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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

June 3, 2014 01:05 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

EPA Administrator Lies Out The Kazoo

Posted By Dave Snope
Shameless liar on global warm effects. Is Obama's new blame game to blame his higher healthcare costs on global warming?

The chief of the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday justified the EPA’s sweeping new regulation on power plant emissions as a necessary step to prevent catastrophic increases in both the Earth’s temperature and sea levels.

“If we do nothing, in our grandkids’ lifetimes, temperatures could rise 10 degrees and seas could rise by 4 feet,” EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said in a Washington press conference announcing the new rule.

McCarthy also blamed climate change on rising medical bills, higher insurance costs, and an increased frequency in devastating storms.[...]

Stupid apparatchik chick.

Let's check those rising temperatures:

Nope, she's a liar.

Lets check those rising tides. I'll use Los Angeles since Jerry Brown recently said the airport might get flooded by global warming:



So that would take over 1200 years for the sea to rise 4 feet at the current, linear rate that has not changed at all in the era of so-called global warming. When does the CO2 induced rise start? It hasn't, and she's making it all up.

June 5, 2014 02:19 AM Forum: Politics

1/4 Million Californians Vote For Arms Trafficker

Posted By Dave Snope
LOL at these useless idiots. Shoulder-fired missiles from muslims? No problem. He's the best man for sec'y of state.



http://twitchy.com/2014/06/04/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-california-leland-yee-edition/

June 6, 2014 03:24 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

USPS Issues Global Warming Forever Stamp

Posted By Dave Snope
The Obamaganda machine knows no limits, has no bounds, and no checks with reality.


From USPS.gov

This round stamp features a visual representation of our planet’s sea surface temperatures. It shows the Earth with North America at the center and parts of South America, Asia, and Europe just visible on the edges, surrounded by vivid bands of color throughout the oceans. The image is one frame in a 1,460-frame animation created from the output of a computer model of Earth’s climate by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

Of course it's fiction from a government-paid-for model.

Here's the current SST map:

June 6, 2014 04:11 PM Forum: Politics

Re: We are in so much danger

Posted By Dave Snope
Lech Walesa may agree with you:

(Reuters) – When Lech Walesa, the man whose Solidarity movement helped bring down the Iron Curtain, found himself sitting across from Barack Obama at a banquet in the Polish capital on Tuesday evening, he offered the younger man a piece of advice.

“I said that I wished the United States would lead,” Walesa told Polish television about the encounter, which he said was not so much an upbraiding of the U.S. president as an “interesting” encounter.

June 6, 2014 07:41 PM Forum: Politics

The Quintessential Obamabot?

Posted By Dave Snope
Gweneth Paltrow, a big Obama supporter and fundraiser, thinks that bad words hurt water's feelings. Perhaps she thought this was how Obama was going to stop the rising seas when she voted for him.

Here's her explanation of the "science":
“I am fascinated by the growing science behind the energy of consciousness and its effects on matter,” she wrote on her website GOOP. “I have long had Dr Emoto's coffee table book on how negativity changes the structure of water, how the molecules behave differently depending on the words or music being expressed around it.”

Her scientists friend Dr. Habib Sadeghi described an experiment where “Emoto poured pure water into vials labelled with negative phrases like 'I hate you' or 'Fear'. After 24 hours, the water was frozen, and no longer crystallised under the microscope: It yielded grey, misshapen clumps instead of beautiful lace-like crystals.”

In contrast, he wrote water labeled “'I love you' or 'Peace'” produced “gleaming, perfectly hexagonal crystals.”

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/06/05/gwyneth-paltrow-mean-words-hurts-water-feelings/

I suppose this isn't any worse science than the guy who counted 3 dead polar bears after a big storm and projected that as a loss onto all polar bear populations due to global warming, got his boss and wife to peer review his findings, and got the US to declare the species endangered on the basis of his "science".

June 7, 2014 04:42 AM Forum: Politics

People Are Losing Jobs All Over...

Posted By Dave Snope
...defense contractors are dying on the vine, the middle class is shriveling, people having to take part-time jobs to pay the bills. Which is why it's one big party to be one of the government apparatchiks:

The labor union representing employees at the National Weather Service is demanding major upgrades to a new water resources facility at the University of Alabama, including that each employee have a soundproof office, receive a pay increase, and have access to a community garden.

The National Water Center will soon open on the University campus in Tuscaloosa, after construction was completed in December 2013. The National Weather Service Employees Organization (NWSEO) has submitted a list of demands to add to the $18.8 million facility before they begin their work.

A list of “National Water Center Proposals” submitted on May 28, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, reveal the extravagant demands made by the union.

“Cubicles will not be used in the building, each person will have their own office,” the union has demanded. The office walls will be a minimum of 3 inches thick and “insulated with ‘Quiet Batt 30 Soundproofing Insulation.’”

