Putin Rewards Obama’s Kumbaya Maneuvers with a Defiant “Nyet”

Can’t say I didn’t warn Mr. Hopey-Changey.

Now that you have fatuously pissed off our allies by taking away the long-range missile shield from the Poles and Czechs in an obvious attempt to entice the Russians into joining the U.S. in sanctions against Iran, and now that you have been given the Russian finger in return,  I have just one question:   How does it feel to be played like a fool, Obama?

Get used to it.

Russia’s Putin warns against intimidating Iran
Wed Oct 14, 2009
By Darya Korsunskaya

BEIJING (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned major powers on Wednesday against intimidating Iran and said talk of sanctions against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear programme was “premature”.

Putin, who many diplomats, analysts, and Russian citizens believe is still Russia’s paramount leader despite stepping down as president last year, was speaking after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Moscow for two days of talks.

“There is no need to frighten the Iranians,” Putin told reporters in Beijing after a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

“We need to look for a compromise. If a compromise is not found, and the discussions end in a fiasco, then we will see.”

“And if now, before making any steps (towards holding talks) we start announcing some sanctions, then we won’t be creating favourable conditions for them (talks) to end positively. This is why it is premature to talk about this now.”

Clinton failed to secure any specific assurances from Russia on Iran during her visit, leaving her open to criticism at home that she had not received anything from Moscow after earlier U.S. concessions on missile defence.

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Anthropogenic Global Warming Now Shoved Down Our Throats as a Threat to National Security

LOL!  These fools are getting pretty desperate!

Tying climate change to national security

By LISA LERER | 10/14/09 – Politico

Climate-legislation supporters are increasingly turning to national security to bolster their pitch for a bill this year.

So far, the climate debate has largely focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, drafting an international climate change treaty and fostering new, cleaner sources of energy and so-called green jobs.

[It must be nice to be able to make such a blanket statement without presenting any irrefutable proof. ]

But for nearly two years, military and intelligence experts have been issuing studies warning that climate change could put American military personnel and national security at risk. Increasingly violent storms, pandemics, drought and large-scale refugee problems, they say, will destabilize regions and encourage terrorism. And American dependence on foreign energy sources will only exacerbate the threats and increase the likelihood of military action.

[You do know that the Military has also had a plan to invade Canada, don’t you?  Also, they have issued plans for a full-out, balls to the walls, pre-emptive nuclear strike.   These are contingency plans and are there on the off chance that something unusual happens.  As Jonah Golberg said, “it would be a scandal for the Pentagon not to have plans.”  But, leave it to the Lefturd Al-Goracle worshipers to take a theoretical exercise in military planning as gospel and “proof” that AGW is real.]

Now, with Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry emerging as a key player in the Senate climate debate, Democrats believe national security could emerge as a persuasive argument.

Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been reaching out to Republican Sens. Dick Lugar of Indiana and John McCain of Arizona, who have long focused on U.S. security issues.

This week, Operation Free, a coalition of national security and veterans organizations, is sending a group of Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans on a 21-state, biodiesel-fueled bus tour to promote the message that climate change could hurt American security. The group was launched in August, a month after the House passed the climate and energy bill.

And Votevets, a left-leaning veterans group, bought $500,000 worth of radio ads featuring Iraq war veterans making the case that the climate bill would help the country become more energy independent and less reliant on oil from the Middle East.

“It’s not just a question of American energy; it’s a question of American power,” concludes the ad.

Uh, you mean it’s a question of power over the lives of Americans…

Okay, I couldn’t stomach any more of this BS.  If you aren’t so prone to emesis, CLICK HERE to continue reading.

FCC Commissioner Freaked Out Over “Diversity” Czar’s Agenda

If that doesn’t give you pause…then you are probably a Commie:

FCC Commissioner Says Diversity Chief’s Ideas for Regulating Free Speech Are ‘Troubling’
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
By Matt Cover

(CNSNews.com) – Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell said Tuesday that statements about regulating freedom of speech in broadcasting made by FCC Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd are “troubling.”  Everyone should be concerned when federal regulators have the power to impact freedom of speech, McDowell added.

