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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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nObama ad Nauseum
Alan Caruba
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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DEGRADED: nOBAMA’S ISIS RESPONSE PROMPTS NEW WORRIES
There’s chutzpah and then there’s being self-deluded. President nObama appeared to veer toward the latter when he vowed to “redouble vigilance” against ISIS in the wake of the Islamist militant’s latest and most depraved atrocity, burning alive a pilot from a key member of the U.S.-coalition fighting the group. With mounting evidence that the current U.S. strategy is not meeting the president’s promise that the group will be “degraded and ultimately defeated,” and anguished pleas from Jordan and others to move decisively against ISIS, it seems unlikely that the president will be able to stay the course in Iraq and Syria. As in other conflicts, including Libya and Afghanistan, the president will be reluctantly dragged deeper into the fight. He was pushed into this conflict by political pressure last year, and as pressure grows he will continue to escalate it. But as prior experience shows, reluctant hawks leave the fight as soon as pressure abates or shifts again, not when victory is won. -Fox News 
What was that name again? - And the fact that the president wouldn’t say the name of “radical Islam” and instead chose to be facile in denouncing “whatever ideology they are operating off of” as “bankrupt.” Hmmm. Which ideology is it again? Are they feminists? Dadaists? Jacobites? Maybe Jedis? If you cannot even bring yourself to say the name, how likely are you to maintain the fight even amid losses or public opposition? Remember that the “bankrupt” ideologies of the previous century, communism and fascism, led to the deaths of tens of millions and the oppression of hundreds of millions more. And they did not eventually fail because they were poor philosophical concepts, but rather because they were defeated.
[The effectiveness of President nObama’s efforts to counter ISIS militants and Russia’s involvement in the Ukraine are expected to be questioned at confirmation hearings today for Ashton Carter, the president’s nominee to lead the Department of Defense.] -Fox News
There’s chutzpah and then there’s being self-deluded. President nObama appeared to veer toward the latter when he vowed to “redouble vigilance” against ISIS in the wake of the Islamist militant’s latest and most depraved atrocity, burning alive a pilot from a key member of the U.S.-coalition fighting the group. With mounting evidence that the current U.S. strategy is not meeting the president’s promise that the group will be “degraded and ultimately defeated,” and anguished pleas from Jordan and others to move decisively against ISIS, it seems unlikely that the president will be able to stay the course in Iraq and Syria. As in other conflicts, including Libya and Afghanistan, the president will be reluctantly dragged deeper into the fight. He was pushed into this conflict by political pressure last year, and as pressure grows he will continue to escalate it. But as prior experience shows, reluctant hawks leave the fight as soon as pressure abates or shifts again, not when victory is won. -Fox News
What was that name again? - And the fact that the president wouldn’t say the name of “radical Islam” and instead chose to be facile in denouncing “whatever ideology they are operating off of” as “bankrupt.” Hmmm. Which ideology is it again? Are they feminists? Dadaists? Jacobites? Maybe Jedis? If you cannot even bring yourself to say the name, how likely are you to maintain the fight even amid losses or public opposition? Remember that the “bankrupt” ideologies of the previous century, communism and fascism, led to the deaths of tens of millions and the oppression of hundreds of millions more. And they did not eventually fail because they were poor philosophical concepts, but rather because they were defeated.
[The effectiveness of President nObama’s efforts to counter ISIS militants and Russia’s involvement in the Ukraine are expected to be questioned at confirmation hearings today for Ashton Carter, the president’s nominee to lead the Department of Defense.] -Fox News
Reset - It was particularly telling that nObama made his remarks on the very day that his administration acknowledged that the other war in which the West is engaged – the struggle with Putinist Russia over Ukraine – is going poorly. A senior official told the WSJ “It’s fair to say that costs haven’t risen high enough for the Russian leadership to rethink their course of action.” To be so dismissive of ISIS on the same day that your team tacitly acknowledges misunderstanding the motives and dangers of the other major, ongoing threat kind of says it all about the current condition of the nObama foreign policy. Like a point guard with a sore elbow heading into the tournament, it’s always “day-to-day.”