The offices will also be furnished with a desk from the Kathy Ireland Southampton Onyx Collection, have a “Freedom Task Chair with Headrest,” and a 51 inch Samsung television, with a cable package that includes all available news and weather channels.

Common areas will be painted the shade “marine” and all office areas will be painted in the shade “beeswax,” according to the document. The NWSEO also wants all artwork to be from “local artists within a 50 mile radius” of Tuscaloosa and the art is required to have a “water theme.”

Break rooms will also be furnished with Samsung TVs, a refrigerator, stove and oven, microwave, and an eating table that is “at least 18 square feet” as well as “10 Wynwood Garden Walk Arm Chairs.”

The union is also demanding that the break rooms be fully stocked with cleaning supplies before any employee starts working, and the women’s bathrooms be equipped with “personal feminine hygiene supplies.”

Outside, the union is requesting longleaf pine trees, water oaks, and camellias to be planted, and a minimum 100 by 100 foot plot for a “community garden.”

A congressional aide who provided the Free Beacon with the document said the “apparently serious” list of demands are laughable.

“I’m sure most Americans would like a private office with a 50” plasma TV, but maybe they’ll be able to derive some vicarious enjoyment from these government workers whose salaries they pay,” they said.

The union also wants perks at the University of Alabama, where the facility is located, including free parking permits.

“The NWS will negotiate with the University of Alabama to obtain a tuition discount of 75 percent for employees and their family,” the document said.

Employees demand access to all University facilities, at no cost to the employee, including “staff privileges” to the library, childcare center, staff restaurant, cafeteria, and “other facilities as decided.”

The university is leasing the property to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and “isn’t involved directly in the center,” according to Alabama Today.

The union also demands that any employee assigned to the Water Center after May 21 will “get an automatic 3 step pay increase,” and that high-level employees receive a $5,000 “relocation bonus,” a cost to be picked up by the taxpayers.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/government-union-demands-major-upgrades-to-taxpayer-funded-research-facility/

June 7, 2014 11:23 PM Forum: Politics

He Was Too Dangerous To Release Before He Wasn't

Posted By Dave Snope
The political priority to build up Obama's VA-tarnished image as a champion of the military and rescuer of POWs overrode all others.

While some top Obama administration officials are downplaying threats posed the five senior Taliban officials released from Guantanamo in the prisoner exchange for Bowe Bergdahl, not long ago the administration went to court to prevent one of those men from going free. In a decision on May 31, 2011, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, ruled in favor of the government--and "Respondent Barack Obama"--in its effort to keep Khairulla Khairkhwa in detention. That decision, once classified "Secret," has since been declassified and released.

Today, with these Taliban leaders free in Qatar and already looking likely to rejoin the fight against America, top Obama administration officials are seeking to reassure Americans that the threats are minimal--or, in the words of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, "sufficiently mitigated." But just three years ago, the same administration argued in court against Khairkhwa's writ of habeas corpus because of his senior position with the Taliban, his close relationship with Taliban leader Mullah Omar, and his support for Taliban forces fighting against the United States.

The case provides a window on the Obama administration's concerns--concerns that many top intelligence and military officials continue to have. The court summarized the government's case this way. "The government contends that the petitioner, a former senior Taliban official, is lawfully detained because he was part of Taliban forces and purposefully and materially supported such forces in hostilities against the United States," the court wrote in the introduction to its opinion.

The decision affirmed the arguments put forth by the Obama administration, noting that Khairkhwa "was, without question, a senior member of the Taliban both before and after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001." It continued: Khairkhwa was "a member of the Taliban's highest governing body, the Supreme Shura" and "was a close associate of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, who appointed him Governor of the province of Herat in 1999."

"The petitioner admitted that after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he served as a member of a Taliban envoy that met clandestinely with senior Iranian officials to discuss Iran's offer to provide the Taliban with weapons and other military support in anticipation of imminent hostilities with US coalition forces," read the opinion. "The petitioner has also exhibited detailed knowledge about sensitive military-related matters, such as the locations, personnel and resources of Taliban military installations, the relative capabilities of different weapons systems and the locations of weapons caches."

This knowledge, the court found, was not for theoretical purposes. "The petitioner operated within the Taliban's formal command structure, providing material support to Taliban fighters both before and after the outset of hostilities with US coalition forces."

Khairkhwa was close to Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader who welcomed al Qaeda to Afghanistan and was instrumental in the facilitation of their activities, both before and after the 9/11 attacks. "Even after the US led invasion of Afghanistan," the court found, Khairkhwa "remained within Mullah Omar's inner circle, despite the fact that Mullah Omar had limited his contact to only his most trusted commanders."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-flips-taliban-commander_794471.html

June 7, 2014 11:44 PM Forum: Politics

Marshmallow, Waffle, Alien, and a Fruitcake

Posted By Dave Snope
Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings, FRSL, FRHistS, has a way with words and a historical perspective from across the pond.


