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What kind of moron would make a statement like this?

On Benghazi probe, GOP’s Issa says ‘Hillary Clinton’s not a target’ – First Read

Of course she is a target. Issa’s diarrhea of the mouth will come back to haunt him.

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h/t to Kirk Meyers

With the White House putting all blame on the agency, expect push back this week — nuclear push back. Gen. David H. Petraeus, the former director forced to resign after a sex scandal, is a dangerous man to the Obama administration. Mad and intent on getting even, he’s already talking, telling one reporter the talking points were “useless” and he preferred not to use them at all. The floodgates will open this week, and by EOB Friday, the scandal will be full blown.

CURL: Watch out for Petraeus in Benghazi scandal – Washington Times

While Woodrow Wilson was president, the US was hit by seven major (category 3-5) hurricanes, including three category 4 hurricanes (130-156 MPH winds.)

No major hurricanes have hit the US while Obama was president.

Chronological List of All Hurricanes

Obama says that hurricanes are becoming more frequent and more powerful, and that anyone who disagrees with him is evil.

Greensburg Daily Tribune – Google News Archive Search

 

PHOTOGRAPHS MARS’S CANALS – Prof. Lowell Gains Confirmation of Telescopic Observations. – View Article – NYTimes.com

When Grover Cleveland was president, the US averaged more than three hurricane strikes per year. Under Barack Obama, hurricane frequency is down to about one fourth of that number.

Chronological List of All Hurricanes

Despite the fact that Obama has experienced the lowest hurricane frequency of any president,  he says that hurricanes are becoming more common – and that anyone who disagrees with him is evil.

Lefties are far too sophisticated to accept end of the world theories, unless they are funded by taxpayer money. In which case they are gospel.

When the Harold Camping “Judgment Day” billboards started popping up around the Bay Area, I felt a mix of humor and disgust. I shook my head when I learned that Camping was a neighbor of mine in the East End of Alameda, and when Judgment Day passed without any visible judgment, I snickered as I walked past his tightly shuttered house.

Like many charismatic spiritual leaders before him, Camping convinced seekers to stake everything on what turned out to be his mistaken interpretation of the truth. According to his Family Radio broadcasts, the Rapture would take place on May 21, 2011 and approximately 2.8 percent of the population would immediately ascend to Heaven. The rest of us would live on Earth for a hellish five months of plagues and starvation before God finally wiped us off the map. Camping publicized the prediction in numerous countries and spent an estimated $5 million on advertising in 2011 (a fraction of the money his followers have donated since he started broadcasting in the late 1950s).

Of course, no Apocalyptic activity occurred on the predicted date, and Camping was left to defend all manner of accusations. But staying on Earth has worked out okay for him. He still lives on Gibbons Drive in Alameda, with a reported net worth of more than $75 million. His followers? Not so much. (Attempts to contact Camping and the organization were unsuccessful.)

Beyond belief: Doomsday religion | Local: In Alameda | an SFGate.com blog

How stupid. Only a moron would believe that end of the world nonsense.

Ralph Keeling, who runs another monitoring program at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, said a continuing rise could be catastrophic. “It means we are quickly losing the possibility of keeping the climate below what people thought were possibly tolerable thresholds,” he said.

Carbon dioxide at 3 million-year high – SFGate

Harold Camping should have mentioned CO2 in his theory.  He would probably have a million dollar government grant and be invited to the White House.

While doing research 12 or 13 years ago, I met Jim Hansen, the scientist who in 1988 predicted the greenhouse effect before Congress. I went over to the window with him and looked out on Broadway in New York City and said, “If what you’re saying about the greenhouse effect is true, is anything going to look different down there in 20 years?” He looked for a while and was quiet and didn’t say anything for a couple seconds. Then he said, “Well, there will be more traffic.” I, of course, didn’t think he heard the question right. Then he explained, “The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change.” Then he said, “There will be more police cars.” Why? “Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.”

And so far, over the last 10 years, we’ve had 10 of the hottest years on record.

Didn’t he also say that restaurants would have signs in their windows that read, “Water by request only.”

Under the greenhouse effect, extreme weather increases. Depending on where you are in terms of the hydrological cycle, you get more of whatever you’re prone to get. New York can get droughts, the droughts can get more severe and you’ll have signs in restaurants saying “Water by request only.”

When did he say this will happen?

Within 20 or 30 years. And remember we had this conversation in 1988 or 1989.

Does he still believe these things?

Yes, he still believes everything. I talked to him a few months ago and he said he wouldn’t change anything that he said then.

Stormy weather – Salon.com

No need to worry about 24 oz soft drinks in Manhattan!