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ARGUING WITH IDIOTS ABOUT GUN CONTROL

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/  

White House Weighs Broad Gun- 

Control Agenda In Wake Of  

Newtown Shootings

 

I posted the following comment on HuffPo just to see what reaction it would get and wasn't surprised by the results:
 
"REPEAL THE SECOND AMENDMENT NOW!

And place a welcome mat in the doorways of all American homes for killers, rapists, thugs and thieves."
 
THE REACTION
 
 
As usual, your crew chooses to misunderstand the opposition. Most of us aren't trying to take your guns away...just trying to prohibit the ownership of semi-automatic weapons and large-capacity clips. DID YOU HEAR THAT??? I doubt it.
 
My reply
 
The vast majority of Americans that own these weapons are a danger to no one; and the chances of you being the victim of gunfire by any gun semi-automatic or not are infinitesimally small.
 
 
 
And then we have a deranged person in CT who gunned down 27 innocent people because his mother apparently did not properly secure her weaponry. Is your "freedom" to own assault weapons worth 27 lives? Not to me.
 
My reply
 
 Since the vast, vast majority of homicide shootings in this country are carried out by handguns not by so-called assault weapons what's your argument now? Is my freedom to own a handgun worth the thousands of yearly handgun deaths? The answer is YES! I am willing to chance being killed by a handgun (or any gun) so long as I have the freedom to own a gun-or as many as I see fit to own. Now what did you say about not taking my gun rights away?
 
 
marpel writes
 
Once again Sparky, rational gun control is not the repeal of the Second Amemdment.

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" The Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights.

The President and VP are not saying no guns, they are saying no to certain types of guns. So go load up on those muskets Sparky, cause that's all that was around during the writting of the second amendment.
 
My reply
 
We have sufficient gun control in America with the vast majority of gunowners responsibly controlling their weapons. If that weren't so then millions of gunowners would be killing and injuring scores of people in a true, horrific epidemic of out of control gun violence that would make this country one huge killing field.
 

Toddynho
writes
 
Again, more hyperbole, more nonsensical hysteria and rhetoric. You've probably not even read the article, you saw GUN control and popped a synapse.
 
My reply
 
You want "gun control" and call me "hysterical" when the chances of you being killed or injured by gunfire in this country are infintesmally small?
 
 Toddynho replies
 
Again with more HYPERBOLE. It's been proven households with a firearm have more accidental deaths than house holds without them, they don't prevent ANYTHING. As well, NO WHERE in that article says you won't be able to have a gun, you just need  to prove that you're mentally BALANCED, and I think THAT has most Rightwingers upset because they know they are not and probably wouldn't pass the test.
 
My reply
 
Of the millions of US households that legally own 300 million guns how many suffer accidental deaths by gunfire? The number is so fractionally small that only unbalanced anti-gun nuts make a big issue of it. Moreover, if rightwingers are mentally unbalanced because of their belief system, and it is dangerous for them on that account to own guns, then where is the rash of rightwingers going berserk and shooting people? Where are the horrendous rightwing massacres? Come to think of it lefties like you provide a good reason not to have mental testing for gun ownership as the process could be corrupted and politicized. Only a fool would want to give the Federal Government that kind of power.
 
 
So you can't defend yourself with a hand gun or rifle? It has to be an assault rifle or you are doomed?
 
My reply
 
 How are so-called assault rifles any more of a threat to you than hand guns when there are more hand guns on the streets than "assault" rifles?
 

headly67
  writes
 
LOL

None of those things are stopped by gun control and no one is repealing the 2nd Amendment.
 
My reply

LAL (Lock And Load)

 My post was aimed at those who want repeal.


Man, if that's not a stupid comment, I wonder what is.
 
My reply

Why is it stupid? Since Britian enacted its ban on guns violent crime and home breakins have skyrocketed.

izzat7 writes

The solution is to get a monitoring security system.
 
Apollo
 
What about those Americans who can't afford one?
 
 
 
 It's like Piers Morgan says you right wing gun nuts are "unbelievably stupid."
 
My reply
 
If Piers Morgan feels unsafe living in this country because millions of Americans exercise their constitutional right to own guns then let him return to England where guns are outlawed and his chances of being a victim of a violent crime are far greater.
 