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“I find such ideas troubling,” McDowell told CNSNews.com. “Certainly, he has a right to express them. The chairman, as CEO of the commission, has, I guess, a right to employ him. And I’ve been told by him and the chairman that he’s working on other matters not related to those issues.”

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“We should continue to see if there is any effort to make such ideas commission policy, and I hope at the end of our process that would be brought to light and there would be opportunity for public comment and scrutiny,” said McDowell.

“I think that we should always remain vigilant whenever a regulatory agency can impact freedom of speech,” he said. “So as we go forward with our media ownership and localism proceedings next year, I think everyone should watch very carefully what the FCC attempts to do.”

While serving as a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress, Lloyd called for the government to reduce the number of broadcast outlets a company own as a means of reducing the number of radio stations carrying conservative programs. He wrote that “no one entity should control more than 10 percent of the total commercial radio stations in a given market.”

Lloyd also said that no one entity should own “more than four commercial stations in large markets (a radio market with 45 or more commercial stations).”

Currently, an entity may own no more than eight stations in a large market. Lloyd’s recommendation, were it to become policy, could force station owners carrying programs such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin to sell their stations.

Rifqa Bary to be Shipped Back to Ohio

Not the news we were hoping for:

Rifqa Bary being sent back to Ohio
Jerry Wilson – October 13, 2009 – Examiner.com

The ongoing story of Rifqa Bary, the Ohio teen who earlier this year ran away from her devout Muslim parents out of fear for her life after having become a Christian, took another turn today when during an odd joint court session, one held in Florida where Rifqa is currently located and one in Ohio, it was ruled she should be returned to Ohio.

Rifqa’s return is contingent on her parents providing the documentation concerning her immigration status. Despite this request having been made several times by both Rifqa’s legal representation in Florida and the court in Florida since the start of the case it has yet to be produced. It is not known what would happen should it be revealed that Rifqa and her family are in the United States illegally as has been surmised by some bloggers following the case.

CLICK HERE to continue reading the rest of this at the Examiner

81-Year-Old Man Shoots and Kills Masked Robber

Guns are one of the greatest equalizers in society:

Elderly man kills robber in his home

MontgomeryAdvertiser

BREWTON [Alabama] – Police say an elderly man shot and killed a masked robber who broke into his Escambia County home.

Escambia County Sheriff Grover Smith says the man and his wife were in bed early Tuesday morning when the suspect kicked in the door of their home. Smith says the 81-year-old man got his pistol from the bedside table and shot 35-year-old Jeremy Paul McCall in the head.

Smith says McCall had been released from a Nebraska jail two days before he was killed. It was not immediately clear why he was in jail.

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Uhm, I guessing because he’s a punk who didn’t learn his lesson the first time and had to be taught the hard way?

Republican Olympia Snowe Finally Admits What We Already Knew: She Supports the Health Care Deform Bill

No surprise there.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:  Olympia Snowe is just another freakin’ commie who is wearing the sheepskin of a Republican;  She is one of only three Republican asshats who voted against the wishes of their constituency for Obama’s socialist trojan horse  Stinkulus package.  So, it’s not really bipartisan support, more like commie’s of a feather flocking together.

Key Republican says she’ll vote for health bill
Chairman Baucus picks up support of Sen. Snowe as vote nears

By Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine said Tuesday that she’d support a sweeping Senate Finance Committee bill overhauling the U.S. health-care industry, giving Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., a sought-after Republican vote on President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.

In highly anticipated comments on the $829 billion, 10-year bill, Snowe said the bill wasn’t all she wanted.

“Far from it,” she told fellow senators during what is likely to be the committee’s last work session on Baucus’s bill. “But when history calls, history calls, and I happen to think that the consequences of inaction dictate the urgency of Congress to demonstrate its capacity to solve the monumental issues of our time.”

Baucus kicked off the committee meeting Tuesday morning, saying “now is the time to get this done,” after the committee’s longest bill-writing session in more than 22 years. The panel is expected to vote its final approval or rejection of the bill before the day’s end.

