Not, in actual fact, caused by ‘climate change’ or Republicans

“This is climate change. We were warned about extreme weather. Not just hot weather. But extreme weather. When I had my hearings, when I had the gavel years ago – It’s been a while – the scientists all agreed that what we’d start to see was extreme weather. And people looked at one another and said ‘what do you mean? It’s gonna get hot?’ Yeah, it’s gonna get hot. But you’re also going to see snow in the summer in some places. You’re gonna have terrible storms. You’re going to have tornados and all the rest. We need to protect our people. That’s our number one obligation and we have to deal with this threat that is upon us and that is gonna get worse and worse though the years.”
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif. – Chair of Senate Environment & Public Works Committee)

Senator Boxer, as you’re probably aware, is currently sponsoring a bill to put a tax on carbon dioxide – the natural by-product of almost every industrial process. You can see why this might be a contentious move given that a) the last thing the US or indeed the global economy needs right now is yet another crippling layer of taxation and regulation and b) carbon taxation can never work without a pan-global agreement which is never going to happen. That’s why CCX – Al Gore’s and Goldman Sach’s Chicago-based carbon trading exchange – is no longer with us. And it’s why the European carbon price has fallen through the floor. (Mega H/T Marc Morano at Climate Depot)

So her desperation is understandable. But not I’d suggest, excusable. At least 24 people have died and another 237 have been injured in the horrific Oklahoma tornado. For Senator Boxer to try to exploit this misery and tragedy in order to foist on the American people yet another tax they don’t want and don’t need is politics of the lowest and most dishonest kind.

Let’s be clear. There is no scientific evidence whatsoever that the Oklahoma tornado was anything other than a natural event of the kind that has plagued Tornado Alley since time immemorial. Tornadoes were ripping up and down that part of the Great Plains long before it was settled by humans and will continue to do so long after those humans have vanished.

As Roy Spencer noted last year, the severity of tornadoes in recent years has been decreasing NOT increasing.

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This is what gripes me. PETA, Humane Society and other animal rights groups go out of their way to demonize our food we get from cows, fowl, and fish. Yet nary a freaking word from any of them about the way freaking muslims kill animals to satisfy their halal addiction. Warning, graphic violence comes up here.

Check out the most controversial foods of our time, and the issues surrounding them

1. Foie Gras
This pricey delicacy is the king of culinary contention, dividing consumers and restaurant industry professionals alike over whether the animal welfare issues surrounding it can be justified. Foie gras, a fancy term for cooked duck or goose liver, is produced by force-feeding the animals until their livers enlarge to about 600 percent their natural size.

Animal rights groups like the Humane Society of the United States and the Animal Legal Defense Fund condemn the practice because they believe it qualifies as cruel and inhumane treatment of animals. And not many would argue that shoving a gavage, or metal tube, down an animal’s mouth and stuffing it with food three times a day for 25 days sounds humane. However, a Serious Eats piece investigated the issue by exploring La Bella Farms, the second largest of the three largest foie gras farms in the United States, and found that the issue is often shrouded in misconceptions.

Before you start harassing me with comments, take a few minutes to read the article, which we found to be admirably objective. The ducks are actually provided with an expansive amount of space within a barn — though, the author noted, it could have used more natural light. They’re completely unconscious when slaughtered, and mishandling of the animals damages the liver, thus reducing the price they can sell for, so the farm has a good incentive to take care of the birds.

While we can’t imagine being force-fed through a metal tube stuck down our throats, you have to remember that these animals also are not humans; they’re built differently. Moulards, the ducks used at La Bella Farms, don’t have gag reflexes, and their bodies are built for storing excessive amounts of food — though not this much — to prepare for migration. While it still can’t be comfortable, it may not be quite as horrific as some make it out to be. And the article also pointed out that the farm isn’t wasteful; they use and sell all parts of the duck, except the head and feet.

However, not everyone believes these reasons justify the treatment ducks and geese receive. On July 1, a piece of legislation known as SB 1520 went into effect, and foie gras was banned in the state of California.

