Obama’s Keystone Dithering

Not building the pipeline is harming the environment, but the zealots don’t care.

                         

 John Fund  "Nowhere has President Obama’s legendary indecision been on more vivid display than in his bizarre dithering over the Keystone XL pipeline, which would move crude oil from the oil sands of Alberta, Canada, to Gulf Coast refineries some 1,700 miles to the south. The southern leg of the pipeline, from Oklahoma to the Gulf, began operating last week. But the northern end has been in limbo for five years. Last March Obama assured Senate Republicans that a decision on Keystone would be made before the end of 2013. We are still waiting. One more broken promise. " ...
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Increasingly, as North Dakota Republican John Hoeven says, companies are “forced to deliver their product by rail because they don’t have the pipelines.” In the last ten months, there has been an average of one large oil spill a month because of rail accidents. One in Quebec last July killed 47 people and decimated an entire town.

The Edmonton Sun says to Expect more dithering over Keystone pipeline
 "Because of the fiasco caused by the rollout of Obamacare, the president has lost a lot of support among middle-of-the-road voters. Even the moderate wing of his own party has doubts about his leadership abilities."

From the Calgary Herald: Obama dithering again on Keystone   "If there was any doubt about Obama's dithering on the Keystone XL project, Thursday's announcement suggests it's unlikely the pipeline will be approved until the U.S. mid-term elections in November."

Dither definition:    to delay taking action because you are not sure about what to do 

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 shiver, tremble ;   to act nervously or indecisively :  vacillate

No guns. No way, no how.

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Cinemark Theaters Was On Notice Their NO GUNS Policy was a Gun Free Killing Zone

Gregory Hicks: Benghazi and the Smearing of Chris Stevens

"Shifting blame to our dead ambassador is wrong on the facts. I know—I was there."

WSJ   "Last week the Senate* Select Committee on Intelligence issued its report on the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya. The report concluded that the attack, which resulted in the murder of four Americans, was "preventable." Some have been suggesting that the blame for this tragedy lies at least partly with Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in the attack. This is untrue: The blame lies entirely with Washington.

"The report states that retired Gen. Carter Ham, then-commander of the U.S. Africa Command (Africom) headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, twice offered to "sustain" the special forces security team in Tripoli and that Chris twice "declined." Since Chris cannot speak, I want to explain the reasons and timing for his responses to Gen. Ham. As the deputy chief of mission, I was kept informed by Chris or was present throughout the process. "  Full article
Via Lucianne

*Remember, the Senate = Democrats. Below: video of Democrat choices for president groveling. 

Rand Paul: Bill Clinton Is A Sexual Predator…

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"But he’s a Democrat, so it’s Ok."
Via The Hill:

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday accused former President Bill Clinton of “predatory” sexual behavior, saying he used the Oval Office to take advantage of Monica Lewinsky.

I think, really, the media seems to have given President Clinton a pass on this,” Paul said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “He took advantage of a girl that was 20 years old and an intern in his office. There is no excuse for that and that is predatory behavior and …  we shouldn’t want to associate with people who would take advantage of a young girl in his office.”

In an interview with Vogue magazine, Paul’s wife, Kelley, said Hillary Clinton’s potential presidential run could be derailed by her husband’s “predatory” behavior while in office.

“I would say his behavior was predatory, offensive to women,” she said.

Paul on Sunday said he agreed with his wife.

 
Full article... 

Is Obamacare Uninsuring the Insured?

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Why global warming is so hard to believe

More global warming pseudo-science  "When everything is proof of climate change, warmists enlist even dinosaurs in their cause. You see, Mother Gaia, the being known as the earth on which we crawl, has been here before."

 How Global Warming Makes it Warmer and Colder
 "Every time events fail to confirm the predictions of the global waming(sp) models, we see putative scientists thinking up excuses, like a "pause" that just interrupts the inevitable, absolutely beyond dispute, no discussion allowed predictions that...uhh...are just around the corner. While amusing it is also pathetic. And even worse are the journalists and non-specialist scientists who accept rationalization in place of rigor.

The Peoples Cube

NASA data shows that the ‘pause’ in global warming continues   "The so-called “pause” of global warming continued through 2013, according to NASA, as there was no statistically significant rise in global temperatures last year.
“ 'The trends over the last 10 to 15 years compared to the trends before do appear to be lower than they were,” Gavin Schmidt, climatologist with NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told reporters."

Tell Us Again How Criticism of Wendy Davis is Sexist

American Glob  "Kirsten Powers is one of the only liberal commentators I like but her claim that recent criticism of Wendy Davis is sexism is absolutely baffling.
"William Jacobson notes that these claims aren’t just coming from Kirsten Powers but Powers made the same claim on Special Report last night. Read reactions here.
"Sorry liberals, you can’t cry sexism when it suits you. In fact, you can’t cry sexism for at least a generation. Because every time you do, you’ll be reminded of this and every other vile thing like it." ...

Oregon ruling really takes the cake -- Christian bakery guilty of violating civil rights of lesbian couple

Aaron and Melissa Klein

Todd Starnes    "The owners of a Christian bakery who refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple are facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines after they were found guilty of violating the couple’s civil rights.