This week, however, at the D-Day Commemoration, America’s representative will be a man who has disappointed his nation and its allies as have few presidents in modern times.

From the moment of his first inauguration in January 2009, he was expected to be a healer rather than a warrior. But nobody, not even his foremost Republican foes, believed that halfway through his second term of office, Obama would be giving the world a convincing impersonation of a marshmallow.

That is nonetheless where we have got to, with the black comedy of his Administration’s exchange of five top-rank Taliban prisoners for an alleged ‘Afghan war hero’, who now appears to have been a deserter whose comrades despised him.

But what matters in this huge American political story is not how mad or bad Bergdahl — since promoted to Sergeant — may have been, but what possessed Obama first to create the deplorable precedent of exchanging him for a row of Taliban heavy-hitters held at Guantanamo Bay; and then to welcome home this young man as an alleged hero, before discovering that many of the men who served with him believed he deserved to be shot.

This lapse of judgment caught the White House in the headlights at a moment when the world was already gazing in bewilderment and dismay at Obama’s blurred response to Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Just at the moment when a clear voice was needed, Obama spoke out with a frail and reedy one. Just as Vladimir Putin, the most dangerous thug to occupy the Kremlin since the Cold War, tests the resolve of the West, his U.S. counterpart waffles, and slashes the defence budget.

Today, the man in charge of the world’s most powerful nation seems deeply uncertain about where he, and it, should go.

He appears disengaged, detached, almost an alien from another planet. Whether he was right or wrong to reject intervention in the conflict in Syria last year, it was a crippling display of weakness publicly to assert that any use of chemical weapons by President Assad would represent ‘a line in the sand’ which the dictator would cross at his peril. For then Obama ignored exactly such an atrocity.

But Obama today finds himself being compared - and not always by Republican enemies - with that most pitiful of modern presidents, Jimmy Carter, the man who presided over the humiliation of the Tehran Embassy hostage drama; remembered for the symbolic photograph of himself falling on his face while out jogging.
Maybe this week’s image of Obama alongside Bob Bergdahl, father of the newly-liberated Taliban hostage and one of the most obvious fruitcakes ever to sport an Old Testament prophet’s beard, will end up on the same page of history.

He is not a bad man, nor a stupid one, but he has shown himself tragically weak. And in a world occupied by Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Putin, Nigeria’s Boko Haram kidnappers, and a terrifyingly ambitious China, that is no way for the occupant of the White House to be.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2649132/Another-shabby-day-marshmallow-President-As-Taliban-hostage-swap-sours-Obama-pygmy-compared-wartime-leader-Roosevelt-says-MAX-HASTINGS.html#ixzz34027wihh
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June 8, 2014 06:34 PM Forum: Politics

Our Own Stinger Missiles Used Against Us

Posted By Dave Snope
More abject incompetence from the Obama admin endangers U.S. lives. What genius thought Qatar could be trusted to back the right terrorists and not the wrong terrorists? How long will it be before one is used against a civilian airliner? When it comes to islamic terrorists, what difference does it make?

My sources in the US Special Operations community believe the Stinger fired against the Chinook was part of the same lot the CIA turned over to the ­Qataris in early 2011, weapons Hillary Rodham Clinton’s State Department intended for anti-Khadafy forces in Libya.

They believe the Qataris delivered between 50 and 60 of those same Stingers to the Taliban in early 2012, and an additional 200 SA-24 Igla-S surface-to-air missiles.
Qatar now is expected to hold five Taliban commanders released from Guantanamo for a year before allowing them to go to Afghanistan.

But if we can’t trust the Qataris not to give our weapons to the Taliban, how can we trust them with this?

http://nypost.com/2014/06/08/how-the-taliban-got-their-hands-on-modern-us-missiles/

June 10, 2014 04:57 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Antarctic Glacier "AGW Collapse" Debunked

Posted By Dave Snope

Remember the wailing from Suzanne Goldenberg over the “collapse” of the Thwaites glacier blaming man-made CO2 effects and the smackdown given to the claim on WUWT?

Well, never mind. From the University of Texas at Austin and the “you can stop your wailing now” department, comes this really, really, inconvenient truth.

Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/09/uh-oh-study-says-collapsing-thwaites-glacier-in-antarctica-melting-from-geothermal-heat-not-co2-heat-effects/#more-111163


Of course all this wasn't necessary to debunk the alarmists and their true believers who blamed it on global warming, because there wasn't any warming. But that never stopped them before.


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