Finish reading this HERE. And note not one thing about halal or the killing of animals by muslims for their meat.

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So ask yourself before you support any animal rights organization. Is my money being spent to help stop the murder of animals via the halal method practiced by muslims? Or just spent to prevent me from having a steak?

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A series of letters suggests that senior IRS official Lois Lerner was directly involved in the agency’s targeting of conservative groups as recently as April 2012, more than nine months after she first learned of the activity.

Lerner, the director of the IRS exempt organizations office in Washington, D.C., signed cover letters to 15 conservative organizations currently represented by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) between in March and April of 2012. The letters, such as this one sent to the Ohio Liberty Council on March 16, 2012, informed the groups applying for tax-exempt status that the IRS was “unable to make a final determination on your exempt status without additional information,” and included a list of detailed questions of the kind that a Treasury inspector general’s audit found to be inappropriate. Some of the groups to which Lerner sent letters are still awaiting approval. [...]

“One thing is clear: this correspondence shows [Lerner’s] direct involvement in the scheme,” wrote Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the ACLJ. “Further, sending a letter from the top person in the IRS Exempt Organization division to a small Tea Party group also underscores the intimidation used in this targeting ploy.”

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Dan Calabrese 

Do you see the problem here?

I am going to start here by confessing two things a lot of conservatives may not like to hear, but stay with me. First, I don’t think the Benghazi, IRS and media-snooping scandals are going to take Barack Obama down. I just think it will be too difficult to prove his own personal culpability, and as a result, he will be weakened politically but we’re still stuck with him until January 2017. I suspect many of you don’t want to hear that, but realize in your heart of hearts it is reality.

But the second confession is the one that will really bother a lot of you: I like government. And that’s why what I’m seeing now bothers me so much.

When I say I like government, I don’t mean I like the idea of big government trying to do things for us that we can and should do for ourselves. I mean I like the idea of a constitutionally limited government that knows its role and performs it well. I think that role, limited though it is, is essential. I love the idea that people take time out of their careers to run for public office and serve the public. I don’t like that public service becomes their career. But I like that we have this institution that can serve us by protecting the peace and enforcing the laws we must have.

I sense within the conservative movement a lot of sentiment that simply hates government, and I’ve never been able to relate to that sentiment. I hate what self-serving, dishonest people have done to government precisely because I like the idea of it as envisioned by the Founders – and it’s become so corrupted it’s hard to envision how it ever gets back to what they intended it to be.

The IRS scandal illustrates this perfectly. As an agency goes completely rogue and abuses its power to harass Americans of a certain political stripe, Obama’s defenders offer a novel argument on his behalf. As David Axelrod says, the government is simply too vast to expect the president to know what’s going on:

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Robert Spencer and Michael Coren on the London jihad murder and the subsequent whitewash

Sen. Ted Cruz Issues Challenge to McCain on Debt Ceiling Fight

Mark Levin: This isn’t about Lois Lerner or the IRS. This is about TYRANNY!

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Boy Scouts To Admit Openly Gay Members

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Eric Holder signed the warrant targeting James Rosen, Barack Obama orders Eric Holder to investigate

Did You Know There’s Been Rioting in Sweden for the Past 3 Days?

Moron alert: Kerry claims Israeli prosperity prevents sense of urgency about peace: So now will t… IsraelMatzav

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A roach holding a roach.

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The persecution of Christians: Obama’s tin ear

I have been following Michael Youssef for a couple of years now. I like what he has to say and how states his views and more importantly, his faith. It never wavers nor does he give quarter when it comes to his faith.

The global persecution of Christians is well known and has picked up speed. Obama, for his part, has done NOTHING for Christians, either at home or abroad. What is going on in the Muslim world, especially Egypt is completely reprehensible. The Copts have been attacked in an ever increasing manner and Obama refuses to speak out against his Muslim brother, Morsi and his henchmen, the Muslim Brotherhood. This is nothing new and Islam has persecuted ‘people of the book’ for the last 1400 plus years. The persecution of the ‘true religions’ is part and parcel of Islam and sharia law.

