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Obama has been busy this year quoting fake polls numbers to push policy, including John Cook’s fake 97% – but now that Americans are overwhelmingly against his push for war, suddenly he isn’t interested.

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h/t to somedude

Obama says that women should be in combat, and that the US has a moral imperative to go to war with Syria. I assume that he means it, and that his girls will be signing up for ROTC soon – in preparation to go fight their father’s perpetual war in the Middle East when they come of age.

Just like their father’s brave military service, when he killed Osama bin Laden.

“And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the Director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network. Then, last August, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan . And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and I authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad , Pakistan…

1. Make an accusation
2. Get immediately hysterical
3. Launch missiles before anyone has a chance to discuss

It is well known among champions of peace that the only possible way to resolve a dispute, is to launch missiles into densely populated areas.

HUNDREDS of skiers are stuck on New Zealand’s Mt Hutt after freak weather forced its closure.

A combination of drifting snow and poor visibility has been blamed. While ski area management were aware of an approaching front and poor forecast, the situation deteriorated quickly, Mt Hutt ski area manager James McKenzie said.

There are 316 people trapped on the mountain.

“We made a decision to close the mountain at 11.30 this morning and a number of people made it safely down the road,” he said.

“However at midday a combination of new snow blowing around everywhere and wind gusts of up to 45km/h, especially around the Saddles, meant visibility along the upper section of the access road deteriorated to the extent we closed the road completely.

Hundreds of skiers trapped on New Zealand’s Mt Hutt

“I’ll give you one of the simplest principles of foreign policy that we ought to be following,” Cruz said. “Don’t give weapons to people who hate you. Don’t give weapons to people who want to kill you.”

Ted Cruz: US Is Not ‘Al-Qaeda’s Air Force’

Withe the record increase in Arctic ice, and the record amount of Antarctic ice, I was wondering what diversion NSIDC was going to come up with to keep their funders at NASA happy. They had to work hard, but they found something to complain about.

Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis 

Twitter / ClimateOfGavin: “Go ahead. Ask a climate …

The balding Arctic | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

The Constitutional system of checks and balances in the US has all but collapsed. The only thing between us and tyranny now is the Second Amendment.

” … to disarm the people – that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.“

– George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380

“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.”

–Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787).

“[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation…(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”

–James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46

“No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”

– Thomas Jefferson, Proposal Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers, 334,[C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950]

That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defence of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided, as dangerous to liberty; and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.

Virginia Bill of Rights

“What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”

– Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. ME 6:373, Papers 12:356

“The great object is, that every man be armed … Every one who is able may have a gun.”

– Patrick Henry, Elliot, p.3:386

“O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone …”

– Patrick Henry, Elliot p. 3:50-53, in Virginia Ratifying Convention demanding a guarantee of the right to bear arms