“Number one is that [President nObama] does seem to have a problem defining what the ideology is. Much less doing something about the ideology…The other thing that I’m struck by with the president’s remarks is he says we’re going to double down. Well, if you double down on empty words, you still end up with nothing.” –Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, on “The Kelly File” Watch here. -Fox News
“Number one is that [President nObama] does seem to have a problem defining what the ideology is. Much less doing something about the ideology…The other thing that I’m struck by with the president’s remarks is he says we’re going to double down. Well, if you double down on empty words, you still end up with nothing.” –Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, on “The Kelly File” Watch here. -Fox News
DEMS TAKE RISK IN BACKING nOBAMA AMNESTY
While Senate Democrats certainly risk being branded “obstructionists” by blocking policies favored by the Republican majority, that’s a charge with little electoral sting. As Republicans demonstrated in last year’s elections, while voters generally say they want “compromise” there is a higher price to be paid for bad votes. Blocking unpopular legislation, however, is a plus. Remember, voters don’t tell the whole story to pollsters. When survey respondents say that they believe both sides should work together to advance common goals, what they often really mean is that the other side should give up. “Obstructionist” is just another word for someone who disagrees with you. When Republicans were being branded obstructionists over the past six years, they were telling voters at home it was to block President nObama’s agenda, a strategy that delivered two midterm tsunamis for the party. So what are Democrats blocking now?
While Senate Democrats certainly risk being branded “obstructionists” by blocking policies favored by the Republican majority, that’s a charge with little electoral sting. As Republicans demonstrated in last year’s elections, while voters generally say they want “compromise” there is a higher price to be paid for bad votes. Blocking unpopular legislation, however, is a plus. Remember, voters don’t tell the whole story to pollsters. When survey respondents say that they believe both sides should work together to advance common goals, what they often really mean is that the other side should give up. “Obstructionist” is just another word for someone who disagrees with you. When Republicans were being branded obstructionists over the past six years, they were telling voters at home it was to block President nObama’s agenda, a strategy that delivered two midterm tsunamis for the party. So what are Democrats blocking now?
[EPA offers cover for nObama Keystone veto - WashEx: “The Environmental Protection Agency challenged the State Department's environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline, saying the analysis should ‘give additional weight’ to whether low oil prices could cause the project to drive the development of oil sands.”] -Fox News
That was easy - We’ve had two notable tests of Democratic resistance so far in the new GOP-controlled Senate. The first was on the Keystone pipeline, on which nine red- or swing-state Democrats jumped the aisle to pass. This was a low-cost vote, except for perhaps vulnerable Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, who has to face global-warming absolutists in his party base. But if the president vetoes the measure, as expected, and then vouches for Bennet, the Sierra-Club-set should be easily mollified. So, all-in-all, good politics. -Fox News
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House Intel Cmte Chairman: nObama Has No Plan to Stop ISIS
(nicedeb) - nObama has been claiming that the US has been doing everything we can possibly do to push back against ISIS in the Middle East, yet we haven’t been arming the Kurds adequately, nor have we been helping Jordan as well as we should...Megyn Kelly had on the new head of the House Intel Committee Devin Nunes, to discuss the US response (or lack thereof) to the Islamic State. She asked him if the US has indeed been doing everything it should be doing, as nObama claimed. “Nothing could be further from the truth, he answered. “In fact, he isn’t even admitting who the enemy is or where the enemy’s located.” https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/house-intel-cmte-chairman-obama-has-no-plan-to-stop-isis-in-n-africa-video/
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Sign Up For Amnesty, Get $20,000 And More Every Year To Come
