Guest essay by Eric Worrall
President Obama, who has done more than any other President to sell American children into foreign debt slavery, has appealed to the American People not to tear up his climate “legacy”.
Remarks of President Barack Obama as Delivered
Weekly Address
The White House
August 13, 2016
Hi, everybody. One of the most urgent challenges of our time is climate change. We know that 2015 surpassed 2014 as the warmest year on record – and 2016 is on pace to be even hotter.
When I took office, I said this was something we couldn’t kick down the road any longer – that our children’s future depended on our action. So we got to work, and over the past seven-and-a-half years, we’ve made ambitious investments in clean energy, and ambitious reductions in our carbon emissions. We’ve multiplied wind power threefold. We’ve multiplied solar power more than thirtyfold. In parts of America, these clean power sources are finally cheaper than dirtier, conventional power. And carbon pollution from our energy sector is at its lowest level in 25 years, even as we’re continuing to grow our economy.
We’ve invested in energy efficiency, and we’re slashing carbon emissions from appliances, homes, and businesses – saving families money on their energy bills. We’re reforming how we manage federal coal resources, which supply roughly 40% of America’s coal. We’ve set the first-ever national standards limiting the amount of carbon pollution power plants can release into the sky.
We also set standards to increase the distance our cars and light trucks can go on a gallon of gas every year through 2025. And they’re working. At a time when we’ve seen auto sales surge, manufacturers are innovating and bringing new technology to market faster than expected. Over 100 cars, SUVs, and pick-up trucks on the market today already meet our vehicles standards ahead of schedule. And we’ve seen a boom in the plug-in electric vehicle market – with more models, lower battery costs, and more than 16,000 charging stations.
But we’re not done yet. In the weeks and months ahead, we’ll release a second round of fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty vehicles. We’ll take steps to meet the goal we set with Canada and Mexico to achieve 50 percent clean power across North America by 2025. And we’ll continue to protect our lands and waters so that our kids and grandkids can enjoy our most beautiful spaces for generations.
There’s still much more to do. But there’s no doubt that America has become a global leader in the fight against climate change. Last year, that leadership helped us bring nearly 200 nations together in Paris around the most ambitious agreement in history to save the one planet we’ve got. That’s not something to tear up – it’s something to build upon. And if we keep pushing, and leading the world in the right direction, there’s no doubt that, together, we can leave a better, cleaner, safer future for our children.
Thanks, everybody. Have a great weekend.
The Paris Climate agreement is not worth the paper it is written on. It has no legal force. In the words of an unnamed representative of the State Department (from the State Department website).
In terms of congressional approval, this agreement does not require submission to the Senate because of the way it is structured. The targets are not binding; the elements that are binding are consistent with already approved previous agreements. So it would not be – I mean, I don’t want to speak in a definitive way, but it’s certainly not – I would just say that it’s not required. What actions are taken or not taken is a separate question, but it’s not required.
Read more: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2015/12/250592.htm
In my opinion, the best which America could hope for from the next President, is for the next President to ditch pointless climate virtue signalling, and for the next President to put a stop to the ongoing sale of the future prosperity of American children to foreign loan sharks.
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We should not tear up the Paris agreement.
Copies should be stocked in bathroom stalls so they may be used appropriately.
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Nah, too crinkly.
I’m stickin’ with some Charmin.
“I’m stickin’ with some Charmin.”
Try a change of diet (:-))
I hope your suggestion to wipe out Democrats is not a call to violence.
That was sick, twisted, and utterly hilarious, all at the same time.
Not a wipeout, just a harmless smear or two.
Windmills and photovoltaic farms across Hawaii, starting with Obama’s “home” away from home. And, if he ever decides to return home, then clear Chicago of its excess flora and fauna, flying, crawling, burrowing, too. It’s for the green-backs.
Finally, carbon and carbon-based life form sequestration/recycling/planning.
Carbon dioxide from fossil fuels use does not materially affect climate. Maybe climate is warming. It is supposed to be warming, because earth is in an interglacial period. Which begs the question why some scientists and government agencies seek to deceive by “adjusting” prior-period temperature data.
