Tuesday, September 8, 2015

BloggeRhythms

Caught the last couple of minutes of Fox’s “The Five” yesterday. The TV sound was off, however the crawler at the bottom of the screen asked panelists what they’d do on their first day if elected POTUS.
 
An answer occurred to me instantaneously. Cancel the Iran deal, re-impose sanctions at an even higher level and remove most restrictions on drilling for oil and fracking in the U.S.. If those actions didn’t immediately curb the financial capabilities of hostile nation’s in the Middle-East, Russia, Venezuela and the Ukraine, I’d subsidize pricing until there was no real income left at all to those relying on oil as a primary revenue source. 
 
In that way, not only would terrorism threats be greatly reduced without firing a shot, or requiring military invasion, but allies such as Turkey and Israel would gain significant protection from hostile actions from neighbors.            
 
On another subject, while its doubtful that Trump or Cruz are truly presidential material, if they deliver as promised tomorrow in D.C.,  significant credit must be given to them.  
 
Garth Kant @wnd.com reports that the two will head “a huge rally to try stop the Iran deal at the Capitol on Wednesday.” Appearing with them will be Sarah Palin, political commentator Glenn Beck, radio talk-show host Mark Levin and many others.
 
And that’s what’s sorely needed now. Because while the majority of citizens oppose the “deal,” the administration is using every angle it can to force the travesty on the nation. 
 
From a statistical point of view, passage of the deal is upside down. 34 senators have now committed to support it, which means 66 have not. Yet, that number ensures Obama could veto a bill blocking the deal without the Senate overriding that veto.
 
Looking at the rest of the numbers causes scratching of one’s head. Because the much-criticized deal likely will go into effect despite opposition by as much as three-quarters of the House and 55 percent of the country. Just 25 percent of Americans support the deal.
 
What’s more, “Sixty-six percent of voters believe the deal should require the approval of Congress.”
 
Perhaps the reason for such significant voter discomfort is that, as often mentioned here, “the deal’s most controversial provision has been kept secret, even from Congress.” That’s the “side deal between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran, “that lets the country’s leaders decide which sites to inspect.” And also, “lets Iran do its own inspections at a key site.” Which is like letting Bill Clinton’s wife keep her own unmonitored computer server, if she promises to use it only for personal purposes. 
 
On another topic where the administration has been consistently and totally wrong, global-warming, reality has raised its ugly head once more, as Mother Nature is now cooling off the Atlantic.
 
The POTUS continually warns of increasing threats from storms, hurricanes and fierce weather due to what he now calls “climate-change”. However, the facts illustrate something completely different, as evidenced yesterday by two prominent hurricane researchers and Nature Geoscience, that: “The Atlantic looks like it is entering in to a new quieter cycle of storm activity, like in the 1970s and 1980s.”
 
According to scientists at Colorado State University, including the professor who pioneered hurricane seasonal prognostication, “they are seeing a localized cooling and salinity level drop in the North Atlantic near Greenland.”
 
The scientist now theorize, that the changing local weather and ocean patterns form an on-again, off-again cycle in hurricane activity that they trace back to the late 1800s. As a result, warmer saltier water “produces periods of more and stronger storms followed by cooler less salty water triggering a similar period of fewer and weaker hurricanes." The periods last about 25 years, sometimes more, sometimes less. The busy cycle that just ended was one of the shorter ones, perhaps because it was so strong that it ran out of energy, said study lead author Phil Klotzbach.
 
Which means that, for now and perhaps up to twenty-five more years, the cooling trend will continue. Directly the opposite of climate-change contentions.
 
Which brings us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife.
 
Michael S. Schmidt @nytimes.com writes that, “A special intelligence review of two emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton received as secretary of state on her personal account — including one about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program — has endorsed a finding by the inspector general for the intelligence agencies that the emails contained highly classified information when Mrs. Clinton received them, senior intelligence officials said.”
 
Bill’s wife’s presidential campaign and the State Department disputed the inspector general’s finding last month, questioning whether the emails had been over-classified by an arbitrary process. However, the special review “by the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, concluded that the emails were “Top Secret,” the highest classification of government intelligence,” when they were sent to her in 2009 and 2011.
 
Maybe that’s one of the reasons a Tweet from Rupert Murdoch yesterday said:  “Looks like Biden already running. Very likely he wins nomination and be hard to beat.”
 
Thus, as it stands right now, regardless of political leanings, Biden's campaign would be a breath of fresh air. The hard core left would have a champion and most people would have to concede that simply being a woman isn’t a valid reason for attaining the most powerful position in the world. 
 
Which leads to the ongoing question: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you reading this?
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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