Author: William Teach

Terry Jones Arrested On His Way To Burn Korans

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He’s back! (Orlando Sun Sentinel) Controversial Gainesville Pastor Terry Jones, known for his plans to publicly burn copies of the Muslim holy book, was arrested Wednesday with thousands of kerosene-soaked Qurans, authorities said. Jones, 61, was arrested on felony charges after a traffic stop near a pharmacy in Mulberry, a small town in Polk County, […]

 

Sea World, Trader Joes, Join The “Obamacare Is Bad For Business” Party

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The hit parade keeps playing on (Orlando Sentinel) SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. is reducing hours for thousands of part-time workers, a move that would allow the Orlando-based theme-park owner to avoid offering those employees medical insurance under the federal government’s health-care overhaul. SeaWorld confirmed the move Monday in a brief written statement to the Orlando Sentinel. […]

 

Warmists Claim They Predicted There Would Be More Arctic Ice This Year

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The Arctic has been doing very well this year, thank you very much, with big growth, 60% in one year, and being the same thinkness as it was back in 1940. There’s been no warming for 8 years in the Arctic. But, hey, the Warmists predicted this, right? Right? Arctic sea ice delusions strike the […]

 

Obama Makes Impassioned Plea For Doing Something In Syria Despite No Direct U.S. Security Threat

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I was eminently impressed that the speech actually started on time. I was unimpressed that he decided to make his plea from the same spot in which Joe Biden proclaimed that passing Obamacare was a “big f’ing deal“. Trotting down the red carpet to discuss potential military action and a serious international issue just doesn’t […]

 

Man With Largest Carbon Footprint In World Signs On To Three Climate Pacts

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Has anyone noticed the Old Media making a big deal out of these pacts? No? That’s weird (Grist) Barack Obama is walking the climate-change talk – all around the world. Or at least endorsing climate-change pacts. More like that latter part, since no one has a larger “carbon footprint” than Mr. Obama. Heck, his footprint […]

 

Support For Syrian Strikes Dropping Fast

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One really has to wonder what the strategy from Team Obama is. They’ve sent UN Ambassador Samantha Power to talk to…the ultra far left Center For American Progress. They’re sending, outrageously, Susan “It’s The Video” Rice to Capital Hill to argue for strikes on September 11th. Sec Of State Kerry makes comments like Syria facing […]

 

Aussie Warmist Really Upset Over Democracy “While World Burns”

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I never did get around to discussing the recent Australian elections, where Labor lost control and the Liberal Party won. But, I tell you, the Labor losers, Warmists all, have become really fun. As Steve Milloy notes “Democracy is so yesterday when the Left loses” Voting while the planet burns In the Barrington Tops, where […]

 

Politico Really Concerned That The GOP Isn’t In Favor Of Bombing Syria

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In fact, they think we’ve become downright Doveish Hawkish GOP taking dovish stance on Syria Of all the unexpected turns in the Syria debate, one stands out most: The GOP, the party of a muscular national defense, has gone the way of the dove. A decade after leading the country into Iraq and Afghanistan, Republicans […]

 

Will Obama Discuss All The Islamic Extremist Groups Operating In Syria When He Goes On TV?

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Ahead of his supposed Big Speech on Tuesday night, President Nobel Peace Prize Who’s Making A Case For Going All Bomby will go on six programs (Politico) Obama will tape interviews Monday afternoon with anchors from ABC, CBS and NBC, as well as with PBS, CNN and Fox News, the White House said. The interviews […]

 

Warmists Blame Syrian Conflict On “Climate Change”

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It’s not the first time recent conflicts are being blamed on “climate change”, ie, because you, dear reader, drove a fossil fueled vehicle and probably have an ice maker in your fridge. Nor will it be the last. But Warmists see an opening to push their cult like dogma when it comes to Syria (Motherboard) […]

 

Conscience Of The World Kerry Forgets To Mention What Syria Has To Do With US National Security

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Secretary Of State John “Waffles” Kerry offers up an opinion piece at the far left Huffington Post which attempts to make the case to the far left that going all bomby on Syria is the Right Thing To Do, which starts off with a headline taking Obama’s line about it being the world setting the […]

 

Bummer: UK Met Office Admits That We Are Seeing Things That Could Have Happened Thanks To Natural Variability

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“But, but, but, it could have included some components of Hotcoldwetdry too!!!! Please, believe us, we have bills to pay” (via Junk Science) (Financial Times) Cities along the US east coast face a looming “sea level rise crisis” from a growing number of disasters as severe as hurricane Sandy, according to research on links between […]

 

Iran Threatens Attacks In Iraq If US Attacks Syria

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It would have been so much easier had Team Obama put together a plan to strike Syria immediately for crossing that red line which Everyone Else set, alas, that would have required ignoring the economy education fiscal sanity golf, vacations, and campaigning. And as the Syrian issue drags on into weeks since the use of […]

 

How Many Body Armored Police Does It Take To Check For Dirty Water?

