'Man-made disaster': Critics say California drought caused by misguided environment policies

Fox News

"The blistering drought that has Californians timing their showers, driving dirty cars and staring at brown lawns and empty swimming pools is a “man-made disaster,” according to critics, who say the Golden State’s misguided environmental policies allow much-needed freshwater to flow straight into the Pacific.

"In an average year, California gets enough snow and rain to put 200 million acres under a foot of water, but environmental opposition to dams over the last several decades has allowed the majority of the freshwater to flow into the ocean, even as the state’s population exploded to nearly 40 million people. The current drought has left farms parched and residents under strict water consumption orders, but some say it didn't have to be that way.

“ 'This is a man-made disaster,” said Bonner Cohen, senior fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research." . . .

Hat tip to Harley Standlee; Placerville, CA

L. Ron Obama and the Church of Progressivism

Victor Davis Hanson

 

. . . "But to progressives, they are scientific facts, so anyone who disagrees is either hopelessly ignorant or willfully evil, blinded by bigotry or in thrall to religious superstition. This explains the nastiness of progressive attacks on those who disagree with them, the quick recourse to ad hominem smears of the sort that appear only on the conservative fringe. Just as Scientology defames critics and defectors with false accusations and character assassination, so too progressives frequently hurl epithets like “racist” at those who criticize Obama, or indulge preposterous tropes like the “war on women,” or throw ugly names like “denier,” redolent of Holocaust denial, at anyone who questions that anthropogenic global warming is a scientific fact rather than a hypothesis. And progressives are eager to use the power of government and institutions like the IRS and college administrations to silence and stigmatize those who oppose them." . . .

Compare and contrast: Same TV reporter approaches Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio

Thomas Lifson  "The following contrasting videos should be enough to chill the bones of every Democrat sensibly worried about how good a candidate Hillary Clinton will be. Dan Calabrese, of Herman Cain’s CainTV.com website brings us the two videos of the same TMZ reporter walking up to both candidates at an airport as they arrive.

"First, here is Marco Rubio:

"All smiles and affability, Sure, the reporter is not hostile, but anyone could get annoyed at questions about a spouse's past. Instead, Rubio laughs, makes a joke at his own expense, and comes across as a totally likable guy.

Hillary, not so much:

"The Democrats destroyed Mitt Romney’s candidacy by portraying him (absolutely falsely) as unfeeling, rich, out of touch, and uncaring. In contrast, Hillary does a great job of portraying herself in exactly this light.

"Please, Hillary, don’t let the naysayers discourage you. Hang in there, girl, and see this election to the end." Hat tip: iOTWReport

Krauthammer: She rides by van: The Hillary Clinton launch

 

Charles Krauthammer

"See Hillary ride in a van! Watch her meet everyday Americans! Witness her ordering a burrito bowl at Chipotle! Which she did wearing shades, as did her chief aide Huma Abedin, yielding security-camera pictures that made them look (to borrow from Karl Rove) like fugitives on the lam, wanted in seven states for a failed foreign policy.

"There’s something surreal about Hillary Clinton’s Marie Antoinette tour, sampling cake and commoners. But what else can she do? After Barack Obama, she’s the best-known political figure in America. She has papal name recognition. Like Napoleon and Cher, she’s universally known by her first name. As former queen consort, senator and secretary of state, she has spent a quarter-century in the national spotlight — more than any modern candidate.

 . . .
"So brace yourself for a glorious Republican punch-up, punctuated by endless meta-coverage of the Democrats’ coronation march. After which, we shall decide the future of our country. Just the way the Founders drew it up."

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Islamic Terrorism: Why There Is None in Japan

Cherson and Molschky
 "With all this Muslim terrorism plaguing the world, perhaps it is time to take a look at a country not suffering the same fate and analyze exactly why that is…"

 

. . . "No, nothing of the kind. What Japan did to avoid problems related to Muslims was much simpler and cheaper; Japan is practically closed to Muslims.

"Officially, immigration to Japan is not closed to Muslims. But the number of the immigration permits given to the applicants from Islamic countries is very low. Obtaining a working visa is not easy for adepts of Islam, even if they are physicians, engineers and managers sent by foreign companies that are active in the region. As a result, Japan is “a country without Muslims”." . . .

Hillary staged Iowa coffee shop talk, what about Chipotle?

 

Legal Insurrection  " Via Drudge, The Daily Mail reports to the surprise of no one who has followed the Clintons, that Hillary’s coffee shop talk in Iowa was staged:"

 

. . . "It was more than perfect. Hillary was just a person buying a Burrito Bowl, like the regular folk, minding her own business on an All-American road trip. Not looking for publicity. But publicity just happened to find her. Uh huh.

