Monthly Archives: October 2015

Our President

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President Barack Obama says his nuclear weapons deal with Iran will make Khamenei more willing to cooperate with us on other of our problems in the Middle East.

President Obama says Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasions of Georgia and Ukraine are clear signs of Russian weakness.

President Obama says Putin’s extension of those forays into Syria are further signs of Russia’s coming impotence.

President Obama says Putin really isn’t challenging Obama’s leadership in the Middle East; he denies that Putin is a leader.

President Obama says the tide of history is on our side, and all we need to do is wait “them” out.

President Barack “Baghdad Bob” Obama is on the case.

Climatistas

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These panic-mongers of their man-caused global warming fantasy are in such a panic themselves that now they want RICO investigations of those scientists and organizations so rude as to demur from the panic-mongers’ claims.

George Mason Professor Jagadish Shukla and 19 others signed a letter to President Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and White House science adviser John Holdren urging punishment for climate dissenters. “One additional tool—recently proposed by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI]—is a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) investigation of corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America’s response to climate change[.]”

Three things: it’s time to defund the climate pseudo-science industry and cancel/not renew any associated grants to universities and other institutions. It’s time to bring RICO cases against Shukla and his 19 accomplices. It’s time to bring a Senate ethics case against Whitehouse for his attack on free speech, his attack on scientific investigation, and his abuse of his Senate power that these miscreancies represent.

Shukla’s letter can be read here, here, and here.

Standing Up

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared Saturday that his country was ready to stand up to any threat posed by the United States as he spoke at a lavish military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the North’s ruling party and trumpet his third-generation leadership.

Baby Kim is full of braggadocio, and he spouts off on a number of things in a number of venues. Sadly, he’s not facing down anything of substance at his parade. My long-deceased grandmother could easily stand up to the Obama administration’s threats.

Obama’s threats are long well-known to be nothing more than a playground taunt: “Boy, oh boy, when I get you.”

Ignorance

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Or hypocrisy, you pick ’em.

The House passed, with a significant majority (and so, on the whole, a bipartisan majority), a bill that would repeal the oil export ban that’s long outlived its usefulness, and especially so in the last several years.

I’ve already noted how the head Progressive, President Barack Obama, has threatened to veto this bill out of his own timidity.

Congresswoman Kathy Castor (D, FL) decried the bill during debate, saying this:

This bill is an unconscionable giveaway to Big Oil at the expense of American consumers[.]

Because lower energy costs, including lower gasoline costs, for American consumers from the increased global oil supply is such an unconscionable expense.

Castor either is hugely ignorant about basic high school economics or she’s breathtakingly hypocritical in demanding that oil supplies continue to be limited, so energy and gasoline prices can continue to be elevated, so Castor and her fellow Progressives in Congress can continue to maintain the dependency of their constituents through these Progressives’ welfare programs.

Lower energy costs means less need for welfare payouts, which mean less dependency on government, which means more freedom for an American to make his own choices. Progressives—Democrats—can’t have that.

Patriotism Inappropriate in School?

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The Institutional Advisory Council at Hillsborough Community College has recommended the school stop saying the Pledge of Allegiance at its meetings. The IAC claims they did it to save time at their meetings, and they were concerned about the Pledge’s

appropriateness in an institution of higher learning which fosters academic freedom and structured dissent against authority.

How dishonest is this? If we stretch the 15, or so, seconds it actually takes to recite the Pledge of Allegiance into a minute to get everyone on their feet and facing the flag (they do have one in their meeting room, do they not?) and then sat back down after the recitation, we’re still not taking any time away from the meeting. Plainly Hillsborough’s IAC doesn’t consider patriotism to our nation—the nation that nurtures its members and provides them the environment within which they can pull…foolishness…like this, the nation whose other citizens have been killed or maimed defending their right to pull…foolishness…like this—worth the time.

The IAC’s claim is disingenuous in another way, too. “Structured dissent?” Why does dissent need to be “structured?” Oh, yeah, that Progressive notion that every human activity has to be regulated by the individual’s Betters.

Beyond that, though, is the outright logical dishonesty in their claim. How is it possible to dissent (structured or not) against the Pledge, for instance, when by not being allowed to recite it, the ability to refuse to do so, to dissent against it, is denied? Of course, those well-educated and highly intelligent members of the IAC know this full well.

Sadly though, Hillsborough ‘s President, Dr Ken Atwater, is another aficionado of leading from behind. He asked the IAC to reconsider their decision. Nonsense. The IAC is an advisory body. He’s the President. He can, and should, overrule the IAC and cancel its decision on his own initiative.