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OBAMA'S ELECTION YEAR TAX FAIRNESS STUNT AND BETRAYAL OF THE MIDDLE CLASS

 
 

Barack Obama smiles after signing the $858 billion tax deal into law in a ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 in Washington. Present were Mitch McConnell and 18 other Republicans to celebrate with Obama the two year extension of all the Bush tax rates for every American. Contrast this to Obama's solitary signing of his Tax Relief Act electronically with an auto pen from Hawaii (
see). Prior to the 2010 bill passing Congress Obama had said repeatedly that raising taxes on anyone (rich, poor, inbetween) during a weak economy would be bad for the recovery. And that taxes should only be raised when the economy's robust.
 
With Obama this week signing into law a "balanced" tax relief/deficit-debt reduction bill that raises $650 billion in new taxes on his struggling, pathetic, trickle growth economy with no real spending cuts for balanced deficit and debt reduction (and which adds significantly to the financial woes of working middle class families whose friend and benefactor he claimed to be) Obama's class warfare campaign on tax fairness turns out to be a complete and utter radically unbalanced economically regressive sham-an election year stunt where he was cynically willing to risk hurting the economy to win reelection. What Obama has done in betraying the middle class with new taxes (payroll taxes, ending loopholes, Obamacare, etc.) and raising taxes on a weak economy (when he repeatedly said this would hurt the recovery and cost jobs see) gives new meaning to the words shameless lying, self-serving hypocrisy and reckless irresponsibility. 

In fact, the bipartisan bill is so fiscally bad and economically damaging that as soon as it passed the House a "triumphant" Obama quickly left Washington for Hawaii, and signed it electronically with an auto pen-instead of having a celebratory signing ceremony at the White House where not one Republican (except for Hagel and Powell) would have been present.  What a miserable way to start the new year; and what an ominous day for individual freedom and the US economy which is now weaker and poorer while government is stronger and more tyrannical than ever.
 
Postscript I
 
In 2010 Obama willingly extended all the Bush tax rates to avoid hurting the economy and his chances of reelection; then he campaigned on the expiration of the Bush rates for the top 2% rich to appease his radical left anti-capitalist base and win reelection regardless the economic cost. When Obama's tax hikes kick in and hurt GDP growth and kill jobs he'll blame it on Republicans for not giving him a grand bargain with a jobs bill, and use it against them to win back the House for Democats. That is his plan. If Obama succeeds it won't change the fact that he's a reckless utopian crackpot staying the course to disaster and to a legacy from hell. 

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AL GORE-ZEERA TV

 
 
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Al Gore sells Current TV to Al Jazeera because of their politically correct morality in "giving voice to those who are typically unheard" and for "speaking truth to power"- when in reality it's a megaphone for anti-American rage, and speaks falsehood to deceieve the ignorant to gain power for radical Islam.
 
 Now that Al Gore, the apocalyptic father of climate change hysteria, sold his worthless tv network to pro-Al Qaida, Islamist Al Jazeera, hypocrisy has reached new heights of radical leftist falsehood. Not so much for closing the deal before the expiration of the Bush tax rates, nor for making the sale to the enemy and big oil; but because Al Jazeera's burning, fuming, toxic hatred of America, Israel and The West makes it among the world's worst global warming polluters.
 
 
Jihad is all scortching heat and no light, a menacing global warming contributor.
 
 
THOUGHTS, COMMENTS AND WITTICISMS
 
 
WE SHOULD ALL STRIVE INWARDLY

to improve ourselves morally, intellectually and spiritually; and Moslems who do this internalizing and privatizing their faith though few in number are praiseworthy. But it appears from the monstrous crimes and atrocities of Mohammed that he did very little striving of an inward spiritual kind; instead he strove and struggled outwardly and relentlessly to increase his tyrannical power and mastery over men serving the delusion that he was entitled to rule all of them. Mohammed's Islam is lawlessness and immorality in pursuit of absolute power disguised as divine revelation and religious longing for God.

---------------------

Islam is a bridge to hell for anyone who wants to burn with rage and hatred against unbelieving mankind.

 

Jihad is Allah empowering Moslems with the license to kill, conquer, subjugate for Islam.
 
 
 

Jihad is global aspiring Islamic imperialism claiming for Moslems a predestined victory over a world owned by their tyrannical god of war.

 

Christianity "close to extinction" in Middle East - Atlas Shrugs

ISRAEL IS BECOMING

the last remaining country in the Mideast with a Christian population living in equality, safety and peace.