"That Chipotle appearance was just too cute, by half.

"So who tipped off Haberman? The campaign? An operative working for the campaign? People playing the same role as in the coffee shop, making sure the photo ops were just right?

"I emailed Haberman about her tip, whether it was from the campaign or someone else, but she didn’t respond.  Can’t say I blame her, I wouldn’t reveal the source of a tip.

"Oh, it’s probably nothing.  Just a little birdie."

Obama and Revolutionary Romance; His foreign-policy errors result not from incompetence but from a conscious agenda.

Victor Davis Hanson

 

"Lots of questions arise about the muddled foreign policy of the Obama administration. Critics suggest that America’s friends have now become enemies, and enemies friends. Others cite incompetence and naïveté rather than deliberate agendas as the cause of American decline, and of growing global chaos from Libya to Ukraine.

"But, in fact, there is a predictable pattern to Obama’s foreign policy. The president has an adolescent, romantic view of professed revolutionary societies and anti-Western poseurs — and of his own ability uniquely to reach out and win them over. In the most superficial sense, Obama demonstrates his empathy for supposedly revolutionary figures of the non-Western world through gratuitous, often silly remarks about Christianity and Western colonial excesses, past and present. He apologizes with talk of our “own dark periods” and warns of past U.S. “dictating”; he contextualizes; he ankle-bites the very culture he grew up and thrived in, as if he can unapologetically and without guilt enjoy the West’s largesse only by deriding its history and values." . . .

 In lieu of reading or speaking a foreign language, or knowing much about geography (Austrians speak Austrian, the death camps were Polish, the Indian Ocean Maldives are the politically correct name of the Falklands, cities along the U.S. Atlantic Coast are Gulf ports, etc.), Obama adopts, in the manner of a with-it English professor, hokey accentuation to suggest an in-the-know fides anytime he refers to the Taliban, Pakistan, or Teheran.

 The Betrayal Papers: Part V – Who is Barack Hussein Obama?

 

. . . "The Communist Prelude: Frank Marshall Davis, Obama’s Mentor

"As documented extensively in Paul Kengor’s book The Communist, Davis ranks high among Obama’s early life influences. A literal card carrying member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), Davis was considered by the FBI an enemy of the state." . . .

• Frank Marshall Davis, a known Soviet Communist and admirer of Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler, was a friend of Obama’s mother’s father, Stanley Dunham.
• The Communist Davis lived in both Hawaii and in Chicago. He was Barack Obama’s mentor through the 1970s, until his departure for Occidental College in 1979.
• Davis was also a pornographer. In his book Sex Rebel, he wrote excitedly about having sex with minors. Pedophilia was unusual for Communists of the era: Harry Hay, another Communist and associate of Davis, was reportedly an advocate of NAMBLA, the National Man-Boy Love Association.
• In 1995, in a broadcast on Cambridge Municipal Television, Barack Obama described Davis as “a close friend of my maternal grandfather, a close friend of gramps” and “fairly a well-known poet.”

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VIDEO: Israel Air Force Preparing for the S-300 Anti-Aircraft Missile f

Yeshiva World News

Earlier this week the Kremlin announced it was removing its ban on the sale of the advanced S-300 anti-aircraft system to Iran, an announcement that led to condemnation from Israel and the United States.
In Israel, the air force is not standing by waiting for miracles, but pilots are already training on the simulator for the F-35 fighter planes, the most advanced fighter jet in the world. The pilots are training and learning ahead of delivery of the first planes at the end of 2016, part of a major deal that was signed between Jerusalem and Washington.

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The air force continues preparing for a possible offensive against Iran, and the F-35 is capable of evading the S-300 anti-aircraft system. Air Force Brigadier-General Lehu HaKohen explains the air force is preparing many options against Iran, including the F-35.
Next month, the first group of pilots and technicians including a squadron commander will head to the United States to begin training.
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Earlier this week the Kremlin announced it was removing its ban on the sale of the advanced S-300 anti-aircraft system to Iran, an announcement that led to condemnation from Israel and the United States.
In Israel, the air force is not standing by waiting for miracles, but pilots are already training on the simulator for the F-35 fighter planes, the most advanced fighter jet in the world. The pilots are training and learning ahead of delivery of the first planes at the end of 2016, part of a major deal that was signed between Jerusalem and Washington.

