Thoughts just off Center

Stand Up People

2014-10-31T10:00:00.002-06:00

TJOC: Found this video, an excellent "watch," not just because I believe in what they are saying - though I do. Also, if you haven't read Charles Barley's book, you should, "Stand Up" Mr. Black & Mrs. Black Woman. AND all you "Red, Green, Purple, Orange, & White People, no matter what color you are. Get an education and vote. We have been giving away "America" to the Socialist ant Marxist." "Stand Up for your freedom!"

Greenhouse Gas ?

2014-10-20T19:31:00.003-06:00

"Greenhouse gas" is the label used to deride carbon dioxide, CO2, and methane, CH4, when there is no "greenhouse effect" in the atmosphere as gases cannot form surfaces like the glass that is responsible for greenhouses gathering heat. Nonetheless, every Ph.D. scientist promoting this myth talks about "the greenhouse effect" with great authority. They have to know better.

American taxpayers have been defrauded of $300 billion by scientists who think they are entitled to such money because they are smarter than ordinary folks, but kissing butts and plagiarizing publications do not prove genius. I grew up with these people and that is who they are and what they do. They have ruined science education and are about to ruin America. Their signature is: “Greenhouse gas” and that is an indictment:

Greenhouses are seen on estates or farms growing out-of-season flowers, fruits and vegetables. They create warm micro-climates in cold ones with increased CO2 plants need to make stems, stalks, leaves, flowers and fruits. The “greens” tell us such levels would destroy the atmosphere and they would not, but that is not the only problem.

A “greenhouse is covered with glass plates in order to capture sunlight so the heat generated by it is trapped to create the microclimate. The physics of this process is usually not understood. All is not as it seems.

At any angle below 45 degrees an incident solar beam is totally reflected and nothing passes into the glass. This surface phenomena on is seen on water also as it is a property of transparent surfaces. At angles above 45 degrees a portion of the light passes through the glass. The amount is equal to the sine of the angle which for 45 degrees is 0.707 and for 90 degrees it is 1.00 or as percentages 70.7% and 100% transmission respectively with a mean value of 0.85 between 45 and 90 degrees.

Solar panels and greenhouses are about 85% efficient at passing energy for six hours of the day if the glass contains no iron ions as iron absorbs some of the spectrum. Glass with iron looks green on edge and that without iron appears clear or blue so iron can be avoided.

Solar radiation entering is absorbed by plants and objects in the enclosure, warming the air for a true “greenhouse effect.” A greenhouse does this as heat energy quanta emitted by heated molecules are at all angles and only a small percentage are directed precisely at a right angled glass pane. Everything else is reflected back to the interior or absorbed by the building or plants.

“Climate Change” promoters claim stratospheric CO2 traps solar infrared, IR, heat energy, holding it in the atmosphere by reflecting it back to Earth. Gases cannot form “shields,” as they claim. Reflecting surfaces can only be formed by solids and liquids where molecules are in contact. In gases they are not formed.

CO2 is a “trace gas” in air with a much higher concentration in lower levels than the stratosphere due to the high molecular weight of CO2. Nitrogen has a molecular weight of 28 and oxygen of 32. A prototype “air molecule” has a molecular weight of 29 due to unequal quantities. CO2 has molecular weight of 44 and this is critical.

Per Graham’s Law gases diffuse at rates inverse to their squares, which are respectively 841 for “air,” and 1936 for CO2. Thus, we would see an 841/1936 ratio or 43.4% of CO2 in the stratosphere as we would in the lower atmosphere (troposphere) where it is already rare with only 0.039%. In the stratosphere there is only 0.0169% CO2! This is ridiculous for molecules that have to be in contact to make a surface when there is only one CO2 for every 5917 molecules of other kinds.

Therefore: The atmosphere cannot act like a “greenhouse” and there are no “greenhouse gases.” Thus: “Climate Change is a fraud on the basic physics. There is no such thing as a “greenhouse gas.”

Adrian Vance - "The Two Minute Conservative"

Liberal Logic

2014-10-16T09:03:00.001-06:00

One Question!

2014-10-16T09:01:00.003-06:00

What kind of degenerate garbage are you that you are hating the moral, ethical, productive, hard-working, taxpaying, law-abiding, God-fearing patriotic citizens of this country that are the traditional Americans that made this country the richest, most productive, strongest and most ethical country to it have ever existed on this planet ???

We may not be perfect but we are certainly better than any others. And now Obama has abandoned the good people of the world and our position of world leadership leaving the good to be devoured by the evil. To those of you who support Obama and hate the tea party people, you are all seriously stupid, degenerate and demented pieces of human garbage.

Here are the grounds and Washington DC (same as in the picture below) after a huge Tea Party gathering. Notice that the Tea Partiers have cleaned up after themselves not leaving one piece of garbage anywhere

Here are the same grounds after Pres. Obama's inauguration. It is said that the garbage left behind amounted to 20 tons. I think this exemplifies the difference between left and right just perfectly

Elections are Coming

2014-10-15T10:40:00.004-06:00

For Those who have forgotten the new law that changed taxes the beginning of this year!