"The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries said they found “substantial evidence” that Sweet Cakes by Melissa discriminated against the lesbian couple and violated the Oregon Equality Act of 2007, a law that protects the rights of the LGBT community."....

It looks very much like LGBT activists are using review sites to ruin this business. The comments seem to be pure vindictiveness made manifest.

 

Sweet Cakes owners respond to firestorm over wedding cake decision

When women lived FREE in Afghanistan: Pictures show how they were once able to study, wear skirts and mix freely with men - before civil war, invasion and the Taliban enslaved them

This picture of Afghan women attending university in 1967 could

have been taken anywhere in the Western world
UK Mail  "Women in Afghanistan were brutally repressed under Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001 – but a series of fascinating old photographs show how women there used to live freely.

"The Taliban were condemned around the world for their treatment of women.

"Under their rule they were forbidden to be educated, publicly beaten for showing disobedience and forced to wear burqas – a garment that covers the whole body, apart from the eyes."

Women browse in a Kabul record store
.... Mr Karzai insisted the document was in keeping with Islam and did not restrict women.

" 'It is the Shariah law of all Muslims and all Afghans,' he said."

Polio on the rise in radical Muslim countries    ... "As we wring our hands (at least the UN workers do) over the terrible backwardness of so much of the Muslim world and wonder why the Middle East is in a state of "failure to thrive," we must acknowledge that no effort from the outside can fix things. Change will come, as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once noted, "when they become countries, not causes" (militant Islam)."

Pakistan Launches New Islamically Correct Anti-Polio Campaign    "How backward is the Taliban? One measure of barbarity would be the resurgence of polio in Pakistan because of the insistence of the jihadists that preventive vaccine is un-Islamic and that public health workers who vaccinate children should be murdered. At least a dozen people have been killed in recent months for trying to protect kids from a crippling disease."

 

Below, relatives of a murdered polio-prevention worker are upset by the sight of her body at a Karachi morgue.

Obama An Unrivaled Polarizing President

Peter Wehner  "In 2008 Barack Obama predicated his campaign not on a set of policies but on what might be called a political aesthetic. He would do away with what he called the “50 plus one” style of governing. He would “turn the page” on the “old politics” of division and anger and end a politics that “breeds division and conflict and cynicism.” Mr. Obama would help us to “rediscover our bonds to each other and … get out of this constant petty bickering that’s come to characterize our politics.” In the Age of Obama the Red State wolf would dwell with the Blue State lamb, and all would be right with the world.

"What a shame it turned out to be utter fiction." 

Wendy Davis: The New Spokeswoman For Sugar Daddy Dating Website

 

Downtrend  A couple months ago, I wrote about the “Sugar Daddy” dating service that matched up wealthy, older men with young women looking for a little … um … financial security.
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"As it seems, the site – SeekingArrangement.com – has found a new spokesperson in Abortion Barbie – kind of.

"The site has endorsed Wendy Davis’ candidacy for Texas Governor. After it was revealed she lied in her official biography and that her wealthy ex-husband paid for the lion’s share of her college education, conservatives and others pounced. “Abortion Barbie had a Sugar Daddy Ken,” one Fox News analyst suggested."

Wendy Davis endorsed by ‘sugar daddy’ dating service

Abortion Hero Caught In Multiple Lies    ... "

Perhaps most outrageously, the report indicates Davis initialized the divorce just one day after her then-husband made the final payment for her law school education.
For someone who is fashioning herself as the next women’s rights leader in America, it seems a man was integral to her success. In true feminist fashion, however, it seems she had no qualms with casting him aside after he had served his purpose.

< Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/abortion-hero-wendy-davis-caught-multiple-lies/#ldBtgVHBXWv7h9m0.99

Perhaps most outrageously, the report indicates Davis initialized the divorce just one day after her then-husband made the final payment for her law school education.
For someone who is fashioning herself as the next women’s rights leader in America, it seems a man was integral to her success. In true feminist fashion, however, it seems she had no qualms with casting him aside after he had served his purpose.

Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/abortion-hero-wendy-davis-caught-multiple-lies/#ldBtgVHBXWv7h9m0.99

Perhaps most outrageously, the report indicates Davis initialized the divorce just one day after her then-husband made the final payment for her law

Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/abortion-hero-wendy-davis-caught-multiple-lies/#ldBtgVHBXWv7h9m0.99

http://comicallyincorrect.com/2014/01/23/wendy-davis-lies/

SLAPPstick Farce: Getting Sued for Speaking Out

Mark Steyn   "America is a land of acronyms, and, useful as they are, acronyms can quickly curdle into jargon. SLAPP stands for "strategic lawsuit against public participation" — i.e., using legal action to cow an opponent into silence, and withdrawal from the public square. It was coined in the Eighties by Penelope Canan and George W. Pring at the University of Denver, and in the Nineties they turned it into a book: SLAPPs: Getting Sued for Speaking Out." ...
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[National Review] "runs specialized blogs on both legal matters and climate change, yet they too have been all but entirely silent. I assume, from this lonely outpost on NR's wilder shores, that back at head office they take the view that it's best not to say anything while this matter works its way through the courts. In other words, a law explicitly intended to prevent litigious bullies from forcing their victims to withdraw from "public participation" has resulted in the defendants themselves voluntarily withdrawing from "public participation." That's nuts.