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The air force continues preparing for a possible offensive against Iran, and the F-35 is capable of evading the S-300 anti-aircraft system. Air Force Brigadier-General Lehu HaKohen explains the air force is preparing many options against Iran, including the F-35.
Next month, the first group of pilots and technicians including a squadron commander will head to the United States to begin training.
- See more at: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/302614/video-israel-air-force-preparing-for-the-s-300-anti-aircraft-missile.html#sthash.44nITueD.dpuf

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WHAT?! Teacher who made her students write cop killer get well cards, part of radical group

Michele Holt

 

. . . "Zuniga held a press conference this week where she began to apologize for her actions, but then quickly put the blame on her 8 and 9 year-old students, expressing that it was their idea to send the get well cards to the ill Abul-Jamar, who suffers complications from diabetes. Zuniga’s support of Abul-Jamar is part and parcel to the progressive indoctrination happening in public schools all across the country.

"Abul-Jamar did not show any regard for human life as a member of the Black Panther Party. On December 9, 1981, Abul-Jamar showed no regard for Officer Danny Faulkner when he shot the Philadelphia police officer 5 times; once in the back and the other four at close range execution style in the chest and face. Zuniga decided to use her classroom as an instrument to introduce the cop-killer to her students and obviously omitted the crime that Abul-Jamar committed. When Zuniga took to social media to brag about her accomplishment, parents became aware and outrage was voiced throughout the community.

"It should be noted that at the press conference, Zuniga was surrounded by fellow members of the group “Educators for Mumia Abul-Jamar”, members of Black Panthers and other radical leftists that support socialist/communist agendas." . . .

What the Unearthed 1995 Video Tells Us about Obama; Does it include treason?

Jack Cashill   "A professionally shot video of Barack Obama from 1995 has recently surfaced.  Shot at the Cambridge, Mass. Public Library, the video captures a skinny, youthful Obama promoting his then newly released memoir, Dreams from My Father.

"In this hour-long presentation, Obama openly talks about his relationship with his mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist and pornographer.  Perhaps more importantly, Obama gives us a much clearer picture of who he was in 1995, on the cusp of his political career, than we had seen before.  Some observations: . . .Full Article

Thinking the Unthinkable: Are we Looking at Nuclear Treason? . . . "Just this week Obama dismissed the 1963 Cuban Missile Crisis by saying that “I’m not interested in having battles that frankly started before I was born… The Cold War’s been over for a long time.”

"It seems that history only started with the Birth of the One. A more direct confession of delusional narcissism is hard to find.

. . . 

Historian Victor Davis Hanson wondered this week if Obama’s understanding of the world is a sort of “romantic” adolescent fantasy.

“The president has an adolescent, romantic view of professed revolutionary societies and anti-Western poseurs -- and of his own ability uniquely to reach out and win them over.”

Lord help us all.

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Wikipedia: The Holocaust (from the Greek . . ."burnt"),also known as the Shoah 

 

From United With Israel:

Holocaust Message: World is ‘Delusional’ in Face of Iranian Nuclear Threat   . . . "The Holocaust survivors had nowhere to go, but “today, we have our own country – a flourishing and modern country. A country that imbibes the heritage of our fathers and stands at the forefront of global knowledge. A country that disseminates a great light. A country that has taken charge of its destiny. Seventy years after the valleys of death, we revere the living, the vibrant, the creative, the flourishing.”

“ 'The nation of Israel that has arisen from the hellfire is ready for any challenge.' ” . . .

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WATCH: Why We Remember the Holocaust

Holocaust videos

Alan Caruba: A Thousand Ways to Die

 

Warning Signs

"Does a day go by when we are not warned about something that might do us harm or kill us?

"I recently received an email from the Surgeon General of the United States in which he said, “Yesterday, I had the opportunity to meet with President Obama, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and health care professionals to discuss climate change. We talked about the impact of climate change on public health and the importance of prevention.”

"The prevention of what? Climate change?

"In the five thousand years of human civilization, there has never been, nor will ever be, a way to “prevent” climate change. This is not to say that earlier cultures didn’t try to solve drought or other weather-related problems by sacrificing the occasional virgin. We look back at that and regard it as primitive in the same way we find the notion of American Indians doing “rain dances” to induce a downpour to help the crops to grow a thing of the past.

"The politicization of “climate change”, a planetary phenomenon that goes back about a billion or so years ago when the Earth took on its present atmosphere and weather patterns tells you everything you need to know about the White House and those who think they can tell outrageous lies to Americans, knowing at least half of them will believe those lives." . . Full article here.

Thomas Lifson;   Stupid Democrat Tricks: the all-night 'climate change' fauxlibuster 
. . . "This is all a distraction, a stunt to eat up media attention instead of a focus on Obama’s disasters in the economy, foreign policy, Fast and Furious, and other scandals." Full article from 2014