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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (756338)

12/6/2013 1:11:23 PM

From: longnshort

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President Latch-on' knows how to find the limelight: President Barack Obama never even once visited the iconi 8 cfp

President Barack Obama never even once visited the iconic Nelson Mandela while he was still alive, but count on him hogging all the limelight he can at the freedom hero’s funeral.

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It is a matter of public record that Obama ignored Mr. Mandela during all four years of his first term as president.

Michelle Obama briefly visited Mandela during her 2011 South African trip before going on safari with her two daughters.

During Obama’s June 2013 South African trip, Obama “deferred” to the family of an ailing Mandela by not visiting Mandela at his sick bed.

Does anyone notice how Obama excels at latching on to public figures like any common opportunist? Today it’s Nelson Mandela. Yesterday it was Pope Francis.

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Obama gives the world the impression that he has suddenly fallen in love with an allegedly-gone-completely-Marxist Francis.

After first channeling most of the American presidents, Obama proves he will hitch a ride on anybody’s little red wagon he views as important.

“I am one of the countless millions who drew inspiration from Nelson Mandela’s life,” said Obama. “And like so many around the globe, I cannot fully imagine my own life without the example that Nelson Mandela set”.

Too bad, Obama hadn’t taken the opportunity to speak those passionate words into the ear of Mr. Mandela during his first term of office when Mr. Mandela was still alive.

These are the words Obama used in describing his newfound admiration for Pope Francis: “I think Pope Francis is showing himself to be a just and extraordinarily thoughtful, and soulful, messenger of peace and justice.”

“I haven’t had a chance to meet him yet. But everything that I’ve read, everything that I’ve seen from him, indicates the degree to, to which he is trying to remind us of those core obligations.

“Across the developed world, inequality has increased. Some of you may have seen just last week, the pope himself spoke about this at eloquent length.”

Too bad Obama didn’t feel the same way when he forced mandatory contraceptive coverage and abortion coverage through ObamaCare on all practicing Catholics.

That’s a funny kind of love, the like of which the Free World has never seen before.

Since latching himself onto Francis, the accusation that the pope is a Marxist has followed the pontiff wherever he goes.

Writers from the far left have been putting words in the mouth of Francis since the first day he appeared on the balcony at St. Peter’s Square as new pope.

Unfortunately they seem to have gathered some conservative writers like so many sheep to do the same thing.

The danger here is it takes the focus away from Obama the Marxist president and settles it on Francis, the Marxist pope.

Here’s hoping that at least the conservative scribes among them come back to their good sense and remember it is America the Marxists are fundamentally transforming and not the Vatican.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (756338)	12/6/2013 1:24:01 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575120

What's inside? Inflated real estate prices are nothing to brag about. Neither are bars on windows of a million dollar house. Huh, the one next door has bars on the upstairs windows too. Course, I had bars on the front windows when I lived in SW Houston ... before I had the sense to go somewhere better. I pity the people who are still there.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (756338)	12/6/2013 1:27:26 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575120

10-Year-Old Boy Threatened with School Expulsion for Shooting Imaginary Bow .... Johnny Jones, a fifth grader at South Eastern Middle School, was suspended for a day and threatened with expulsion under the school’s weapons policy after playfully using his hands to draw the bowstrings on a pretend “bow” and “shoot” an arrow at a classmate who had held his folder like an imaginary gun and “shot” at Johnny. The incident took place the week of October 14th, when fifth grader Johnny Jones asked his teacher for a pencil during class. Jones walked to the front of the classroom to retrieve the pencil, and during his walk back to his seat, a classmate and friend of Johnny’s held his folder like an imaginary gun and “shot” at Johnny. Johnny playfully used his hands to draw the bowstrings on a completely imaginary “bow” and “shot” an arrow back. Seeing this, another girl in the class reported to the teacher that the boys were shooting at each other. The teacher took both Johnny and the other boy into the hall and lectured them about disruption. The teacher then contacted Johnny’s mother, Beverly Jones, alerting her to the “seriousness” of the violation because the children were using “firearms” in their horseplay, and informing her that the matter had been referred to the Principal. Principal John Horton contacted Ms. Jones soon thereafter in order to inform her that Johnny’s behavior was a serious offense that could result in expulsion under the school’s weapons policy. Horton characterized Johnny’s transgression as “making a threat” to another student using a “replica or representation of a firearm” through the use of an imaginary bow and arrow. Horton doesn’t actually know what a firearm is. But sadly there’s no zero tolerance policy for grievous ignorance or incompetence by educational personnel. According to the South Eastern School District’s Zero Tolerance policy for “Weapons, Ammunition and other Hazardous Items,” the district prohibits the possession of “weapons,” defined as including any “knife, cutting instrument, cutting tool, nunchaku, firearm, shotgun, rifle and any other tool, instrument or implement capable of inflicting serious bodily injury.” The Student Code further prohibits any “replica” or “look-alike” weapon, and requires that the school Principal immediately contact the appropriate police department, complete an incident report to file with the school Superintendent, and begin the process of mandatory expulsion immediately. In the year 2013, for the first time in human history, imaginary weapons were outlawed. It’s quite a milestone. Southeastern looks like a cheerful place. Its motto is “Providing progressive education to strengthen the global community.” .... Progressive education is surreal. frontpagemag.com That was in Fawns Grove, PA.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (756338)	12/6/2013 1:43:23 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575120

why are there bars on the windows ? is it some kind of goober city ?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (756338)