In case you didn't notice, here is what happened on January 1, 2014 :

Top Medicare tax went from 1.45% to 2.35%

Top Income tax bracket went from 35% to 39.6%

Top Income payroll tax went from 37.4% to 52.2%

Capital Gains tax went from 15% to 28%

Dividends tax went from 15% to 39.6%

Estate tax went from 0% to 55%

Remember this fact:
These taxes were all passed only with democrat votes, no republicans voted for these taxes.

These taxes were all passed under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.

I think it is important that everyone in the U.S. should know this. Romney would have Repealed all this.

Elections are here - I received my mail in ballot yesterday!

A Great Selection

2014-10-12T22:07:00.004-06:00

Call Them What They Are

2014-10-10T22:03:00.004-06:00

Another "Newt" Review

2014-10-01T21:55:00.004-06:00

Five Important Points from Speaker Boehner

Speaker of the House John Boehner gave an important speech at the American Enterprise Institute yesterday.

He offered the American people in simple language the five things we need to do to reset our country’s economic foundation. It was exactly the kind of realistic, positive vision for governing in the 21st century that Americans have been waiting to hear from either party.

Speaker Boehner began with what the House Republicans have accomplished in the last four years, despite Democrats controlling both the Senate and the presidency. Some of their record may surprise you. Republicans cut total federal spending for two straight years--the first time that's happened in half a century. They guaranteed that 98 percent of Americans would not see permanent income tax hikes. And they pushed through free trade agreements with South Korea, Columbia and Panama.
These are historic accomplishments. They have real meaning for the lives of millions of Americans. And they create room for future economic growth.

Speaker Boehner argued that the real growth in the last few years, however, has come not from government but from an opportunity in American energy--the revolution in energy production that is transforming towns across the country and creating good jobs in places where there have been too few. Thanks to almost unbelieveable advances in engineering and technology, the United States is now the world’s leading producer of both oil and natural gas.

That energy boom, he said, means the U.S. should be one of the best places in the world to make just about anything, with more growth, more jobs, and lower prices. It is a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to reset our economy from the bottom up.”

Taking advantage of this opportunity will require leadership with the wisdom to do five crucial things, the Speaker said.

First, we have to fix the tortuous tax code that punishes companies for doing business here and carves out dozens of special loopholes for the wealthiest Americans while the middle class struggles to get by. Everyone would be better off with a simpler, fairer, and flatter tax code.

Second, we have to fix the spending problem and move toward a balanced budget. This means cutting waste and strengthening Medicare and Social Security for current retirees and the next generation as well.

Third, we have to fix the legal system that makes it impossible for doctors, hospitals, and other businesspeople to do their daily work without fear of getting sued. The cost of litigation here is far higher than in other countries, and we're all paying the price.

Fourth, we have to tame the sprawling, bureaucratic regulatory state that makes it painful and expensive to do business in the U.S. The bureaucracy has gotten completely out of control.

And finally, Speaker Boehner argued that we have to fix our education system, which has been failing to teach our children for two generations and denying opportunity to millions of students who are trapped in schools where they don't have a chance. We can go a long way toward resetting the system if we give parents and students a choice about which schools are best for them.

If we do these five things, Speaker Boehner argued yesterday, "we can reset the foundation of our economy for the next two or three generations."

This was a sincere, heartfelt speech from a leader of the Republican party who has an optimistic vision for the future. Take the time to watch or read it here today.

Your Friend,
Newt

TJOC: I've waited a few days before posting this. Kind of got behind in doing "Honey Do"stuff.

Compassion

2014-09-28T20:28:00.003-06:00

Logic

2014-09-28T20:28:00.001-06:00

Which President said the following?

2014-09-23T03:43:00.002-06:00

(HINT: It was during his Second Inaugural Address.)

". . . each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution.

"What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration . . . We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

"The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few, or the rule of a mob. They gave to us a republic, a government of, and by, and for the people. Entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed . . ."

Beautiful words, aren't they?

Who comes to mind: Abraham Lincoln? Teddy Roosevelt? Ronald Reagan?

Actually, it's none of the above.

ANSWER: Barack Obama.

Surprised? A lot of people are.

You may be wondering how a President of the United States can use phrases like "unalienable rights" and government "of, by, and for the people," when all of his actions point away from a republic of liberty, and toward bureaucratic despotism. Or more troubling, why so many Americans either don't notice, or don't care.

I am convinced the reason is that too many Americans — especially young people — have not been educated about our Constitution.

And if we allow that to continue, this nation you and I love will become less free and less prosperous, while our national government will become larger and more despotic.

To turn our nation in the right direction, Americans must once again be educated for liberty, based on our Constitution and its founding principles.

That is why Hillsdale College produces our popular series of free online courses on the Constitution, American Heritage, Free Market Economics, and more -- with over 900,000 enrollments so far!

And why we've just added our newest course . . . "The Presidency and the Constitution."

It couldn't be easier to enroll . . . it's no cost to you . . . and it will teach you—all Americans—what they need to know now in order to preserve and pass on our heritage of liberty to future generations.

Then mark your calendar for Monday, September 29! That's when the first lecture, which I present, will be available.

