Women,” Pelosi said in a Tuesday night interview on Current TV.

“Whether you are talking about women’s health care, whether you are talking about Medicare, whether you are talking about . . . equal pay, ending discrimination in the workplace, the rest of it.”

Democrats sure have a sexist and regressive view as to what women care about, eh? In Liberal World women apparently don’t care about starting and running businesses and such.

And what could possibly go wrong with giving Joe Biden this kind of advice?

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 10, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is a rising ocean that is destroying everything, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 1389 Blog, with a post about President Big Bird mentioning Romney’s dog again.

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Say, Why’s Obama Running For President?

By William Teach October 10, 2012 – 12:14 pm

Jobs, right? Gotta be jobs. Er, um (via Tom Nelson)

And my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet, because climate change is not a hoax. More draught and floods and wildfires are not a joke.  They’re a threat to your future.  And we’ve got to make sure that we meet the moment.  That’s why I’m running.

That was from Obama’s remarks in Ohio on Tuesday, October 9.

And how’d he get there? Fossil fueled planes and limos. The same way he left from an auditorium that used vast amounts of power. Which is bad for hotcoldwetdry.

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Red Lobster, Olive Garden Testing Program Where Even Fewer Workers Are Full Time Due To ObamaCare

By William Teach October 10, 2012 – 8:33 am

Who would have seen this coming? Legislation has consequences out in the Real World

(Washington Times) The owner of Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants is putting more workers on part-time status in a test aimed at limiting costs from President Obama’s health care law.

Darden Restaurants Inc. declined to give details but said the test is in just four markets across the country. The move entails boosting the number of workers on part-time status, meaning they will work fewer than 30 hours a week.

Under the new health care law, companies with 50 or more workers could be hit with fines if they do not provide basic coverage for full-time workers and their dependents. Starting Jan. 1, 2014, those penalties and requirements could significantly boost labor costs for some companies, particularly in low-wage industries such as retail and hospitality, where most jobs don’t come with health benefits.

Darden, which operates more than 2,000 restaurants in the United States and Canada, employs about 180,000 people. The company says about 75 percent of its employees are part-timers.

One might say that 25% is a small amount, but that still amounts to 45,000 full time workers, and by moving more and more to 30 hours or less the restaurant chains reduce their exposure to what is a burdensome law with tons of regulations, fines, and taxes, all of which will increase costs artificially. Other companies, such as McDonald’s, are looking at the same thing, namely, increasing the number of part timers and reducing the number of full time workers. Which means less money in the pockets of workers thanks to Obama and the Democrats and their absurd legislation which can affect the entire economy, not just the 1/6th health care industry.

And let’s not forget that it will drive up insurance premiums by around 30%.

And less one thinks that Darden Restaurants is some raving right wing group, the CEO and Chairman of the Board, Clarence Otis, Jr., has given $30,800 to DNC Services Corp, ie, the Democratic National Committee, as well as $2,500 each to Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Max Baucus, this election cycle. He also gave $2,500, it should be noted, to Mitch McConnell. And, while he did give $2,300 to John McCain during the 2008 cycle, he gave double that to Obama, and a raft of money to mostly Democrats, including $28,500 to the DNC in 2009.

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