You can accept and stew in the foul stench that is global collectivism, political correctness, excessive diversity and multiculturalism, persecution of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Sikhs, from the hands of Islam and the globalists or you can stand up and be counted against the likes of Obama, who refuses to speak out against the persecution of Christians.

I know with whom I will stand with and who I will be counted with. It will be with my Christian brothers and sisters. My allegiance is with Jesus and the Lord, period. I am not beholding to any denomination of  Christianity or to any church. I stand with Jesus until I draw my last breath and I am called home.

You can find Michael Youssef and his site is here

Any questions? PatriotUSA

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Officials Draft Secret Bill to Keep Sandy Hook Records Under Wraps

George Zimmerman’s Lawyer Wants Jurors To See Photos Of Handgun, Pot Plants Found On Trayvon Martin’s Cell Phone

Helping Obamacare succeed is not an American’s civic duty

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NASA report verifies carbon dioxide actually cools atmosphere

(NaturalNews) Practically everything you have been told by the mainstream scientific community and the media about the alleged detriments of greenhouse gases, and particularly carbon dioxide, appears to be false, according to new data compiled by NASA’s Langley Research Center. As it turns out, all those atmospheric greenhouse gases that Al Gore and all the other global warming hoaxers have long claimed are overheating and destroying our planet are actually cooling it, based on the latest evidence.

As reported by Principia Scientific International (PSI), Martin Mlynczak and his colleagues over at NASA tracked infrared emissions from the earth’s upper atmosphere during and following a recent solar storm that took place between March 8-10. What they found was that the vast majority of energy released from the sun during this immense coronal mass ejection (CME) was reflected back up into space rather than deposited into earth’s lower atmosphere.

The result was an overall cooling effect that completely contradicts claims made by NASA’s own climatology division that greenhouse gases are a cause of global warming. As illustrated by data collected using Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER), both carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitric oxide (NO), which are abundant in the earth’s upper atmosphere, greenhouse gases reflect heating energy rather than absorb it.

“Carbon dioxide and nitric oxide are natural thermostats,” says James Russell from Hampton University, who was one of the lead investigators for the groundbreaking SABER study. “When the upper atmosphere (or ‘thermosphere’) heats up, these molecules try as hard as they can to shed that heat back into space.”

Almost all ‘heating’ radiation generated by sun is blocked from entering lower atmosphere by CO2

Read all of this at Natural News.

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Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News reporter’s private emails, official says

Shakedown: Health Insurance Industry Official Says Companies Being Pressured To Contribute Funds To Implement Obamacare…

Immigration Reform in One Infographic

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Republicans Introduce Bill to Abolish FEMA

Liberalism Is A Disease

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Obama Administration Refuses to Label London Attack as Terrorism

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Woman choked and raped by ex-boyfriend after dispatcher informs her there are no cops to help – and instead tells her to ask attacker to leave

A terrified woman from Josephine County, Oregon, dialed 911 to report that her violent ex-boyfriend is trying to break into her home, but in response she was told that there are no officers on duty to help her. 

The cash-strapped sheriff’s department in the county had been forced to lay off 23 of its 29 deputies after losing millions in federal aid. The remaining six officers had their shifts slashed to eight hours Monday through Friday.

Unfortunately for the woman faced with an out-of-control jilted lover, her 911 call came on a Saturday.  

Eventually, the crazed man forced his way into the house, choked his former girlfriend and raped her without no one there to stop him.

The suspect, Michael Bellah, was later arrested and pleaded guilty to kidnapping, assault and sex abuse.

The details of her horrific ordeal last August emerged on Tuesday after voters in Josephine and Curry counties with the lowest property taxes in the state turned down tax increases that would have increased the number of officers on the force.

Even if the county residents were to approve the levy, which would have raised taxes from 59 cents to $1.48 per $1,000 of property value for the next three years, it would have been too late for one local woman.

At 4.58am on August 18, the Cave Junction resident called 911 to report an emergency.

‘My ex-boyfriend is trying to break into my house. I’m not letting him in but he’s like, tried to break down the door and he’s tried to break into one of the windows,’ the unnamed victim told the dispatcher.