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The answer would be eight (via Climate Depot (Alaska Dispatch) When agents with the Alaska Environmental Crimes Task Force surged out of the wilderness around the remote community of Chicken wearing body armor and jackets emblazoned with POLICE in big, bold letters, local placer miners didn’t quite know what to think. Did it really take […]

 

Oh My: NY Times Notes The Brutality From Syrian Rebels

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One issue of concern regarding any vote to authorize it’s-not-really-war-but-an-action (a Senate panel voted in a split decision to authorize the not a war Wednesday) is the state of the Syrian opposition. And, shockingly, the NY Times actually discusses the state of the rebels and their brutality The Syrian rebels posed casually, standing over their […]

 

Warmists Now Claim “Climate Change” Will Steer Big Hurricanes Away From East Coast

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In terms of landfalling hurricanes, this seems to be what’s happening. It’s been over 7 years and 10 months since a major hurricane (category 3+) hit the United States. There has only been one barely a hurricane strike since 2008. Superstorm Sandy was not a hurricane at time of landfall. Hurricanes and tropical systems seem […]

 

Thinking Out Loud, John Kerry Won’t Rule Out Ground Troops

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Remember the days when John Kerry said that Iraq was the wrong war in the wrong place in the wrong time? When he and other Democrats, including President McBombypants, were constantly assaulting Operation Iraqi Freedom, which freed 50 million people from a brutal, murderous, torturous, rapist, limb cutting off, chemical weapons using regime which saw, […]

 

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Claims There Are Literally Dozens Of (Super Secret) Allies For Syria Strike

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This was just too precious to bury as an extra to the previous post on Syria. Leave it to DWS to go off the reservation (Politico) Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the U.S. would be bolstered with support from “dozens” of international allies if the United States makes military strikes against Syria. […]

 

NY Times Finds It “Alarming” That Obama Had No Red Line Plan In Place

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The NY Times has been doing a Hamlet schtick (to be or not to be), wavering back and forth regarding Syria on the opinion pages from both the Editorial Board and op-ed contributors (remember “Bomb Syria, Even If It’s Illegal“?). Today they find that Mr. Obama did the right thing in sending the whole mess […]

 

Guess Who Else The Government Deems “Extremists’

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Remember this from a few weeks ago? (The Blaze) U.S. Department of Defense education materials obtained by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, warn of “extremists” that will “talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place.” Judicial Watch and other conservative media outlets claim the disclosure indicates the […]

 

President Peace Prize’s Syrian Strike Resolution Already Not Going So Well

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Darned Republicans, already making a hash of Something President Nobel Peace Prize wants in order to use America’s war making devices (Politico) President Barack Obama faces a clear uphill battle in swaying skeptical lawmakers of the merits of military action in Syria, as top officials were dispatched to Capitol Hill Sunday to make the administration’s […]

 

Heh! Britain Has Helped Obama Rediscover The Constitution

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Something a bit humorous from The Telegraph’s Tim Stanley Obama and Syria: Britain has helped Obama rediscover the Constitution. No need to thank us, America This afternoon, President Obama was 35 minutes late to deliver his statement on Syria to the media. Well, he likes to keep his fans waiting. But when he did show […]

 

Nature Suggests Treating “High Carbon Lifestyles” Like Drug Addiction

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I have to wonder how much CO2 was generated by putting this article on the Internet, what with all the energy required (via The Hockey Schtick) (Nature) Lessons from addiction may help to transform our high-carbon lifestyle. It is often said that those of us who live in affluent, developed counties are ‘addicted’ to our […]

 

Oh, Good, NY Times Blames UN And Congress, Saying They’ve Abdicated Their Role On Syria

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Interesting. Polls range from 50% to 80% saying Americans do not want to military strikes on Syria. And 80% want Congressional approval. Yet, Mr. Obama has stated that he’s not going to bother with more than a few meetings and briefings, nothing heavy nor involved, nor is he going to seek a vote, like PM […]

 

Politicized DOJ Decides To Pick And Choose Which Federal Laws To Enforce On Marijuana

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I’ve written before and I’ll write again that I don’t have a problem with marijuana usage, since it is really not a bad drug, and is much less dangerous than alcohol. However, it is still considered a Schedule I drug, illegal under federal law, which deems it to have no medicinal purposes. That last part […]

 

Mind-Blowing Paper Links Current Warming Pause To Cool Pacific Waters

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In Warmist World, the cooling Pacific is surely caused by too much heat (Judith Curry) My mind has been blown by a new paper just published in Nature. Just when I least expected it, after a busy day when I took a few minutes to respond to a query from a journalist about a new […]

 

Five Questions On Syria For POTUS Who Received Nobel Peace Prize Before Even Knowing Where All The White House Bathrooms Were

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I suppose there’s something raaaaacist in that headline, but, hey, don’t blame me, blame the Politico’s Glenn Thrush and Leigh Munsil, who offer up 5 questions for Obama on Syria President Barack Obama is not a commander in chief drawn to military adventure nor an explainer-in-chief who is especially fond of delivering Oval Office addresses. […]

 

Cass Sunstein Wonders Why People Don’t Fear “Climate Change” Enough

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I’d hazard a guess that it’s because people, like Sunstein’s former boss, The Man With The Largest Carbon Footprint In The World (41,000 metric tons), refuse to practice what they preach. (Bloomberg) With respect to the science of climate change, many experts regard the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the world’s authoritative institution. A […]

 

White House States They’re Not Looking For Regime Change In Syria

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If we do start bombing, what would be the point? A little spanking? (The Hill) The White House said Tuesday that President Obama is not seeking “regime change” in Syria from any military strikes launched in response to President Bashar Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons. “The options we are considering are not about regime […]