(Rick Wells) - Hussein nObama loves to use completely fabricated anecdotes to drive home his points. Here’s one he could use, only the unfortunate reality is that only the name is made up...The situation and its associated negative impact on our nation is one hundred percent genuine and will be repeated countless time in the very near future. Pedro always wanted a new Chevy Pickup. He’s in America to “feed his family” and it would be great to have a new set of wheels to transport them to Wal-Mart to spend their EBT cards. Now, under nObama’s criminal illegal amnesty, the good people of the United States will buy that truck for Pedro. As part of the wealth redistribution program of their communist ‘president,’ Pedro will receive $20,000 to put towards the purchase of that truck or maybe a new house, as will eleven million or so other Pedros. http://www.rickwells.us/obamas-illegal-alien-jackpot-sign-amnesty-get-20000-every-year-come/
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nObama Absolutely Failing To Uphold U.S. Constitution with Illegals
(Rick Wells) - After the conclusion of a House Judiciary Committee meeting on illegal immigration and Hussein nObama’s criminal illegal amnesty, Representative Raul Labrador (R-ID) was stopped by a CNSNews reporter in the hallway for a couple of questions...Rep Labrador, in addition to serving on the Judiciary Committee, is also the vice-chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. The reporter asks, “Do you believe that illegal immigration is a crime? That might seem like an obvious no-brainer but when dealing with the double-speak that characterizes much of Washington DC, one cannot take anything for granted. Rep Labrador answers in the affirmative, saying, “You know, it’s illegal to be in the United States illegally.” http://www.rickwells.us/rep-raul-labrador-obama-absolutely-failing-uphold-u-s-constitution-illegal-amnesty/
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FBI official: Islamic State is recruiting U.S. teens
(Robert Spencer) - How could this be? nObama, Hanoi Kerry, Loose Lips Biden, David Cameron, and everyone else assures us that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam...So why is it so appealing to young Muslims in the West? Why are Muslim parents encouraging their children to join it? The cognitive dissonance is massive, and the FBI isn’t doing what it should be doing: calling upon U.S. Muslims to teach against the Islamic State’s ideology. Right now, it is not being countered with any organized program in U.S. mosques or Islamic schools, and no one seems to care. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/02/fbi-official-islamic-state-is-recruiting-u-s-teens?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=7238e56d22-Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-7238e56d22-123451509
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Iran: The ‘Americans Are Begging Us for a Deal’
(Adam Kredo) - Mohammad Reza Naghdi, the commander of the Basij, a paramilitary group operating under the wing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC), recently claimed that the “Americans are begging us for a deal on the negotiation table,”...according to comments published in Persian and independently translated for the Washington Free Beacon. Naghdi added that American officials routinely “plea” with Iran in talks and that the United States is negotiating from a position of weakness, according to his comments, which follow earlier reports claiming that Iran’s leading negotiator “frequently shouts” at U.S. officials.
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Feds Threaten: Support nObama’s Illegal Amnesty or Lose Funding
(B. Christopher Agee) - According to a Facebook post by one Colorado sheriff, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is taking a personal interest in making sure authorities across the nation fall in line with the nObama administration’s immigration policy...Scroll down to see the full post. Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith reported receiving a “very interesting veiled threat” from Johnson, which he said was addressed to “all police chiefs and sheriffs around the country.” Within the correspondence, Smith explained, was a promise that “local and state public safety agencies would not receive federal grants they were counting on” if legislators do not endorse the DHS funding bill nObama supports. http://joemiller.us/2015/02/feds-threaten-local-law-enforcement-support-obamas-illegal-amnesty-lose-funding/
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(B. Christopher Agee) - According to a Facebook post by one Colorado sheriff, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is taking a personal interest in making sure authorities across the nation fall in line with the nObama administration’s immigration policy...Scroll down to see the full post. Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith reported receiving a “very interesting veiled threat” from Johnson, which he said was addressed to “all police chiefs and sheriffs around the country.” Within the correspondence, Smith explained, was a promise that “local and state public safety agencies would not receive federal grants they were counting on” if legislators do not endorse the DHS funding bill nObama supports. http://joemiller.us/2015/02/feds-threaten-local-law-enforcement-support-obamas-illegal-amnesty-lose-funding/
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Can You Handle the Truth About Vaccines?
