On Voting Republicans Out Of Office

Obama Still Feeling Sorry for Himself

The president is desperately trying to escape blame for his failures. But those days are long gone. I would hope that someone in the president’s inner circle, who has standing in his life, would urge him to at least conduct himself in a manner that doesn’t come across as petulant, thin-skinned, and undignified. But that appears to be asking too much of Mr. Obama. He is not emotionally equipped to handle failure with even minimal grace.

His presidency is going down; and he’s determined to look small-minded and bad-tempered in the process.

Cruelly, Obama, who had danced the night away on the day before, was a no-show at the Thursday funeral of Major General Harold Greene, brought down at age 55 in Afghanistan.

With General Greene’s funeral service at Arlington on Thursday and Obama planning a return to Washington three short days later, couldn’t he have scheduled his return trip ahead by a few days in order to pay his final respects to the highest-ranking Afghanistan fatality in U.S. history?

“Major General Greene, the highest-ranking fatality in the war in Afghanistan after an Afghan military police officer opened fire on August 5, 2014, was buried on Friday at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors, including a caisson, two escort platoons, casket team, firing party, colors team, and a caparisoned horse. The U.S. Army band, “Pershing’s Own,” played softly as the funeral procession made its way down the long hill past the rows of simple white gravestones to bring General Greene to his final resting place.” (NBC News, Aug. 14, 2014)

“The graveside service began with a few words, followed by a 13-gun salute. The major general’s widow, Dr. Susan Myers, was seated in the front row. To her right was their son, 1st Lt. Matthew Greene, his daughter Amelia Greene, followed by Major General Greene’s father, also Harold Greene.

“After three rifle volleys and the playing of “Taps,” the American flag, once placed on the major general’s casket, was carefully folded as the band played “America the Beautiful.” U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno presented the flag to his widow, and additional flags to his children and father.”

“Some wondered why the commander-in-chief wasn’t present at the funeral of such a high ranking officer, and the Washington Examiner’s Byron York confirms that, yes, the president was busy golfing at the time.” (Twitchy, Aug. 16, 2014)

More than passing strange for a president, whose pictures saturate the Internet, whose selfie with British Prime Minister David Cameron and Denmark’s Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt at Nelson Mandela’s Memorial went viral, to be returning to the White House today with no one knowing why.

Democrat authorities had been working on the indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry for months, so Obama needn’t come all the way back to D.C. to gloat.

The Commander-in-Chief has maintained an in-your-face type of style for six long years, but for reasons unknown works in the shadows on this Skulk Sunday.

Meanwhile, a riderless horse, a caparisoned one without a rider, and with boots reversed in the stirrups, which accompanied the heartbreaking funeral procession of the heroic Major General Harold Greene, has become the indelible symbol for life under the heartless regime of Barack Hussein Obama.

It's a matter of time as the arctic ice caps are melting,

Climate change in the Arctic
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The image above shows where average air temperatures (October 2010–September 2011) were up to 3 degrees Celsius above (red) or below (blue) the long-term average (1981–2010).


The maps above compare the Arctic ice minimum extents from 2012 (top) and 1984 (bottom). In 1984 the sea ice extent was roughly the average of the minimum from 1979 to 2000, and so was a typical year. The minimum sea ice extent in 2012 was roughly half of that average.
The effects of climate change in the Arctic include rising temperatures, loss of sea ice, and melting of the Greenland ice sheet.[1][2][3]Potential release of methane from the Arctic region, especially through the thawing of permafrost and methane clathrates, is also a concern. Because of the amplified response of the Arctic to global warming, it is often seen as a leading indicator of climate change.

Rising temperatures[edit]
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, "warming in the Arctic, as indicated by daily maximum and minimum temperatures, has been as great as in any other part of the world."[4] The period of 1995-2005 was the warmest decade in the Arctic since at least the 17th century, with temperatures 2 °C (3.6 °F) above the 1951-1990 average.[5] Some regions within the Arctic have warmed even more rapidly, with Alaska and western Canada's temperature rising by 3 to 4 °C (5.40 to 7.20 °F).[6] This warming has been caused not only by the rise in greenhouse gas concentration, but also the deposition of soot on Arctic ice.[7] A 2013 article published in Geophysical Research Letters has shown that temperatures in the region haven't been as high as they currently are since at least 44,000 years ago and perhaps as long as 120,000 years ago. The authors conclude that "anthropogenic increases in greenhouse gases have led to unprecedented regional warmth."[8][9]

Arctic Amplification[edit]
Main article: Arctic amplification
The poles of the planet are more sensitive to any change in the planet's climate than the rest of the planet. In the face of ongoing global warming, the poles are warming faster than lower latitudes. The primary cause of this phenomenon is ice-albedo feedback, whereby melting ice uncovers darker land or ocean beneath, which then absorbs more sunlight, causing more heating.[10][11][12] The loss of the Arctic sea ice may represent a tipping point in global warming, when 'runaway' climate change starts,[13][14] but on this point the science is not yet settled.[15][16]

We do know that there is climate change,

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It's a matter of time as the arctic ice caps are melting,

Last year was a record for Arctic ice. More than ever since it has been tracked.

Where did you get your info that sea ice last year was the most since they started keeping records?