A new lecture will be released each Monday, ten total, at about 35 minutes each. All lectures are available on-demand, so you can learn at your convenience any time after their release.

You'll enjoy having top Hillsdale professors teach you:

How the Founders limited presidential (and all government) power to ensure the greatest liberty for all;

How and why Progressives expanded the power of the presidency beyond the limits of the Constitution;

Whether America has moved from electing a chief executive, to an administrator of a massive unaccountable bureaucracy;

How Americans can begin to restore constitutional limits on federal executive power;

. . . and much, much more!

Best of all, you will be equipped to understand and defend the timeless principles of liberty upon which America was founded . . . the same principles that were once commonly taught in our schools, but rarely are today.

If you would like to enroll for this free class click here!

I look forward to welcoming you in class as our newest student for this outstanding online course!

Warm regards,

Dr. Larry P. Arnn
President
Hillsdale College

TJOC: Hillsdale teaches excellent coures on U.S. History, Economics, and many others. They're all free.

Thoughts on Stupidity

2014-09-21T19:04:00.000-06:00

A month's supply of birth control pills at Walmart: About $10 per month and yet Sandra Fluke claims it costs her more than $3000 per year for birth control. Go figure. Okay, there's no figuring out a liberal liar.

with thanks to Robert Janicki at wired right.

More and More "Revouting Truth"

2014-09-19T13:54:00.000-06:00

President Coward by Bill Whittle

He delayed the mission to rescue James Foley and other ISIS hostages because he didn't want to be "Carterized." He sent the men in the rescue helicopters back to their bunks as he watched our people die in real time at Benghazi. And he delayed the Osama bin Laden raid for MONTHS out of fear of what a failed attempt would do to his re-election chances. In his latest FIREWALL, Bill Whittle shows how President Coward always puts his personal image ahead of the lives of American citizens.

PRESIDENT COWARD

For those of us who were not familiar with ISIS – the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria – the savage beheading of American journalist James Foley – certainly made the introduction.

Speaking after the brutal execution, President Obama had this to say about his ISIS murderers:

No just god would stand for what they did yesterday and what they do every single day.

God may not stand for it, but the most powerful man on the Earth – Barack Obama – certainly did.

Today, the American people will all say a prayer for those who loved Jim. All of us feel the ache of his absence. All of us morn his loss. We keep in our prayers those other Americans who are separated from their families. And we will do everything that we can to protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for.

And we will do everything that we can to protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for.* Asterisk. See below…

Because what President Obama neglected to tell the American people that day – before returning to the golf course – was that there is in fact an unread condition attached to his statement that he will “protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for.” What he meant to say was he will “protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for…” so long as there is no risk of adversely affecting his poll numbers.

Because a month and a half before James Foley had his head sawed off, a team of Special Forces operatives were flying through the darkness on a mission to rescue Foley and other western hostages. And it wasn’t just any evening. It was just after midnight on the Fourth of July.

For thirty days President Obama delayed this mission. Thirty Days. It was June when US Intelligence had solid intelligence of the location of Foley and other captives, but it was also well understood that ISIS, like all terrorist organizations, constantly moves hostages in order to prevent raids like the one that was finally launched after four weeks of hesitation.

Why the delay? Well, President Coward was worried that a failed mission would leave him, in the words of his advisors, “Carterized” – recalling the catastrophic failure to rescue the Iranian hostages in 1980. And so Barack Obama, with actionable intelligence on the location of James Foley and the full understanding that such information is fleeting, dithered and vacillated and golfed and weighed the pros and cons and golfed and delayed and asked more questions and golfed and considered the political fallout from a failed mission as he golfed.

Finally he gave the go-head, on the condition that the raid take place on the Fourth of July so that, if successful, he could make the announcement to major fanfare on the nation’s birthday.

Delta and SEAL team operators leapt out of their specially modified, low radar cross-section Blackhawk helicopters. Up to 15 ISIS fighters emerged from the building to meet them, and their wish to die for Allah was granted by an orbiting AC130 gunship. As US warriors secured the compound, lead elements breached the doors to where the captives – including James Foley – were being held. The room was empty. Foley, his murderers, and other hostages had been moved.

Recently.

And this wasn’t the first time President Coward left people to die because of fear of what a failed attempt might to his poll numbers and personal glory.

On the evening of September 11th, 2012, at about 4pm Eastern time, reports began to come in of an attack on the Consulate in Benghazi. By 5:10pm, an unmanned surveillance drone was providing real-time video of the ongoing firefight at the compound. And yet, almost immediately, the White House issued a direct order to FEST – the Foreign Emergency Support Team, a highly-trained, well-armed extraction squad standing by at various locations around the world for this exact contingency – to stand down.

