The data is only preliminary, but it tends to indicate the Antarctic ice sheet is hitting a new record this year since measures began, after hitting a record last year Sep 25 – 29. The new record was set Sep 14 2013 at 19.52 million sqkm. the old record was set 19.44 sqkm, set two weeks later in the yearly cycle. This fig shows the extent of the ice and indicates this year’s ice is above last year and outside the 2 sigma for the 30 year average.
The Antarctic ice cap is impressive this year.
This is a video from a secular Syrian. Eretz Zen, the footage was taken Sept. 3 in the Syrian town of Jarablus on the Turkish border. Reference:
http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/bibles-called-worse-than-chemical-weapons/#DqWQR40oEBe123s0.99
A message from Syria’s Jarablus:
“We’ll take all the gas without fuss;
for the Bibles are worse;
Christian love is a curse.
Jihad filled with hate: Our syllabus.”
The CIA has been arming the Syrian rebels for some time now. Is this really the people we would like to support?
From “The Hill”: Vice President Biden on Sep 12 2013 called House Republicans “Neanderthals” for opposing some amendments to the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).”
One of the sticking points for Republicans was an aspect of the bill that would expand access to certain visas for noncitizens who are victims of domestic violence. That portion of the law was removed from the final bill.
Obama and Biden, et al.
Is setting us up for a fall.
With the debt limit blown
And restraint no more known,
Who is then a Neanderthal?
The ice has come back to the Pole
The sunspots are playing a role.
But the press does not care
to report. They don’t dare.
For he who reports is a mole.
The early arrival of winter caused some yachts to be frozen in
There is more evidence of the coming “little ice age at:
https://lenbilen.com/2013/08/12/eleven-reasons-we-are-entering-a-new-little-ice-age/
Sarah said: “Let Allah sort it out.”
While the Sunnis and Shias no doubt
fight which “God is the Greatest.”
No one wins in this contest.
And Obama is lost in a rout.
Allahu Akbar can be translated “God is greater.”
It is therefore logical to ask: Greater than who?.
The animosity between Shia and Sunni is sometimes greater than their mutual hate for Jews and Christians.
Therefore we should not get involved in this civil war ever.
And, by the way, Syria has not signed the anti chemical weapons treaty, so we have no standing.
Obama a message has sent:
“Bail out when in doubt.” Off he went
up to Sweden no less
to escape Syria’s mess.
His pref’rence at present: Vote present
What is Obama going to do in Sweden?
Obama is arriving in Arlanda with his entourage on Wednesday morning sometime. His total entourage is 500 to 700 people, all of which pay well to stay at first class accommodations like Grand Hotel.
After that there is a 26 mile trip in his limousine, “the beast” to Stockholm. The Swedes did not want any airport noise close to Stockholm, so they built the airport at a safe distance even from the exurbs.
He will visit (in no particular order)
The Swedish “moderate” Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and talk trade.
The Royal Technical Institute library and be shown some green energy initiatives.
The Grand Synagogue and honor the Swede Raoul Wallenberg, credited for saving over 10000 Jews in Hungary during WWII, was arrested and pined away in a Russian prison.
A dinner with the Prime Minister, maybe joined with his counterparts from Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.
On Thursday morning he will pay homage to the King and Queen of Sweden at the Royal Castle before going to Russia. This is different from 4 years ago when he snubbed the King and Queen of Norway after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
Other than that I do not know why he has to go to Sweden instead of meeting with Putin and try to talk him out of providing more support for the Assad regime. After all he promised he would meet and negotiate with our enemies without preconditions.
After that, it is back to Arlanda and off to Russia and the G20 meeting.
He will not meet with Putin, but will meet with some gay activists in Russia. Priorities, priorities.
Here is the Obama entourage
Obama is fleeing to Sweden,
To friends in the welfare state’s Eden.
He dares not face Putin,
Before he starts shooting.
He’s high on his stuff in his weed-den.
For a long time I have been trying to figure out what the “Obama doctrine” would look like. The Jerusalem Post’s Michael Wilner was grappling with the same thing and came up with a few snippets.
The Obama Doctrine: Right is might
“Some things are more important than partisan differences,” Obama said from the White House. “Now is the time to show the world that America keeps its commitments.”
Commenting briefly and unscripted from the White House on Friday, Obama repeatedly mentioned that the murderer of “innocent children” must not go unpunished.
“This is our first task— caring for our children. It’s our first job,” Obama said last December in Newtown, Connecticut, after the mass shooting of twenty school children. “If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right. That’s how, as a society, we will be judged.”
In the fifth year of his presidency, we now have a foreign policy doctrine from Obama: that principled decisions, driven by fundamental good and contrasted by stark and evident evil, serve to reinforce the core national security interests of the United States, even when crippled by practical difficulties.
“Right makes might,” he said Saturday on Syria, from the Rose Garden, “not the other way around.”
“Fatigue does not absolve us of our responsibility,” Secretary John Kerry said from the State Department on Friday. “It is profoundly about who we are.”
Perhaps that, to Obama, is another core governing principle in American foreign policy: that partisanship should end at the water’s edge.
After moving warships and shouting threats, inaction could deliver a steep cost to American credibility around the world. The question Obama wants answered is whether America will adopt the Obama Doctrine: that right is might, and justifies the use of force.
This was the best possible viewpoint the reporter could muster regarding the Obama doctrine.
My take on the Obama doctrine is more: On the one hand…On the other hand.
On the one hand Obama will negotiate with all world leaders without preconditions
On the other hand he will not meet with Putin, goes to Sweden instead.
On the one hand action against Syria is of utmost urgency.
On the other hand there is no need to call in congress early. Take your time.
On the one hand the murderer of “innocent children” must not go unpunished.
On the other hand, if a baby survives an abortion attempt, it is o.k. to let the baby die if the original intent was to abort.
On the one hand, drone strikes are good, even if there are collateral deaths of innocent children.
On the other hand, guns are bad, since the wrong use of them could kill innocents.
On the one hand we will do no military action without the consent of U.N. or at least our allies.
On the other hand we must intervene without international buy-in.
I could go on with rich vs. poor, Muslims vs. Christians, white vs. black, etc. but I refrain.
This is my best take on the Obama doctrine.
Contrast this with the Palin doctrine: A five Point approach to Foreign Policy, presented by Governor Sarah Palin Aug. 27 in a speech at Colorado Christian University
First, we should only commit our forces when clear and vital American interests are at stake. Period.
Second, if we have to fight, we fight to win. To do that, we use overwhelming force. We only send our troops into war with the objective to defeat the enemy as quickly as possible. We do not stretch out our military with open-ended and ill-defined missions. Nation building is a nice idea in theory, but it is not the main purpose of our armed forces. We use our military to win wars.
And third, we must have clearly defined goals and objectives before sending troops into harm’s way. If you can’t explain the mission to the American people clearly and concisely, then our sons and daughters should not be sent into battle. Period.
Fourth, American soldiers must never be put under foreign command. We will fight side by side with our allies, but American soldiers must remain under the care and the command of American officers.
Fifth, sending in our armed forces should be the last resort. We don’t go looking for dragons to slay. However, we will encourage the forces of freedom around the world who are sincerely fighting for the empowerment of the individual. When it makes sense, when it’s appropriate, we will provide them with material support to help them win their own freedom.
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Jihad, and the rise of the crescent.
We live in an interesting present.
“No more time, we must act!”
Then takes months to react.
In crises Obama votes present.
Right: Flags of the nations in the Arabic world. Note the crescent in Algeria, and Tunisia, where the Arab spring started
Down: Kerry and the reformer Assad with wives in better times, 2009
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