Monday, May 25, 2015

BloggeRhythms

While the president says ISIS takeover of the Iraqi city Ramadi is a "setback," he doesn't think the U.S. is losing to the militant group.
 
Yet, according to FoxNews.com, quite surprisingly,  “Top congressional Democrats and Republicans agreed Sunday that President Obama is not winning the fight against the Islamic State, with one of his top House supporters acknowledging a “stalemate” at best.
 
“The criticism from Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard was not unexpected following the Islamic State last week taking over the Iraq city of Ramadi, then pushing into the Syrian city of Palmyra.
 
“Clearly ISIS has gained momentum … as we’ve seen the ground that they have gained both in Iraq and Syria,” Gabbard, an Army combat veteran who has criticized Obama for not calling Islamic State “Islamic extremists,” told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
 
Therefore, for the first time, both sides of Congress seem in agreement, something quite rare for the past six and a half years.
 
Once again,  reader’s comments are worth noting.
 
Bill242 opined: “Obama Built that!”
 
Texasnotea added: “Breaking News.........Fox Noise is moving to the cartoon channel”
 
bybyamericanpie replied to Texasnotea ”so the liberals can understand it?”
 
At the same time, author John Podhoretz wrote a column on nypost.com, titled, “ISIS rises, the economy falters, and Obama’s legacy falls apart.’”
 
Mr. Podhoretz’s take on why the Iranian nuclear deal is so important to the president is that, “Deep into the seventh year of his tenure, Barack Obama is thinking about his post-presidential legacy. We know this because he’s telling us so.
 
“And who can blame him? After the failure of the Arab Spring, the collapse of Libya, the failure to act on his self-imposed “red line” in Syria, Russia’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine and the terrifying rise and forward march of ISIS, the only unmitigated positive on his foreign-policy spreadsheet remains the killing of Osama bin Laden.”
 
In conclusion, Mr. Podhoretz adds, “Look, the guy will need something impressive to fill the exhibition space at his brand-new presidential library in Chicago.” And, sad as that observation is, it happens to be true.
 
Which brings us to the topic that the president thinks is the most important of all. Far more critical than terrorism, the economy, health care or unemployment: gobal warming.
 
An article from expatica.com via Drudge, begins: “The Cannes Film Festival's closing film on Saturday was a call to arms to tackle climate change featuring the scientific pioneer who spent decades in Antarctica proving the existence of global warming. 
 
"I used to be pessimistic, but I think people are changing," said Claude Lorius, the 91-year-old French scientist whose groundbreaking research on ice cores proved the link between greenhouse gases and global temperatures.”
 
“His story is told in the documentary "Ice and the Sky", featuring footage from his earliest missions in the 1950s through to the present day. 
 
The story says, “Lorius carried out 22 expeditions -- some lasting as long as a year -- in Antarctica, where he helped pioneer the drilling and examining of ice cores, gathering climatic data going back more than 400,000 years.” 
 
And then, the point was made that caused the mention here in the first place. “One of his key insights, described in the film, came from drinking whisky one day with colleagues. Watching ice crack in the glass made him realise he could extract ancient air bubbles from the ice samples they were collecting.” 
 
Lorius told reporters after the screening, "I'd already had a bit to drink, otherwise I wouldn't have had this brilliant idea, this brainstorm. It took many years to put the ideas into practice." 
 
However, had Lorius stayed sober, perhaps he might have noticed that there’s been no “climate change” for the past eighteen years. And, if he’s not too plastered to get to a window and open it, he’d find that the Polar vortex is now cooling the planet, while the Northeastern US hasn’t really seen spring yet. 
 
Also, while climate change articles generally draw numerous readers comments. This one, so far has interested no one. Zip, zero, nada, kaput. 
 
Another article, this from wunderground.com describes the alternating periods of global warming and cooling, attributed to (weak) variations in the energy emitted by the sun resulting from the Earth’s position, corresponding to significant fluctuations in the composition of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. 
 
Then, it quotes the same, Claude Lorius, as saying, “Naturally, it would be impossible to attribute this yo-yo effect to human activity: "Fluctuations in CO2 levels are regulated by the oceans through a variety of physical, chemical and biological processes. Living organisms do play a role in climatic changes. For hundreds of thousands of years, the temperatures and the concentrations of aerosols and greenhouse gases have varied between relatively constant minimum and maximum levels. The Earth’s climate is naturally self-regulating, varying between these two well-defined stable states.” 
 
However, after confirming Earth's natural self-regulating, Lorius still says, “But we must admit that current greenhouse gas levels are unprecedented, higher than anything measured for hundreds of thousands of years, and directly linked to man’s impact on the atmosphere. The conclusions reached from a study of glacial archives lend credence to the assertion that the planet has warmed considerably throughout the 21st century, with potentially dire consequences on water supplies, agriculture, health, biodiversity, and in a broader sense, the man’s living conditions.” 
 
And, after all that, Dr. Jeff Masters, commented, ““It’s Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start of the U.S. summer season, and millions are wondering what kind of weather the next three months will bring. Signals point toward a cooler- and wetter-than-average summer across much of the U.S. this year, with unusual heat mostly limited to the far West and Alaska.” 
 
Thus, once again, reality proves that after all is said and done, Mother Nature is never going to be figured out by anyone, even Obama and his cohort billionaire and major contributor,Tom Steyer.
 
Which brings us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife, an insight into reality that if it weren’t so important to the nation, would be very, very funny.
 
According to bizpacreview.com, “Apparently, Hillary Clinton (wasn’t) even ready for the 10 a.m. phone call.”
 
“Information obtained from her emails released by the State Department Friday revealed that Clinton missed President Obama’s first daily intel briefing after the 2012 terrorist attacks on Benghazi.
 
“I just woke up,” the former secretary of state wrote at 10:43 a.m on Sept 15, 2012.”
 
And this is the woman who claims, “Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion.” However, that might be hard to do in bed, sleeping with the covers over her head, so she can’t even attend a critical meeting to learn what actually happened in Benghazi from the president of the US.
 
But, what difference does it make to her? After all, only four American lives were lost, including U.S. Ambassador, Christopher Stevens. 
 
That's it for today folks.
 
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