We need to be crystal clear on this. It’s not that President Obama failed to give the order for these men to get into their helicopters and go and try to rescue Ambassador Chris Stevens and the rest of “our people and the timeless values they stand for.” Those men were in the helicopters. They were, unlike the president, mentally and operationally prepared and ready to go and defend American civilians from these murderers and savages. President Coward told them to shut down the engines and sent these warriors back to their bunks, because he was afraid of what a botched attempt might do his image. He had an election coming up, and priorities are priorities, after all. So he watched, on TV, in real time, as former SEALS Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods ran from safety towards the sound of gunfire and fought off scores of heavily armed enemy fighters for six hours, their laser target designators on the enemy mortar position that eventually killed them, looking up to the sky not only to a just God but awaiting help from a President who was watching them die. And they did die, of course, at which point President Coward joined the FEST operators in retiring for the evening, getting a good nights sleep for the next day’s fundraiser in Vegas. Reports are that the men who were in the helicopters, ready, and as it turned out, able to save Doherty and Woods did not sleep quite as well.

Oh, and one more thing. The signature Obama success in the war on Terror – the raid that killed Osama bin Laden – was delayed for what appears to be about 100 days, as President Coward weighed the consequences of the failure of such a raid. He was, according to several independent accounts, essentially overruled by the Secretaries of Defense and State who insisted that somebody took action before Bin Laden was tipped off and vanished once again. That’s why Obama is sitting in the back of the room like the Pizza delivery boy in the iconic shot of the Operation. He just popped in from the golf course to see how things were coming along.

Put aside – if you are able – the monumental narcissism, selfishness and moral cowardice of this man, and focus for a moment on just how disconnected he really is from the people that elected him. All we want is a leader – a leader, not a self-obsessed moral coward – who will use the most powerful and capable military in the history of the world “to protect our people and the timeless values they represent” without that ever-present asterisk of “so long as there is no chance of making me look bad.”

We’re kind of past that point now, Mr. President -- don’t you think?

10 Questions for Obama on ISIS

2014-09-11T08:07:00.004-06:00

President Barack Obama had a remarkable opportunity Wednesday night.

The American people have been awakened by the videotaped beheading of two U.S. journalists. Many Americans have also been deeply angered by the killing of Christians and other minorities by the Islamist radicals.

Americans increasingly realize that the entire movement of radical Islamism, from Boko Haram in Nigeria through Hamas in Gaza to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is dangerous to Americans and to our civilization.

Americans know that 13 years of effort under two presidents have failed to defeat the forces of radical Islamism. In fact, those forces are more powerful, more widespread and more dangerous than they were 13 years ago. Past strategies have failed.

As The Washington Post's Richard Cohen described the threat of the group calling itself the Islamic State, "The Nazis are back -- differently dressed, speaking a different language and murdering ostensibly for different reasons but actually for the same: intolerance, hatred, excitement and just because they can."

He concluded, "The decapitation of Foley and the depredations of the Islamic State are evil returned, evil that can be understood only as beyond understanding. It needs to be eliminated."
Because these are issues of life and death, and of mortal threat from openly avowed enemies, the American people will listen to the Wednesday night speech with intense interest. This speech has the potential to transcend partisanship and to bring together the American people in the face of a common enemy.

For the President's policies to succeed will require more than one speech.

The first step, however, has to be a successful, nonpartisan, national speech by the commander in chief.

A successful, nonpartisan, national security speech will be new ground for Obama.

On the eve of the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, it's a unique moment for the President to provide real leadership and bring Americans together in the face of a common enemy.

Here are some key questions citizens might ask themselves as they listen to the speech:

1. How does the President define the nature of the enemy? Is it geographic or ideological? Do the key aims have to do with territory in Iraq and Syria or with a poisonous belief system with no borders? Any narrow focus on Iraq and Syria is doomed to fail.

2. Can Obama bring himself to describe the religious intensity of our enemies? ISIS and its allies are deeply motivated by religion. Refusing to admit that weakens any strategy to defeat them.

3. What would the President consider victory? If it is not the complete defeat of radical Islamism, it will not be a successful strategy. Talking about "managing the problem" or "containing the problem" is a concession of defeat. Every day the Islamic State, Hamas, Boko Haram, al Qaeda and their allies survive, they recruit new people, develop new techniques and become more dangerous.

4. How does he intend to defeat the more than 10,000 terrorists from more than 50 countries that are fighting with ISIS, and how does he account for the fact that the threat is in 50 countries, not two?

5. What is his strategy for defeating the terrorists and recruiters we now know are coming from the United States? British Prime Minister David Cameron is proposing significant restrictions on travel and activity by radical Islamists in the UK. How does Obama propose to counter potential American terrorists?

6. Is he prepared to ask for more resources for the military, which he is using in more and more places while continuing to cut the budget? It is impossible to have a serious strategy of defeating radical Islamism without an increase in funding for the military unless he plans to transform the Pentagon dramatically. Will he submit such a funding request to the Congress?

7. Is his strategy designed to achieve rapid, decisive victory? There are rumors of a three-year campaign. That would be an absurdity. In three years, the radical Islamists will have recruited more people in more countries. It took three years and eight months from the attack on Pearl Harbor for the United States to defeat fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Taking that long to defeat the Islamic State would be an exercise in self-defeating timidity.

8. Does the President plan to lead the fight against radical Islamism or merely to support others who he asserts have to lead? If radical Islamism and the Islamic State are mortal threats to Americans and to the United States, then we have to defeat them, even if Iraq is incompetent, Syria is a dictatorship, and the Europeans are timid. This has to be a coalition that is led by America, not a coalition that leads America. Which is Obama describing?