Nature converts ambient CO2 to limestone. Carbonates form in seawater and soils through calcification (ie. cyanobacteria and coccolithiphores). The simplified formula is CO2 + CaO => CaCO3. Anyone can make calcite quickly in a kitchen by mixing carbonated water with quicklime.
Its simple. Nature sequesters CO2 as limestone (calcite). The higher the atmospheric CO2 partial pressure, the faster it becomes limestone. 99.84% of all carbon is sequestered in sediments. Earth absorbs ambient CO2 quickly.
Climate change results from a combination of (non-CO2) causes, such as sunspots, solar orbital variations, cosmic rays’ effect on clouds, and plate tectonics (well documented elsewhere). But it cannot be caused by CO2 arising from fossil fuels use, because nature efficiently recycles CO2 as carbonate minerals.
Only 3% of CO2 emissions come from fossil fuels use. Most of the rest arises from rotting vegetation in swamps and jungles. Carbon dioxide emissions and fossil fuels use are beneficial, and climate change is a false premise for regulating them. See http://www.thegwpf.com/28155/. Changes in temperature cause changes in CO2 emissions from these sources, and are not caused by them.
CO2 is in equilibrium. Mineral carbonates are the ultimate repository of atmospheric CO2. Anyone who passed 10th grade chemistry can know this using public information. Limestone and marble are familiar forms of mineral carbonate. CO2 is an essential component of mineral carbonate (CaCO3, for calcium). See the paper http://bit.ly/1NziTF4.
The theory of human-caused climate change is based on a false premise. All the cost and hysteria of the global warming movement is a colossal waste, and results in poor economic growth. Tens of trillions of dollars wasted on foolish superstition, when hard working people are deprived. Energy policy as fashion goods. The dead hand of the state, picking winners & losers.
Coal is the lowest-cost and most reliable primary energy source for electric power generation. A modern coal plant emits few air emissions except water vapor and carbon dioxide.
I agree Miner.
The global cooling period from ~1940 to 1975 (during a time of increasing atmospheric CO2) demonstrates that climate sensitivity to increased atmospheric CO2 is near-zero – so close to zero as to be insignificant.
Furthermore, warm is good and cold is bad – for humanity and the environment. Excess Winter Mortality globally is about 2 million people per year, including about 100,000 per year in the USA and up to 50,000 per year in the United Kingdom. Excess Winter Mortality rates are high even in warm countries like Australia and Thailand.
Reference: “Cold Weather Kills 20 Times as Many People as Hot Weather” by Joseph D’Aleo and Allan MacRae, September 4, 2015
https://friendsofsciencecalgary.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/cold-weather-kills-macrae-daleo-4sept2015-final.pdf
The scientific conclusion is that there is NO global warming crisis, except in the minds of warmist propagandists.
I recently received a letter from Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips (cc’d to our Minister of Energy and our Premier) wherein she speaks of the government’s plan to reduce “carbon pollution”. Yes, really – some people still talk like that.
There is overwhelming evidence that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and the oceans is not dangerously high – it is dangerously low, too low for the survival of life on Earth.
I have written about the vital issue of “CO2 starvation” since 2009 or earlier, and recently others including Dr. Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, have also written on this subject:
https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/moore-positive-impact-of-human-co2-emissions.pdf
Executive Summary
This study looks at the positive environmental effects of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a topic which has been well established in the scientific literature but which is far too often ignored in the current discussions about climate change policy. All life is carbon based and the primary source of this carbon is the CO2 in the global atmosphere. As recently as 18,000 years ago, at the height of the most recent major glaciation, CO2 dipped to its lowest level in recorded history at 180 ppm, low enough to stunt plant growth.
This is only 30 ppm above a level that would result in the death of plants due to CO2 starvation. It is calculated that if the decline in CO2 levels were to continue at the same rate as it has over the past 140 million years, life on Earth would begin to die as soon as two million years from now and would slowly perish almost entirely as carbon continued to be lost to the deep ocean sediments. The combustion of fossil fuels for energy to power human civilization has reversed the downward trend in CO2 and promises to bring it back to levels that are likely to foster a considerable increase in the growth rate and biomass of plants, including food crops and trees. Human emissions of CO2 have restored a balance to the global carbon cycle, thereby ensuring the long-term continuation of life on Earth.