Continue reading about this woman being raped as no police would be available to help her HERE.

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Uh-oh Code Pink founder completely derails Obama speech: This afternoon, Barack Obama gave a long, disjointed

Senate farm bill amendment bans murderers, rapists and pedophiles from enrolling in food stamp program

Watch as Al Franken and Chuck Schumer flee from IRS scandal questions .: the law pricks american haters get awa

Obama Pushes to Accommodate, Not Protect, Freedom of the Press – NationalJournal.com

Breaking: Boy Scouts Vote to Allow Gay Scouts, Continue Ban on Gay Scoutmasters – All American Blogger

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Kaiser Permanente, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California are all expected to participate in the state-run market for individual health coverage.

Some prominent health insurers, including industry giant UnitedHealth Group Inc., are not participating in California’s new state-run health insurance market, possibly limiting the number of choices for millions of consumers.

UnitedHealth, the nation’s largest private insurer, Aetna Inc.and Cigna Corp. are sitting out the first year of Covered California, the state’s insurance exchange and a key testing ground nationally for a massive coverage expansion under the federal healthcare law.

Meanwhile, the biggest insurers in the state — Kaiser Permanente, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California — are all expected to participate in the state-run market for individual health coverage.

Quiz: Test your healthcare knowledge

Covered California, the state agency implementing the federal Affordable Care Act, is announcing the winning bidders and proposed rates Thursday for its insurance exchange, where as many as 5 million residents are expected to shop for coverage next year.

The state has picked a group of health plans for each of 19 regions across California. The insurers will be selling policies with uniform benefits packaged in four broad categories of coverage. For the first time in the individual market, consumers will be able to make easier price comparisons among companies.

But the threat of higher premiums in next year’s revamped market has been a major concern for policymakers who can’t risk alienating too many middle-income, healthier customers who are needed to offset the increased costs of covering sicker, poorer people who have been shut out of the healthcare system for years.  

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IRS Employees Union: Keep Us Out Of Exchanges

The National Treasury Employees Union, NTEU, which represents the IRS employees who harassed and delayed tea party and conservative groups, has come out against the proposal to put federal workers into exchange-based health insurance.

Fancy that: the people in charge of deciding whether you go into an exchange, and who decided it doesn’t matter whether your state doesn’t want one, don’t want to be in one themselves.

As Jeffrey Lord of The American Spectator points out (hat tip, American Thinker),

With the IRS assuming serious police powers of Obamacare, in effect the members of one left-wing labor union will have access to the private health care records of every single American.

While it’s fine to investigate whether President Obama and higher ups at Treasury knew about or even ordered the IRS to harass conservatives and slow-walk their applications, Congress should investigate whether the NTEU members colluded.

NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley has visited the White House at least 10 times, visiting with the President and First Lady at least once.

Find more information on the NTEU in a thorough report at Redstate.com.

The union has a handy way for its members to contact their representives in Congress to lobby against the legislation.

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Lanny Davis, the former Clinton aide — no stranger to scandals, thinks that the recent surge in bad news for Democrats could have implications for 2016. Here’s what he told Andrea Tantaros on her radio show, according to the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard:

The growing IRS-Tea Party scandal, which has robbed Democrats of the so-called “trust edge” they held over Republicans, is now jeopardizing the Democratic majority in the Senate and even hopes that Hillary Clinton will replace President Obama in 2016.

“This hurts the Democratic Party and will hurt anybody who runs for president in 2016,” said former Clinton White House counsel Lanny Davis, a major supporter of Hillary Clinton. Speaking on national radio’s Andrea Tantaros Show, he added: “It will make it almost impossible to elect a [Democratic] president. … I’m nervous.”