9. What are his plans for an extended conversation with the American people to build enough support that the strategy can be sustained with popular approval until victory is achieved? One speech, one time is a beginning, not a program for victory.

10. Will he seek congressional authorization for the plan he outlines? This is crucial because the conflict must be the country's war, not Obama's war, and a vote in Congress will legitimate his action.
If the President succeeds in these 10 areas, he will have given a historic speech. If he misses more than one or two, then he is proposing another formula for defeat.

You can analyze and decide for yourself.

Your Friend,
Newt

TJOC: Well Newt - - - I think he missed it, what about you? I'll keep praying for him and our Country; though the Senate and House of Representatives continues to puzzle me, and Yes, I pray for all of them too. Last comment: Read "Atlas Shrugged."

Just Who are These Syrian Moderates?

2014-09-10T10:35:00.002-06:00

Confusing? You bet. So first steps first.

Who are the “moderate” rebels whom Obama wants to train and arm? He doesn’t name them – and he can’t, because the original “moderates” whom America swore to arm (with the help of the CIA, the Brits, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey) were the so-called “Free Syrian Army”, mostly composed of deserters from Assad’s government forces. But the FSA – briefly beloved of John McCain until he discovered a pro-al-Qa’ida fighter sharing a photo-op with him in northern Syria – has decomposed.

Its men have gone home, switched to the bearded Islamists of the Nusrah or Isis – or Isil if we heed the latest acronym – or re-deserted to the government army and taken up arms for Assad again. Some freedom fighters! They weren’t given enough weapons, we are told. Now they’ll get more. And no doubt sell them – as they did the last lot. For it is a sad fact of war that whenever a gun crosses a border, it represents not loyalty but cash.

Give an FSA man – if you can find one – an anti-aircraft missile and it will be sold to the highest bidder. In all the civil wars I’ve covered, I’ve never seen a weapon in the hands of a militia which hasn’t bought it from someone else. In a humiliating interview on Channel 4, our own Defence Secretary admitted that weapons given to Syrian rebels had fallen into the hands of the bad guys. How do you monitor all the guys whom you give a gun to? Send them off with a personal drone to make sure they don’t sell it?

Besides, how do you actually find a “moderate” these days in Syria’s war? The Islamist rebels fight to the death. No “moderates” they. And – accursed facts now intervene – these are the very same Islamist rebels now threatening the Iraqi state. And just to make things even more confusing, Maliki has just been thanking Assad’s boys for air-raiding his own rebel enemies on the Iraqi-Syrian border on the grounds that Syria and Iraq are “friends”.

So now to our own real friend, the Department of Home Truths. What’s left of the FSA has been fighting the Islamist Isis-Isil forces. So have the Kurdish militias in northern Syria. So have a few village militias. And the Syrians have a suspicion that this is Obama’s half-baked plan: to arm the anti-Islamist Syrian rebels to fight the pro-al-Qa’ida rebels and thus – indirectly – keep both the Assad and Maliki regimes in power.

The problem is that Obama must do this without revealing that the Syrian-Iraqi battle against Sunni Wahabis is one and the same war, that Assad’s Syrian army – using Russian jets – is struggling against exactly the same enemy as Maliki’s Iraqi army, also soon to be augmented (if we are to believe Maliki’s blather to the BBC Arabic Service) with Russian jets. In other words, Assad not only has the public support of Moscow; he has the private support of Washington (and therefore, of course, of Israel).

Why else would the White House say that the money for Syrian “moderates” would help “counter terrorist threats” – “terrorist” being Assad’s description of his enemies. But of course, Obama must keep calling Assad a “brutal dictator”. Difficult to explain all this on Fox News, of course. So just keep repeating the word “moderate”. Over and over again.

TJOC: Moderates in the Middle East - I think - NOT!

It's Opposite Day!

2014-09-08T07:21:00.001-06:00

Andrew Klavan, recounts the litany of assurances Barack Obama and his leftist companions have made, none of which are true...

Hurrah! Whatever Leftists say, It’s Opposite Day — the day when everything is exactly the opposite from what we were told it would be.

For instance, remember in 2011 when Barack Obama told us “the tide of war is receding?” Remember during his re-election campaign that year, when he said Al Qaeda had been decimated. Remember afterwards, when he withdrew all our troops from Iraq and he said, we were “leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq” and “America’s war in Iraq will be over.”

Well, yahoo! It’s Opposite Day!. Everything Obama said is just the opposite! The tide of war is in full flood and engulfing much of the middle east. Al Qaeda’s murderous warriors have reconvened as the Islamic State, more powerful and more brutal than ever. And of course Iraq is awash in bloodshed and if the U.S. doesn’t stop it there, it’ll soon be right here with us!

What a crazy day.

Hey, here’s another one. This is fun, huh? Remember the 2004 speech when Obama said “There’s not a black America and a white America... there’s the United States of America...” Remember when the Economist and the New Yorker and NPR all told us Barack Obama’s election signaled a post-racial age. And the New York Times heralded his election with the headline: “Obama moves America Beyond Racial Politics.”