 
 

Libya is Barack Obama's Iraq;
the killing of Bin Ladin his Mission Accomplished; Benghazi his 9/11 disaster; Egypt his Iranian Revolution; Syria his WMD problem; Sandy his Katrina; and now he has his Abu Ghraib.
 
 
 

How can a fundamentalist Moslem like Morsi say that Israeli Jews descend from apes and pigs when Islam doesn't believe in evolution?

 


If there was a Mahadi he is no more. He drowned in his well of abysmal venom long ago.
 
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ISLAM THE RELIGION OF BLAZING PEACE

passing the torch to a new generation of jihadist incendiaries and arsonists. As this was done before in France perhaps it inspired William Spengler to commit his atrocities against the firefighters.



The good Islamic doctor was only trying to cure infidels of the unholy disease of unbelief.
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WHY MYAN END OF THE WORLD PROPHECY FAILED


 
 
 
Why on December 21st when the Mayan Gods planned for ages to destroy this sinful world in a universal holocaust did they restrain their righteous wrath and allow it to continue? Answer: They felt that the reign of Barack Hussein Obama was punishment enough.
 
 
 
 
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THE WORSENING OF THE WORST RECOVERY SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION

 
Making things worse all the time as the nation slides into economic, military and geopolitical decline.

The worst economic ignoramus since the disastrous tax and spend reigns of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt has won the pyrrhic victory of raising taxes on most Americans (not just top earners) against his own warnings of 2010 that doing so on anyone (high, middle or low income earners) during the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression would have the effect of hurting it: making it less productive, weaker and worse. In addition to a tax hike on the wealthiest individuals and families earning in excess of  $400k and $450k most Americans will be seeing a payroll tax increase, the Obamacare mandate tax,  higher capital gains taxes and the ongoing erosion of the US dollar thanks to Ben Bernanke's mad QE money printing policies. With wages and incomes falling along with capital investments and business and consumer confidence what we have is the perfect brew for a double dip recession like what FDR suffered in his second term when his anti-business, anti-growth, war on wealth policies killed 2 million jobs and undid his experimental New`Deal.
 
But Obama isn't done. His idiotic victory is only the beginning. In his despicable, mocking, juvinile class warfare pep rally Friday Obama assured his base of progressive crackpots and loons that more tax hikes are merrily coming down the pike to punish wealth and increase revenues. As for "increasing revenues" expect the Obama taxes to go the way of the GHW Bush and Clinton tax hikes and generate less than expected revenue due to it hurting economic growth* (see). As for Obama using the new revenues ($62 billion per year) to lower the deficit don't hold your breath. After Democrats in Obama's home state of Illinois enacted the greatest tax hike in its history (66% on income, 44% on corporations) to address its growing debt crisis (Illinois is the 5th worst debtor state in the Union) all the new revenues were spent and $1 billion was added to the debt (see).
 
*The Clinton tax hikes somewhat weakened the robust recovery that he inherited from Bush 41 by killing .5% of GDP. 
 
A worsening economy, more spending and greater debt with foreign governments buying fewer US Treasuries and Bernanke making up the difference by printing more dollar destroying money that's what's ahead for America in Barack Obama's calamitous second term.
 
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LA PIERRE AND THE NRA OUTPOLLING OBAMA

 

NEW GALLUP NRA RATING

54% Favorable
38% unfavorable
+16

MOST RECENT GALLUP OBAMA RATING

54% favorable
40% unfavorable
+14

The horrible Newtown massacre and the Left's reenergized war against guns and the NRA has done nothing to hurt the NRA's huge popularity with Americans or gun sales.
 
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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER COMMENDS OBAMA ON FISCAL CLIFF TALKS, BUT DON'T READ TOO MUCH INTO IT

  
 
THE HUFFINGTON POST 


Charles Krauthammer: Obama Showing

'Great Skill,
 Ruthless Skill'

In Fiscal Cliff Talks
 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/28/charles-krauthammer-obama-fiscal-cliff_n_2377323.html
 
WITH ALL THE JUSTIFIED CONTEMPT THAT CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
has shown for Barack Obama over the years: contempt for his poor and confusing leadership; contempt for his mendacity, duplicity, hypocrisy and lies; contempt for his hyperpartisanship and sickeningly sleazy reelection campaign; contempt for his infantile utopian ideology and government suprermacism; contempt for his God awful judgment in economics and divisive class warfare campaign; contempt for his fiscal recklessness and failed, incoherent foreign policy, it must have come as a shock to Huffington Post and Mediate that Krauthammer would praise Obama about anything thinking that maybe, finally, hopefully he has seen the light and is coming around to acknowledge his worth and respect him. But Krauthammer's doing nothing of the sort.

