Heard enough about deflated footballs?

You mean like this next one?

PATRIOTS’ FAN LOUIE C.K. PUTS DEFLATE-GATE INTO PERSPECTIVE  . . . "Yep, sounds about right. Definitely a more cynical stance than Eli Manning’s take on the whole deflated ball controversy, but similarly accurate."

Can Obama conduct diplomacy and chew gum at the same time? Head scarf update.

Legal Insurrection

. . . "The Times of India notes that the country’s social media was aghast at the site of our President chewing gum during this important event:. . . "

Obama’s chewing gum habit: A diplomatic faux pas in India?  "During his visit to India, President Obama was once again spotted chewing gum at a public event. Diplomatic faux pas or a public struggle with nicotine addiction? "

 The Huffington Post pontificates on this as well here: Why Open-Mouth Chewing Makes Us Crazy. (But I digress)


UPDATE:  Michelle Obama's uncovered head draws Saudi Twitter critique
... "Saudi Arabia has a strict dress code for women, who are instructed to wear black robes and head coverings at all times in public, though visitors to the country are not required to abide by the dress code. In 2011, when then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Abdullah in New York, she did not cover her face or hair. Nor did then-first lady Laura Bush during a 2006 visit with Abdullah in Saudi Arabia." ...

Besides,  other women including Nancy Pelosi were uncovered as well.

REPORT: Bergdahl to be charged with desertion

iOTW Report

Breitbart (Video)   . . . “Bill, the Army has come to its conclusion and Bowe Bergdahl,” Shaffer said, “Sgt. Bergdahl will be charged with desertion. I have been told and confirmed by two other sources that his attorney was given what we call a charge sheet. A charge sheet is results of the investigation listing out the articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice that have been violated. The key violation is desertion. And this is has been done. The decision has been made. Let me be very clear. As a corporate entity, the Army has decided that they want to pursue Bergdahl for this violation.” . . .

Was Bergdahl’s Charge List Leaked to Avoid Obama’s Interference? . . . "Considering how much trouble Obama went to make Bowe Bergdahl’s Taliban trade into a high profile event, it seems likely that the White House would have shut down the charges if it had gotten a chance.

"So instead the leak may have been a way of pre-empting the White House."

The Blizzard That Wasn't

Alan Caruba

. . . "When, earlier in January, NOAA and NASA reported that 2014 had been "the warmest year" it should have raised far more questions and media coverage given the sheer absurdity of such a report. Remember, though, these are two federal government agencies we expect to get it right. They didn’t just get it wrong, skeptical scientists were quick to note how they had deliberately distorted the data on which they based the claim.

"That is the heart of the issue surrounding the endless claims of “global warming” or “climate change.”  The planet has not been warming for 19 years at this point because the sun has been in a perfectly natural cycle of low radiation.

. . .

"That’s the good news. The bad news was the over-reaction of meteorologists and politicians. No doubt they wanted to be “safe than sorry” but they inadvertently taught us all a lesson about the way environmental organizations and a government led by a President telling us that “climate change” is the most dangerous challenge facing us have been deliberately lying about the true meteorological record in order to drag us all back to a time in which we burned wood for heat and rode horses for transportation." . . .

Full article here.

Election Influence: Obama Campaign’s Field Director Reportedly in Israel to Help Unseat Netanyahu

Victory Girls  " I’m betting Barack Obama, the guy who claims he doesn’t want to influence Israel’s upcoming election by meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu during his scheduled address to Congress in March—which, of course, is just the feeble excuse of a hypocrite— would like to bury this little golden nugget: Jeremy Bird (pictured right), a field director for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns—he also worked on John Kerry’s presidential campaign, founded Battleground Texas, and consults for Ready for Hillary—is reportedly in Israel with a group of four other Americans attempting to, yep, influence Israel’s elections by bankrolling opposition.From Independent Media Review Analysis:"

Haaretz reporter Roi Arad revealed in an article in the Hebrew edition today that the foreign funded organization, “One Voice”, is bankrolling the V-2015 campaign to defeat Binyamin Netanyahu’s national camp in the March 2015 Knesset Elections.One indication of the generous financing is that it has now flown in a team of five American campaign experts (including Jeremy Bird, the Obama campaign’s national field director) who will run the campaign out of offices taking up the ground floor of a Tel Aviv office building.

 Full article here.