Surprise! It’s Opposite Day! Yes, Ferguson Missouri has been rocked by the worst racial riots in years. A New York Times CBS poll says 87 percent of Americans feel that race relations in our country have either stayed the same or gotten worse since Obama’s election. And it’s Obama’s own administration that has stoked the tensions, with corrupt Attorney General Eric Holder playing the race card every time he gets caught in a new scandal, and Joe Biden accusing Republicans of wanting black people back in chains, and Obama himself repeatedly suggesting his opponents are driven by racism.

This is a great day, right? Ha, gotcha! It’s the opposite.

Let’s not stop now! Remember when Obama pressed the reset button to improve our relations with Russia — those guys who are currently invading the Ukraine. Or remember when Obama promised a transparent and ethical administration that would “do our business in the light of day” instead of arresting opposition filmmakers on trumped up charges and bugging investigative journalists and auditing conservative groups to shut them up and enforcing only those laws he likes while rewriting other laws without the consent of congress.

Oh - and hey, remember how leftists felt virtuous for supporting Obama and his policies. Oh, wait, never mind, leftists still feel virtuous... because for them it’s always... Opposite Day!

TJOC: Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth

"Charlotte's Web" for Epilepsy Patients

2014-09-06T15:22:00.000-06:00

Federal Bill Could Legalize Medical Hemp

Thousands of families are on a waiting list and hundreds have already moved to Colorado for a special strain of medical marijuana oil from Colorado Springs called Charlotte's Web. The oil, so low in THC that it's classified as hemp, doesn't get children high but appears to be very effective in treating severe seizures and epilepsy.

A new federal bill, called "Charlotte's Web Hemp Act 2014," is being proposed to decriminalize hemp and a medicinal component of marijuana called Cannabidiol, or CBD. The new law would remove hemp and CBD from the list of schedule one controlled substances, making the non-psychoactive plant legal in all states.

This could be the break Liz Gorman and thousands of other parents have been waiting for. When Gorman brought her seven-year-old daughter, Maddie, to Colorado, she was having between 80 and 100 seizures a day and functioning on a one year old level.

"We tried 14 medications and then a brain surgery and failed all of those things," said Gorman.

Her husband is active duty military and couldn't move with her from North Carolina when she came to Colorado Springs to try Charlotte's Web for Maddie.

"Most people don't realize how devastating and catastrophic certain epilepsies can be, the fact that so many of us have moved here shows just how desperate we are for medications that could potentially help our children," she explained.

Gorman said the medical hemp oil worked almost immediately for Maddie. She saw an 80% reduction in seizures and Gorman said Maddie is learning, sleeps better and is generally happier.

"It feels like a miracle compared to any other treatment we've ever tried," said Gorman.

Gorman can't leave Colorado, but if the Charlotte's Web Medical Hemp Act were to pass, she could go home and reunite her family.

"Instead of families having to uproot their families and relocate here and leave their support system, we would be able to ship it directly to them," said Heather Jackson, Co-Founder and National Executive Director of the Realm of Caring.

Realm of Caring is the Colorado Springs non-profit that helps families like Gorman's. The Realm has more than 200 patients currently on Charlotte's Web, with thousands more waiting to get it.

"We have people who are waiting for this and they are dying while they wait and that is just completely unacceptable," said Jackson.

Jackson knows what it's like to almost lose a child to seizures. Her son, Zaki, spent nine years suffering from debilitating seizures.

"I know what it feels like to hold your child and their fingertips are turning blue and their lips are blue," said described.

Zaki is now 11 and seizure free for almost two years thanks to Charlotte's Web. Jackson wants the same outcome for other families who are suffering.

"If you want access to this you should be able to have access to this," said Jackson.

The bill has been introduced in the House, but still has a ways to go before it would voted on by lawmakers.

There's little research right now on the use of hemp and marijuana component CBD to treat seizures. However, a clinical trial was just approved to study Charlotte's Web at the University of Colorado, Denver. The study is being called a first of its kind and will recruit patients already taking Charlotte's Web. Results aren't expected until at least 2016.

For more information on the bill, Realm of Caring, and how to get involved, click here.

TJOC: News found on the internet from KOAA5 (KOAA.com). A good read! Lets get this bill passed!

A TRUE COMEDY ICON:

2014-09-05T20:02:00.004-06:00

Posted on September 4, 2014

By Tim Young

She didn’t care what other people thought… and that’s why she was so good at what she did.

Joan Rivers passed away today at 81, and whether or not you agreed with what she had to say, you have to respect that she refused to be anything other than herself.

Rivers was an icon. The current generation only got to see her as a celebrity fashion critic, but anyone older than 30 knew she was much more. To say she was a trailblazer for both entertainment and for women is an understatement.

She was the first truly notable female stand-up comedian and she was the first female late-night talk show host. She was to insult comedy what the Beatles were to 4 chord songs. There was no one who was safe from her humorous wrath, not even the untouchable first lady Michelle Obama, who she lovingly called a “tranny.”

A genius entrepreneur; Rivers was one of the first celebrities to cash in on QVC with her massively successful jewelry line. And somewhere in the middle of building an empire through comedy, television, and home shopping, she even wrote a dozen books.