[end of Exec Summary]
Is it possible to scientifically educate someone like Alberta’s Environment Minister, our Energy Minister or our Premier? If so, how? Suggestions welcomed.
Regards, Allan
Without getting political, the very fact that Obama is for the crushing of Western industrial and economic activity is proof that the lie of AGW is just that.
-grin-
This president is managing the country to set himself up for a prominent position in a world government. That governments needs climate change to justify its existence.
Why is anyone talking about the Paris agreement?
Given the impressive litany of achievements mentioned in Obama’s latest address it would seem that the main objectives in reducing dependence on fossil fuels , accelerating renewables and significantly reducing CO2 emission have already on the way to being realised , without any obvious deleterious effect on US productivity or prosperity.
If Obama or Clinton try to ratify the paris agreement it will not necessarily accelerate what is already happening and might serve to act as a focus for sceptical voices which at present address so many different aspects of the AGW that their impact is defocussed and ignored , IMO.
Grammar correction : –“are already on the way–“
I always agree with the product of Chicago/Illinois politics.
Less now as they are running out of other peoples money.
Who woulda thunk you could burn through it so fast ??
Oh crap. We are into the Trump debate. Have voted straight GOP since 1980. Not voting the top of ticket this time for the very first time. Toss me out if you like but I don’t do stupid. It’s why I have been on the Right all these years. Our ideas were better.
I know the short term pain of another Clinton. We will survive that. Trump on the other hand will leave permanent damage.
Define “damage”.
Short term pain?
You mean like life changing, and all but irreversible, liberal SCOTUS decisions as far as the eye can see?
There are still enough Democrats in congress to filibuster any judicial appointment to the left of Hillary.
What’s going to happen is we will get stealth candidates like Kennedy, who talk conservative, but vote liberal.
In other words, Trump ain’t gonna save us.
Troe: Be careful what you wish for … (not from the USA, My Prime Minister is a pot smoking snowboarder – and I sure didn’t vote for his socialist agenda. But a lot of people are wondering what they did while they look for work.)
Under a liberal socialist system where there is a lot of free stuff (and more to come here under Hillary), it doesn’t matter because it’s easier to reside on welfare or live in their parents basement.
“Food stamp recipients in Maine got a rude awakening when Gov. Paul LePage decided to impose a three-month limit on benefits for able-bodied adults without dependents (Abawds).
Now, before all the raging liberals out there start throwing a hissy fit and talking about how much conservatives hate the poor and all that bleeding heart rhetoric, this limit is only enforced if the “Abawds” refuse to get a job working 20 hours a week, take job training, or volunteer six hours a week.
Guess what happened when this rule was enforced?
Nearly 80 percent of people on welfare were cut off the program because they refused to get a job or volunteer to work six hours a week.
Six hours a week was deemed too strenuous to work in order to receive free benefits.”
https://www.youngcons.com/governor-requires-food-stamp-recipients-to-work-6-hours-a-week-this-happens-immediately-after/
I think electing someone we know to be a lying liar and an untrustworthy criminal to the White House is what will cause a permanent sort of damage, and not just to the office but to the National psyche.
Yeah, as opposed to electing someone who is a psychotic moron who thinks he can just say whatever he wants to, without there being consequences.
Sorry, you had a typo there.
Yeah, as opposed to electing someone who is a psychotic moron who knows she can just say whatever she wants to, without there being consequences of lying.
Yeah, I get it about Hilly. The point I keep making and you tardos don’t get is that they are both bad news, although in different ways.
Hi Bruce,
I agree with just about everything you post. Your comments are rational and always worth reading. In this case though, I would like to point out something. This thread is getting old, so there will be few readers. So maybe you won’t even see this, but I’ll try anyway. I’m giving my point of view because as I said, I value your input. I’d like a solid reason for labeling one candidate as a “psychotic moron”.
The media is bombarding everyone 24/7 with that same message. The same people own every TV network and every major newspaper. We can’t get away from their message, and it’s always the same: demonize Donald Trump.