Meanwhile, several Democratic and GOP political advisers told [us] that the combined scandals — IRS, Benghazi and the media source hunt — threatens the Democrats’ grip on the Senate. House advisers are even predicting that Republicans will pick up nearly 10 seats if the scandals continue to eat away at trust in the Democratic Party. MORE

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The socialist paradise of Sweden is troubled, as “youths” and “asylum seekers” launched their fourth consecutive night of violent riots, “shocking a country that dodged the worst of the financial crisis but failed to solve youth unemployment and resentment among asylum seekers,” according to Reuters.

Hmm.  We just happen to have high unemployment and a large number of “asylum seekers” here in the United States, too.  What’s going on in Stockholm, Reuters?

Violence spread from the North to the South of the city on Wednesday as groups of youth pushed through Stockholm’s suburbs casting stones, breaking windows and setting cars alight. Police in the southern Swedish city of Malmo said two cars had been set ablaze.

Local media said a police station office was set on fire in the southern suburb of Rågsved, where several people were also detained. No one was hurt and the fire was quickly put out.

The attackers have awaited nightfall before setting out, defying a call for calm from the country’s prime minister and damaging stores, schools, a police station and an arts and crafts centre in the four days of violence.

“I think there is a feeling that we need to be in more places tonight,” said Towe Hagg, spokeswoman for Stockholm police. One police officer was injured in the latest attacks and five were arrested for attempted arson.

The BBC relays sage advice from Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt: “It’s important to remember that burning your neighbor’s car is not an example of freedom of speech, it’s hooliganism.”  Got that, “youths” and “asylum seekers” of Sweden?

The Beeb includes some details of the riots that Reuters forgot to mention:

On Wednesday night 10 attacks were reported in the north-western suburbs while between 20 and 30 were burnt in southern parts of Stockholm.

Firefighters struggled to contain the fire at the restaurant in the southern suburb of Skogas, where young people pelted them with stones, the spokesman said.

Groups of rioters, as small as five people and as large as 100, have been seen this week, Mr Lindgren said. They typically wait for emergency services to attend a fire before attacking.

Green laser pointers have also been shone in the eyes of the emergency services, according to Mr Lindgren.

Burning out the eyes of first responders with lasers?  That’s not an example of freedom of speech, either.

Who are these rioting “youths,” and what’s their problem?  The riots began in a district of Stockholm called Husby, described by the BBC as a “deprived, largely immigrant suburb” where “more than 80 percent of the 12,000 or so inhabitants are from an immigrant background, and most are from Turkey, the Middle East, and Somalia.”

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… SETS UP $1B STICK UP OF GAS STATIONS, CONVENIENCE STORES

Americans are spun up on scary stories about the National Rifle Association.

But, there is another NRA to worry about if you appreciate lower prices for gasoline or popcorn at the movies: the National Restaurant Association.

The other NRA represents large and small restaurants, but by hijacking the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation writing process for implementing President Barack Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The Food Marketing Institute, a supermarket trade groups, estimates that cost of the new rules as more than $1 billion in new menu reporting and labeling burdens.

The restaurant industry had two problems it wanted to solve at the federal level. First, the restaurants wanted to use federal preemption to create national menu-labeling standards, which would free them from the hassle and expense of satisfying the horse blanket of state and local rules for an industry that thrives on uniformity. Already New York City and the state of California had created irksome menu and labeling ordinances.

In its Sept. 7, 2010 letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the NRA specifically called for the agency to pressure the states into “national uniformity.” Armed with its national standards codified in PPACA, the restaurants did not want any delays.

Second, the NRA wanted to beat back encroachment from the gas stations, convenience stores and supermarkets, which were selling compelling alternates to their fare.

Under the proposed FDA rules, grocery stores and supermarkets, never mentioned in the PPACA, would have to provide precise nutritional information for sheet cakes, by the slice and by the sheet.

This second step would force non-restaurant competitors to compete on a field the NRA designed with more home court advantages than the old Boston Garden’s warped parquet floor.

Consider a supermarket’s soup kettle next to the salad bar. Every day the soup changes depending on what vegetables and meats are going to expire. Even the “same” chicken noodle soup is different every time it’s made because of the same factors.

Yet, the FDA wants the same level of detail as one would get from a Big Mac that has been sold trillions of times, but figured out once and just posted.

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