Obama is indeed showing great skill and ruthlessness in the fiscal cliff talks. But in the end this will get him nowhere. As Confucius once said: "Great power and little wisdom is doomed to fail." And failing Obama is, not in the fiscal cliff talks and success in dividing Republicans, but in governing the country wisely and keeping it strong, secure and wealthy at the pinnacle of world power where it must be. This nation is on an unsustainable course to bankruptcy and ruin and this blind, unfortunate, stuck on stupid man wants to stay the course until we get there, until we become like Greece or Japan, until our best days are behind us for good. Regardless of Obama's political skills and dexterity in out maneuvering and triumphing over opponents in the end failure and tragedy will overtake him as the consequences of his ignorance and  folly must and will catch up to him.
 
 
HUFFPO COMMNENTS
 

I78lancer writes

Apollo, you're right about reading too much into Krauthammer's praising Obama for his skill in the cliff talks. In reality, Krauthammer is damning Obama with praise crediting him for the slow-motion collapse of the GOP when in fact they have managed to accomplish that feat on their own. His praise actually demonizes the president while not holding the GOP leadership and warring factions accountable and responsible. Therefore, it is little more than a deflection and distraction from the current GOP chaos.

Meanwhile, Krathammer and the rest of the GOP have yet to acknowledge and give credit to Obama for his real accomplishments like prevailing in SCOTUS on Obamacare, beating them to the punch on deferred action, successfully saving the auto industry, establishing the terms of recouping the financial industry bailout funds while making a profit for the taxpayer, understanding the polls and the census and winnng the election despite the odds, refocusing the CIA to seek and kill OBL, etc.
 
My reply.

Why would Krauthammer give Obama credit for ObamaCare which is such a bad piece of legislation (and burdensome tax on the middle class) that most Americans still want it repealed. Why would he credit him for saving the auto industry when he co-saved GM and Chrysler with Bush and not the entire industry? Not Ford, not Toyota USA, not Honda USA, not Mercedes USA, etc. Moreover, the terms for recouping the finacial industry bailout is an absolute joke as the banks used printed money from the Fed's QE program (and purchase of toxic assets) to do it. As for winning the worst and poorest reelection victory of any US president "against the odds", as Richard Stengle of TIME Magizine said : "It was the low information voters that won the election for Obama," i.e. the stupidiest and most poorly informed voters among us.
 
BTW Obama dithered for 7 months before he ordered the raid on OBL's compound and could have blown the mission. If McCain had been president or Bush had a third term OBL would h
ave been killed or captured before Christmas Day 2010. In the film Zero Dark Thirty Obama plays at best a minor role as the counter-terrorist effort to find bin Ladin was ongoing for years before Obama came to power with the courier that led the CIA to the compound located in 2007.

 

The Right Never Are wtites
 
Our economy is much more complex and far reaching than the tiny land of Greece, but that meme is typical of the conflated, disingenuous and over-simplified sound bite right-wing media spoonfeeds their gullible and non-critical thinking base such as yourself.

My reply

I know. Greece doesn't have a central bank like we do to massively print money and monetize our soaring runaway unsustainable debt; or to buy our treasuries when nobody else will (QE to Infinity). If you think this can continue without catastrophic consequences to the value of the dollar, our standard of living and free way of life then you're as delusional as the president.
 
The Right Never Are replies

President Obama and the Democrats' policies brought America back from the brink of a Depression, while the Republicans only extended their middle fingers instead of helping hands.

Everything is going to be fine, and America will continue to thrive when President Obama's second term concludes, despite the GOP' s cheerleading for America's decline for partisan sour grapes.

Doomsayers like you aren't adding anything to the national conversation other than tiresome, pedantic hand-wringing

My reply

Whoa! Hold on there. It was Bush's TARP bank bailouts that prevented our financial system from collapsing and economy from diving into a depression. Because the worst was over and the threat of depression past Obama before signing ARRA never once warned that the economy was on the brink of depression and that the stimulus was needed to prevent it. Moreover, the end of the Great Recession started in December 2008 when the GDP hit rock bottom and was turning around. By June 2009 (still Bush's economy) the recession was officially over.