But in the end, what truly defined Joan Rivers was that she had nothing to hide. Whether it be her opinions on politics, her anger at reporters, or even her plastic surgery, she told the truth and nothing but the truth.

Personally, Joan Rivers is the model for which most of my humor comes from. Her lightning fast wit, blatant honesty, and authenticity couldn’t be matched. I’ve learned the hard way that the moment that I start caring about what other people think is the moment I stop being true to myself and I stop being funny. And although I may never achieve the same success that she had, following her model allows me to sleep comfortably at night knowing what I stand for and who I am.

She wasn’t crazy; she wasn’t evil; she was herself… and that’s something that everyone can learn a lesson from.

Clash Daily Guest Contributor

TJOC: She was herself, whether you liked her, or not, she was real. Good Bye Joan - Rest In Peace.

More from "The Revolting Truth"

2014-09-04T19:57:00.002-06:00

RT: The Leftist to English Dictionary, Part One

Some of you may have noticed that our country is sharply divided along political lines. To those of you who haven’t noticed: our country is sharply divided along political lines. Approximately thirty eight percent of Americans identify themselves as conservative, twenty three percent identify themselves as liberal, while the remaining thirty nine percent can’t identify themselves and are waiting for a policeman to take them home.

Those who identify as conservative generally believe in limited government, low taxes and close adherence to the constitution. Those who identify as liberal generally believe that if they had a hammer, they’d hammer out justice all over the land, but since they don’t, they’ll just have another latte and feel good about themselves.

Can we bring these two sides closer together without using rope and a nail gun or would using rope and a nail gun actually be kind of a good time?

We here at the Revolting Truth believe that better communication is the road to better understanding which is the path to better relations which is the freeway to better homes and gardens which is the last stop before Tomorrowland.

And that’s why today we’d like to present the first installment of the Leftese Dictionary - a glossary of left wing terms and their meanings which will help right wingers understand what the people who don’t know what they’re talking about are talking about.

Let’s begin with a term Right Wingers hear a lot when chatting with Left Wingers: “You are racist!” The phrase “You are a racist!” or “That’s racist,” is leftese for “I have no logical arguments.” As an example of how the term is used in conversation, let’s say you point out that under President Obama’s left wing policies, the percentage of African American families living in poverty has increased and black participation in the labor force has decreased while under right wing President Reagan black unemployment plummeted, and the income gap between blacks and whites narrowed. That’s when a left winger might respond by employing the phrase, “You are racist.”

Leftists have many different ways of saying “I have no logical argument,” for the same reason Eskimos have many different words for snow. Another way a leftist may concede that his point of view is nonsense is by saying “I am offended.” If, for instance, you point out that the poverty rate for women has increased under President Obama and that women’s earnings relative to men have declined, making this a dark economic time for women, a leftist might reply, “You said the word dark. You are racist. I am offended.”

One other way a leftist might have of saying, “I have no logical argument,” is “the science is settled.” If you point out that there is exactly zero real evidence that human actions threaten to cause catastrophic climate change, a leftist will reply, “The science is settled.” When you ask him what precise scientific facts he is talking about, he is likely to say, “I am offended. You are racist.”

I hope you’ve enjoyed this installment of the Leftese Dictionary. Remember “I am here to help you.” Which is leftese for “Grab your wallet and run for your life.”

TJOC: from Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth.

So - Why was JAY LENO let go from NBC?

2014-09-02T20:18:00.000-06:00

About those Obama jokes:

"I was going to start off tonight with an Obama joke, but I don't want to get audited by the IRS."

"It is not looking good for President Obama. Today his teleprompter took the fifth."

"Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I told you so!'"

On NSA surveillance:

"We wanted a president who listens to all Americans - now we have one."

"It's casual Friday, which means that at the White House, they're casually going through everybody's phone calls and records."

On a new IRS commissioner:

"He's called 'acting commissioner' because he has to act like the scandal doesn't involve the White House."

On closing the Guantanamo prison for terrorists:

"If he really wants to close it, turn it into a government-funded solar power company. The doors will be shut in a month."

Concerning the Benghazi, Associated Press, and IRS scandals:

"Remember in the old days when President Obama's biggest embarrassment was Joe Biden?"

On Obama saying he didn't know about the IRS scandal:

"He was too busy not knowing anything about Benghazi to not know anything about the IRS."

The White House has a new slogan about Benghazi :

"Hope and change the subject."

On Obama's commencement address:

"He told the young graduates their future is bright unless, of course, they want jobs."

On a Chicago man who set a record for riding a Ferris wheel:

"The only other way to go around and around in a circle that many times is to read the official report on Benghazi."

On White House claims of ignorance on the scandals:

"They took 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' out of the Pentagon and moved it into the White House."

Last and best! - - -

"These White House scandals are not going away anytime soon.

It's gotten so bad that People in Kenya are now saying he's 100 percent American.

TJOC: There did.t seem to be any problems with his jokes while Bush was in office.

Here, You can use my piece of chalk!