But there’s an ulterior motive in play: they’re in the tank for Hillary. But this didn’t just start in this election, or when Romney was similarly attacked for being a “liar”. If the public looked at Romney’s life they would see that he’s religious (I’m not, so I’m not trying to sell that here). But really, people who are religious tend to be honest. What was happening was the usual ‘projection’: assigning Obama’s own faults onto his opponent.
Romney adopted a bunch of kids of all races, before he was ever in politics. He walked the walk. And he gave away almost all his inheritance to charity (not to his own “charity” like the Clinton Foundation). Romney’s charitable contributions put the current Administration’s to shame. And almost 99% of Hillary Clinton’s “charitable” contributions were to an organization that she controls.
But the minute Romney became the Republican candidate (and: IANAR), the DNC posted a picture of him with a Pinnocchio nose, which promptly appeared on Drudge. The accusations of “Liar!” became a fixture of that campaign. But in reality, Obama has a problem telling the truth, not Romney.
So Romney lost because he was demonized by the media, which carried water as usual for the DNC. (I have since changed my opinion of Romney & Ryan. Why? Because Donald Trump gave $millions to their campaign, and he ‘bundled’ millions more for them. Then they inexplicably truned on him like a couple of snakes in the grass. If you were given milions of dollars, would you do what they did? Me, neither).
The exact same playbook is being followed now, because it works on a public that head-nods along with the nightly news anchor babe without thinking. So now Trump is being accused of the exact things that Hillary is guilty of. “Dangerous”; check. “Liar”; check. And so on. All the things we know for certain about Hillary Clinton’s character are being projected onto her opponent. It’s a very effective tactic when the media is all on the same page.
But I have the same question I had when Romney was being similarly accused: where is the proof? Trump has been a public figure for forty years now. But he has amazingly few detractors who know him personally; none that I’m aware of.
There’s no doubt that Trump’s children, and his employees, and his close friends and acquaintences have all been offered $millions to put their names on a “Tell All” book (“You don’t need to write it, Joe, we’ll do all that. Just give us some things to work with and our ghost writers will take it from there.”)
But no one took that easy money. That indicates loyalty. It indicates someone who isn’t vindictive, who doesn’t hold grudges, etc. And if Trump was a psychotic moron, that would have come out long ago. This is everyone’s golden opportunity to stick it to The Donald, and get rich doing it… but there are no takers.
OTOH, people have come out of the woodwork to expose the Clintons from the start. From the start of her gov’t career Hillary especially has been a shady, dishonest character. I could go on, but you’ve already seen it. This isn’t about her. This is because I’m curious why lots of intelligent people are so swayed by the media.
I’ll be the first to admit that Trump is a self-promoter. His bombastic style is different from Hillary’s. And I’ll admit that he has Bad Hair, and any similar petty criticisms. He’s human, so of course he will have minor faults. Everyone does.
But I won’t admit that he’s “dangerous”. That is simply demonizing him with no evidence. It’s a Hillary/DNC talking point that’s being broadcast as factual. But where’s the proof? And I won’t admit that he’s a liar. Again, where’s the proof? It’s just more projection. In reality, it’s Hillary who is dangerous. Do we want her finger on the button?
A businessman cannot earn billions of dollars by double-crossing people, or by being dishonest. In that company reputation is everything. If Donald Trump had a bad reputation we would have heard about it long ago. But he’s been an upstanding citizen. Unlike Hillary, there are no skeletons in his closet. If there were, that’s what we would be told constantly. Instead, the criticism is either petty nitpicking, or it’s a DNC talking point — opinions that are reported as if they’re facts.
But the same Big Media doesn’t seem at all interested in reporting important stories, like the $20 million Hillary Clinton has been given by the Saudis alone. When push comes to shove (and it will, sooner or later), which way would a President Hillary tilt? Toward her Saudi donors? Or would she refuse to listen to them, and do what’s best for the country? (The Saudis are just one example of many foreign donors.)
The same media is uninterested in finding out why Hillary Clinton has been given a complete pass by the FBI, when plenty of others have been convicted and imprisoned for lesser crimes of the same nature as hers. FBI Director James Comey stated that she had repeatedly broken the law — and then he dropped it! Would the FBI do that for you or me?