Everything isn't fine: production, manufacturing, income and sales are trending downward, along with capital investments, consumer and business confidence. If everything were "fine" there wouldn't be need for Bernanke's QE to Infinity. Do you know the reason for it? Do you have a clue? It's because Obamanomics is a failure.
 
 
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HURRAY! MESSIAH OBAMA TO GO ON MEET THE PRESS



to tell the nation that when the deficit exploding Bush tax rates expire on the greedy, selfish, money grubbing rich finally they'll be paying their "fair share;" and the nation will be saved from going off the cliff into bankruptcy, depression and ever deeper debt. "We'll not share the fate of Greece," he'll say, "salvation is but a tax hike away." HURRAY!
 
 
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INVESTORS SOURING ON STOCK MARKET SIGNAL TROUBLE AHEAD

 
 
Barack Obama's rudderless, crazy, erattic presidency and projection of uncertainty, unclarity, insecurity and fear on the deficit, debt, economy and fiscal cliff is not only taking its toll on the business community (as capital investments and confidence sink to new lows) but it's eroding consumer confidence and spending as working class Americans fearing the worst put more of their money into banks as savings accounts suddenly soar (see). In short, saving more spending less means less demand, slower growth and more job loss ahead.
 
Now Obama's leadership from his backside is taking its toll on stock market investing as ordinary non-pro investors distrusting Obama, Congress, Wall Street and Bernanke's Fed are fleeing the phony, overpriced bull market (pumped up by low interest rates) and going into bonds fearing an epic crash-and they are right. "People don't trust the market anymore," says financial historian Charles Geisst of Manhattan College (see). " A crisis of confidence similar to one after the Crash of 1929 will keep people away from stocks for a generation or more." In other words, the man in the White House is being perceived by more and more investors as the new Herbert Hoover leading the country into crisis. "If this trend continues," say some experts, conservatively, "it could lead to lower spending by companies, slower U.S. economic growth and perhaps lower gains for those who remain in the market."  Also loosing confidence in Obama and pulling out of the market are public and private pension funds-the big boys.
 
Hope for the best but prepare for the worst; we have an ideologically deranged anti-free market loon in the White House inflated by his election victory and thinking he's invincible who's willing to gamble with the economy and turn the worst recovery since the Great Depression into a recession. Why? I've already answered that question. But my next post will go into greater detail.
 
 
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HARRY REID ACCUSES BOEHNER OF RUNNING HOUSE DICTATORSHIP

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The ever vigilant Harry Reid is correct to accuse Speaker Boehner of running an undemocratic fascist House dictatorship. We saw Benito Boehner in action last week when he compelled at gun point-using NRA certified assault weapons-House Republicans to pass Plan B, then executed those who defied him.
 
 
 
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HAZARDOUS WHITE CHRISTMAS 2012

 
Winter Storm 2012 
(Reuters) - The severe winter weather that hit parts of the central and southern United States on Christmas Day moved eastward on Wednesday, causing flight delays and dangerous road conditions in the Northeast and Ohio Valley.
 
What these poor frost bitten blizzard swept folks wouldn't give right now for a little global warming relief.
 
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THE ORWELLIAN MATHEMATICS OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

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The most blindingly brilliant mastermind president in US history is lost when it comes to mathematics as he admitted to Jay Leno when he said: “The math stuff was fine up until about seventh grade. Malia is now a freshman in high school. I’m pretty lost (see). Now if you want to know how lost this president is when it comes to simple adding and subtracting (below 7th grade stuff) just look what was posted on the White House website for Boehner's Plan B which calls for the expiration of the Bush tax rates on millionaires and billionaires (what Obama campaigned on for 18 months). Keep in mind this is the same mental colossus who constantly derides Republicans for their math not adding up on anyone of their proposals to avoid jumping off the fiscal cliff.
 
