The Keystone Kop-out Kontinues

Canada to Obama: ‘Make Up Your Mind on Keystone, Lightbringer’
.... "Canada bluntly told the United States on Thursday to settle the fate of TransCanada Corp’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline, saying the drawn-out process on whether to approve the northern leg of the project was taking too long.

 

"The hard-line comments by Foreign Minister John Baird were the clearest sign yet that Canada’s Conservative government has lost patience over what it sees as U.S. foot-dragging.
....
“ 'The time for Keystone is now. I’ll go further – the time for a decision on Keystone is now, even if it’s not the right one. We can’t continue in this state of limbo,” Baird said in a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

"Although the State Department is responsible for ruling whether the pipeline meets the national interest, President Barack Obama has made clear he will make the final decision."
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"Oh, it also makes sense, another big negative for this clown-car administration.
The whole world was supposed to love us if Obama was elected president and he has somehow managed to piss off Canada.

"Three more years."

 

The Clockwork Conservative: The Oil Will Flow Somewhere   "But here is the crux of our dilemma.  The oil will flow somewhere.  Canada is not about to let their developing oil reserves sit idle for anyone.  With the Keystone XL expansion on hold for now, they have already started taking steps to find other customers and China is first in line.  To get the oil where the Chinese can get to it, Canada is laying out plans to expand one existing pipeline and add another one."

Wendy Davis

 

Wendy Davis, Fibber   ... "Well, most outlets have treated her admitted fabrications as news, although some have been noticeably generous in their framing of the issue. “Wendy Davis tells a fuller version of her rags-to-riches story,” CBS News tweeted on Monday. CNN observed that Davis’s life story is now “more complicated” than the “compelling narrative” she had originally presented. MSNBC was quick to cast the story from an anti-GOP angle: “Right pounces on news that Wendy Davis embellished life story,” a familiar position from which to launch the inevitable follow-up: “Will Republicans overreach?” ...

According to MSNBC, the real reason conservatives “pounced” on the story is that they loathe Davis for “making life choices they disagree with — including the decision, as a mother, to prioritize her career.” And adding to the charge of sexism, MSNBC adds, “It’s hard to imagine those choices generating criticism were Wendy Davis a man.”

Mostyn Law Firm donates $1 million to help Wendy Davis in Texas governor's race   Do not hope for tort reform from Ms. Davis. In fact, I fear for Texas' favorable legal climate.

Wendy Davis’ ex-husband: “They’ve asked me not to talk to reporters”  "Wendy Davis, the progressive movement’s Texas darling because of her pro-late term abortion filibuster, is withering under revelations that much of her narrative of struggle and financial hardship is misleading at best, fabricated at worst.
"The wagons are being circled around her with claims of a War on Women and sexism … all because the truth has come out via an interview with her husband by the Dallas Morning News, and other investigation." 

"I think she had a midlife crisis. She wanted to be around a younger crowd," Jeff said, referring additional questions to Wendy.

H/T to Weasel Zippers

These Words from Obama Are Frightening -- and Revealing

The Foundry  "It’s less than comforting to hear the President make light of terrorist threats.
"In a recent interview with The New Yorker, President Obama referred to today’s al-Qaeda fighters as the “jayvee” team.
“ 'The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” he said.
"This shows that the Administration’s wishful thinking about al-Qaeda isn’t over. Obama and his fellow officials seem to think if you say something enough times, it will become true.
"Before Benghazi, they claimed al-Qaeda was defeated and on the run. Four dead Americans later, this was proven false." ...

 

President Obama: One More Reason to Dislike Him; Now he's playing the race card big time.

The American Spectator  "My dislike of President Obama isn’t a matter of the color of his skin, but rather because of the content of his character or lack thereof.

"I dislike President Obama because of his petulance. What other President would tell the opposition party in his first meeting with them, “I won. I’m the president,”? What other President would intervene in a local matter and

declare that its police department had “acted stupidly” while admitting he did not have all the facts? What other President would make the Dalai Lama leave the White House through a side entrance with a big pile of garbage awaiting him? What other President would tell the Prime Minister of Israel to let himself out of the White House? What other President would unceremoniously return a bust of Sir Winston Churchill to the British? What other President would while traveling abroad describe his country as “arrogant, derisive and dismissive?”....

... "Over the past 120 or so days, more Americans have come to dislike Obama, including many who voted for him not once, but twice. ...These numbers represented an all-time low for President Obama. None of this has anything do to with Obama’s race."...

The writer discusses many more issues with Mr. Obama, then sums it all up with this:

"Indeed, why should anyone dislike Obama because of his race when there are so many other good reasons to dislike him?"

Obamacare and the media

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 

Obama Asks Bartenders To Sell Obamacare  Among others, of course.