The legislation needs 12 votes to clear the 23-member committee. If it passes, it would mark a major milestone on the road to overhauling the $2.4 trillion U.S. health-care industry. The Finance Committee’s is the last of five congressional bills to be voted on. Both the Senate and House would need to pass bills for Obama to sign.

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Snowe’s vote could help to sway other moderates in her party when the bill goes to the Senate floor, where it will need 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster. Among those Republicans Snowe could influence is fellow Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who also joined Snowe to vote for Obama’s stimulus plan earlier this year.

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Dr. Schnieder Blows with the Prevailing Winds

H/T – TGUSA

“To capture the public imagination, we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might have.  Each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective, and being honest.”

– Leading greenhouse advocate, Dr Stephen Schneider
( in interview for “Discover” magazine, Oct 1989)

From the soon to be released documentary, “Not Evil, Just Wrong:”

(Personally, I think it should be called “Absolutely Evil and Just Plain Wrong.” )

Here is the Schnieder’s segment on Leonard Nimoy’s  “In Search of…The Coming Ice Age:

Schwarzenegger Goes Against the People of California and the State’s Constitution—Signs Bill Recognizing Gay Marriages

Looks like Arnold thinks the gay voters will help save his sorry butt come his next run for re-election:

California Governor Signs Gay Marriage Recognition Bill
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
By Staff, Associated Press – via Boston.com

Sacramento, Calif. (AP) – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill recognizing gay marriages sanctioned in other states during the nearly five months such unions were legal in California.

Schwarzenegger says the action is consistent with a state Supreme Court ruling upholding the marriages of same-sex couples who tied the knot in California before voters approved Proposition 8.

The bill signed by the governor late Sunday also states that gay and lesbian couples who were married in other states after Proposition 8’s passage have the same rights and benefits that California grants domestic partners.

The bill was sponsored by a Democrat, state Senator Mark Leno of San Francisco.

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Bunker-Buster Bomb On the Fastrack to Delivery

With all the gutting of the military by Our Dark Overlord, this is very peculiar:

U.S. Speeding Up Delivery of Bunker-Buster Bomb; Denies Iran Is the Reason
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
By Anne Gearan, Associated Press – via MyWayNews

Washington (AP) – The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a colossal bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground and shielded by 10,000 pounds of reinforced concrete.

Call it Plan B for dealing with Iran, which recently revealed a long-suspected nuclear site deep inside a mountain near the holy city of Qom.

The 15-ton behemoth — called the “massive ordnance penetrator,” or MOP — will be the largest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal and will carry 5,300 pounds of explosives. The bomb is about 10 times more powerful than the weapon it is designed to replace.

The Pentagon has awarded a nearly $52 million contract to speed up placement of the bomb aboard the B-2 Stealth bomber, and officials say the bomb could be fielded as soon as next summer.

Pentagon officials acknowledge that the new bomb is intended to blow up fortified sites like those used by Iran and North Korea for their nuclear programs, but they deny there is a specific target in mind.

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The Earth Says Al Gore is Full of Hot Air

How’s that AGW working out for you, Al?

Three Decades Of Global Cooling
IBD

Climate Change: As a Colorado Rockies playoff game is snowed out, scientists report that Arctic sea ice is thickening and Antarctic snow melt is the lowest in three decades. Whatever happened to global warming?

Al Gore wasn’t there to throw out the first snowball, er, baseball, so he might not have noticed that Saturday’s playoff game between the Colorado Rockies and the Philadelphia Phillies was snowed out — in early October. The field should have been snow-free just as the North Pole was to be ice-free this year.

It seems that ice at both poles hasn’t been paying attention to the computer models. The National Snow and Ice Data Center released its summary of summer sea-ice conditions in the Arctic last week and reported a substantial expansion of “second-year ice” — ice thick enough to have persisted through two summers of seasonal melting.

According to the NSIDC, second-year ice this summer made up 32% of the total ice cover on the Arctic Ocean, compared with 21% in 2007 and 9% in 2008. Clearly, Arctic sea ice is not following the consensus touted by Gore and the warm-mongers.

This news coincides with a finding published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters last month by Marco Tedesco, a research scientist at the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology. He reported that ice melt on Antarctica was the lowest in three decades during the ice-melt season.