In case you missed the first installment of the Bush/Blair/WMD show, Obama and Cameron are about to give us a repeat.
Syria: Cameron and Obama move west closer to intervention | World news | The Observer
Obama and Cameron can’t even think up a new script?
One big difference between Obama and Bush. Bush sought international support for war and regime change, but Nobel Peace Prize Winner Obama is skipping that step.
In the 1960s, liberals had a term for people who were afraid of change, and lived in the past – they called them “reactionaries.”
Barack Obama leads a new reactionary group – climo-reactionaries. People who believe that the climate used to be stable and lovely, and that any perceived change in the weather is bad.
The heroes of this group include –
Martin Luther King Jr’s declaration that he wanted his children to live in a world where they would “not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”
America has achieved that state, and it is turning up some pretty horrifying stuff.
Green shows ice present in 2013 which was not present on this date in 2012. Red shows the opposite.
Arctic ice extent is the highest since 2006
COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
The Arctic melt season is effectively over.
I just watched the world’s top cyclists ride up a half mile long 15% grade on the hogback ridge above the CSU football stadium. My vantage point was perfect, as I was able to watch them for several miles with binoculars.
It was near the end of a long hard day in the mountains, and there were four riders about two minutes ahead of the peleton. The were all very skinny and rode up the hill in about half the time it takes me.
Today is the 21st anniversary of Hurricane Andrew, the last category 5 hurricane to hit the US. This means that no US child has ever seen a storm that strong. Andrew made landfall in Florida with winds over 150 MPH
Two other category five hurricanes hit the US last century – Camille in 1969 and the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, which was the most intense hurricane to hit the US since 1850.
The US has not been hit by a major (category 3-5) hurricane in eight years, the longest such period since the Civil War. Florida has not been hit by any hurricane for eight years, by far the longest such period on record for that state.
A Syrian chemical weapons attack makes no sense.
Both Russian officials and independent experts in Moscow heaped doubts today on the veracity of reports that Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad killed more than 1,000 people using poison gas in an attack on rebels in a Damascus suburb Wednesday.
“Russia isn’t persuaded by any of these reports. Nobody in Moscow believes Assad would use chemical weapons, especially now that he’s winning without them, and he’d be crazy to do so on the very day that UN inspectors are visiting Damascus to look into reports of chemical weapon use,” says Sergei Markov, a frequent adviser to President Vladimir Putin.
“It’s obvious to us that we’re looking at a well-prepared provocation, possibly staged by Qatar or Saudi Arabian intelligence, aimed at whipping up emotions in the West and triggering an armed intervention to aid the rebels. It’s clear the rebels can’t hope to win without such assistance from outside, so they are the only ones who have any stake in creating an example like this. Russia is not going to support any moves in that direction,” he adds.
Chemical weapons in Syria: How Russia views the debate – CSMonitor.com
Like Obama, Lyndon Johnson was the most liberal member of the Senate before assuming the presidency and escalating the Vietnam War with a fake military incident. Obama’s presidency is collapsing, which makes him a very dangerous and desperate player on the world stage.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel suggested Friday that the Pentagon was moving naval forces closer to Syria in preparation for a possible decision by President Obama to order military strikes.
Hagel declined to describe any specific movements of U.S. forces. He said Obama asked that the Pentagon prepare military options for Syria and that some of those options “requires positioning our forces.”
The president’s senior national security advisers are expected to meet at the White House this weekend to discuss possible military options for responding to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government, a U.S. official told Fox News Friday.
US weighs military options for Syria as Hagel suggests naval forces on the move | Fox News
Isn’t it wonderful having an incompetent, disloyal dictator making all of the country’s key decisions.
Gulf of Tonkin
