Posted on 05/20/2015 10:20:23 AM PDT by Abiotic
WASHINGTON — President Obama called out climate change deniers in Congress for being weak on defense, saying it would be "dereliction of duty" for the United States to ignore the national security implications of rising global temperatures.
Obama's convocation speech at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Wednesday was his most forceful argument yet that climate change ranks alongside terrorism as a grave threat to America's future.
"I know there are some folks back in Washington who refuse to admit that climate change is real," he told graduating cadets in New London, Conn. "Denying it or refusing to deal with it undermines our national security. ... Politicians who say they care about military readiness need to care about this as well."
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Did he draw a red line?
Replace “climate change” with “the devil” and you’re looking dead at the 15th century.
Sickening. If only he would shut up and go to Hawaii for the rest of his term, the nation would be better off.
Nasa released report stating no change in ice caps since1979
National Security???
It gets so hot that people take all their clothes off.
Then we see under Mooshelle’s ‘dress’.
Eek.
Obama is our biggest national security risk. Death to the American haters!
Well, he is kind of right: The theory of “climate change” and (low info voters’) belief in that fraud is a threat to our sovereignty and national security!
The devil shouts “squirrel!”.
Just because 0bama is an expert at putting our nation at risk doesn’t make him an expert on globull warming.
...and now you’ll have to excuse me I [and my massive fleet of aircraft] have a [taxpayer funded] speech to give in Malibu [fund raiser and golf game].
Is there climate change? OF COURSE, because no one ever set Gaia’s thermostat!
In the history of the Earth, there have been eras of ice to the equators and eras of no ice at all and at neither era were there SUVs. Yet, according to this religion as espoused by President Obama and friends, we must have massive government intervention and power to reduce a potential risk by tenths of degrees.
Power to the people, not the government!
Only a Constitutionally illiterate people could be persuaded to elect leaders who openly vow to "fundamentally transform" the one nation in the world which for over 200 years had attracted oppressed individuals to its shores for a chance to breathe and live in freedom.
Those oppressed individuals came not for a chance to be welfare recipients, but to enjoy opportunity for themselves and their posterity to exercise their Creator-endowed to achieve and to voluntarily share the rewards of their labors with others less fortunate.
The Miracle of America
from
axes and hoes to high technology;
log cabins to air-conditioned condos;
horsedrawn wagons to autos, planes, and rockets;
scarcity to abundance; &
from tyrannical government rule to individual liberty
HOW DID IT ALL BEGIN?
Most of our history books don’t tell us that, in the beginning, the pilgrims established a communal economic system. Each was to produce according to his ability and contribute his production to a common storehouse from which each was to draw according to his need.
The assurance that they would be fed from the common store, regardless of their contribution to it, had a peculiarly disabling effect on the colonists. Taking property away from some and giving it to others bred discontent and retarded employment. Human nature was the same then as now, and before long, there were more consumers than there were producers, and the pilgrims were near starvation. Governor Bradford, his advisors, and the colonists agreed that in order to increase their crops, each family would be allowed to do as it pleased with whatever it produced. In other words, a free market system was established. In Governor Bradford’s own words:
“This had very good success; for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corne was planted than other waise would have bene by any means ye Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deall of trouble, and gave farr better contente. The women now wente willingly into ye field, and tooke their little-ons with them to set corne, which before would aledg weaknes, and inabilitie; whom to have compelled would have bene though great tiranie and oppression. . . . By this time harvest was come, and instead of famine, now God gave them plenty, and the face of things was changed. . . . and some of ye abler sort and more industrious had to spare, and sell to others, so as any generall wante or famine hath not been amongst them since this day . . . .” (Wm. Bradford, “Of Plimoth Plantation,” original manuscript, Wright & Potter, Boston, 1901)
Those who, today, favor central government planning, common ownership and redistribution of the earnings of others are advocating a system that Americans tried and rejected over 350 years ago. Their wisdom gave birth to the great American miracle!
Are we as wise today?
You Can Do Something About This!
(This message originally published in the mid-1980’s by Stedman Corporation’s Government Affairs & Free Enterprise Education Program – a former NC textile firm. For more essays in this series, visit www.ouragelessconstitution.com )
Lol in GJ duty on break and burst out when i saw this!
Just another attempt to shut down American industry and force it offshore to turd world countries.
Is it deriliction of duty to pull out of Iraq and allow 1000’s of citizens to be slaughtered?
Good Lord. Can you imagine having this guy as your graduation speaker?
And then, have to sit there and listen to this utter BS?
I would have considered not attending or walking out. This guy is the biggest liar on the plamet....and a moron to boot.
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