There are literally dozens of similar instances of wrongdoing that we know about, and likely many more that the media won’t investigate and report. Instead, they continue to demonize her opponent, who’s never even been charged with a misdemeanor offense, much less investigated for providing our country’s defense secrets to foreign hackers.
The point is that intelligent folks should be able to come to their own conclusions based on facts and evidence. But the Big Lie is a very effective tactic. Even intelligent folks are susceptible to the same talking points that are being rained down on the public day and night. We’re all being hammered by the same message.
Eventually, even rational folks begin to head-nod along. It’s human nature: “If everyone says he’s a bad guy, there must be something to it.” Advertising is based on ‘word of mouth’. But those words are manufactured. They’re not based on reality. They’re only opinions.
The country is being told what to think, every hour of the day. That’s a lot easier than doing the thinking themselves. They don’t think: ‘This would be another eight years just like the last 8 years.’ And: ‘We’re worse off now, and both Parties are at fault; their government positions are more important to them than what’s good for the country.’ They don’t think, ‘Let’s try someone new, someone with a solid record of producing. A Maker, instead of a Taker who hasn’t produced anything of value except to herself.’
The current gang of electeds in both Parties are responsible for the fix we’re in. The alternative isn’t some crazy moron, as he’s being portrayed. Donald Trump has built more than 120 skyscrapers, plus hotels, golf courses, and he’s produced other real wealth. He provides what people want, or he wouldn’t be in business. And yes, he’s had four bankruptcies — out of more than 150 big projects. But no developer in his league has a perfect score — and his 97% success rate is better than almost anyone else. But the media doesn’t talk about his success rate, do they?
If anyone can show me a reason that Hillary Clinton would be better for the country than Donald Trump, I’m all ears. But please, no media talking points. Just facts and evidence, please.
This next President will be Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. No one else. So I won’t waste my vote on someone who can’t get elected. But I can see that the constant media drumbeat is having the intended effect, when intelligent folks buy into the constant demonizing. There’s a demon for sure, but it isn’t Donald Trump.
If you have facts, Bruce, please post them. I’ll listen, and I’ll think about any facts you have. I’m willing to change my mind. But so far, all I’ve seen is the American public being told what to think by the media. And that media is all on the same page:
http://americandigest.org/ANOTDARKYET.jpg
That media gang is all controlled by just six (6) entities. They’re all on the same page, that’s why we hear the same message constantly. There is no dissention.
So please, think for yourself. Don’t be the media’s chump. There are too many head-nodders as it is.
Great to see you here and to read what you have to say DB.
You outdo yourself with this post.
Concise and to the point, with real points and facts to back it up.
I would like to post this on my FB page for my friends (both liberals, conservatives, and anyone but Trump so called Republicans) to read.
Thanks for this post.
It gives me hope.
dbstealey August 15, 2016 at 11:56 am wrote, One hell of a good post!
DB, I read your post (not sure if anyone will read mine either:), and thought you were right on the money about how the Left is demonizing Trump in concert. You must have made a hundred good points in that post.
Here’s an article from Ann Colter today that speaks to the same thing: The biased, Leftwing News Media and their influence on human nature:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/08/17/ann-coulter-media-work/
“If the media can strangle Trump by terrorizing people about everything he says, then it’s already over.
I’m inclined to think Americans hate the media too much for that to work, but even sensible people can’t think straight in the middle of one of these hate campaigns.
It can be very difficult for people to overcome whatever meaning the press superimposes on what someone has said, no matter how psychotic. Throw in incessant repetition and uniform agreement among the pundits (Hillary cheerleaders versus Never Trumpers), and completely deranged interpretations become historical facts.”
This is true, it is hard for anyone to overcome or ignore. This propaganda, especially in concert, is very powerful stuff that has an influence on everyone. Even me. Even though I know everything they are saying are blatant lies. I have to turn the channel sometimes. It’s difficult to listen to a constant barrage of lies. Thank God for the Forensic Files! 🙂
Again, great post, db. Everyone should read it.
Slick Willy was the more honest Clinton. Obama will look like a friend of the people in comparison with the Hildebeast.
Go Gary Johnson.
