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Lieutenant General William G. “Jerry” Boykin (retired) was the United States Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. He has played a role in almost every recent major American military operation over the past four decades
h/t to Dave G
Sir Winston Churchill played a key role in saving England during WWII, and made this famous comment :
“Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it”
Obama announced in 2008 that he plans to make a domestic army as powerful as the US military.
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This plan appears to be well underway. Obama says that he has defeated Al Qaeda, so what could be the motivation for this?
standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided, as dangerous to liberty
– Virginia Bill Of Rights
“Whereas civil-rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as military forces, which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.”
– Tench Coxe, in Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution
” … to disarm the people – that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.“
– George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380
“[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
Update : Gleick has removed my tweet
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Leading climate experts have been telling us for years that snow coverage is declining due to global warming. This can be seen in the graph below, with 2012 finishing the year at a record 900,000 Manhattans of snow in the Northern Hemisphere.
Ten years ago (2003) we were told that Europe was facing a perpetual heatwave from global warming. Thirteen years ago we were told that snow is a thing of the past.
James Hansen says that Obama has run out of time to save the planet, but Obama is going to do it anyway.
Obama’s climate team appears primed for action – Darren Goode – POLITICO.com
In four more years, there will be no more storms or droughts, and everybody in third world countries will live forever.
h/t to Marc Morano
When lefties argue for confiscation of self-reloading rifles, they call them military grade weapons which don’t belong in the hands of civilians.
When the same people argue against the second amendment, they say that the rifles owned by civilians are mere toys compared to those of the military – and that the US military is going to come confiscate everybody’s puny little guns.
Their vision of the military waging war against law-abiding American citizens seems to make them very happy.
After 30 years of unprecedented polar melt due to polar amplification – global sea ice area today is exactly normal with a 0.00 anomaly.
arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008
As climate experts would say, that is 276,000 Manhattans of rotten ice. They also point out that Arctic ice loss is much larger than Antarctic ice gain, which is why the sum of the anomalies is equal to zero.