2014-08-31T11:29:00.000-06:00

More from Newt

2014-08-29T19:54:00.006-06:00

Obama’s Right -- He Has “No Strategy”

President Obama is being widely criticized for his remark at a press conference yesterday that “we don’t have a strategy yet” for how to deal with the rise of the Islamic State. But even if it was an accidental slip, it was perhaps the most candid statement of his second term.

Americans might be inclined to roll their eyes at this admission from their president given that he spent weeks on vacation while a terrorist group swept away eleven years of work to stabilize Iraq.

As I wrote in this newsletter last week, however, the problem has never been the rounds of golf President Obama is playing. It is what has been happening--or rather, what has not been happening--between them.

If a month’s vacation in Martha’s Vineyard was the price of our Commander-in-Chief realizing at last that we do not have a strategy for fighting radical Islamism, it was well worth the cost. Certainly it would have been better if he’d recognized that fact six years ago, but the first step is admitting you have a problem--or in this case, that you don’t have a strategy.

President Obama is right to say he “doesn't want to put the cart before the horse.” We need a complete rethinking of our strategy for dealing with radical Islamism. We have needed one for several decades.

The Islamic State--with its brutal killings of innocent men, women and children, its horrific beheadings, its forced conversions, and its stunning seizure of much of Syria and Iraq--has made this fact impossible to ignore. It would be hard to imagine a more dramatic repudiation of the President’s withdrawal of American leadership in the world.

Instead of criticizing the politics of his “we don’t have a strategy” comment, however, Republicans should embrace the substance of it and invite him to examine with them the key facts that must underlie any serious rethinking.

The President’s fellow world leader, British Prime Minister David Cameron, did an admirable job of outlining these facts in his own press conference today. It is clear he is plagued by none of the self-delusion that has characterized the Obama administration’s foreign policy.

"This is not some foreign conflict thousands of miles away that we can hope to ignore," he said. "The ambition to create an extremist caliphate in the heart of Iraq and Syria is a threat to our own security...And that is in addition to the many other Al Qaeda-inspired terrorist groups that exist in that region. The first ISIL terrorist attacks on the continent of Europe have already taken place."

Of our struggle with “Islamist extremism,” the Prime Minister said that “we are in the middle of a generational struggle between a poisonous and extremist ideology that I believe that we'll be fighting for years, and probably decades.”

"We cannot appease this ideology,” he continued. “We have to confront it at home and abroad. To do this we need a tough, intelligent, patient, comprehensive approach to defeat the terrorist threat at its source.”
In other words, while Obama speaks of curtailing the Islamic State’s gains in Iraq, Cameron speaks of fighting the worldwide threat of an ideology.

And it certainly is worldwide: More than 12,000 foreign fighters have traveled to the Middle East to join the Islamic State. A thousand or more are from Great Britain. Hundreds of American passport holders have gone too.

Source

There are undoubtedly tens of thousands more sympathizers in Western countries. If you don’t believe me, listen to the words a London-based Muslim cleric spoke on Sean Hannity’s show yesterday. He is a religious leader living in Britain’s largest city and pledging allegiance to the Islamic State. At the end of the segment he promises Sean that Sharia law is “coming to a place near you.”

The President may want to contain his thinking to Iraq and Syria, but the threat will not be contained there. This fact is fundamental to formulating a strategy and should be at the heart of President Obama’s analysis.

Let’s hope that President Obama understood how right he was when he said that we “don’t have a strategy,” and that he was listening to Prime Minister Cameron’s remarks today. Perhaps then his next press conference will sound a little less academic and a little more like a Commander-in-Chief.

Your Friend,
Newt

A "perfect fit."

2014-08-29T09:06:00.001-06:00

TJOC: I just had to post "this one" from wiredright.com

I don't believe that Obama is an idiot in any way. He knows exactly what he's he's been told to do by his advisers. He has become the most divisive President this country has ever had.

B. S. from Our Government

2014-08-27T16:32:00.003-06:00

Last week Hamas executed, without a trail, 18 Palestinians for allegedly collaborating with the Israelis.

Now tell me again that Hamas is not a barbaric organization and that it is equivalent to Israel.

Today's Conundrum

2014-08-26T04:37:00.000-06:00

You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when
you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus:

1. An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.

2. An old friend who once savedyour life.

3. The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.

Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there could
only be one passenger in your car?

Think before you continue reading.

This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as part of a
job application.. You could pick up the old lady, because she is going
to die, and thus you should save her first.. Or you could take the old
friend because he once saved your life, and this would be the perfect
chance to pay him back. However, you may never be able to find your
perfect mate again.

YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS.....................

The candidate who was hired (out of 200 applicants) had no trouble
coming up with his answer. He simply answered: 'I would give the car
keys to my old friend and let him take the lady to the hospital. I would
stay behind and wait for the bus with the partner of my dreams.'

Sometimes, we gain more if we are able to give up our stubborn thought
limitations.

Never forget to 'Think Outside of the Box.'

HOWEVER...., The _correct answer_ is to run the old lady over and put
her out of her misery,have sex with the perfect partner on the bonnet of
the car, then drive off with the old friend for a few beers.

I just love happy endings, don't you?

Thanks to Biene Vallee at her blog valleetrails. AND to Robert Janicki at his blog Wired Right Commentary