Go Jill Stein!!
interesting take there, troe… So at least a president hillary will preserve a conservative gop. BUT, a president trump will change the gop forever. Hadn’t thought of it in that light. Ah, but the court! (with hillary, we risk changing it forever, too)…
An old style conservative GOP that does not bend or adapt in order to pull in new voters and make a wider tent was a loser two elections in a row, and during that time the electorate is veering ever further left.
The idea that a party can just wait for the country to feel like voting for that platform again is, IMO, ludicrous.
Look at where we are compared to where we were eight, twelve, or sixteen years ago.
No…that ship has sailed I am afraid.
Another advantage to a Trump win: It would likely open up the field of candidates in the future for an entirely new breed of cat. If we ever want to get away from having no choice but which career politician to elect, this is it.
The time is now to try something different.
And it may be now or never.
“Lasting damage” take a good long look at Trumps record in Atlantic City. Big promises, miserable results, no lessons learned. That he has made money in NYC real estate just mirrors a rising market. No special sauce.
This man is neither Conservative nor Republican. His one passion is his brand aka his ego. Clinton is a mediocrity for certain. Trump is worse. He is a buffoon and we cannot fix or spin him. Sorry my friends. Better than we lose and regroup.
Clinton is perhaps a mediocrity in the eyes of . . legally challenged folks, but for many, pathological lying and systematic endangerment of State secrets qualifies her as exemplary, it seems to me anyway, troe ; )
Troe,
Every casino in Atlantic City is going belly up. They used to be the only casinos in the entire northeast US, ideally situated smack dab in the middle of a bunch of big cities. When casinos started opening up in other states and other cities all around that region, the writing was on the wall for Atlantic City. Why should anyone travel all that distance, when there is a casino right in their backyard? Those casinos did not fail because of Donald Trump, they failed because the Atlantic City casino business has a failed business model and has been out competed.
I love these lefties who pretend they are conservatives giving every the real story!
Lefties or planted shills.
troe says:
That he has made money in NYC real estate just mirrors a rising market. No special sauce.
Then where are all the other billionaires?
The way you tell it, there should be a few thousand.
And:
This man is neither Conservative nor Republican.
So? He beat hell out of his sixteen opponents, and he spent less than one-tenth the money they did.
He won because he promised what people wanted. There’s nothing wrong with being a populist — when the electeds in both Parties care more about their positions than they do about the country.
I’ve had it with the McCains, the Bush’s, and the rest of the ‘me too’ semi-Dems. If I want a Democrat I’ll vote for the real thing.
Some folks want someone not beholden to the Party insiders, who hate Donald Trump for one reason: he’s not owned by them. If he was, they’d have carried him on their shoulders out of the Convention.
The ‘little people’ put him where he is, and they didn’t appreciate being told who they had to vote for. So now the Insiders want to get even — even if it means giving up the next three or four Supreme Court appointments, and selling out our country.
They don’t care, as long as they have their cushy jobs. But this is what we’ll get…
http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/4081/7845/original.jpg
Consider as well if she is successful in giving amnesty to a large proportion of the 11 million illegals, and manages to ramp up further immigration by even more, in eight years the demographics may have changed enough that Dems will be unstoppable in national elections going forward after that.
And they are sending refugees where they want…they could carefully tilt key swing states permanently.
Too dangerous…the assumption that we can just ride out four or eight years of Hillary may be the miscalculation of the century.
Trump is a wild card to some degree, but we know what she wants to do. And she will have a running start with her SCOTUS selection.
Well Steyn & Coulter agree with you (in good company):
https://www.amazon.com/Adios-America-Ann-Coulter/dp/1621572676
https://www.amazon.com/After-America-Get-Ready-Armageddon/dp/B0076TKQ8E
I must be psychic…i just opened this story on my news feed:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/14/clinton-campaign-launches-voter-registration-effort-led-by-illegal-aliens/
If the dolling out of $100 billion per year for the five years is removed from the Paris agreement, nobody is interested on the agreement. Everybody is cramming for a share in that big money. Unfortunately the science of climate and climate change has been turned in to a political satire of global warming and carbon credits. Most unfortunately the so called top scientists joined this bandwagon. Money makes many things!!!
Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy
“We also set standards to increase the distance our cars and light trucks can go on a gallon of gas every year through 2025. And they’re working. At a time when we’ve seen auto sales surge, manufacturers are innovating and bringing new technology to market faster than expected. Over 100 cars, SUVs, and pick-up trucks on the market today already meet our vehicles standards ahead of schedule.”
Take a bow VW. The US President salutes you.
Odd the only one I see breaking 55mpg per the EPA is the e-Golf:
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymake/Volkswagen2015.shtml
But he is probably “literally” correct about this statement (excludes models):
“Over 100 cars, SUVs, and pick-up trucks on the market today already meet our vehicles standards ahead of schedule”
Anthony,
being right is one thing, using insulting language is quite another!
Please do not tolerate language like
” sell American children into foreign debt slavery”
on your blog! You are better than that! Obama has done no such thing! (he might have increased the national debt, but that is largely held by national creditors)
There is an international bidding war going on to stimulate each economy, one way to look at Obama’s debt policy results is
http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/16/investing/us-debt-dumped-foreign-governments-china/?iid=EL
“U.S. Treasury low yields are better than nothing elsewhere”
In any case you used to have a high standard many alarmists are lacking!
Calling the black president a slaver or a headhunter selling children to slavers is as bad as it gets in my opinion! And yes I consider this post an alarmist one.. not very informed or correct, but using derogatory language and ad hominem against a political opponent.
=> it seems always easy to spot the difference between politics and science.. or an alarmist and sceptic
Obama doubled the national debt during his time in Office. Obama accumulated more debt than all previous presidents combined.
But Obama had help. He couldn’t have done it without the consent of the Republicans in Congress. Some of the same Republicans who now question Trump’s qualifications.
Sure do wish I could blame in all on Obama, but I can’t. The facts are the facts.
With veto power, without a budget, and executive discretion, Obama is a first-order cause of progressive debt.
….You’re FIRED !!
“Calling the black president a slaver or a headhunter selling children to slavers”
And Trump called for 2nd amendment types to do in Hillary…If it quacks like a SJW then it must be one:
Those claims are both lies. Repeated by the democrats/media to defeat trump. But they are lies.
(Obama, on the other hand, did vote for bills requiring children who were born alive be killed …)
@ur momisugly Laws of Nature,
Take your concern trolling elsewhere, it don’t fly here.
I’m trying to be nice…………
The [catastrophic anthropogenic] climate agenda threatens to disrupt and destroy flora and fauna with large-scale, low density energy converters on “green” farms — save Bambi, Jiminy, Tweety, and Audrey, too — and set humanity back several thousand years to a time preceding the leap in human population and civilization, which is presumably why he supports selective-child and other dysfunctional policies of the dysfunctional revolution. Redistributive change schemes without a robust population control protocol produces trickle-up poverty.
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Paging James Comey…
“In parts of America, these clean power sources are finally cheaper than dirtier, conventional power.”
Please explain where, what and how much?
Hello Obama: ” Stupid is as stupid does”.
Moderator — A couple hours ago I think I took too long to write something and it has not yet appeared Thankyou. — Eugene WR Gallun
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Climate alarmism is tied to pension fund asset value.
Thats why they need to keep producing these alarmist articles, to keep the value of assets tied to climate change high. Thats why we hear about 2030 and 2050, when the pensions will mature.
They cant backtrack now because pension funds all around the world will collapse.
Can I say that the UTTER ARROGANCE and UNBACKABLE EGO of the thread picture of Obama…
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Seriously
What a Self-Important WANKER !!!
Ditch it, reduce the snarl of administrative regulations, cut corporate taxes, and get the economy going again.
Exactly, but it never plays out that way as policy is made just as complex and misdirected as the rules and regulations that undermines the goals of all sides.
Hillary has her own policy distortions to pursue. Climate fraud did not make the cut. It will be filed under “concerned and completed” for the next 8 years.
I think its time to forget the manchurian candidate who’s actually done nothing for 8 years and had to buy his votes _literally_ with fried chicken and watermellon. (Was what was served at the stump speeches)
The energy policy distortion, special interest-driven puppet Presidency started with Jimmy Carter and reached a new peak with Obama. There will be no let up with Hillary as the global economy hobbles along with global negative interest rates and beaten down energy commodities. But ethanol plants will continue to reach new highs and birds will fry in uneconomic demonstration projects to nowhere.
did he really beg or did he just lecture righteously with chin pushed up?