(Cliff Kincaid) - NBC accuses Republicans of accepting bad “science” on vaccines, while Fox News fires back, accusing liberals of spreading bad “science” on vaccines...Each side is trying to score partisan political points. The message from both sides is that vaccines are completely safe. But that message is absolutely and demonstrably false. As I noted in a recent column, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program exists to compensate victims of vaccines. The latest Statistics Report shows nearly 4,000 claims were awarded financial damages. Why do both sides of this “debate” pretend that vaccine-related injuries do not occur? Why not just report the facts? It doesn’t take a lot of work to dig them out.
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And then I read an article on Politico.com, “Republicans outfox Democrats on climate votes” subtitled “The GOP accepts the notion of climate change, but not in the way the Democrats wanted them to.”
nObama didn’t have a word to say about al Qaeda and the other Islamic fascists eager to destroy modernity and drag the world back to the Dark Age, but he did lie about 2014 as “the planet’s warmest year on record.”
Why nObama Needs to Pretend the Taliban Aren’t Terrorists
(Andrew McCarthy) - No doubt because of my background investigating, prosecuting, and studying terrorism, the cynical claim by White House spokesmen that the Taliban is not a terrorist organization has annoyed me even more than the nObama administration’s nonstop lying usually does...No surprise then that I could be found railing about it on The Kelly File Thursday night. In that spirit, ten thoughts for the weekend: 1. Under federal law, there are only three requirements for a group to qualify as a “foreign terrorist organization”: It has to be (a) foreign, (b) engaged in “terrorist activity” (bombings, assassinations, etc., carried out to intimidate people and change policy), and (c) a national-security threat to the United States. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/why-obama-needs-to-pretend-the-taliban-arent-terrorists/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email020515&utm_medium=email
9. Texas Islamic Tribunal ‘Lawyers’ Practicing without License
(Bob Price) - Breitbart Texas has learned the four Islamic Tribunal “lawyers” in Dallas do not appear to be licensed to practice law in Texas...A search of the State Bar of Texas’ membership lookup revealed the four men are not listed as members of the Bar. Breitbart Texas confirmed this search in a conversation with the Bar’s membership department who claimed they had no membership listing for the four individuals. The Islamic Tribunal in Dallas lists four of its members as both lawyers and judges, as was previously reported by Breitbart Texas. In a section on the group’s website, “Meet the Attorneys,” Imam Yusuf Z. Kavakci, Imam Moujahed Bakhach, Imam Zia ul Haque Sheikh and Dr. El-badawi are all listed and called attorneys. On another page the same four men are referred to as judges. The site states the Islamic Tribunal resolves business disputes, divorce (Talaq) cases, community problems, serious family problems, and Khula. The site has a slogan that states “Redefining Legal Care Services.” It also claims to have “Experienced judges ready to fight for you.” http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/02/04/texas-islamic-tribunal-lawyers-appear-to-be-practicing-without-license/
10. DNC Chair Wasserman Slams Jewish Intermarriage, Media Ignores
(John Nolte) - In today’s chapter of Democrats Sure Got It Good, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz appears to have gotten a total pass from...the objective, unbiased, not-at-all liberal media after she lashed out against Jewish “intermarriage” at a January event in Florida. “We have the problem of assimilation. We have the problem of intermarriage,” Wasserman-Schultz said. Although the Shark Tank reported on the remarks (with accompanying audio) last week, as Hot Air points out, only now that she has walked back the remarks has the media chose to report on the incendiary, backwards-thinking of the DNC Chair. http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/02/03/dnc-chair-wasserman-schultz-slams-jewish-intermarriage-media-ignores/
nObama ad Nauseum
Alan Caruba
(factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - I made a promise to myself that I would not write about President nObama’s State of the Union speech because that would require me to watch him deliver it. Like many others I can barely watch him under any circumstance because, to my mind, that means having to watch a psychopathic liar. The problem with that is that he is the President for two more years.
