Saturday, June 28, 2014

Saturday, June 28, 2014

                                          Bob & Nancy Twist in Stockholm
                                                      Monastery & Cathedral form 1300s.


                                          Grand Hotel from Old Town


Underway after one night at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, after arriving in the dead of night, after a 6 hour layover in the Frankfort airport, after a flight from L.A. that was delayed 2 hours due to thunderstorms causing us to miss original Frankfort-Stackholm flight.  This AM a brief walk through the Old Town and a view of the Cathedral/Monastery dating to the 1300s.  Cruising the Swedish  Archipelogo which we viewed from the air on the approach to the Stockholm airport.  All documented with copious pics.  Dinner with Claude and Francis Bennett.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

SOME GOOD WRITING  AND GOOD SENSE:This guy has fast become one of my favorite conservative commentators.


AH YES, GLOBAL WARMING HOAX:

Greenpeace Cofounder Patrick Moore Lists Nine Inconvenient (for Leftists) Truths

Canadian environmentalist Patrick Moore helped found Greenpeace, but became disenchanted with the organization as it rejected science to become a “combination of extreme political ideology and religious fundamentalism rolled into one.” Via Breitbart, Moore lists a few key facts about the supposed climate change crisis Greenpeace folks would prefer you didn’t know:
1. The concentration of CO2 in the global atmosphere is lower today, even including human emissions, than it has been during most of the existence of life on Earth.
2. The global climate has been much warmer than it is today during most of the existence of life on Earth. Today we are in an interglacial period of the Pleistocene Ice Age that began 2.5 million years ago and has not ended.
3. There was an Ice Age 450 million years ago when CO2 was about 10 times higher than it is today.
4. Humans evolved in the tropics near the equator. We are a tropical species and can only survive in colder climates due to fire, clothing and shelter.
5. CO2 is the most important food for all life on earth. All green plants use CO2 to produce the sugars that provide energy for their growth and our growth. Without CO2 in the atmosphere carbon-based life could never have evolved.
6. The optimum CO2 level for most plants is about 1600 parts per million, four times higher than the level today. This is why greenhouse growers purposely inject the CO2-rich exhaust from their gas and wood-fired heaters into the greenhouse, resulting in a 40-80 per cent increase in growth.
7. If human emissions of CO2 do end up causing significant warming (which is not certain) it may be possible to grow food crops in northern Canada and Russia, vast areas that are now too cold for agriculture.
8. Whether increased CO2 levels cause significant warming or not, the increased CO2 levels themselves will result in considerable increases in the growth rate of plants, including our food crops and forests.
9. There has been no further global warming for nearly 18 years during which time about 25 per cent of all the CO2 ever emitted by humans has been added to the atmosphere.
Liberals have nothing but theories and computer models based on those theories to prop up their belief that human activity causes global warming. Even if it does, it is highly debatable whether global warming is bad. The belief that government can impose an unchanging optimal temperature is insane.
Allowing unscrupulous politicians to plunder our wealth, reduce our standard of living, and curtail our liberty in the name of an unsupported, politically motivated theory is equally insane.

FROM A BLACK PATRIOT: Heartwarming story from any right-thinking, honest, self-reliant American.

Monday, June 23, 2014

Monday, June 23, 2014

IN THE TANK, OF COURSE:  This but one small example of how our so-called MSM works to advance the causes of left-wing radicals running for office. Shameful business this.

WaPo: CNN coached audience to cheer for Hillary during town hall event

POSTED AT 7:01 PM ON JUNE 21, 2014 BY ED MORRISSEY

When CNN rolled out the red carpet for Hillary Clinton’s town-hall interview with Christiane Amanpour, they did more than just build a set and invite an audience to participate.According to the Washington Post’s Erik Wemple, who attended the event, CNN warmed up the crowd for Hillary and even coached them on how to cheer and make noise to demonstrate enthusiasm for the former Secretary of State. Note the whoops at the beginning of the broadcast, and near the end of this clip when Amanpour asks about her decision on running for President — cheers that were part of the coaching Wemple reports:
To add “energy” to its show (attended by the Erik Wemple Blog), CNN deployed an enthusiastic stage director who coached the audience to applaud at various points throughout the broadcast — not in a partisan manner for Clinton, but for the sake of the town hall’s television optics. Approximately 15 minutes before the show, the producer ran the audience through a practice round of applause and noise-making. The results of the audience-prodding turn up in the show’s video.
Just how difficult was it for CNN to find a naturally enthusiastic audience, anyway? The event was staged in Washington DC, which as Wemple notes isn’t exactly a hotbed of conservative politics:
The event took place at the Newseum, which is on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington between the Capitol and the White House. The District is a blue jurisdiction that turned out 91 percent for President Obama in the 2012 election, and it’s surrounded by places like Arlington County, Va., and Montgomery County, Md. — also very blue spots.
If CNN is this worried about audience reaction to Hillary in this district, she’s in deep trouble indeed (as her less-than-enthusiastic ratings and book sales elsewhere indicate). So is CNN’s credibility, which Wemple skewers in his conclusion:
Whatever the optics, here’s the deal: If you’re a possible Democratic candidate, with or without a book to promote, and you want an experience that will elevate you, push for a CNN town hall in Washington. It’s hospitable turf.
No kidding. This wasn’t a daytime talk show on a broadcast network — like The View on ABC, for instance, which is entertainment and not news programming. This was on a cable news network and featured one of the network’s most high-profile reporters and news analysts. Instead of having an audience respond naturally and honestly, this news network instead chose to actively influence the audience into more positive and affirming responses for a politician on the cusp of a presidential campaign. Would they have coached an audience for a townhall interview with Mitt Romney, or Ted Cruz? Let’s just say it’s highly doubtful.

IN THIS LONG AND INSTRUCTIVE POST IS THE EVIDENTIARY TRAIL CONDEMNING THE OBAMA ADMIN AND THE IRS OVER THE SCANDAL BY THAT NAME:Here's the circumstantial evidence leading to jail for many. Doubt it will happen.

FOR ME, ALICIA COLON'S NARRATIVE IS THE RIGHT ONE BUT NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART AND CONVICTIONS WHO PREFER CONVENTIONAL "WISDOM" AS PROMOTED BY MSM.It's too easy to throw up one's hands and go along with the mischaracterizations of the facts surrounding the Iraq war decisions.