Get the Facts about House Republicans'

'Plan B'
 
December 20, 2012
 
With
tax cuts for middle-class families set to expire soon, Republicans in Congress have proposed legislation known as “Plan B” that not only raises taxes on 25 million middle-class families, but cuts taxes for households making more than $1 million each year. 
We've put together a graphic to help explain what's in the proposed

There it is my friends, Barack Obama's lesson in Orwellian mathematics: 4+4=44. Tax hikes on millionaires and billionaires are tax cuts adding to the deficit. And, at the same time, they're tax hikes on everyone else though their rates stay unchanged. With the worst mathematical mind ever to occupy the White House is it no wonder we're in the worst economic recovery since FDR's similar math and economic skills prolonged the Great Depression?

See

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BARACK OBAMA AND HIS VICTORY DISEASE

 

Was the Daniel Inouye's recent death
a warning to Obama about his towering hubris?

Last Tuesday night as I had just finished reading the Wikipedia biography of the late Senator and World War II hero Dan Inouye (America's first Japanese American Congressman and elected Senator from Obama's birth state of Hawaii) I switched on Hannity who was interviewing Newt Gingrich on Obama's intransigence on the fiscal cliff talks. When Hannity surmised that Obama wasn't serious about negotiating a deal with Republicans, but wanted to go over the cliff believing he could blame them for its consequences and get everything he wants: tax hikes on the rich and defense spending cuts, Gingrich explained Obama's intransigence this way:
 
"The Japanese had a term after they won at Pearl Harbor and they had surprised us. They ran amok for about six months, and they ultimately got beaten badly at Midway, and they said they had "victory disease," that they came to believe their own clippings. I think there's a certain amount of victory disease at the White House. I think they are dramatically overestimating the power they have. And I think they're underestimating the risk they're running of really putting this economy in trouble."
 
" Victory disease," or what the ancient Greeks called "hubris," means overweening confidence, arrogance and pride or an unrealistic estimation of one's competence or capabilities after a military victory-or in Obama's case his election victory over Mitt Romney.
 
As Obama is a pathological narcissist to begin with his reelection victory (the worst in US presidential history giving him the weakest mandate of any reelected president) has now been aggravated by a false sense of invincibility making him blinder, stupider and more reckless than ever. And this is showing up in his talks with Boehner and the GOP which amounts to saying "compromise means surrendering to my agenda and giving me everything I want." In fact, the Wall Street Journal reports that Obama grew so frustrated with Boehner for resisting him that he threatened to blame Republicans at the Inaugural and State of the Union if he didn't get his way (see). Completely unintimidated by the bully in chief Boehner ignored an urgent plea by Obama on Friday to pass a smaller measure to avert the fiscal cliff after "plan B" was ditched. It appears that Boehner and the GOP leadership have the same feelings of contempt for Obama that he has for them; and that like many of the world's leaders, who see Obama as a great amateur on the global stage, Boehner neither fears nor respects him.
 
PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FALL
 
Is it then possible that the sudden death of Senator Inouye (who was a medical volunteer at the Pearl Harbor catastrophe) was an ominous warning to Obama (who attended his funeral in Hawaii while on vacation) about his bad case of Japanese-like "victory disease?" And that if he keeps on pushing his luck he'll soon run out of it and suffer a devastating Midway-like defeat in 2014 preceded by the tanking of the economy?  If Obama thinks, as I believe he does, that he can let  the Bush era tax rates expire and escape blame with all of it falling on Republicans then he is truly delusional. As Micahel Barone points out: "The failure of the grand bargain negotiations in summer 2011 was followed by downturns in opinion toward both Obama and Republicans(see)." And as I pointed out here if the economy suffers after tax rates jump and a significant number of workers lose their jobs Obama will have to explain why he allowed this to happen after extending all the Bush rates in 2010 to avoid it. Whether midway through his second term Obama will have his Midway is up to him.
 
HUFFPO COMMENTS
  
 
You're wrong Apollo, most world leaders do respect the President.
 
My reply
 
 Really? Remember the G-20 meeting in Mexico City when Obama was roundly ignored (Merkel was the center of respect and attention) and Putin publicly cold shouldered him? Recall his slap down by Netanyahu at the White House? And Morsi allowing two days of 9/11 rioting at the US embassy in Cairo? These are but a few examples of the contempt that world leaders have for him. 
 
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DEBATE OVER ANTARCTICA'S MELTDOWN AND THE INEVITABLE FREEZING OF PLANET EARTH

 

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The Earth in deep freeze.
A planetary life killing ice age is coming that can't be stopped.
Tell this to a global warming leftist alarmist and they'll either fall into despair, understanding the nothingness and futility of their movement, or call you names.
  