Hillary is going to greatly raise the ante among special interests and advocacy groups just stay even with where are now. It’s pay to play time. This is one of the side effects of having an easy opponent–it reduces the need to play stupid with policy and speeches for all the factions as often.
troe and others who’ve swallowed the anti-Trump pill prescribed by a totally partisan media:
Trump has had bankruptcies, the whole US has had bankruptcies in a socialist regulatory business climate of overburdening regulations that cut deeply into profits. Couple this with the incentives to get business to leave the US to avoid the regulatory mess – all part of the bring-USA-to-its-knees policies, first by the rest of the world and its UN, which is a template for what the plan is, where US enterprise was the only barrier to world soshulist government, and now by the US’s government itself!
Please all of you, this is your last chance – another 4 years of Obama Clinton, with a new one or two young soshulist Supreme Court nominees, and this great bastion of freedom is dead. Vote for Trump. Don’t go for the media palaver. Remember, Trump speaks for hundreds of hours extemporaneously and the media picks out a dozen seconds of unthoughtful stuff and makes a week’s news on it. Only fools are taken in by ministry of truth media, speaking of which I don’t trust the ministry of truth’s “fact checker” stuff either- it is always spun.
Here is the bottom line about Trump: He feels he has to have an answer to every (leading) question these guys can concoct, so he gets in a pickle. In business, you don’t say “I don’t know”. You say, can do, and then find out! This is political naivety – which means he isn’t steeped in the political pea-under-shell trick, or the bland platitudinal skills of the hackneyed pols.
Trump will assemble the best people he can find for each issue and policy. When NYC couldn’t make a skating ring work in Central Park after decades and millions of dollars in trying, Trump said he would build the rink. Did he have a specialty in rink building? No! He went to the New York Rangers and asked who is the best rink builder in the business and they told him the guy (I can’t remember his name) who built the rink for the Toronto Maple Leafs (sic!). He engaged the guy, who said the whole think has to be ripped out and redone from scratch. Since, the rink has been working perfectly for years and years. Don’t ask Trump what he would do with ISIS – he’ll simply say he’d bomb their asses off. In reality he would get the military (whom Clintons and Obama have been marginalizing for decades) to advise HIM on how to go over there and win the war – no holds barred.
Your worries about how Trump would operate are a measure of how uncritical you are of the media picking raisins out the bun to hammer together your malleable minds on the issues. The dumbness creep has to also be stopped. Soshulists are expert in making designer brains with education. I have and I admonish others to give your children an antidotal education along with the manifesto education they receive in schools. Trump wants to deal with this, too. Please use your heads and think your own thoughts.
Gary,
Absolutely right on point.
When questioned, politicians do not answer the question, they give a memorized and focus group tested response that may not have anything at all to do with the question. Or mewl out some bland platitude or other. What they do not ever do is answer straight questions with plain language unrehearsed answers off the top of their head. But Trump does exactly that.
They never answered gotcha questions at all. Trump responds directly to whatever they ask.
Most politicians are very choosy about who and when they will sit for an interview with. Trump takes all comers all the time, even ones who are openly hostile to him and the entire GOP.
The media hound dogs know this, and they craft gotcha questions and spring them on him every chance they get. Those interviewers are not stupid…they ask a lot of questions but they know darn well that, if answered directlywill, land a candidate in hot water.
But Trump does answer them, oftentimes falling into deliberately set traps.
This could be seen as a weakness but it is also what sets him apart from career politicians with their over-rehearsed speeches and milquetoast answers to questions.
We have seen in the past we’re regular politicians were sunk by one single gaffe or misstatement. Donald Trump has survived a media gauntlet no other politician I’ve ever seen could have survived, and a scorching year long lambasting by 17 other heavyweight politicians. And come out on top. His standing in the polls despite having spent very little money and run very few ads is no less than astounding. It shows how sick people are of career politicians and the lies and cheating and stealing that they’ve been foisting on us for all these years.
Vote Trump unless you think the Washington DC crew who have been running the show are as good as it can get.