12/6/2013 1:56:31 PM

From: longnshort

Respond to of 1575120

Global Sea Ice Extent At Highest Level Since 1994German Scientists Predict Global Cooling This Century
German scientists contend that two natural cycles will combine to lower global temperatures throughout the 21st Century. The scientists show that there is an approximate 200-year solar cycle, supported by historical temperature data and proxy data from stalagmites in caves. The 200-year solar cycle has just passed its maximum and will decline during the 21st Century. It is at least in part responsible for the warming of the last decades of the 20thCentury. The AMO/PDO cycle is also beginning its cool phase and will reach a minimum in 2035. The scientists conclude that “the global temperature will drop until 2100 to a value corresponding to the “little ice age” of 1870.”—Jonathan DuHamel, Tuscon Citizen, 4 December 2013

Antarctic sea ice extent continues to set new records, with average extent in November 0.9 million sq km above the long term average. Ice area also remains well above normal, where it has been for most of the last decade.—Paul Homewood, Not A Lot Of People Know That, 5 December 2013

Evidence increasingly suggests that man-made global warming may actually be preventing a worldwide calamity, in the form of a new Ice Age. Despite its pejorative image, the “greenhouse effect” of our atmosphere is all that stands between us and our being plunged into the bitter cold of the space around the Earth. Now fresh evidence that we humans are holding off an Ice Age has emerged. All this serves to underline the dangers of simplistic thinking in our approach to climate change. Trying to prevent it through drastic reduction of greenhouse gases may have disastrous consequences.—Robert Matthews, The National, 30 November 2013

Arctic ice has recovered from its September minimum so strongly, that extent is now back to the average for 2001-10, according to JAXA. Indeed, based on Version 1, that was withdrawn in September, extent is 11,000 sq km higher than the average in the last decade.——Paul Homewood, Not A Lot Of People Know That, 2 December 2013

The southern hemisphere sea ice areal extent has had quite an amazing run during the past few years from below normal levels to the current well above normal values. On a global basis, sea ice areal extent is currently above normal and, in fact, has now reached levels not seen since around 1994 - thanks in large part to the happenings in the southern hemisphere. The northern hemisphere sea ice areal extent is still below normal for this time of year although it has gained significantly compared to one year ago. Once the northern Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperatures flip back to cooler-than-normal values – perhaps 5 or 10 years from now - the northern hemisphere sea ice areal extent should return to the normal or above normal levels seen prior to the mid 1990’s.— The Si Weather Blog, 5 December 2013

We present a new stable isotope record from Ellsworth Land which provides a valuable 308 year record (1702–2009) of climate variability from coastal West Antarctica. Climate variability at this site is strongly forced by sea surface temperatures and atmospheric pressure in the tropical Pacific and related to local sea ice conditions. The record shows that this region has warmed since the late 1950s, at a similar magnitude to that observed in the Antarctic Peninsula and central West Antarctica; however, this warming trend is not unique. More dramatic isotopic warming (and cooling) trends occurred in the mid-nineteenth and eighteenth centuries, suggesting that at present, the effect of anthropogenic climate drivers at this location has not exceeded the natural range of climate variability in the context of the past ~300 years.——E. R. Thomas et al., Geophysical Research Letters 28 October 2013

The government’s erratic changes to the strike price of renewable energy underscore the arbitrary nature of setting prices for renewables. The horse trading over the level of subsidies is also a disastrous move towards a centrally-planned energy economy, with a high level of control over which forms of energy generation will be favoured and which will be stifled. The government now even seeks to regulate the prices and profits of energy generation. That such an approach is a recipe for disaster is becoming increasingly obvious for observers scrutinising developments in Europe. As country after country backtracks on support for renewables, the most expensive forms of energy generation, the question remains how long Britain’s green energy obsession will survive the collision with reality.—Benny Peiser, City A.M. 5 December 2013

Same old New Scientist. Their editorial today is desperately poor stuff, at best demonstrating a comical lack of understanding of the lukewarmer case and at worst deliberately mispresenting it. One wonders if the author took the trouble to actually find out what the lukewarmer argument is before criticising it.—Andrew Montford, Bishop Hill, 5 December 2013