 

WaPo Fact Checker Gives Obamacare Enrollment Numbers Three Pinocchios   "Lately, President Obama's political action group, Organizing for Action (OFA), has claimed that six million Americans have successfully signed up for Obamacare. However, even The Washington Post Fact Checker finds this assertion to be suspect."

Big-Journalism

California Drought = Flood of New Rules; It’s a hard rain of regulations gonna fall

Legal Insurrection

... "These regional tensions often inspire proposals to break California apart, such as that offered by noted technology investor Tim Draper to split California into six separate states. However, those ideas are going to be as fruitful as our current drought-ridden fields.
"Furthermore, Brown’s plans for “bringing people to together” will likely be heavy on new rules (e.g., California’s version of Cap-and-Trade, the Global Warming Solutions Act). Interestingly, state Senate president Darrell Steinberg is now just discovering the economic costs of anticarbon politics." ...

The Relentless Hillary Clinton by Alan Caruba

Warning Signs

 

"Who said:

“ 'We’re going to take things from you on behalf of the common good”?

“ 'It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few…and to replace it with shared responsibility, for shared prosperity”?

“ '(We) …can just let business as usual go on and that means something has to be taken away from some people.”?

“ 'We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own…in order to create this common ground.' ”?...

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..."The real conspiracy has been the takeover of the Democrat Party by the far Left and its elected office holders who appear to have no regard for the decline of the nation thanks to their relentless spending and borrowing." ...

Only one in five Israelis trusts Obama on Iran

Would somebody interview those 20%? Wouldn't you like to learn their level of education and their thought processes?

conservativepapers.com

Times of Israel  "The survey also asked Israeli voters if they held a favorable view of the US president. Even among the 33% who said they did (50% said they did not), trust in Obama’s ability to stop an Iranian nuclear weapons push was split evenly at 43% to 43%.

"The survey found that, as in the United States, Obama tended to do better among female voters, while male voters were more skeptical. Just 19% of males trusted the president on Iran, compared to 25% of female respondents. The most skeptical groups were male voters 55 and older (only 16% of whom agreed they could trust him on Iran) and former Soviet Union immigrants who arrived after 1989 (just 12%)." ...

jerenberg.blogspot.com/ 

EU backing away from warmist agenda

Thomas Lifson  "The persistent failure of the earth's weather to fulfill the catastrophic predictions of the warmist climate modelers for the last 17 years is taking its toll. So, too, the extreme cost of reducing those carbon emissions that have increased dramatically over that period of no warming. As result, the EU and its biggest economic power Germany are backing away from the previously announced goals. Der Spiegel is wringing its hands over the situation: "... More:

“Layers of Editing” is no defense for NY Times Benghazi bias

Legal Insurrection  "That the NY Times’ failed Benghazi blockbuster went through “layers of editing” makes claims of bias more, not less, credible."

I felt this post was excellent, with several reputable opinion sources linked to as well, including Stephen Hayes. TD

 

... "Again, narrowing the scope of the story or of its implications; it makes Marrison’s “layers of editing” dodge less convincing. A critical reading of Kirkpatrick’s story by editors should have resulted in a more complete report. That the editing didn’t catch any of these flaws in Kirkpatrick’s report could be explained by gross incompetence, a failure of editing process or deliberate bias.
"I could believe any of these three explanations. The reason that bias seems most likely is that we know that the current executive editor of the New York Times had been rebuked by the paper’s public editor for publishing a blatantly political hit piece." ...

 

Ben Rhodes: Obama’s Fixer behind the Benghazi Cover-Up

The existential elephant in the ‘Christian persecution’ room

Raymond Ibrahim     "Open Doors USA recently released its widely cited 2014 World Watch List—a report that highlights and ranks the 50 worst nations around the globe persecuting Christians.
"The one glaring fact that emerges from this report is that the overwhelming majority of Christian persecution around the world today is being committed at the hands of Muslims of all races, languages, cultures, and socio-political circumstances: Muslims from among America’s allies (Saudi Arabia) and its enemies (Iran); Muslims from economically rich nations (Qatar) and from poor nations (Somalia and Yemen); Muslims from “Islamic republic” nations (Afghanistan) and from “moderate” nations (Malaysia and Indonesia); Muslims from nations rescued by America (Kuwait) and Muslims claiming “grievances” against America (fill in the blank __)."

With Friends Like These...

HopenChange


"In a speech addressing Americans' growing fears that the NSA is collecting too much information on too many people, Barack Obama stated that we really have nothing to worry about because "the folks at the NSA and other intelligence agencies are our neighbors and friends," much like the civic-minded folks who peep into women's windows at night and watch while they're changing clothes, just to make absolutely sure they're safe.

"But as reassuring as it is to be reminded that the intelligence agencies are just "neighbors and friends," can't that description be made to fit, well, damn near everyone? ..."