Esa’s Cryosat mission observes continuing Arctic winter ice decline
BBC News – Esa’s Cryosat mission observes continuing Arctic winter ice decline
Wait until they see next year’s map! Most of the Beaufort Sea is already full of thick ice, and winter is just starting. The Arctic is about to get very ugly for alarmists.
h/t to Don
I have been running an experiment today. The featured blog post shows videos of some of Obama’s most egregious public misbehavior. They are definitely worth watching.
But very few people are watching them. Despite high traffic on the blog today, people are skipping right past that post. My theory is that the thought of being stuck with Obama for three more years is just too much to handle, and people don’t want to be reminded what America is up against.
DENVER – The day after Colorado’s first ever recalls of sitting state lawmakers, Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-Colorado) appeared to distance himself from the debate over new gun control laws that prompted the special elections.
Speaking to reporters outside of his office Wednesday, Hickenlooper said he was “never as fired up” about the magazine limit bill he signed into law this year as he was over passing the law that expanded background checks.
After recalls, Governor John Hickenlooper softens talk on gun control | 9news.com
This would be the same Governor Hickenlooper who signed those unconstitutional laws.
The Syria researcher whose Wall Street Journal op-piece was cited by Secretary of State John Kerry and Sen. John McCain during congressional hearings about the use of force has been fired from the Institute for the Study of War for lying about having a Ph.D., the group announced on Wednesday.
WSJ op-ed writer Elizabeth O’Bagy fired for resume lie – Mackenzie Weinger – POLITICO.com
Kerry was called out by the Washington Post today for lying about his 2003 Iraq vote, and Biden got through college by plagiarizing other people’s work. Obama won’t release his college transcripts, and couldn’t find his birth certificate for 50 years.
Obama’s “Dreams of my Father” literary agent promoted him as being born in Kenya for 17 years, from 1991 until he announced his candidacy for president in 2007.
1991
Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii’
2004
Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate
2007
http://web.archive.org/web/20070403190001
2008
According to Obama and many other people on the left, the NRA has some sort of magical power which controls voters when they walk into the voting booth -and causes them to vote for the murder of small children.
Stupid voters. Don’t they understand that the government has their backs?
According to the FBI, there were 1.2 million violent crimes committed in the US during 2011. FBI — Violent Crime
According to the UK government, there were 1.94 million violent crimes in the UK during 2011. www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_296191.pdf
There are almost exactly five times as many people in the US as in the UK – 314 million vs. 63 million. The violent crime rate in the UK is 3,100 per 100,000, and in the US it is 380 per 100,000 population.
Brits are eight times more likely to be victims of violent crime than Americans. For some reason, Piers Morgan doesn’t talk about this.
By far the largest number of local glaciers in north-east Greenland had receded very greatly during recent decades, and it would not be exaggerating to say that these glaciers were nearing a catastrophe.
Fortunately, NASA has recently erased the 1940 warm period in that region, retroactively saving the glaciers.
The Hollywood actor Harrison Ford has been accused of “harassing state institutions” in Indonesia and threatened with deportation after allegedly confronting a minister during an interview about illegal logging and climate change.
The forestry minister, Zulkifi Hasan, said he was left shocked by Ford’s emotionally charged interview techniques and complained there was no time to go over the questions before filming began, local media reported.
“I suddenly had my face made up and was then interviewed,” Hasan told the state news agency Antara.
“I was given a chance to make only one or two comments.”
The Star Wars actor has been in Indonesia filming an episode for the climate change documentary series Years of Living Dangerously, which will air on the US television network Showtime in April 2014 and feature Matt Damon and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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“You know, Senator Chuck Hagel, when he was senator, Senator Chuck Hagel, now secretary of defense, and when I was a senator, we opposed the president’s decision to go into Iraq, but we know full well how that evidence was used to persuade all of us that authority ought to be given.”
— Secretary of State John F. Kerry, in an interview with MSNBC, Sept. 5, 2013
The Pinocchio Test
Many politicians have a tendency to look back at their past statements with rose-colored glasses. But given that Kerry has now twice in recent months made the claim that he opposed the war in Iraq, this is clearly not a case of a momentary slip-up.
For Kerry, the uncomfortable fact remains that he voted to authorize the use of force against Iraq, he believed the intelligence that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and he said there was little choice but to launch an invasion to disarm him. Kerry may have been highly critical of Bush’s diplomatic efforts in advance of the invasion, but that is not the same thing as opposing the war when it started.
It’s time for the secretary to stop making this claim. In trying to make a distinction between his vote to authorize the war and his later dismay at how it turned out, Kerry earns Four Pinocchios.
h/t to Dave G
