Thursday, August 22, 2013

BloggeRhythms 8/22/2013

Samantha Power, replaced Susan Rice as ambassador to the United Nations. Rice is the one who spent a Sunday on news and talk shows, denying that the raid on our Benghazi diplomatic mission was a planned terrorist attack, an absolute and utter falsehood without question.
 
In Ms. Powers case, confirmation for her new post raised some questions about her personal beliefs, such as a 2003 article for The New Republic in which she wrote that the U.S. needs to make "a historical reckoning with crimes committed, sponsored, or permitted by the United States."
 
Nonetheless, she was confirmed for the new post and, according to foxnews.com/politics “During her hearing, she testified that the failure of the Security Council to act on Syria is a "disgrace that history will judge harshly."
 
Then, “She tackled Syria again during an online Twitter town hall she hosted last week. She said helping Syrian refugees is a priority. "Need peace so Syrians can lives safe at home," she tweeted.”
 
And after that, “She tweeted about the latest allegations on Wednesday, writing: "Yesterday:  Reports devastating: 100s dead in streets, including kids killed by chem weapons. UN must get there fast & if true, perps must face justice."
 
However, for Ms. Powers, much like everyone else in the current administration, realities seem to consistently differ from just about everything she says, purports or promises. 
 
In her case, despite all her deep concerns about Syria, she “skipped a major Security Council meeting Wednesday on the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, a move that drew sharp criticism considering her past comments denouncing the council's inaction on the violence.” She sent an underling instead.
 
But, despite all of the growing evidence of the administration and its members incompetence, its proving to be the most consistent groups of individuals I’ve ever encountered. Because in the almost five years of their existence, they’ve not made even one good decision, which has to be some kind of record.
 
Further along on the subject of consistency, AlGore once again surfaced, discussing his favorite topic, “global warming” with Ezra Klein in his Wonkblog column in The Washington Post.
 
Mr. Klein requested, “Give me the optimistic scenario on what happens next. If all goes well, what do the next few years look like on this issue?”
 
AlGore responded: “Well, I think the most important part of it is winning the conversation. I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, hey man, we don’t go for that anymore. The same thing happened on apartheid. The same thing happened on the nuclear arms race with the freeze movement. The same thing happened in an earlier era with abolition. A few months ago, I saw an article about two gay men standing in line for pizza and some homophobe made an ugly comment about them holding hands and everyone else in line told them to shut up. We’re winning that conversation.”
 
In this case, AlGore’s reply was beyond doubt correct, regarding the subjects he mentioned. Attitudes toward civil rights, racism, nuclear arms, apartheid, and acceptance of sexual preference have indeed all changed for the better, in much, if not most of the free world.
 
But the major difference between those issues and his climate change gibberish is, those issues actually existed while global warming does not. Overall temperatures haven’t changed in the past 15 years.
 
Then again, though, if I were taking in hundreds of millions a year on that farce like he is, maybe I’d sell out my principles too, and lie for the money. Just like he, and any other hooker, does every day.
 
That's it for today folks.
 
Adios

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