Dianne Feinstein contradicts Barack Obama’s claim that ISIS is contained
Despite Barack Obama’s claim that the terrorist organization he once called a “JV team” is contained liberal California Democrat Dianne Feinstein has come out and said that not only is ISIS not contained but that they are spreading and she has never been more concerned.
Here is more:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein sharply contradicted President Barack Obama on Monday, disagreeing with his claim that the Islamic State is “contained.”
“I’ve never been more concerned,” the California Democrat and Intelligence Committee ranking member told Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC Monday. “I read the intelligence faithfully. ISIL is not contained. ISIL is expanding.”
“They just put out a video saying it is their intent to attack this country. I think we have to be prepared,” she continued.
At this point I trust Dianne Feinstein more than I do Barack Obama because the last time the President claimed a terrorist organization was on the run was during the 2012 election when he was talking about alQaeda and we all know how that turned out in Benghazi…
malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
New Hampshire governor says no to Syrian refugees
There is a growing list of governors who are rebuking Barack Obama’s plan to bring in thousands of Syrian refugees since the terrorist attack in Paris, saying they will not allow them to be relocated in their states. But none is more surprising to me than New Hampshire.
New Hampshire’s Democratic governor, Maggie Hassan, has indicated that she believes Barack Obama should halt his plan to bring Syrian refugees into the United States. Here is more:
Bernie Sanders claims terrorism is directly linked to global warming
The Democrats have been trying to convince the American people, rather unconvincingly, that global warming poses a bigger threat to the world than does terrorism. Not many people believe this so there has been a small effort, which has been growing, to combine the two issues into one in order to win more people over to the now debunked idea the earth is warming and that it is man-made.
The silly little theory goes something like this: Global warming has caused droughts in the desert and because of this people who live in the desert have no food and no water so they move to urban areas and instead of looking for work and buying food and water they begin to blow people up in their frustration. Of course this theory ignores the fact there have always been deserts…
This theory has been working its way around the edges of the Democratic party for awhile but was recently brought to the forefront when Democratic Presidential contender Martin O’Malley made the claim that global warming was responsible for the rise of ISIS in the Middle East.
Sunday, November 15th open thread: ‘So Far Away’
Here is the open thread for Sunday, November 15th. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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I had my follow-up appointment with the neurologist last Monday and everything went well. First, as suspected, the tumor which was removed was benign! I have no restrictions other than not being able to lift more than 10 pounds and I can go back to work on December 1st. Once I get back to work I still cannot lift over 10 pounds for three months, which means no lifting for me until March. I feel great and I have no pain anymore, I have not had to take Tylenol in two days.
Enough about me, on to the musical selection of the week. Here is Staind performing “So Far Away” from 2009, enjoy:
Donald Trump surges to 42% in latest national poll
Just when is was beginning to look like Donald Trump’s momentum was slowing and Ben Carson’s momentum was rising a new national poll has been released which shows Donald Trump’s popularity growing to an all-time high among likely Republican voters.
Here is more:
After a week in which he hosted Saturday Night Live and stood center-stage at a Republican debate, Donald Trump is surging among Republicans likely to cast votes in the party’s presidential primary.
According to the five-day rolling Reuters/Ipsos presidential poll, Trump has leapt some 17 percentage points among likely Republican voters since Nov. 6, when he was essentially tied with Ben Carson at about 25 percent. Trump now captures 42 percent of those voters while Carson has fallen off slightly.
The poll also shows that despite the media’s attempt to tell us that the Republican establishment’s Plan B candidate, Marco Rubio, is beginning to make waves that he is stagnating at 10% support.
Take this poll for what it is worth because it is a national poll and until the National Popular Vote movement achieves it goal of neutering the Electoral College we do not have a national election, but I do think national polls can be used to gauge a person’s popularity and this bodes well for Donald Trump as the Iowa caucuses draw close.
You probably remember during the debate the other night when Donald Trump claimed he could negotiate with Vladimir Putin because they met each other in the greenroom before an episode of 60 Minutes in which they both appeared, but if you do not here is a little more:
During Tuesday night’s Fox Business Channel Republican presidential debate, billionaire Donald Trump claimed he would be good at negotiating with Russian President Vladimir Putin, citing being “stablemates” with the Russian leader during his taping of “60 Minutes.”
“I got to know him very well because we were both on 60 Minutes,” Trump said during the GOP debate. “We were stablemates, and we did very well that night.”