A HuffPo poster Mezca commenting on yesterday's post about Antarctica melting started this thread with me:
 
Mezca writes
 
You have won the most ignorant comment of the day award!!! CONGRATULATIONS!
 
My reply
 
Thanks for the honor. But are the scientists that found frozen palm trees and vegetation in Antarctica also ignorant? Or are they working for Big Oil?
  
Mezca writes
 
Ever heard of plate tectonics?
 
My reply
 
Have you ever heard of doing research? Have you done it on this subject?
 
Mezca 
 
Absolutely. Basically they said GHG's (Green House Gases) forced up temperatures at that time, also Antarctica was slightly more towards the equator than it is today, which in combination it a  temperate climate. Going to your original point though, you speculate that this phenomena could be happening today, even though they do not know what was the exact cause at the time for the release of this much GHG's. This still does not disprove that climate change cannot be anthropogenic. Especially considering we are the main contributor of these gases into the atmosphere. Sooo, your point again?”
 
My reply
 
"Fifty five million years ago [when Antarctica was tropical], there were more than 1,000 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere," said Professor Stephen Pekar, of City University of New York. "That heated the world enough to melt all its ice caps. Sea levels would have been almost 200ft higher than today......(see).
 
What? 1000 parts per million before the advent of mankind and the polluting industrial age? And what's to prevent Mother Nature from doing that again on her own unassisted by man? NOTHING!  And why might she not be doing that now-going through one of her extreme fluctuations of CO2 (a natural CO2 cycle)? Only a crackpot leftist loon would worry about these things today as some kind of preventable impending man made catastrophe when unpreventable natural catastrophes massively killing people happen all the time from earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamies and what not-and will continue until this world inevitably, by nature and a DYING SUN, become one vast uninhabitable Antarctica.

Space is destiny, it must be conquered, on it depends our survival. The Sun is a mortal star. The Earth a perishable sphere. And Man a temporary earthling.

The sun inevitably exhausting its heat, light and energy means that global freezing and the extinction of all life on this planet is its ultimate catastrophic destiny. And I'm supposed to worry about belching and farting and driving a fuel burning car that might contribute to what Nature has done before and is most likely doing again? IT'S  FREAKIN INSANE! Let the ice caps melt and sea levels rise and Antarctica again transform into a tropical paradise. It's as natural as the rising and setting of the Sun. Nothing to sweat about unless you're a schmuck. 
 
 

 

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IS ANTARCTICA GOING TROPICAL AGAIN?

   

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ANTARCTICA
 
            
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After millions of frigid years of being a frozen, barren,  boring, bleak, ice covered wasteland is Antarctica slowly transforming back into the tropical paradise it once was during a protracted prehistoric period of global climate warming? Will future Americans take their winter vacations there like they now do in Florida and Mexico relaxing under palm trees, drinking pina coladas while mosquitoes feast on them and frogs hop around in the grass? Will the polarbear be replaced by the grizzly and penguins by ducks?Is this what mother nature has in store for Antarctica (and the North Pole)? Is this what she's doing now?  To see icebergs melt and ice sheets crack and alarmed leftists going nuts (fancying themselves world savoirs like our crackpot prez) warms my conservative heart.
 
 
 
HUFFPO COMMENTS
 
SonOfUgh writes
 
No polar bears in Antarctica, Apollo. 
 
My reply
 
But the grizzlies are coming.
 
telebob59 writes
 
It's individuals like you that remind me how truly numbered humanity's days are.
 
My reply
 
Immortal humanity's days are numbered? You sound like an empty, soul denying atheistic materialist.
 
 
telebob59 writes
 
Both God and a human soul are nonexistent
 
My reply
 
Prove to me that your self-created and I'll renounce my belief in God.
Moreover, who are you to say that I lack a soul? Because you lack one doesn't mean that I do. Because you're soulless, because you're one of the unensouled, because you're not a soul-man doesn't mean that I am.

Hooponopono
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If the Antartica goes tropical there will be no people to take vacations. The rest of the planet will have long since become uninhabitable.
 
This planet is doomed to become uninhabitable. Nevertheless, when the Antarctic Tropics were around (some 50 million years ago) there was animal life on this planet: birds, bats, Rhinos, etc, according to the fossil record.
 
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