In a rational world, politicians voting on whether the climate changes or not is an absurdity. Of course the climate changes. It always has and always will. But when Democrats use the term “climate change” they really mean “global warming.” And global warming has been the greatest hoax of the modern era, getting its start in the late 1980s and becoming a huge academic industry generated by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Global warming put billions in the pockets of “scientists”, universities, and any think tank that would lie about it, telling the nation and the world that carbon dioxide, a gas that is barely 0.04% of the Earth’s atmosphere was warming it when, in fact, the Earth stopped warming some 19 years ago at the same time the Sun entered a natural cycle of lower solar radiation.
Few of these “scientists” bothered to tell the public that, without carbon dioxide, we and all other life on Earth would die as it is critical to the growth of all vegetation. The fact that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has actually been increasing at the same time the Earth has been cooling is proof enough that all the warming claims were and are pure hogwash.
It turns out that all the computer models that they and others have generated to predict a catastrophic global warming have been wrong, wrong, and wrong.
That lie was initially put out by NASA and National Oceanic and the Atmospheric Administration, (NOAA) two government agencies that shortly thereafter admitted that they might be wrong, seeing that their assertion of the 0.02 degree Celsius increase wasn’t even outside their own margin of error. They could have taken a look at their own satellite data and saved themselves from looking like idiots.
nObama said, “I’ve heard some folks try to dodge the evidence by saying they’re not scientists; that we don’t have enough information to act. Well, I’m not a scientist, either. But you know what—I know a lot of really good scientists at NASA and NOAA, and at our major universities. The best scientists in the world are all tell us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we’ll continue to see rising oceans, long, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger great migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe.”
This is lying on a galactic scale. The United States doesn’t need to do a single thing to reduce “greenhouse gas emissions”, nor should it bother to do so. nObama’s claims of catastrophic change bears no relationship to the fact that in recent years the planet has had a record low in the numbers of tornadoes and hurricanes, and a record gain in Arctic and Antarctic ice. There has been no change of any significance in the sea levels. Those who study such things note that “Until about 7,000 years ago the rate of rise was about 100 mm/decade. Since then rate of rise has averaged 10 mm/decade.” That’s “mm” as in millimeters.
In late December, the world’s second largest reinsurer, Swiss Re, reported on the losses from natural events in 2014 and, despite predictions that climate change would cause more frequent natural catastrophes due to man-made worsening of the climate, it saw “markedly less damage claims than in previous years” and far less loss of lives.” In terms of the dollars it cost the insurance industry, Swiss Re estimated that costs insurers covered were USD $113 billion in 2014, down from USD $135 billion in 2013. Losses were down 24% from 2013.
That, of course, doesn’t matter to nObama. It should, however, matter to the rest of us because the Environmental Protection Agency has been using those computer models and abjectly phony “science” to wage nObama’s war on the nation’s providers of the energy on which we all depend. From coal-fired plants to drilling for oil and natural gas, anything that might provide energy is under attack by the EPA.
As Katie Tubb, a research assistant for the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, responded to nObama’s claim saying that “The EPA’s proposed regulations would have almost zero impact on global temperatures, but will certainly impact Americans now and for future generations.”
So, when you read about a bunch of U.S. Senators, only one of whom, Oklahoma’s Sen. James Inhofe (R) has a grasp of the real science, spent time voting back and forth over amendments and their language regarding the climate, you were in fact really reading about the debate leading up to the passage of the bill that would remove nObama’s authority to prevent the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Between a President who lies about global warming and climate change, and a Congress composed mostly of lawyers who are clueless about the actual science, the best we can hope for is a Republican Party determined to rein in the EPA and other government agencies; the reason they were voted into office.
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