Republican establishment looks to recruit Mitt Romney
It is no secret that the Republican establishment want no part of either a Donald Trump or Ben Carson candidacy for President, preferring of course one of their own candidates–in particular Jeb Bush. It is also no secret that the establishment Republicans seriously have misjudged the results of the previous two mid-term elections. Instead of taking the message sent to them by the conservative voters in those two elections they instead tried to mold the conservative winners into the same type of politicians the voters rejected.
John Boehner is a perfect example of this: instead of listening to what the voters wanted he punished the conservative members of House leadership who tried to listen to the will of the voters. That ended up being his downfall so you would think that might be what finally opened the eyes of the Republican establishment but apparently it has not.
Donald Trump and Ben Carson appear to have staying power and if so it goes to show you how deeply the anti-establishment sentiment is running throughout the voters in the Republican primary. So what is the Republican establishment’s response? Find another establishment candidate who might fare better than the ones already in the race.
Some are seeking to draft Mitt Romney.
FBI launches its own classification review of Hillary Clinton’s emails
It is now being reported here that the FBI is expanding, yet again, its probe into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, this time about whether statements made under oath violate a federal false statements statute. In addition the FBI, probably having grown tired of waiting for the State Department, has launched its own classification review of the former Secretary of State’s emails.
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This new report could turn the global warming hoax upside down
You have probably noticed in recent months that the global warming alarmists have gone into high gear as they seek to implement their radical agenda as quickly as possible–despite the fact there has been no global warming in at least a decade.
In an effort to create a global temperature increase where none exists organizations such as NOAA and NASA have actually been changing historical temperatures in order to fool the people into believing the sky is about to fall and that life on earth as we know it is about to come to an end.
But why the big push now? This story might provide us with an answer: The sun is about to enter one of its natural cooling cycles.
The sun will go into “hibernation” mode around 2030, and it has already started to get sleepy. At the Royal Astronomical Society’s annual meeting in July, Professor Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University in the UK confirmed it – the sun will begin its Maunder Minimum (Grand Solar Minimum) in 15 years. Other scientists had suggested years ago that this change was imminent, but Zharkova’s model is said to have near-perfect accuracy.
So what is a “solar minimum”?
Our sun doesn’t maintain a constant intensity. Instead, it cycles in spans of approximately 11 years. When it’s at its maximum, it has the highest number of sunspots on its surface in that particular cycle. When it’s at its minimum, it has almost none. When there are more sunspots, the sun is brighter. When there are fewer, the sun radiates less heat toward Earth.
But that’s not the only cooling effect of a solar minimum. A dim sun doesn’t deflect cosmic rays away from Earth as efficiently as a bright sun. So, when these rays enter our atmosphere, they seed clouds, which in turn cool our planet even more and increase precipitation in the form of rain, snow and hail.
As the article stated, the sun is already getting sleepy which of course is evidenced by the fact there has been no global warming in a decade. But the danger to the global warming alarmist agenda is quite obvious: If they are not able to implement their radical global redistribution, population control, freedom-stealing agenda before the sun enters its Maunder Minimum the agenda could be lost forever and of course they cannot have that when they are so close to achieving their dreams.
At this point I think you will find it most interesting to note at what point in time the sun was in its last Maunder Minimum period:
The last time we became concerned about cooler temperatures – possibly dangerously cooler – was in the 1970s. Global temperatures have declined since the 1940s, as measured by Pacific Decadal Oscillation. The PDO Index is a recurring pattern of ocean-atmosphere climate variability centred over the Pacific Ocean. Determined by deep currents, it is said to shift between warm and cool modes. Some scientists worried that it might stay cool and drag down the Atlantic Decadal Oscillation with it, spurring a new Ice Age. The fear was exacerbated by the fact that Earth has been in the current inter-glacial period for 10,000 years (depending on how the starting point is gauged).
That of course coincides with the great global cooling crisis the scientists tried to throw at us before reversing course to global warming once the sun exited its last Maunder Minimum period.
I think it is pretty clear that most scientists know what is going on, they have to, but they have been corrupted by a political issue which holds grant money over their heads and encourages them to toe the line or face excommunication from the community.
malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
Happy Veterans Day 2015
At eleven o’clock in the morning, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the Treaty of Versailles was signed, bringing the Great War, the war to end all wars, WWI to an end. November 11th is known throughout most of the world as Armistice or Remembrance Day, but after WWII there was growing sentiment in the United States that November 11th should be a time to honor all veterans. In 1954 President Eisenhower signed a bill that turned Armistice Day into Veterans Day, declaring it a national holiday.
